Human Science

Human Science is the perfect degree for people whose research requires interdisciplinary studies or who need to investigate issues from multiple perspectives. You'll be empowered to tap into intellectually diverse approaches and combine them in ways best suited to the subject you're studying. 

Many Saybrook students study human science to enhance their careers by expanding their knowledge of diverse perspectives.  If you're one of them, you'll gain insight into critical theory, cultural criticism and post-modernism. You'll develop skills in qualitative methods of inquiry, such as phenomenology, narrative research, and autoethnography, to develop a deeper understanding of human experience. You'll use your insights to explore how individuals and cultures develop and change beliefs and social structures.

Others students study human science as a way to make themselves better activists and more effective agents of social change.  For these students, Saybrook offers an MA in Human Science specializing in Transformative Social Change. By critically examining social practices and conditions and the nature of theory and inquiry, Human Science enables you to understand and respond to the challenges of our times.

Others may wish to support individuals and groups in developing innovative approaches to life and work by pursuing an MA or PhD in Human Science specializing in Creativity Studies.

Human science re-opens the conversations between science, art, and philosophy, and offers a crucial perspective, a human centered perspective, on contemporary life. By doing so it also investigates human potential, discovering how people and cultures can grow to become their better selves.

Diversity in programs and specializations

In both the MA and PhD programs, you may pursue a unique transdisciplinary plan to focus on individual academic and professional goals. Graduates have studied diverse topics, covering every aspect of the human experience.

Whether they're designing business policies that empower workers; or mediating family and workplace conflict; improving lives through humanistic studies of built environments we inhabit; working in grassroots social activism to improve living conditions; or exploring the impact of popular media on other cultures, Saybrook's programs and specializations in Human Science give our graduates inspiration, focus, and the tools they need to excel.

Program Choices

We offer two degrees in Human Science: MA and PhD; and our students may also tailor their degree program by choosing a specialization. Human Science students may also select a concentration or certificate in a particular area of focus.

MA Human Science Degrees and Specializations

• MA Human Science
• MA: Creativity Studies
• MA: Transformative Social Change

PhD Degree

• PhD Human Science
• PhD: Creativity Studies

For more information call 800.825.4480 or email admissions@saybrook.edu.