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Traditional M.A. programs require attendance at the host university, and typically only accept full-time students who are able to put aside the rest of their lives while they pursue the degree. On the other hand, many online graduate programs lack qualified faculty, may not be fully accredited by a regional accrediting agency, don't provide a path for those lacking internet access or experience, and may fail to live up to their promises.
MA Humanities External Degree Student Wins Student Research Day Award in Humanities and Letters
David Marks, graduate of the Master?s Degree in Humanities from the Humanities Master of Arts External Degree (HUX) Program, won first place in the Humanities and Letters category at CSUDH?s Annual Student Research Day Competition. He then went on to place first in the 2011 all-CSU (out of 23 campuses) Research Day competition.
His paper, entitled From the
Will to Wessex to Arkham:
Lovecraft?s Geophilosophical
Debt to Hardy compared the
fictional worlds of authors
Thomas Hardy and H.P.
Lovecraft, the latter credited
as an inspiration to authors
today such as Stephen King. “It was important to me to
pick something that I wouldn?t be bored with and I would
enjoy researching for a great
deal of time,” Marks said regarding
his thesis.
Marks holds a full-time position
as Director of Corporate
Training and Development
for a biopharmaceutical
company. A Seattle native
who now resides in Los Angeles, he remembered the last
time he had to do research and
was excited how the advances in
technology made his life easier.
When he did his undergraduate
work at UCLA, he had to use the
card catalogs in the library,
search through books that sometimes,
after 300 pages, only mentioned
topics in one sentence.
“I saved so much time when I remembered
I could search for
something instantaneously on the
Internet, or I could have full research
documents emailed to me
and then search through those in
seconds for the words I was looking
for,” Marks said. “I never really
had any challenges with it, so my
research was truly a pleasure.”
“It (HUX) is such a great program,” Marks said. “Especially for
a working adult. It accommodated
my busy work schedule so I could
study on my own time.”
Two other HUX students presented
their research at the campus
event. Jandi DuPree
presented research from her thesis:
Character Mapping: The
Quest Archetype in Novels by
Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison,
and Terry Lazar presented research
from his creative project:
Biomorphic Modeling: Extending
Surrealism with Multimedia.
The HUX program has been a leader in distance education at the MA level since its inception in 1974. The last 30 years have brought many improvements, including the addition of online technologies. But HUX maintains a firm commitment to provide a graduate education in the Humanities area of the liberal arts to anyone who meets its basic academic requirements, regardless of his or her computer experience.
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HUX student Tom Jones presented in the 2012 Student Research Day. His topic was: "The Napoleonic Code: Marriage and Divorce in Early Modern France."