MA Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Education

The MA in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Education (CLDE) is a 30 credit hour program that provides students with the opportunity to personalize coursework to your specific needs as a professional educator. Students take the required concentration core courses (9 credit hours). Then, in consultation and with approval from your faculty advisor, students select five courses from the Thematic Course Categories list to customize their learning (15 credit hours). Finally, students take the required research course (3 credit hours) and then complete a Capstone course (3 credit hours), for a total of 30 credits. A current teaching license is not required.

Candidates who complete the MA in CLDE will leave their programs with greater understandings of crucial ideas and skills for working with CLDE students, including:

• Asset-based dispositions toward bilingual students, their linguistic practices, their families, and their communities
• Theories of language, bilingualism, and second language acquisition and their application to the classroom
• Practices that support access to rigorous content for bilingual students, to improve assessment, to enhance language and literacy development for bilingual students, and to leverage students’ bilingualism in teaching.