14 PhD programmes offered by the university

The Language, Reading and Culture degree at The University of Arizona provides a vehicle for training specialists who wish to prepare themselves for leadership roles in reading or bilingual/ESL education, and those seeking advanced academic preparation in these areas. 

The American Indian Studies programme from The University of Arizona – the first such degree in the U.S. –  is an interdisciplinary programme designed to prepare graduate students for careers both within the academy and/or in Native American governance, the nonprofit sector, philantropy, and/or government service. 

The Second Language Acquisition and Teaching program from The University of Arizona provides an instructional program to prepare researchers, teachers, curriculum specialists, and administrators at all levels of instruction who are concerned with aspects of second language acquisition, learning, and teaching. 

The Linguistics program from The University of Arizona is designed to produce scholars who can carry out research on human language in any of its aspects within a contemporary theoretical framework, and which challenges, modifies, and extends contemporary theory.  

This Spanish - Hispanic Linguistics program from The University of Arizona is designed to train students to address a variety of scientific and scholarly questions pertaining to the study of the Spanish language from structural, societal, experimental, acquisitional, and pedagogical perspectives. 

The joint degree in Anthropology and Linguistics from The University of Arizona is designed for students with interests in both departments who would emerge from the program as job candidates for both linguistics and anthropology departments. Both the School of Anthropology and Department of Linguistics offer teaching assistantships and research support for students in the joint Ph.D. program. 

The Art History and Education - Art and Visual Culture Education program from The University of Arizona prepares artist/teacher/researchers who contribute to the research, creative scholarship, knowledge, theory, and practice of art and visual culture education in university, school, museum, community, or other arts leadership positions.   

The Persian and Iranian Studies program at The University of Arizona focuses specifically on either modern or classical Persian literature and culture, or Iranian (or other Persian speaking societies’) history, religion, social organization, and politics.

The History program from The University of Arizona emphasizes the development of critical habits and technical skills to foster advanced research, publication and teaching in the field of history, broadly conceived.  

This is the first program in the United States that combines the strengths of major German and American Research I universities to create a truly joint international Ph.D. program in Transcultural German Studies at The University of Arizona. 

Graduate students in the Rhetoric, Composition and Teaching of English program from The University of Arizona are often distinguished for their public engagement and action-oriented research, published scholarship, and innovative teaching.  

The English program from The University of Arizona provide students with professional preparation for teaching and conducting scholarly research at the university, college, and community college levels.  

The interdisciplinary program in Applied Intercultural Arts Research program from The University of Arizona is managed by the Graduate College and offers a Master of Arts and a PhD in partnership with six other academic colleges: Education, Fine Arts, Humanities, Science, Social and Behavioral Science, and Public Health. 

The University of Arizona doctoral program in philosophy is among the most distinguished in the English-speaking world. Graduates of the Philosophy program from University of Arizona hold faculty positions at colleges and universities around the world.