Language, Literacy, and Culture (LLC)

Program Admission Requirements
Facilities and Special Resources
Financial Assistance
Programs and Courses

CEDRIC HERRING, Graduate Program Director

Degree Offered

Faculty

BICKEL, BEVERLY, Clinical Associate Professor
bickel@umbc.edu
Globalized communication and culture, new media, social movements, critical pedagogy, qualitative research

GALINDO, CLAUDIA, Associate Professor
galindo@umbc.edu
Educational inequality and the social context of education, sociology of education, educational policy, developmental psychology, and immigration.

HERRING, CEDRIC, Professor
cherring@umbc.edu
Workplace diversity, race and public policy, stratification and inequality, and jobs and economic development

MALLINSON, CHRISTINE, Associate Professor
mallinson@umbc.edu
English language variation, language and education inequality, the interface of sociolinguistics and sociology, research methodology

SAPER, CRAIG, Professor
csaper@umbc.edu
E-literacy, e-publishing and online scholarship, history of reading and reading devices, networked writing, cultural and media theory and interventions

AFFILIATE FACULTY

CRANDALL, JOANN, Professor Emerita (Founding Director)
Content-based language learning, second language literacy, language teacher education, first and second language writing, ESL/EFL

Approximately fifty other faculty members from other UMBC departments are officially affiliated with the LLC Doctoral Program. For a complete listing, including their research interests, please visit the LLC website.

Program Description

The Ph.D. in Language, Literacy and Culture is an interdisciplinary program of the study of language, culture and human interaction. This interdisciplinary program draws upon the departments of Africana Studies; American Studies; Education; English; History; Media and Communication Studies; Modern Languages, Linguistics and Intercultural Communication; Sociology and Anthropology; and the Gender and Women’s Studies Program at UMBC. The goal of the program is to provide research and applications that will enable professionals to work with interdisciplinary issues in language, literacy and culture.

Program Admission Requirements

Admission to the LLC doctoral program is highly competitive. At a minimum all applicants must have a masters degree and meet all of the admissions requirements as set forth by the Graduate School. In addition, applicants must submit an academic writing sample directly to the Language, Literacy and Culture program.
LLC Doctoral Program
421 Sherman Hall
UMBC
1000 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore, MD 21250
Other original application documents should be sent directly to the Graduate School, and not to the LLC program. Please note that the LLC Doctoral Program admits new students in fall semesters only. The program deadline for receipt of all application materials is December 1 of the year prior to the fall semester in which the student intends to enroll. Contact the LLC Program Specialist for more information…

Facilities and Special Resources

Through its eight supporting departments and programs, LLC offers a number of special resource collections and facilities, including the Resource Center for Language and Culture, the Maryland State Adult Literacy Center, the Center for Language Initiatives, and the New Media Studio. The departments have a number of local, regional, national and international partnerships that can serve as contexts for internships. Internships can be arranged with public and private schools, community colleges and universities throughout Maryland; nonprofit organizations, non-governmental organizations, governmental agencies and other public and private institutions around the country; and universities and bi-national institutes and bilingual American and international schools in a number of countries, including Brazil, Chile, China, Ecuador, Mexico and Thailand. Additional internships are available through UMBC’s Shriver Center.

Financial Assistance

A limited number of graduate assistantships are available through the program. Work-study assistantships are also available to U.S. citizens and permanent residents. Students applying for work-study assistantships should submit a Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form. Visit the UMBC Financial Aid website for more information: http://www.umbc.edu/financialaid

LLC Contact Information
Liz Steenrod
LLC Program Specialist 410-455-2376
llc@umbc.edu
http://www.umbc.edu/llc

Programs

Language, Literacy, and Culture, Ph.D.

Courses

Language, Literacy & Culture