Leadership and Personalized Studies

You are interested in more than one academic discipline. You are looking for flexibility and innovation in your degree. And, you are ready to help shape the world around you.

That's why we prepare and empower you to choose classes across disciplines to design a major that uniquely addresses your career goals and gets you to the finish line fast.

You are dedicated to getting the degree you want, and you want to finish as quickly as possible. Our program is designed to help you take control of your education. You'll have the flexibility to create your own path to degree completion, career success, and ultimately a more fulfilling quality of life. With expert guidance from your advisor and faculty from across many disciplines, turn your "little bit of everything" into something.

Many students who chose Leadership and Personalized Studies to finish a degree they started were able to do it in as few as 12 months in the format that fit their specific needs—face-to-face, blended, or online.

DELIVERY OPTIONS

Online Degree Completion

Face-to-face or blended

Concentrations

Our mission is to provide you with a flexible, innovative degree. Many of our students find their best fit with a concentration within the major:

Individually Designed Topics
Humanities
Social Science Studies
Leadership and Organizational Studies
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

We also work with you one-on-one to help you take control of your education and create your own degree plan. We know you want and need something specific. We are here to deliver.

Careers after Parkside

As a Leadership and Personalized studies major, you can leverage your degree toward advancing in your current job or being uniquely skilled for the career you envision. LPST's interdisciplinary curriculum provides our graduates a broad foundation of knowledge and promotes the ability to synthesize diverse information-- essential qualities to succeed professionally. Our students are nimble, creative, and innovative.

The bottom line is that the Leadership and Personalized Studies major gets you to where you want to be next, and it does that as quickly and efficiently as possible.

PROGRAM CONTACT INFO

Josh Hall, MA | hallj0@uwp.edu

Lisa Marie Barber, MFA

Professor, Art / Director, Liberal Studies / Academic Director, UW Collaborative AAS / Community Liaison in the Arts

I am originally from Tucson, AZ and in 2003 moved from the San Francisco Bay Area to Kenosha to begin my professorship at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. I am currently a Full Professor in the Department of Art and Design where I served as department chair (2012-2018) and now lead the campus' Liberal Studies and UW Collaborative Online Associates of Arts and Sciences programs.

Active in my studio practice, I exhibit nationally, including solo shows in New York City, Chicago, and throughout California. My work has been featured and reviewed in several publications, including American Craft, Ceramics Monthly, National Council on Education in the Ceramic Arts (NCECA), and multiple books. I’ve given workshops, lectures, and classes at various professional venues around the country, and I've held Artist-in-Residence positions at City University of New York-Hunter College, Northern Clay Center (as a McKnight awardee), and Works San Jose -- among other internationally competitive studios.

More information about my exhibitions and related activities can be found on my website: www.LisaMarieBarber.com

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Joshua Hall, MA

Lecturer

Josh Hall has taught in English, Cultural Studies, and Liberal Studies departments, and is interested in researching and gathering narratives from various types of abject bodies in media. After earning his Bachelor’s Degree in English from UW-Parkside, Josh attended Trent University’s interdisciplinary Theory, Culture, and Politics Master’s Program in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, where he studied critical race theory, film studies, and age/disability studies. He defended his thesis (un)Natural Provocation: Abjection, Otherness, and Nonhuman Representation in Isabella Rossellini’s Green Porno web series in September 2014.