Join a community of scholars.
The Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts is home to thirteen master’s programs ranging from fine art to psychology, programs for teachers, like the Catholic Teacher Certificate and the Classical Education Graduate Program, and the Institute of Philosophic Studies offering doctoral degrees in literature, philosophy and politics. Whether you're coming straight from undergraduate study or making a change mid-career, our programs will prepare you for your next move.
Degree | Credit Hours Required | Degree Type Ph.D |
Format | Enrollment Options | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Blended | 100% On-campus | Part-Time | Full-time | |||
Literature | 66 | |||||
Philosophy | 66 | |||||
Politics | 66 |
Degree | Credit Hours Required | Degree Type | Format | Enrollment Options | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Master of arts in | Master of | Blended | 100% On-campus | Part-Time | Full-time | ||
Art | 30 | ||||||
Fine Arts (MFA) | 60 |
Degree | Credit Hours Required* | Degree Type | Format | Enrollment Options | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Master of arts in | Master of | Blended | 100% On-line | 100% On-campus | Part-Time | Full-time | ||
American Studies | 30 | |||||||
Catechetical Ministry | 36 | |||||||
Catholic School Leadership | 37 | |||||||
Classical Education | 36 | |||||||
Classics | 30 | |||||||
English | 30 | |||||||
Humanities | 36 | |||||||
Pastoral Ministry | 36 | |||||||
Philosophy | 30 | |||||||
Politics | 30 | |||||||
Psychology | 30-48 | |||||||
Psychology (Clinical) | 60 | |||||||
Teaching | 30 | |||||||
Theological Studies (for Ministry) | 36 | |||||||
Theology | 30 |
*Important Note: All Master's of Arts programs require a thesis and demonstrated reading knowledge of a foreign language.
Certificate Program | Credit Hours Required | Format | Enrollment Options | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Blended | 100% On-line | 100% On-campus | Part-time | Full-time | ||
Alternative Teacher Certification | 24 | |||||
Catholic School Leadership | 18 | |||||
Catholic Teacher Certificate | 18 | |||||
Certificate in Classical Learning | 18 |
Deeply committed to the recovery and renewal of the Western heritage of liberal arts and the Christian intellectual tradition, studying at the University of Dallas Braniff Graduate School means that you will engage in interdisciplinary scholarly discussions, read the Great Books, and consider timeless questions and contemporary issues in search of principled and transformative wisdom. Each area of study is informed by a unique sense of paideia, the education of the soul, which attends to the person as a whole.
Our unique approach to graduate education – contemporary scholarship grounded in the classical tradition – helps you to think rigorously, creatively, and ethically about your chosen discipline.
The Braniff Graduate School also offers a number of programs and institutes for teachers who desire to deepen their understanding of their disciplines as well as an ongoing series of colloquia, lectures, exhibits and salons for students, faculty, and the intellectually-curious public.