College of Education
Department Office: 307 Milton Bennion Hall, 587-7814
Web Address: www.ed.utah.edu/index.htm.
Department Chair, Harvey Kantor.
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Professors. D. Deyhle, H. Kantor, A. Thompson.
Associate Professors. B. Brayboy, D. Delgado
Bernal, E. Buendia, F. Margonis.
Assistant Professors. K. Johnson, R. Land, D. Quijada, W.
Smith, D. Warriner.
Clinical Instructors. N. Lodge.
The Department of Education, Culture, and Society (ECS)
seeks to promote exemplary teaching, scholarship, and
service as crucial components in the achievement of social
justice in education. To help foster this goal, the
Department has a vital part of its mission, the creation of
an environment devoted to the study of questions about the
social, economic, political, and cultural context of past
and contemporary educational policy and practice and
supportive of pedagogical, research, policy, and service
commitments to national organizations, educational
institutions, and local communities concerned with the
pursuit of equity and social justice in and through
education. Our research, teaching, and service shares a
common interest in examining the sources of educational
inequality and in exploring educational approaches and
strategies intended to counter these social and historical
inequities and to offer working class students and students
of color more equal educational opportunities.
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Director of Graduate Studies, Audrey Thompson, Ph.D., 307 Milton Bennion Hall, 587-7803.
M.A., M.S., M.Ed., M.Phil/Ph.D. For additional information, see the Graduate Information section of this catalog.
Students pursuing a masters or a doctorate can pursue topics within or combining the following areas of emphasis: educational anthropology and sociology, curriculum studies, educational history or philosophy, and diversity in higher education.
Students
must complete a minimum of 36 credit hours of course work,
including a 3-hour core, 15 hours of appropriate courses
consistent with student goals, and 6 hours of research
methods and a thesis.
Students must
complete a minimum of 36 credit hours, including 3 hours in
prescribed core courses, and at least 18 hours in a
specialty area (see above).
Students
must complete Ph.D. core courses and both preliminary and
qualifying examinations. The remainder of the Ph.D. program
is planned individually with the supervisory committee,
including substantial work outside the College of Education,
a focus on a subspecialty inside the department, and a
dissertation.
The Master of
Philosophy degree requires the same qualifications for
admission and scholarly achievement as the Ph.D. degree but
does not require a doctoral dissertation. There is no
separate program for this degree. All regulations covering
the Ph.D. degree with respect to supervisory committees,
course requirements, and exams also apply to the M.Phil
degree. Like the Ph.D., the M.Phil. is a terminal degree. A
student is not considered for both degrees in the same
department.
Candidates
for all master’s degrees must meet the Graduate School
requirements, hold a bachelor’s degree from an accredited
institution, and have an undergraduate GPA of at least 3.0.
Candidates for the Ph.D. must have an acceptable master’s
degree, meet departmental minimums in graduate work and have
acceptable GPA. Applicants must provide satisfactory letters
of recommendation, a personal statement, and a writing
sample to the graduate admissions committee.
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