Overview
The Master of Arts in Holistic Health Studies (MAHS) is an innovative graduate program that invites you to explore the evolving holistic model of health and healing. Study the philosophy, science and art of holistic healing. The MAHS program evolved from 20 years of educational experience with our professional Certificate in Holistic Health Studies at St. Catherine's.

The MAHS program is multidisciplinary and focuses on health and healing in its broadest sense as we seek to apply holistic philosophy to the full range of human experience. We acknowledge that health is more than an individual response by examining social and environmental conditions that contribute to health and disease. At the heart of the program is the belief that ongoing opportunities for personal empowerment and spiritual transformation prepare us to engage in living the challenges of the 21st century and cooperating with the cultural, societal evolution of our time.

Highlights of the program

• The first graduate program of holistic health studies in the Midwest
• Flexibility to allow application of the degree to a variety of fields
• Innovative curriculum offering core classes and a choice of three areas of concentration
• Herbology
• Energy healing
• Concentration of your own design
• One course, taught at the Powderhorn Phillips Cultural Wellness Center in Minneapolis, gives students the opportunity to be in direct contact with the wisdom of cultural communities and develop cultural awareness.
• Experienced faculty from a wide range of disciplines

We examine health through the theoretical foundation of holism that views the health of the individual as based on the interconnectedness of

• Social and environmental influences
• Cultural identity
• The physical self
• Emotions and thoughts
• Spiritual beliefs/rituals
• Interconnectedness with community