The Education, Society, and Culture Master of Arts program equips you with the insights, understanding, and analytic skills be a teacher-leader, or continue your studies and research in a doctoral program. Faculty research and coursework focuses on the historical, social, racial, cultural, and institutional factors affecting education, especially those that affect access and opportunity and contribute to educational inequality. As a student in this research-based program, you’ll have the opportunity study alongside faculty who leaders in their field, and include experts in areas such as teacher education, urban schooling, educational equality, educational access, and youth community engagement.
Some of the courses you may take include:
EDUC 210: Sociology of Education
EDUC 233: Differential Achievement and the School Learning Environment
EDUC 238: Education and Gender
EDUC 257: Language, Culture, and Education
EDUC 273: Theories of Critical Pedagogy
EDUC 275: Race and K-12 Educational Inequality
EDUC 278: Critical Race Theory in Education
September 2025
Main Campus
900 University Avenue,
Riverside,
California,
92521, West, United States
September 2025
School of Education
900 University Avenue,
1207 Sproul Hall,
RIVERSIDE,
California,
92521, United States
Baccalaureate degree from an accredited institution with A minimum overall 3.00 GPA
English Language Requirement: TOEFL - The minimum acceptable scores are: 550 for the revised TOEFL paper-delivered test and 80 for the TOEFL iBT; IELTS - The minimum acceptable overall score is 7 with no score less than 6 on any individual component.
*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.
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