International and Multicultural Education, EdD

Program Learning Outcomes

Graduates of the Ed. D. program will be able to:

• Demonstrate a nuanced and integrative knowledge of human rights education and activism; race and ethnic studies; and language and culture.
• Identify, describe and critique critical social theory; critical and decolonizing pedagogies; theories of race, gender and intersectionality.
• Identify and employ methodological tools based in critical approaches to quantitative and qualitative research methods with a focus on community engaged scholarship.  Describe and apply alternative paradigms, such as participatory action research, teacher action research, testimonio, and critical ethnography.
• Synthesize contextual understandings, reflective analysis, theoretical frameworks, and methodological training to produce a doctoral dissertation.  Design and conduct research that contributes new knowledge to the academic field.

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)

General Education Requirements

International and Multicultural Education Courses

Complete 24 units from the following:

• IME 702 - Linguistic Rts & Biling Ed
• IME 703 - Applied Linguistics
• IME 704 - Global Persp Ed & Decoloniz
• IME 705 - Re-conceptualizing Multicul Ed
• IME 706 - Crit Analysis Urban Schooling
• IME 710 - Sociology of Language
• IME 711 - Language & Culture
• IME 712 - Crit Race Theory & Praxis
• IME 713 - Emot Intel Cult Compet
• IME 715 - Education for Inclusion
• IME 716 - Social Movements
• IME 718 - Int’l Human Rts Law Advocacy
• IME 719 - Gender and Globalization
• IME 720 - Human Rts Ed: Pedagogy
• IME 721 - HRE:Hist, Phil, Current Debate
• IME 722 - Peace, Conflict and Education
• IME 724 - African American Education
• IME 725 - Cont Int’l Iss:
• IME 728 - Women of Color: Higher Ed
• IME 731 - Rsch First/Sec Lang Acqu
• IME 734 - Assmnt & Test/Sec Lang Pro
• IME 735 - Latinos/as and Education
• IME 736 - Human Rights and Media
• IME 737 - Critical Pedagogy
• IME 739 - Crosscultural Literacy
• IME 740 - Immgrtn & Forced Displacement
• IME 744 - Whiteness, Power & Privilege
• IME 750 - Asian American Education
• IME 776 - Soc Justice Pedagogy & Arts
• IME 797 - Directed Study
• IME 798 - Special Topics Seminar

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 .