CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Certificates/First-Professional Certificate
American Studies | |
American Studies means the multidisciplinary study of America. It is also a well-established discipline itself, engaged in fashioning a theory and a method for studying American society and culture.
Any student enrolled in a doctoral program at The Graduate Center may participate in the American Studies... |
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Certificates/First-Professional Certificate
Film Studies | |
The Film Studies Certificate Program at The Graduate Center is grounded in several convictions: that every cultivated person shares the heritage of world cinema as much as of the other arts; that film is a particularly relevant twentieth century art form; that "literacy" in cinema is a prerequisite to... |
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Certificates/First-Professional Certificate
Interactive Technology and Pedagogy | |
The Doctoral Certificate Program in Interactive Technology and Pedagogy responds to strong doctoral student demand for interactive digital technology (IT) training and certification. It aims to better prepare doctoral students for life and work in the contemporary university and to impart valuable IT... |
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Certificates/First-Professional Certificate
Medieval Studies | |
The Certificate in Medieval Studies is available to students matriculated in the Ph.D. programs at The Graduate Center. The Certificate Program provides doctoral students with the opportunity to study the Middle Ages within the kind of broad, multidisciplinary framework that is particularly appropriate... |
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Certificates/First-Professional Certificate
Renaissance Studies | |
The Certificate in Renaissance Studies is available to students matriculated in the Ph.D. programs at The Graduate Center. The program enables students pursuing doctorates in all aspects of the Renaissance/Early Modern period (c.1350-c.1700) to expand their studies within the context of early modern... |
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Certificates/First-Professional Certificate
Women's Studies | |
The Certificate in Women's Studies is available to students matriculated in the Ph.D. programs at The Graduate Center. Women's Studies is an interdisciplinary approach to research and scholarship that draws on various disciplines while challenging disciplinary boundaries. The general aim of the program... |
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Doctor's degree
Archaeology | |
The archaeology subfield at CUNY maintains a dual focus: on major theoretical issues of wide concern in anthropology (rise of the state, hunter-gatherer organization, chieftainship, gender, human impacts); and on providing rigorous training in archaeological method (lithic technology, locational analyses,... |
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Doctor's degree
Audiology | |
The Au.D. degree is awarded by the Graduate Center, CUNY for individuals interested in becoming an audiologist, a health professional who evaluates and treats individuals with hearing impairment. Employment of audiologists is expected to grow about as fast as the average for all occupations through the... |
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Doctor's degree
Biochemistry | |
The interdisciplinary science of biochemistry draws from fundamental chemical theory and research techniques as the basis for explorations into problems of biology. Students participate in research early in their graduate work, preferably in the first year of study, and engage actively in a broadly based... |
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Doctor's degree
Biology | |
The primary objective of The Ph.D. Program in Biology is to enable the student to acquire a fundamental orientation in the current life sciences as well as mastery of the knowledge and investigative approaches in his or her chosen areas of specialization. Such training is essential in developing research... |
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Doctor's degree
Chemistry | |
The Graduate School offers a program of study leading to the Ph.D. degree in Chemistry. The program is consortial in nature with the faculty being drawn principally from the Chemistry Departments of the senior colleges of City University. These colleges are Brooklyn College, The City College, Hunter... |
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Doctor's degree
Classics | |
CUNY Classics offers the Ph.D. degrees in Greek and Roman classics, with rigorous training in Latin and ancient Greek. Nine courses are available each semester through a consortium with Fordham and New York Universities, covering a variety of subjects in Greek and Latin literature, ancient history, and... |
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Doctor's degree
Comparative Literature | |
The Ph.D.Program in Comparative Literature offers courses in Comparative Literature as well as coordinated courses in English-American literature, French literature, German literature, Hispanic and Luzo-Brazilian literature, Italian literature, Slavic literature, and Ancient Greek and Latin literature.... |
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Doctor's degree
Computer Science | |
Program Overview
The Ph.D. Program in Computer Science at The City University of New York's Graduate Center is designed to prepare selected students for leadership in industrial careers and research and teaching in academe.
