International and Multicultural Education, MA

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.

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.

Major Requirements (30 Units)

The Master of Arts in International and Multicultural Education requires the completion of 30 units. These units should include: