School of Liberal Arts

Dean: Karen L. Ryan, Ph.D.

Associate Dean: Steven Scherwatzky, Ph.D.

Mission

The School of Liberal Arts’ mission is to cultivate an intellectual community, enriched by evolving scholarship and creative activity in the humanities, the social sciences, and the arts that explores compelling ideas, issues, and values in order to educate students to become well-informed critical and reflective thinkers empowered to lead productive and meaningful lives in a changing world.

Vision

The School of Liberal Arts’ vision is to provide distinctive and valuable graduate programs and to be recognized as a community in which all are scholars, teachers, and learners who

engage actively in the discovery and making of knowledge;
cultivate superior analytic, interpretive, expressive, explanatory, and deliberative abilities;
infuse academic life at Merrimack with intellectual vitality; and
contribute, as engaged citizens, to the betterment of their communities and society

Degree Programs

The School of Liberal Arts offers four Masters Programs:

M.S. in Clinical Mental Health Counseling
M.P.A. in Public Affairs
M.A. in Spirituality
M.A. in Spiritual Direction

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