The ubiquitous role of the computer in our society requires that the Ph.D. candidate... |
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Doctor's degree
Criminal Justice | |
A FEW FACTS ABOUT CUNY AND THE DOCTORAL PROGRAM IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE
The Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York was founded in 1961. The Graduate Center is the doctoral-granting institution of the third largest urban university in the U.S. The Graduate Center offers 32... |
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Doctor's degree
Cultural Anthropology | |
The cultural subfield maintains a focus on the material bases of inequality, analyzed in both local and global contexts, combining historical and ethnographic approaches. Over the last several years the cultural subfield has expanded its training in new directions, including attention to the role of... |
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Doctor's degree
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Environmental and Geological Science | |
SPECIALIZATION IN ENVIRONMENTAL AND GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES
The specialization in Environmental and Geological Sciences offers research opportunities in a broad spectrum of Earth-focused science reflecting the research interests of the faculty – including topics of classical Geology; studies of Earth‘s fluid... |
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Doctor's degree
Economics
Applied Econometrics | |
Econometrics is the study of how statistical and mathematical techniques are applied to economic data. Econometric techniques are used widely in policymaking, and they are also applied to other social sciences besides economics. An understanding of econometrics and the ability to use its techniques are... |
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Doctor's degree
Economics
Financial Economics | |
The Financial Economics field is designed to prepare students to deal with theoretical and practical problems in the areas of modern finance relevant to portfolio management, financial management, and capital markets. Included are analytical and empirical approaches to:
Consumption and investment... |
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Doctor's degree
Economics
Human Resource | |
The Human Resource field covers Labor Economics, Health Economics, and Human Resource Economics. Labor Economics is concerned with the determination of wages and hours of work in labor markets. Health Economics is concerned with the production and demand for health care and how the determinants of demand... |
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Doctor's degree
Economics
Industrial Organization | |
The area is devoted to the analysis of the behavior of organizations in situations differing from the paradigm of perfect competition. It covers the theory of monopoly and oligopoly, empirical analyses of industry structure and performance, case studies, antitrust analysis, and the economics of regulation.... |
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Doctor's degree
Economics
International Economics | |
International Economics combines the subfields of International Trade and International Finance, as well as Economic Development. Among the issues to be studied are:
The theory of trade and investment in both static and growth models, including the effects of trade and investment on income distribution... |
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Doctor's degree
Economics
Public Economics | |
Public Economics is primarily concerned with the role of government in a market economy. Relationships between theory and application as well as between public economics and political systems will be emphasized, with analytical and empirical approaches to such issues as:
Theory of public goods
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Doctor's degree
Educatinal Psychology
School Psychology | |
Students can enter the Graduate Center-Queens College School Psychology Specialization either with or without a prior certificate in school psychology. Bachelor or MA/MS-level graduates (who do not hold a certificate in school psychology and who wish to pursue a course of full-time doctoral study in... |
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Doctor's degree
Educational Psychology
Educational Policy Analysis | |
The Educational Policy Analysis specialization trains students in the application of sophisticated research designs and statistical methods to critical educational policy problems. Examples of such problems include: Are private schools superior to public schools in producing academic achievement? What... |
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Doctor's degree
Educational Psychology
Learning, Development, and Instruction | |
The Learning, Development, and Instruction specialization of the Doctoral Program in Educational Psychology prepares students to analyze and explain human learning in both formal and informal instructional contexts, to develop instructional procedures to enhance learning and to evaluate the effectiveness... |
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Doctor's degree
