Comparative Culture and Language, PhD

Arizona State University - Kaplan International

The Doctor of Philosophy program in comparative culture and language offers professional training that is linguistically well-grounded, historically and culturally informed, and methodologically transdisciplinary through courses and supervision of research. Central to the program is the critical inquiry of primary texts, media and cultural expressions, aiming at an original understanding of cultures and social groups in their formations, interactions and transformations throughout history. This program is attentive to the various roles of language in societies and in the different perspectives through which language can be studied --- among other aspects, its variations, transformations, hybridizations and processes of acquisition. The doctorate in comparative culture and language focuses particularly on research questions and themes that cannot be fully explored within the traditional disciplinary boundaries instead, it fosters dynamic collaboration across disciplines to engage in the production of knowledge that is crucial to understanding transnational and transcultural interactions across time and space.

Arizona State University, Main campus