Cultural and Theory at UC Irvine

The Ph.D. in Culture and Theory provides a strong theoretical and critical approach to race, gender and sexuality studies. Using the strengths of critical theory at UCI and the IDPs ( Inter-disciplinary programs and departments) in African American, Chicano/Latino Studies, Asian American, Critical Theory and Women’s Studies, this is an interdisciplinary degree that uses a problem-oriented rather than a disciplinary approach to issues of race, gender and sexuality in relation to diasporas, transnational and postcolonial contexts, all of which are broadly based in the humanities, social sciences and arts.