General Studies

Angela Hull teaches policy processes and nonprofit management in the master of public administration and public administration undergraduate programs. Dr. Hull has been the University of Missouri's (Mizzou) program director of individualized degrees since 2022. She has a doctorate in policy studies and a master’s of public administration from Mizzou. She was previously executive director of the Association for Education Finance and Policy where she contributed to annual Missouri school finance policy briefs. She worked in education associations, including state government relations for school boards and teacher groups. Her policy and research consultant work included school district grant evaluations and policy research on teacher preparation, certification, compensation and pensions, and early childhood systems development. She has been a CLASS® certified observer of an i3 evaluation with the American Institutes for Research and executive director of Missouri’s Coordinating Board for Early Childhood.

Nicole Monnier has taught a range of courses at the University of Missouri since 2000 from elementary Russian to graduate seminars. A common thread through Dr. Monnier's courses is the intersection of literature, culture and history. Increasingly, courses are also geared toward promoting undergraduate and graduate student career readiness, so students graduate with demonstrable skills in critical thinking and problem-solving, oral and written communications and intercultural fluency.

Her primary area of specialization is mid-19th-century Russian prose and criticism. In recent years, she has shifted to the late end of the 19th century and the works of Anton Chekhov in particular. Some of her courses include Totalitarianism and Culture, The Sense of an Ending: Anton Chekhov in the 21st Century, and Arts & Science Internship.

As an undergraduate, I studied English, History, Philosophy and Religious Studies at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. I earned an MA in English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I have worked in education--as a teacher, writer/editor, and counselor/advisor--for the past forty years. I enjoy working with students, helping them create individualized majors that reflect their interests. Together we choose courses that will meet degree requirements and give them the opportunity to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to move forward academically and professionally.

I advise two individualized degree programs at MU: the Bachelor of General Studies and the Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies. Both degrees are "create your own majors" and are appropriate choices for students who have not found an existing major on campus that fits their intellectual interests and/or career plans.