Education, Society, and Culture M.A. Program

University of California, Riverside (Business)

The Education, Society, and Culture Master of Arts program equips you with the insights, understanding, and analytic skills be a teacher-leader, or continue your studies and research in a doctoral program. Faculty research and coursework focuses on the historical, social, racial, cultural, and institutional factors affecting education, especially those that affect access and opportunity and contribute to educational inequality. As a student in this research-based program, you’ll have the opportunity study alongside faculty who leaders in their field, and include experts in areas such as teacher education, urban schooling, educational equality, educational access, and youth community engagement.

Some of the courses you may take include:

EDUC 210: Sociology of Education

EDUC 233: Differential Achievement and the School Learning Environment

EDUC 238: Education and Gender

EDUC 257: Language, Culture, and Education

EDUC 273: Theories of Critical Pedagogy

EDUC 275: Race and K-12 Educational Inequality

EDUC 278: Critical Race Theory in Education