Doctor of Philosophy in Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Thought

ASPECT (the Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Thought) fosters a critical engagement between domains of inquiry in the social sciences, humanities, and the arts. Our focus is on interdisciplinary theoretical research. In addition to offering a one-of-a-kind doctoral program, we serve as an intellectual hub for various activities, endeavors, and events of an interdisciplinary and theoretical nature.Through its curriculum, research programs, pedagogical endeavors, and scholarly events, ASPECT brings together theoretical and empirical cross-disciplinary methodologies, concepts, salient issues, and analytical perspectives generated by ethical thought, cultural studies, political economy, social and political theory, intellectual history, critical world order studies, and aesthetics, performance arts, and visual studies.

Course requirements for the Ph.D. can ordinarily be completed during two years of residency and entail successful completion of 42 credit hours, leading to the defense of a Ph.D. dissertation proposal and preliminary exams during the fourth semester. Thereafter, dissertation research will be undertaken under the supervision of a multidisciplinary advisory committee and remaining credits may be earned either by taking additional classroom courses or research and dissertation credits.
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TOEFL
Paper
550.0
iBT
80.0
Minimum GPA- 3.5