MSEd Education, Culture, and Society at University of Pennsylvania

Under the supervision and mentorship of a faculty advisor, master’s students in the Education, Culture, and Society program undertake individualized and interdisciplinary programs of study in the social foundations of education. The program therefore provides students with a nuanced understanding of education as an historical, socio-cultural, political, and moral activity. EDCS students explore the role education plays in reproducing and potentially transforming racialized, classed, and gendered relations and structures of inequality – in the U.S.

Faculty: Graduate School of Education  |  Duration: 10 course units  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Location: Philadelphia, PA, United States

What you will study

Requires 10 course units in total. Listed required courses include EDUC 5490 School and Society in America; EDUC 6490 Master's Seminar in Education, Culture, and Society; EDUC 5436 Philosophical Aspects of Education Policy; EDUC 5460 American Education Reform: History, Policy, Practice; EDUC 6460 Qualitative Methods: Principles and Techniques (offered Fall, Spring and Summer) while those interested in quantitative traditions enroll in; EDUC 6667 Introductory Statistics for Educational Research.

Career pathways

Although many EDCS students are preparing for a path to doctoral study or academia, many others find the program helpful for establishing careers in schools, administration, educational non-profits, higher education, community advocacy work and/or educational consultancy.

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