Educational Psychology
Quantitative Methods In Educational and psychological Research | |
The Quantitative Methods specialization of the Doctoral Program in Educational Psychology provides training in research methodology, applied statistics, psychometrics and quantitative approaches to solving research problems in education, psychology, and the social sciences. Students are prepared as researchers... |
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Doctor's degree
French | |
The Ph.D. Program in French at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York offers an innovative combination of traditional training in French and Francophone Literatures with highly progressive interdisciplinary curricular options. While specializing in one of the traditional literary periods,... |
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Doctor's degree
Geography | |
SPECIALIZATION IN GEOGRAPHY
The specialization in Geography is a newly-created specialization within the doctoral program in Earth and Environmental Sciences founded in 1985. The program provides an opportunity to pursue doctoral studies in geography in one of the world‘s largest and most dynamic metropolitan... |
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Doctor's degree
Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures | |
The Ph.D. Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures offers courses in all areas of Iberian and Latin American literatures leading to the Ph.D. degree. Major movements and literary genres–epic, drama, lyric poetry, novel, and essay–are studied in their historical, ideological, and cultural context... |
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Doctor's degree
History | |
The Ph.D. Program in History of the City University of New York is a major center for research and graduate training in a wide array of fields of historical inquiry, ranging from ancient to contemporary times and covering Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, and East Asia. It has over one-hundred-and-twenty-five... |
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Doctor's degree
Linguistic Anthropology | |
The linguistic anthropology subfield prepares students to investigate the role of language in community, national, and cross-cultural interactions. It is distinguished from purely linguistic perspectives by its concern with the social and cultural factors that underlie people's use of language to share... |
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Doctor's degree
Nursing Science | |
Overview
The Doctor of Nursing Science (DNS) Program is offered by The Graduate Center in conjunction with the three CUNY master's programs in nursing: Hunter College, Lehman College, and the College of Staten Island. The program addresses the two-pronged mission of The Graduate Center: to address the... |
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Doctor's degree
Philosophy | |
Program Description
CUNY's Graduate Program in Philosophy is designed to provide graduate students with a sound general training in the history of ancient and modern philosophy and in the main areas of current philosophical inquiry. The Ph.D. program is intended for those who aspire to careers in teaching... |
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Doctor's degree
Physical Anthropology | |
Physical Anthropology at CUNY covers a wide range of topics, with a strong emphasis on evolutionary approaches to understanding human and nonhuman primate biology. Current research involves six main areas: the comparative morphology, scientific visualization and 3D morphometrics, paleontology, biogeography,... |
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Doctor's degree
Political Science | |
Required Credits
Each student is required to complete 60 graduate credits, of which at least 20 credits (5 courses) should be earned through 800-level doctoral research courses. These courses may be in any areas of political science and may include independent study, so long as the independent study... |
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Doctor's degree
Social Welfare | |
The Graduate Center offers the Ph.D. in social welfare at the Hunter College School of Social Work. The program prepares professional social workers for leadership in human services and higher education. The program‘s emphasis is to develop student capacity to contribute to social work practice knowledge.... |
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Doctor's degree
Sociology | |
The Ph.D. Program in Sociology develops sociologists of broad theoretical background who are trained in a mixture of research methods, from survey research to ethnographic, historical and comparative approaches. We currently have 150 sociology students in our doctoral program, and about 50 participating... |
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Doctor's degree
Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences | |
The Ph.D. program in Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences stresses strong theoretical and empirical training in the nature and processes of human communication and its disorders in preparing its graduates for research and academic careers.
