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Doctoral Program in Curriculum and Instruction: Concentration in Literacy Studies
The Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction: Concentration in Literacy Studies prepares research scholars with expertise in literacy processes, literacy instruction, and literacy teacher education. The program features in-depth exploration of literacy theories and research, the broad study of systematic inquiry skills, apprenticeship learning of various research methodologies, the development of personalized strands of research, and a mentored residency experience in literacy teacher education.
Features of the Program
Research based on the highest standards of discovery, creativity, and intellectual attainment.
Teaching as a process of interactivity and community involvement in which literacies are viewed as mediated competencies within a participatory culture.
Service to the Community to enrich the lives of students and teachers by promoting the importance of advocacy and autonomy through the development of literacies in the lives of children, adolescents, and adults.
Global Perspectives broadened through partnerships in diverse communities that embrace multiple perspectives and transmediated literacy practices.
Technology as a tool for playing, performing, simulating, appropriating, multitasking, distributing cognition, collecting intelligence, judging, networking, navigating, and visualizing. In other words, technology as new media literacies. www.newmedialiteracies.org
Student Success as a shared responsibility and mutual goal of the doctoral student, faculty, and program.