Degree Plans

Master and Doctoral Degree Plans

The program in Cultural Studies in Education (CSE) provides students with the opportunity to study education in its multiple relationships to culture, power and society. Specifically, CSE is committed to studying the broad range of educational processes, forms of cultural production and socialization, which take place beyond the borders of public schooling but comprise the multiple contexts of families, peer groups, neighborhoods, and the international. Second, CSE is dedicated to examining the cultural, social, political and economic contexts of public schooling. Students study the relationship between schooling and democracy in the face of social inequality to address how and why schools advantage some groups over others, and how schools are contested sites for policy formation and struggles over cultural, racial, ethnic, class, gendered and other identities and meanings. The goal of our program is to promote leaders who will foster educational equity and social justice in multicultural societies.

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Doctoral Degree Plans

Because it is a brand new program offering in Curriculum and Instruction, the current and previously published admissions deadlines found elsewhere on this site do not apply to applicants of the Physical Education Teacher Education program for Summer and Fall 2008. Interested parties are encouraged to apply as soon as possible, and no later than April 30, 2008. Deadlines for subsequent semesters will be the same as those established and published by the Department of Curriculum and Instruction.

View the Doctor of Philosophy degree plan