Research training is conducted both at the Graduate Center and at... |
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Doctor's degree
Theatre | |
Program Overview
The Ph.D. Program in Theatre at The Graduate Center is designed to develop scholars of broad theoretical background and demonstrated research ability in dramatic theory and criticism, dramatic structure, and history of theatre. Students may also study performance theory and theatre organization... |
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Doctor's degree
Urban Education | |
The Ph.D. Program in Urban Education is designed to prepare leaders in educational research and policy analysis who have a broad understanding of the complex issues facing urban education. The unique focus of this program is at the intersection of two principal research agendas: (1) research on issues... |
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Masters degree
American politics | |
American politics focuses on five subfields: national institutions, processes and behavior, political thought, federalism and intergovernmental relations, and constitutional law and judicial politics. Students begin their study by taking a wide ranging core course, American Politics, that surveys these... |
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Masters degree
Classics | |
CUNY Classics offers the M.A. degrees in Greek and Roman classics, with rigorous training in Latin and ancient Greek. Nine courses are available each semester through a consortium with Fordham and New York Universities, covering a variety of subjects in Greek and Latin literature, ancient history, and... |
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Masters degree
Cognitive Science | |
The Graduate Center offers an interdisciplinary concentration in Cognitive Science. Students enrolled in various graduate programs, particularly those in computer science, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, educational psychology, and speech and hearing sciences, may wish to select courses in this... |
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Masters degree
Comparative Literature | |
The M.A.Program in Comparative Literature offers courses in Comparative Literature as well as coordinated courses in English-American literature, French literature, German literature, Hispanic and Luzo-Brazilian literature, Italian literature, Slavic literature, and Ancient Greek and Latin literature.... |
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Masters degree
European Union Studies | |
The interdisciplinary concentration in European Union Studies is designed to familiarize students pursuing doctorates in European history, European languages, political science, economics, business, and sociology with theories pertaining to current developments unfolding in Continental Europe and their... |
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Masters degree
Fashion Studies | |
From classical antiquity onward, the study of fashion has been consistently a subject of social commentary and has played a crucial role in the formation of personal, national, and transnational identities. Today it is emerging as a fertile field of research that reaches beyond national and cultural... |
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Masters degree
Journalism
Arts & Culture | |
Program Highlights Include:
Exploring New York City‘s borough-wide arts scene, from underground performance spaces to museums and cultural festivals
Internships at media outlets and cultural institutions from CMJ (College Media Journal) to People to The New York Times.
Guest speakers,... |
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Masters degree
Journalism
Business & Economics | |
Becoming a Business Journalist
This is an exciting time to consider a career in business journalism. The launch of new magazines, websites and even a new cable channel is creating an opportunity for fresh coverage – and new jobs.
This is also a fascinating time to be covering the business world. Globalization... |
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Masters degree
Journalism
Health & Medicine | |
Welcome to the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism‘s Health & Medicine Reporting Concentration. We are delighted that you are considering specializing in this critical and exciting field of journalism. Health care will be the number one domestic issue over the next few years, and learning how to cover... |
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Masters degree
Journalism
Urban Journalism | |
Our Urban Journalism Program
It is hard to imagine any subject more central to the mission of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism than the coverage of New York City. The University has an unparalleled network of professors whose research focuses on every conceivable public policy issue, neighborhood,... |
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Masters degree
Language and Literacy | |
The Graduate Center offers an interdisciplinary concentration in Language and Literacy. The concentration draws upon the faculty and resources from Educational Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Linguistics, and Speech and Hearing Sciences. Students enrolled in these or other doctoral programs may... |
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Masters degree
Latin American and Caribbean Studies | |
Latin American and Caribbean Studies is a growing U.S. field that offers students the opportunity to explore, from different academic perspectives, the societies and cultures in a vast and richly varied area of strategic importance for world affairs. Faculty and students from the doctoral programs in... |
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Masters degree
Lesbian/Gay/Queer Studies | |
The Graduate Center offers an interdisciplinary concentration in Lesbian/Gay/Queer Studies, a rapidly growing, multi-disciplinary enterprise whose goal is the study of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered peoples and their histories and cultures, as well as the study of sexuality and its role in... |
