2018-2019 Catalog 
    
    Dec 17, 2024  
2018-2019 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

International and Multicultural Education, EdD


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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 (60 units)


Electives (12 Units)


Complete an additional 12 units of elective courses. Elective courses may be drawn from other IME courses not listed above, and any other graduate program in the School of Education (with adviser’s approval).

IME Dissertation Courses


Optional Concentrations:


Students may also select a concentration in Second Language Acquisition   or Human Rights Education .

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