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Welcome to the Comparative and International Education Dual-Title Program

The CIED program trains scholars who advance our basic knowledge about schooling and education around the globe. The CIED program is designed to create opportunities for a range of people—administrators and policy makers in social welfare, health education, and development; school leaders; and scholars of education.

Graduate Major Programs that participate with the CIED dual-title degree program

Department of Education Policy Studies
  • Educational Theory and Policy
  • Educational Leadership
  • Higher Education
  • Education Policy and Leadership
Department of Educational Psychology, Counseling, and Special Education

  • Rehabilitation and Human Services

  • Educational Psychology

  • Special Education

  • Counselor Education

  • School Psychology

Department of Curriculum and Instruction
  • Curriculum & Supervision
  • Early Childhood Education
  • Language, Culture, and Society
  • Literacies & English Language Arts
  • Mathematics Education
  • Science Education
  • Second Language Education
  • Social Studies Education 
Department of Learning and Performance Systems
  • Lifelong Learning & Adult Education 
  • Learning, Design, and Technology
  • Workforce Education and Development
College of Agricultural Sciences
  • Agricultural and Extension Education
  • Entomology

Dual-title doctoral degree in Comparative and International Education

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Dual-Title masters degree in Comparative and International Education

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Minor in Comparative and International Education

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CIED Curriculum

Required Courses

CIED 500, CIED Proseminar

Advanced Courses

  • CIED 503 (HI ED 503, EDTHP 507), Ethnicity, National Identity, and Education

  • CIED 504 (C I), Perspectives in African Education

  • CIED 508 (ADTED 508), Globalization and Lifelong Learning

  • CIED 509 (ADTED 509), Language, Literacy, Identity, and Culture in a Global Context

  • CIED 516 (EDTHP 516), Education and Demographic Processes

  • CIED 524 (EDTHP 524) Comparative Education Research Using Large-Scale Data

  • CIED 534 (EDTHP 534, SOC 534) Childhood and Education in Sociological and International Comparative Perspective

  • CIED 538 (EDLDR 538), East Asian Education, Leadership, and Reform

  • CIED 542 (LL ED 542), Issues in Literacy Education

  • CIED 550 (EDTHP 550), Comparative Education Policy Seminar

  • CIED 552 (ADTED 552) Participatory Action Research

  • CIED 553 ( EDTHP 553, HI ED 553, SOC 553), Educational Mobility in Comparative Perspective

  • CIED 562 (ADTED 562), Politics, Language and Pedagogy: Applying Paulo Freire Today

  • CIED 564 (ADTED 564), Social and Cultural Contexts of Learning and Work

  • CIED 570 (ADTED 570), Comparative and International Adult Education

  • CIED 571 (HI ED 571), Comparative Higher Education

  • CIED 572 (ADTED 572), Policy Studies in Lifelong Learning

  • CIED 587 (E C E 587), Curriculum, Culture, and Child Development

  • CIED 590, Colloquium (1–3 credits)

  • CIED 594, Research Topics (1–18 credits)

  • CIED 596, Individual Studies (1–9 credits)

  • CIED 597, Special Topics (1–9 credits)

CIED Focused Courses

  • CIED 401 (IL) (EDTHP 401), Introduction to Comparative and International Education

  • CIED 440 (EDTHP 440), Introduction to Philosophy of Education

  • CIED 444 (WL ED 444), Language, Culture, and the Classroom: Issues for Practitioners

  • CIED 457 (ENTO 457, AGECO 457), Principles of Integrated Pest Management

  • CIED 470 (ADTED 470), Introduction to Distance Education

  • CIED 480 (EDLDR 480), Global Leadership in Education

  • CIED 497, Special Topics (1–9 credits)

  • CIED 541 (EDTHP 541), Contemporary Philosophies of Education

  • CIED 555 (EDPSY 555), Validity of Assessment Results

  • CIED 845 (AYFCE 845) Intergenerational Programs and Practices

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Where Are They Now?

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Thanks to everyone who attended October's Speaker Series Event Featuring: Kai Schafft and Annie Maselli discussing their book, Rural Youth at the Crossroads: Transitional Societies in Central Europe and Beyond.

 

Admission Information and Requirements
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Contact

Professor-in-Charge
Dr. Soo-yong Byun

Associate Professor of Education

310D Rackley Building , University Park, PA, 16802

Email: [email protected]

Contact

Academic Program Assistant
Cassie Vomero

Comparative and International Education

404G Rackley Building , University Park, PA, 16802

Email: [email protected]

Phone: (814) 865-1488

NOTE: Students admitted to a primary graduate program may also have the option of enrolling in a secondary area of study to receive a dual-title degree. Comparative and International Education (CIED) is one such dual-title degree program. The CIED dual-degree enables students from different graduate programs to learn the perspectives, techniques, and methodologies of comparative and international education, while maintaining a close association with their program areas of application.

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The Comparative Education Review (CER) is the flagship journal of the Comparative and International Education Society, featuring articles that advance the theoretical and empirical understanding of education in the world (2018 Impact Factor: 1.952; Ranked #70 out of 243 in Education & Educational Research).