课程和教学哲学博士-文化研究，国际教育和多元文化教育（CSIEME）

文化研究是一个高度跨学科的领域，借鉴了哲学，文学，艺术，社会学，心理学，政治学，技术和媒体。文化研究将那些对检查和挑战权力，文化和知识之间的关系感兴趣的学者联系起来。国际教育是一个统称，涵盖比较教育，跨国教育和泛全球土著研究。这些研究包括在学生成绩，教学实践，课程和教育政策方面的一系列大规模，跨国比较。多元文化教育是一种教学和教学范式，它融合了历史，文化传统，社会规范，生活经验以及非主流群体成员对本地和全球社会各个方面（尤其是通常经过编纂的那些方面）做出的贡献在PK-12和美国的高等教育课程中学习。
Graduate students in the CSIEME program are engaged in developing academic knowledge and practical expertise in the cultural, international, and multicultural dimensions of educational praxis including, but not limited to, inquiry into student learning, pedagogy, curriculum development, design, and implementation, teaching and learning reciprocity, educational assessment and evaluation, media and visual arts, popular culture, literacy, new literacies (technology), and textuality, locality, transnationalism, and globalization, and, equity and social justice in relationship to both individual/self and collective/social formation. This specialization requires student engagement with issues of race, color, ethnicity, geographic origin, immigration status, language, caste, socioeconomic class background, employment status, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, family configuration, sexual orientation, physical, developmental, or psychological ability, age or generation, religious, spiritual, faith-based, or secular belief, among other dimensions of difference as these manifest in educational contexts. Research in this emphasis area requires students to develop comprehensive understanding of-among other interpretive stances, frameworks, and communities-critical theory, critical race theory, post-positivist paradigms, constructivist and constructionist theory, and postmodern theory.<br><br>The Cultural Studies, International Education, and Multicultural Education (CSIEME) concentrations are comprised of three related disciplinary strands that promote interdisciplinary and decolonizing approaches to research and teaching.<br><br>Multicultural Education is the core strand. Multicultural Education engages critical pedagogy as the basis for social change through promotion of the democratic principles of social justice.<br><br>Through enactment of critical pedagogy focused on knowledge, reflection, and action (praxis), Multicultural Education accepts and affirmsthrough radical transformation of interpersonal interactions, curricula, and instructional strategiesthe pluralism that students, their families and communities, and educators represent.