EDU 3500 - Diversity and Education

Goals: To understand the educational implications of cultural diversity: class, disability, gender, language, race/ethnicity, and sexual orientation. To design means of creating a positive classroom climate that enhances learning of all students. To understand the contributions to society by persons of color and other historically underrepresented groups. Approved by the Minnesota Department of Education as satisfying the Education 521 Human Relations requirement.

Content: Principles for building self-esteem in students; communication skills for creating a positive classroom climate; the nature, cause, and effects of prejudice; contributions to society by persons of color and other historically underrepresented groups; methods for designing multicultural curriculum units.

Taught: Fall and spring terms

Co-requisite: EDU 3500: LAB: Diversity and Education

Prerequisites: (EDU 1150 or 3150) AND (EDU 1250 or 3250)

Note:

Clinical Requirement: EDU 3500: LAB: Diversity and Education during which students complete a 20-hour required clinical in a local school.

Students who transfer in the equivalent of the course content without clinical experiences should see the Program Coordinator to enroll in a 1-credit Independent Study to earn the course equivalency.

Credits: 4