Coastline Journal is an online-only publication. We publish essays which reflect the wide range of reading and writing from current students and alumni of graduate liberal studies programs across North America. Unlike many academic disciplines, liberal studies (also known as interdisciplinary studies) does not focus on one area, but rather uses a wide-field view to incorporate philosophy, history, literature, science, art, economics, and other disciplines; to examine our physical and metaphysical world from several vantage points.

You are welcome to respond to a writer in the comments window, found at the end of each essay. Reading long articles online can be tiring, so each essay has a link allowing you to download as a pdf.

Editor

Michael Cox

Editorial Board

Susan Day

Duane Fontaine

COPYRIGHT NOTICE

Coastline Journal ©2009 by editor and publisher Michael J.S. Cox, Vancouver, Canada, is not affiliated with any university or with the AGLSP (Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs).

Coastline is published as a non-profit service to the Graduate Liberal Studies community. All essays and articles remain the property of their authors, subject to Canadian and U.S. copyright law. Any use, other than to quote and cite brief excerpts for the purposes of review or academic writing, is strictly prohibited without the prior consent of the author of the work.

Individual authors assume responsibility for the accuracy of their work and any citations within their work. Images appended to essays are not usually part of the author’s work, and remain the copyright of originating websites, and are hyperlinked to the site where they were found.