2017-2018 Graduate Catalog

ED 523 Multicultural Education

This course is designed to foster understanding of diversity. Candidates attain problem-solving and listening skills necessary for attitudinal changes for appreciation of diversity. Group process activities are presented to help students understand biases and stereotypical assumptions and how these affect decisions in the classroom. Portions of this course are experiential. There is a 15-hour field experience requirement in which candidates interact with persons of different cultural, linguistic, religious, socioeconomic, and ethnic backgrounds.

Credits

3.00 Credit(s)

Distribution

Teacher Education