Cultural Diversity in Literacy and Instruction: Classrooms and Community

Catalog description

Designed for preservice and practicing middle and high school teachers working on undergraduate degrees in Elementary, Middle School, or Secondary Education. Students will expand their knowledge of ethnicity, race, socio-economics status, gender, exceptionalities, language, religion, sexual orientation, and geographic areas in the context of classrooms, schools, and community; and learn strategies to implement diversity into their literacy instruction and/or content area lessons. Students will be introduced to different aspects of domestic and global diversity through a wide variety of course readings, culturally diverse literature, instructional videos, documentaries, webcasts, and intercultural interviews. May be taught concurrently with LTC 665. Cannot receive credit for both LTC 565 and LTC 665.