Educational Studies: Cross-Specialization PhD Option
Current or prospective doctoral students may have research interests that cut across existing specializations or units within Educational Studies. Rather than requiring them to choose between fulfilling one or another existing set of specialization requirements, none of which may be the best preparation for the work they wish to do, we offer a cross-specialization option. Under this option, students complete an individualized set of requirements (in addition to the Educational Studies degree requirements applicable to all students) agreed upon with a faculty committee of three members.
This option is consistent with the traditions of inter-disciplinary scholarship and permeability of academic boundaries in the School of Education and at the University of Michigan. Indeed, Rackham offers such an option for students whose interests cut across departments or schools (http://www.rackham.umich.edu/StudentInfo/
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