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343 Master's degrees in Area & Cultural Studies in North America
Hawaiian Studies
The Master of Arts degree in Hawaiian Studies offered by University of Hawaii at Manoa builds on the BA program’s areas of concentration.
Language, Culture, and Curriculum
Language, Culture, and Curriculum from Loyola University Chicago aims to equip all teachers with the pertinent understandings and pedagogical practices to push forward emergent bilinguals’ learning and language development across settings, including literacy, mathematics, science, social studies, world languages, and fine arts classrooms with children, adolescents, and adults.
Spanish Language, Literature and Culture
The M.A. in Spanish Language, Literature and Culture at Syracuse University allow students to develop expertise in critical reading, writing and thinking regarding a wide variety of areas.
Judaic Studies
University of Connecticut Judaic Studies graduate program provides a unique opportunity for students with specialized interests in Jewish literature, culture, and history to pursue their research in the context of other relevant literatures, cultures, and languages, all of which are integrated within UConn's Department of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages (LCL).
Language, Reading and Culture - Early Childhood Education
The Language, Reading and Culture - Early Childhood Education at The University of Arizona focuses on theory, research and practice in language, literacy and culture, encouraging critical inquiry to examine sociocultural issues within teaching and learning.
Cross-Cultural Studies
The Cross-Cultural Studies degree program at University of Houston Clear Lake use an interdisciplinary approach to consider experiences and inequalities based on race, gender, ethnicity, class, sexuality and nationality.
Education for Social Change - Critical Bilingualism and Biliteracy
Education for Social Change - Critical Bilingualism and Biliteracy in the Urban Classroom from California State University Los Angeles offers the opportunity to develop the necessary knowledge and skills to meet the needs of children in urban schools particularly those children who are English language learners.
American Indian Studies (Visual and Oral Culture)
With this American Indian Studies (Visual and Oral Culture) program from Arizona State University, you will gain a deeper understanding of complex issues facing indigenous communities and learn how to apply your expertise and advocate for social justice. Your skills will be applicable in a variety of careers.
World Languages and Applied Intercultural Studies
The M.A. in World Languages and Applied Intercultural Studies at Georgia State University is designed to develop students’ career-readiness through an innovative curriculum that emphasizes world language skills, intercultural competency, and global awareness.
Indo-European Studies
The Indo-European Studies program of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is technically (in UCLA terminology) an “Interdisciplinary Program” (IDP), since some of its faculty and courses are shared with various UCLA departments, such as Classics, Linguistics, and Asian Languages and Cultures.
Research Administration
Research administrators facilitate important work that spurs advancements across a wide variety of industries. When you earn your master's degree in the Research Administration program of University of Central Florida, you’ll enhance the qualifications and skills you need to deepen research that fuels innovation.
Human Development, Learning, and Culture
The Human Development, Learning, and Culture (HDLC) program at University of British Columbia addresses the interface of research and practice in education, weaving together theoretical models and concepts in their application to real world educational issues.

Pastoral Counseling - Theology
Through this Pastoral Counseling - Theology from Liberty University MA programme from the Liberty University you will receive training in solution-based models so you can apply various behavioral approaches and appropriate biblical teaching in your work.
Cultural Studies
Cultural Studies from The University of the West Indies aims to unlock the potential of the Caribbean Region and contribute to regional integration through the excellence of its scholarship and the education of the region’s human resources.
Culturally Sustaining Education
Our Culturally Sustaining Education program at the University of Washington seeks to join, center, and sustain the strengths, wisdom, histories, and futures of Indigenous, Black, Latinx, Asian, Pacific Islander and all global majority young people, families, Elders, communities and educators across multiple intersections with gender, disability, language, land, migration, class, and more.
Educational Studies
The primary aim of the Western Illinois University graduate Educational Studies program is to assist in the development of highly competent, flexible, and empowered practitioners who will have a positive impact on student learning, their immediate professional setting, and their profession as a whole.
Cultural Foundations of Education
The Cultural Foundations of Education at Syracuse University prepares its students to question, analyze, and deepen insights into the foundations of education’s relationship with culture and society.

Appalachian Studies
The Appalachian Studies course from East Tennessee State University is the only degree of its kind in the state of Tennessee and the second such degree in the Appalachian region.
Liberal Studies
At Liberal Studies from University of Central Oklahoma students will be expected to exhibit enhanced capacities for both analytic and synthetic thought, particularly in the areas of critical inquiry and aesthetic analysis.
Institute of Latina,o, Caribbean, and Latin American Studies
In picking a methodological and theoretical orientation for their thesis papers, students specialize in one discipline of their choice, while also taking courses in at least two additional disciplines. Learn more with Institute of Latina,o, Caribbean, and Latin American Studies from University of Connecticut.