SED X80 SED 380 Topics in Multicultural Special Education 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Study of critical issues in culture, language, and disability. Special Education 380 and 393 may not both be counted unless the topics vary. Special Education 380 and 395 may not both be counted unless the topics vary. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Graduate standing; twelve semester hours of upper-division coursework in education, psychology, sociology, or other behavioral sciences; and consent of instructor; additional prerequisites vary with the topic.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.
Academic Level: Doctoral
Topic 1: Language Acquisition and Assessment in Multicultural Special Education. Language acquisition among culturally and linguistically diverse learners in general and special education, with emphasis on effective assessment and instruction.
Topic 2: Multicultural Factors in Parent/Family Involvement. Designed to prepare students to work with parents and families from culturally diverse backgrounds; to understand the need for parent/family participation in the education of children; and to understand the transition problems faced by parents, families, and children as students move through the education system.
Topic 3: Minorities and Mental Retardation. Study of the culturally and linguistically different student.
Topic 4: Assessment in Multicultural Special Education. Cultural and linguistic factors related to the assessment of language-minority students; the best practices in psychoeducational procedures.
Topic 5: Seminar in Bilingual Special Education. Bilingual special education, including issues related to law, policy, research, and practice.
Topic 6: Advanced Research Topics in Multicultural Special Education. Current and emerging research on individuals with disabilities who are from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. Provides students with opportunities to review research literature on topics of interest to them, and to explore their writing skills. A process approach to writing is used to familiarize students with the APA guidelines for preparing scholarly manuscripts.
Topic 7: Cross-Cultural Interactions in Multicultural Special Education. Introduction to principles of intercultural communication for educators. Emphasis on strategies for effective cross-cultural communication in a variety of educational settings, including general and special education.
Topic 8: School-Community Relations in Multicultural Special Education. Traditional methods of parent and school relations; emerging and innovative models for communication between the school and the community; the intent of the course is to explore school-community interactions in the context of the dynamics of culture, race, language, politics, history, economics, and religion.
Topic 9: Development of Personnel Preparation and Programming in Multicultural Designed to prepare students to develop standards-based multicultural personnel preparation programs that emphasize research-based practices and that improve student outcomes and promote recruitment, retention, and quality of personnel for teaching culturally and linguistically diverse populations with disabilities in pluralistic settings.
Topic 10: Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in Special Education and An overview of issues, problems, and emerging practices related to culturally and linguistically diverse students served in special education.
Topic 11: Educational Planning for Multicultural Special Education.
Topic 12: Educational Leadership in Multicultural Special Education. Overview of issues affecting equal access to quality education for culturally and linguistically diverse learners with disabilities.
Topic 13: Sociocultural Foundations of Special Education. An in-depth examination of key knowledge, including sociocultural theory and conceptual models, used in teaching culturally and linguistically diverse students with disabilities in special education and inclusive settings.
Topic 14: Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in Special Education and An overview of issues, problems, and emerging practices related to culturally and linguistically diverse students served in special education. Web-based instruction. No class meetings.
Topic 15: Addressing Critical Questions in Special Education Using National Considers how the federal government and local educational agencies collect a range of data on the educational experiences of children, including those with disabilities and special needs. Analyzes how these large datasets provide a unique opportunity to examine not only macro-level trends in identification rates, racial disparities, and student achievement, but also the influence of school and home contextual factors. Examines how to use these datasets and address important questions in special education today. Explores how to access, prepare, and analyze these datasets. Additional prerequisite: Consent of the graduate adviser.
Topic 16: Second Language Literacy Development and Assessment. Examines essential concepts related to language and literacy. Discussion of past and present sociocultural factors that impact research in terms of both what is researched and how it is researched and the implications of that research on instruction and assessment. Analyzes the socio-cultural foundations of schooling and society to better understand the complex, dynamic interrelationships between culture, language, literacy, and disability.
Topic 17: Diversity and Disability: Contemporary Perspectives.
Topic 18: Cultural and Linguistic Diversity. An overview of issues, problems, and emerging practices related to culturally and linguistically diverse students served in special education. Special Education 380 (Topic 10) and 380 (Topic 18) may not both be counted.