Language, Literacy and Culture

This Language, Literacy and Culture PhD programme from University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) is an interdisciplinary programme which investigates the concepts and
processes of language, literacy, and culture in relationship to social,
cultural, linguistic, historical, technological, and ideological
formations.

The Language, Literacy and Culture Language, Literacy and Culture PhD programme from University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) 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.

Key facts:

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.

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.