文化与发展领域的教师采取多学科的研究观点，将人类学，语言学，心理学和社会学理论带入了在教育和其他生活世界活动的文化背景下对儿童，青年和成人进行的研究。特别关注的领域包括终身学习和发展以及在各种国家和国际环境中来自不同文化和语言背景的儿童，青年和成年人的社会化研究。具有发展重点的教师专门研究整个生命周期（从幼儿到成年）的文化背景，跨文化和跨国比较研究以及性别研究。
Faculty in the Culture, Language, and Human Development program area take multidisciplinary research perspectives that bring anthropological, linguistic, psychological, and sociological theories to studies of children, youth and adults in cultural contexts of education and other lifeworld activities. Areas of culture and human development include studies of lifelong learning and development, as well as the socialization of children, youth, and adults from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds in a variety of national and international settings. Areas of culture and language include first and second language learning, sociolinguistics, bilingualism/multilingualism of ESL/ELL and heritage learners, language socialization, sociolinguistics of education, language and identity, and the use of technology in language teaching and learning in the schools.