Master of Arts (M.A.) in
Multicultural Education Focus of Study

Purpose

The Multicultural Education Focus of Study prepares teachers and other professionals to assume leadership roles in school districts, colleges, universities and other institutions around issues of equity and diversity. The program is also designed to respond to the needs of classroom teachers who wish to gain the knowledge and skills needed to integrate their curricula with multicultural content, teach from a social justice orientation, or align their pedagogical approach with the strengths and needs that children from diverse communities bring to the educational context.
Students pursuing this focus of study may:

• Focus on a variety of topics, content areas, or issues within the broad field of multicultural education, or
• Combine a multicultural focus with content/developmental area (literacy, early childhood, etc.).

Multicultural Courses

(The following list represents coursework that may be taken within this focus of study. Other courses may also be appropriate. Students must work closely with their advisor to build a program tailored to their interests and needs and that meets program requirements.)

• The nature of learners and learning
  • ED T&L 803 - Language and Society
  • ED T&L 869 - Play, Children's Social Development and the Social World of the Classroom
  • ED T&L 906 - Language Learning Across Cultures
  • ED T&L 916 - Classroom-Oriented Second Language Research
  • ED T&L 744 - Sexuality and Education
  • ED T&L 925.10- African American Language and Literacies
• Pedagogy
  • ED T&L 823 - Creative Experiences in the Elementary School Curriculum
  • ED T&L 825 - Methods of Developing Language and Cognition in Early Childhood
  • ED T&L 830 - Early Childhood Education: Multi-Cultural Influences
  • ED T&L 872 - Approaches to Integrated Curriculum in Pre-K-12 Classrooms
  • ED T&L 888 - Advanced Studies in Teaching and Learning with Drama
  • ED T&L 925 - Reggio Emilia Course
  • ED T&L 925 - Culturally Relevant Pedagogies
• Academic & Disciplinary Content
  • ED T&L 777 - Teaching & Learning Social Studies with Imagination
  • ED T&L 640 - Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Lang
  • ED T&L 818 - Foundations of Elementary Education
  • ED T&L 882 - Methods & Materials in Social Studies
  • ED T&L 853.70 - Critical Reading in the Content Fields (Early childhood focus)
  • ED T&L 854 - Reading in Its Social Setting
  • ED T&L 864 - Multicultural Literature for Children
  • ED 8xx  Engagement in Reading: Critical and Multimodal Approaches
• Diversity, social justice, and educational equity
  • ED T&L 857 - Inclusive Education Research
  • ED T&L 883D - Teaching World Culture and Global Issues - online course
  • ED T&L 904 - Citizenship Education in a Global Age
  • ED T&L 879 - Teaching Social Justice
  • ED T&L 808 - Research in Multicultural and Global Education
  • ED T&L 878 - Infusing Global Perspectives in Education

The above courses represent a mix of graduate courses appropriate for students at both the masters' and doctoral level. Other seminars represented by 925 numbers are offered each quarter and will be posted on the T&L website.

Final Projects

Students in the Multicultural Education Focus of Study design their final projects with their advisors.

These projects include:

• Developing a selected list of multicultural children's literature titles and rationale for their inclusion in a curricular focus.
• Implementing and analyzing a study based on principles of culturally relevant teaching
• Developing a series of workshops for teachers to introduce critical issues in developing curriculum for student from economically, ethnically, and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

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