Overview

The Language, Literacy and Culture PhD programme from University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) draws upon the departments of Africana Studies; American Studies; Education; English; Gender and Women’s Studies; History; Modern Languages, Linguistics and Intercultural Communication; and Sociology, Anthropology, and Health Administration and Policy at UMBC. The goal of the programme is to provide research and applications that will enable professionals to work with interdisciplinary issues in language, literacy and culture.

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In their research and teaching, our faculty members represent interdisciplinary areas of research across the humanities, social sciences, and education. The alliances made with other academic departments at UMBC have made our programme an ideal incubator of knowledge and interdisciplinary inquiry.

A unique value of this programme is our wide range of contemporary multi-disciplinary perspectives and a continuum of methodological approaches from the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Our research and teaching community includes affiliated faculty from more than nine programmes and departments across our campus. We expand beyond traditional methodological and disciplinary divisions, encouraging synergistic, collaborative, community- and place-based approaches that combine theories and applications. Our vision of language, literacy, and culture places those processes as crucially important to participatory democracy.

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Programme Structure

Courses include:

Social Inequality and Social Policy
Theorizing Identity in Multi-Cultural Contexts
Constructing Race, Class and Gender
Language in Diverse Schools and Communities
Language, Gender and Sexuality
Immigration, Race, and Society
Inequality in Education
Quantitative Research Methods
Research Writing and Design
Ethnoaraphic Methods.

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Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-08-27 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-01-15 00:00:00

Language

English

IELTS

6.5

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Credits

33 SCH

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Baltimore Highlands, United States

Disciplines

Linguistics Literacy Education View 34 other PhDs in Literacy Education in United States

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Academic requirements

GPA

English requirements

IELTS

6.5

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General requirements

Official Transcripts of all prior coursework and degrees

Master’s Degree (MA/MS) in related disciplines. Degree may still be in progress as long as it is completed by the spring semester prior to fall admittance.

CV (preferred) or Resumé

Graduate Record Examination (GRE) scores (only for those without a Master’s degree from a U.S. university)

Three letters of recommendation attesting to the applicant’s academic and personal potential to contribute substantially to a field of study related to the current research of the LLC program.

Statement of Goals and Research Interests explaining the research you would like to do, the relevant fields and theoretical areas, your methodological approaches, and how you understand the power of interdisciplinarity to the research you hope to conduct.

Academic writing sample (a published academic article, an article ready for submission, a recent research paper, or a research-based report)

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27126 USD/year

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27126 USD/year

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17262 USD/year

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