University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

The M.S. in Cultural Foundations of Education provides students with a comprehensive understanding of the social forces that affect urban schools and communities. Our program is for people who want to look deeply at the challenges facing urban areas in the 21st Century and are willing to explore creative solutions.

Alternative Education

Community Organizing (with the Autonomous University
of Social Movements (AUSM))

Community Partnerships and Engagement

Service Learning and Partnerships

Community Power and Participation

Educational Policy

Gender and Education

Race Relations

Urban Communities and Education

Youth Work

Additional Student-Developed Concentrations Allowed

Learn more about these CFE Concentrations

Career Opportunities:

Flexible Coursework for Diverse Working Adults

Courses are available during the day, as well as online, in the evening, and on weekends for working professionals. We offer many of our courses online, and hope to be able to offer the MS in Cultural Foundations of Education fully online in the near future.

 

Real World Preparation

Graduates who go on to pursue a Ph.D. after graduation tell us that the MS in Cultural Foundations of Education provided an invaluable foundation for work in a range of fields, including Sociology, Urban Studies, Education, and many others.

Many of our students are looking for a degree that will help them change direction in their professional lives.

Our students are extremely diverse, and come from and have moved into a diverse range of careers, including:

Teachers in Public, Private, and Alternative Schools, Administrators in Community Based Organizations, Youth Workers, Community Organizers and Social Activists, Community Developers, Police Officers, Directors of Child Care Centers, Ph.D. Candidates

 
Diverse Nationally Recognized Faculty:

Our faculty is one of the most diverse in the entire Wisconsin system, and our professors are engaged in a range of cutting-edge research projects, including:

New approaches to urban community organizing and social action, cross-national education programs for immigrant Latino students, approaches to community development in Milwaukee, innovative practices for improving pedagogy in alternative schools, methods for anti-racist education, strategies for engaging inner-city youth in social action, international approaches to holistic education, critiques of current visions of democratic education, the history of African Americans in Milwaukee, and explorations of the relationship between social class and social action. For more detail on individual faculty please visit our faculty directory.