International and Multicultural Education, EdD

The International and Multicultural Education Program Learning Outcomes:

The goal of each IME program is to develop professional practitioners with expertise in three key areas:

• Conceptual knowledge: including human rights education, urban education, language and literacy education, emotional intelligence and cultural competency.
• Theoretical knowledge: including critical social theory, critical pedagogy, multicultural theory, critical race theory, feminist critical theory.
• Application skills: analysis, synthesis, and evaluation skills for teaching and research, program/policy development and administration, and local/global social justice/human rights activism.

The International and Multicultural Education Program Student Learning Outcomes:

The IME programs are designed to enable students, upon graduation, to:

• Use theory as a lens for thinking critically about social inequities in local/global contexts.
• Be a knowledgeable consumer of educational literature.
• Be skillful in applying research-based teaching practices.
• Use a wide range of instructional materials, approaches, and methods for learners at different stages of development and from differing cultural and linguistic backgrounds.
• Use a wide range of assessment tools for including informal/formal, individual/group, formative/summative instruments.
• Design, implement, and assess K-12 and post-secondary classroom/community programs focused on human rights, multicultural, and/or language/literacy education.

Doctoral Program

The doctoral program consists of 60 credits, 12 of which are general education core, 24 are major specialization in International and Multicultural Education, 12-15 are electives and 9-12 are dissertation development units. The dissertation, which is undertaken after the completion of coursework, represents the candidate’s ability to apply theoretical and practical knowledge to the solution of a significant educational problem.

The 24 credits in the major specialization in International and Multicultural Education may be selected from the IME doctoral level courses listed at the end of the School of Education section of this catalog. Courses offered in any of the School’s doctoral programs may be used to fulfill the elective credits.