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Masters degree
Liberal Studies | |
The CUNY Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program, launched in 1981, offers interdisciplinary courses of study in ten areas:
American Studies
Approaches to Modernity
Bioethics, Science, and Society
Biography, Autobiography, and Memoir
Film Studies
International Studies
Landmarks... |
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Masters degree
Linguistics | |
Language is a pervasive feature of our lives; no one academic field could do justice to all of the ways in which it affects us. Nevertheless, Linguistics has isolated certain questions that it takes to be central. Among these is the question how it is possible for a small child, in a short amount of... |
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Masters degree
Middle Eastern Studies | |
The Master of Arts in Middle Eastern Studies offers an interdisciplinary approach to graduate study in issues and topics related to the Middle Eastern region and its diaspora. Students enrolled in the program gain a broad understanding of the history, politics, economics, religions, and cultures of... |
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Masters degree
Philosophy | |
Program Description
CUNY's Graduate Program in Philosophy is designed to provide graduate students with a sound general training in the history of ancient and modern philosophy and in the main areas of current philosophical inquiry. The program is intended for those who aspire to careers in teaching... |
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Masters degree
Physical Therapy | |
Overview
The Graduate Center (GC), Hunter College, and the College of Staten Island offer jointly a clinical doctoral program in physical therapy leading to the DPT degree (The GC will award the degree). This new program will replace the current master's level program at Hunter College and the College... |
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Masters degree
Political Science
Comparative Politics | |
Comparative politics at the Graduate School explores the similarities and differences among political systems within and across major geographic regions. Seminars range from two core courses on Basic Theories and Concepts in Comparative Politics and Comparative Political Institutions to advanced seminars... |
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Masters degree
Political Science
International Relations | |
International Relations (IR) is the study of foreign policymaking and international cooperation and conflict. Globalization has boosted the prosperity of many states, while leaving others behind and leaving all more vulnerable to economic shocks. While the Cold War and its tense superpower rivalry has... |
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Masters degree
Political Science
Political Theory | |
As a faculty, we think most talk about politics is normative, though often in covert & disguised ways. We try to bring discussion of norms into the open--including norms that we ourselves embrace--to scrutinize them critically from different points of view, and to be optimally aware of different human... |
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Masters degree
Political Science
Public Policy | |
The Public Policy sub field features studies in these areas:
American public policy
Comparative public policy
International public policy
Theoretical issues in public policy
Substantive areas within public policy
In the substantive areas, students may select:
Health
Education
Welfare
Housing
Urban... |
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Masters degree
Political Science
Writing Politics | |
The Political Science Program has recently added the Writing Politics specialization to our curriculum. The Writing Politics specialization will train students to write serious political analysis for an educated audience outside of the discipline. This type of political writing, a form of literary... |
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Masters degree
Psychology of Political Behavior | |
The Graduate Center offers an interdisciplinary concentration in the Psychology of Political Behavior. The concentration draws on doctoral programs in Anthropology, Criminal Justice, Political Science, Psychology (subprograms in Clinical, Industrial and Organizational, and Social-Personality Psychology),... |
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Masters degree
Public Health | |
Overview
The CUNY Doctor of Public Health program prepares students to be researchers, teachers, and managers who can meet the public health needs of urban populations. It prepares future faculty members for the growing number of training programs in public and community health and leaders for the public... |
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Masters degree
Public Policy and Urban Studies | |
The Graduate Center offers an interdisciplinary concentration in Public Policy and Urban Studies. Students enrolled in any one of seven doctoral programs”Anthropology, Economics, Environmental Psychology, History, Philosophy, Political Science, and Sociology”may select interdisciplinary work in public... |
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Masters degree
Twentieth-Century Studies | |
The Graduate Center offers an interdisciplinary concentration in Twentieth-Century Studies, with an emphasis on the humanities. Participating students take two core courses designed for the concentration and select additional courses in twentieth-century areas from the doctoral programs at the Graduate... |
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CUNY Graduate School and University Center
Masters degree
Urban Health and Society | |
The Graduate Center offers an interdisciplinary graduate concentration in Urban Health and Society studies. The concentration draws on doctoral programs in anthropology, economics, educational psychology, history, political science, psychology, and sociology. The courses offered in this concentration... |
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