EDU 448 - Cultural and Linguistic Diversity

3 Credit(s)

This course addresses the link between cultural and linguistic diversity and how teachers must be prepared to effectively teach students whose backgrounds are different from their own. Topics include language, text, and context; teacher ideologies and motivation for change; issues of diversity and literacy learning; out-of-classroom influences on literacy learning; and sociolinguistics.

Prerequisites: EDU 110 and admittance to the Teacher Education Program.
Undergraduate