文化研究与教育社会思想（CSSTE）博士学位。选择是一项严格，灵活且个性化的学习课程，着重于当代和历史教育背景下的文化和权力问题。文化研究包括大众文化和媒体，社会正义，环境，伦理，美学，种族，种族，性别和社会阶层，这些研究被应用于一系列教育子领域，包括扫盲，教育领导，教师领导，学校改革，课程理论，高等教育，科学，艺术，特殊教育和双语/ ELL（英语学习者）。该学院的总体目标是阐明教育学术和实践的凝聚力和支持性社区。尽管课程工作很重要，但我们会努力建立强有力的指导计划，在该计划中，应聘博士生将被指导进入研究
The Cultural Studies and Social Thought in Education (CSSTE) Ph.D. option is a rigorous, flexible, and individually-tailored course of study that focuses on the issues of culture and power in the contemporary and historical contexts of education. Cultural studies includes popular culture and media, social justice, environment, ethics, aesthetics, race, ethnicity, gender, and social class, which are applied to a range of educational sub-fields that include literacy, educational leadership, teacher leadership, school reform, curriculum theory, higher education, science, art, special education, and bilingual/ELL (English Language Learners). The overall goal of the faculty is to articulate a cohesive and supportive community of educational scholarship and practice. While coursework is important, we work to establish a strong program of mentorship in which doctoral candidates are mentored into the world of research, knowledge generation and dissemination, and pedagogical and social action. We are committed to the idea that our scholarly endeavors stimulate positive change in schools and the communities and society those schools serve. Education, whether it takes place in the formal settings of schools and museums or the informal contexts of home and the movie theater, is defined by its cultural context. Cultural studies take these cultural contexts as the essential starting point to build research projects and define teaching practices.