Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Education
Programs
- Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Education, MA
- Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Education MA with K-12 Endorsement
- Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Education, MA with K-12 Endorsement & Bilingual Education Specialist Endorsement
- Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Education, MA with Bilingual Education Specialist Endorsement
- Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Education Endorsement: K-12
- Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Education: Bilingual Education Specialist Endorsement
- Teaching for Cultural and Linguistic Diversity (TCLD) Certificate
Current Faculty
Adriana Alvarez, Associate Professor | PhD, University of Colorado Boulder | Culturally & Linguistically Diverse Education
Christopher Carson, Senior Instructor | MA, University of Utah | Culturally & Linguistically Diverse Education
Sofia Chaparro, Assistant Professor | PhD, University of Pennsylvania | Culturally & Linguistically Diverse Education
Ester de Jong, Professor | EdD, Boston University | Culturally & Linguistically Diverse Education
Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Education (CLDE)
CLDE 5010 - Foundations of Language & Culture in Education (3 Credits)
Designed for veteran and novice teachers to gain an understanding of schooling and language education. Participants examine key social theories based on the writings of important scholars in the field, on topics such as the politics of race, schooling, language, and cultural identity.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
CLDE 5020 - Responsive Classroom Communities (3 Credits)
This course investigates how people learn and the implications of social and cultural learning for establishing engaging and culturally responsive learning communities. Through this course teacher candidates will better understand their roles in student learning and how their own cultural lenses impact their relationships with students and families, and influence student success in the classroom. Cross-listed with CLDE 4020.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
Restriction: Restricted to graduate students in the SEHD or Teacher Education minors.
CLDE 5030 - Language Development of Multilingual Learners: Advanced (3 Credits)
This course offers a deep investigation of the relationship between language and literacy acquisition. In the context of first and second language development across the lifespan, the course focuses on bilingual and second language development, and on the acquisition of literacy by young children.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
CLDE 5032 - English Linguistic Foundations for SLA & TESOL (3 Credits)
Investigates Second Language Acquisition (SLA) theories and new developments in the field relevant to adult learners of English, factors that influence outcomes, and key structures in English grammar and pronunciation. Lab time with ESL learners involves teaching listening/ speaking and applying grammar in writing. Max hour: 3 Credits.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
CLDE 5035 - Connecting Multilingual Theories to Practice (3 Credits)
This course supports students in synthesizing research and theory on learning and multilingual development, and identifying their own theoretical orientation in the field. There is a specific emphasis on connecting classroom practice to their theoretical stance.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
CLDE 5040 - Social Justice Liberation: A Rehearsal for the Revolution (3 Credits)
We will explore TO and CRT. Students will engage in class discussions, theatre workshops, and critically analyze the applicability of these concepts to education and community work through deep and thorough engagement of readings, TO activities, and discussions about school and community activism with peers and the greater community. Cross-listed with CLDE 7040.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
CLDE 5042 - Techniques for Teaching Adult ESL (3 Credits)
This course provides principles of language assessment and progress monitoring strategies for teachers of adult ESL learners to help inform their practices and decisions related to appropriate instruction and placement of, and programming for, learners.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
CLDE 5050 - Assessment & Advocacy for Multilingual Learners (3 Credits)
Students learn to gather and use assessment results within a strengths-based framework to advocate for appropriate programming, placement, instruction, and ongoing progress monitoring of multilingual students. Special attention is paid to linguistic and cultural bias in the field of assessment. Cross-listed with SPED 5050.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
CLDE 5070 - Understanding Language in the Classroom (3 Credits)
The goal of this class is to deepen your awareness of language as it relates to all aspects of classroom learning. In doing so, you will developing the pedagogical language knowledge and an understanding of applied linguistics.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
CLDE 5140 - Language, Culture & Educational Equity (3 Credits)
Develops an understanding of the pluralistic and intersectional nature of U.S. society (race, class, gender, sexuality, language, migration status), and the role of the school within this social context. Examines the legal and cultural history of language education in Colorado and the U.S. as well as the impact of changing demographics on schools.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
CLDE 5160 - History & Law of Bilingual & Immigrant Education (3 Credits)
This course includes an overview of U.S. and Colorado history and legislation related to bilingual education and second language education, as well as current and historical immigration issues as they impact students, families, communities, schools, and educators.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
CLDE 5680 - Spanish for Educators (3 Credits)
This course is designed to help teacher candidates advance their Spanish skills. Teacher candidates will clarify their motivations and purposes for studying Spanish and gain a greater understanding of language assessments and of their own Spanish abilities and increase insight and empathy for emergent bilingual students. Cross-listed with CLDE 3680.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
CLDE 5700 - Social Studies for Multilingual Learners (3 Credits)
Participants will use a social justice lens to investigate the content and language demands of the four disciplines of social studies: History, Civics, Geography and Economics. This class focuses on Social Studies methods as well as essential practices for teaching multilingual students. Cross-listed with CLDE 4700.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
CLDE 5800 - Language Variation & Implications for Teaching (3 Credits)
Provides an introduction to the field of educational sociolinguistics and research of classroom discourse. Students are introduced to the collection and analysis of oral and written language in educational contexts. Basic concepts and key issues regarding the form-function relationships of language use in instructional settings are discussed. Cross-listed with CLDE 7800.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
CLDE 5810 - Literacy for Bilingual Learners offered for Student Teacher Residency (STR) (3 Credits)
This course, for residents in the STR program, highlights the best practices for language and literacy development for culturally and linguistically diverse learners, including bilinguals, multilinguals, and speakers of non-standard varieties of English.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
CLDE 5820 - Methods of Teaching Multilingual Learners I (2 Credits)
This course focuses on the hands-on, practical application of culturally and linguistically sustaining methods and techniques for multilingual learners and emergent bilinguals K-12. Opportunities for teaching school-age multilingual learners are required. It is designed to be taken over the academic school year. Repeatable.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
Repeatable. Max Credits: 4.
CLDE 5821 - Methods of Teaching Multilingual Learners II (1 Credit)
This course focuses on the hands-on, practical application of culturally and linguistically sustaining methods and techniques to accelerate language and literacy development for multilingual learners K-12. Opportunities for teaching school-age multilingual learners are required. It is designed to be taken over the academic school year, 2 credits in the fall (5820), and 1 credit (5821) in the spring.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
Requires prerequisite course of CLDE 5820.
CLDE 5824 - Theories and Methods of Bilingual Education (3 Credits)
Taught in Spanish, this course explores theories and methods of effective instruction of Spanish-English bilingual children. The course addresses theories of bilingualism and bilingual language/literacy development as well as methods for teaching in bilingual classrooms. Cross-listed with CLDE 4824.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
CLDE 5825 - Methods of Teaching Content for Multilingual Learners I (2 Credits)
Provides an in-depth study of curriculum options for learners developing English in schools. Participants examine and apply strategies and materials for developing linguistic and academic capabilities of language learners, with optional extensions for bilingual program educators.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
CLDE 5826 - Methods of Teaching Content for Multilingual Learners II (1 Credit)
This course reviews curricular options for supporting emergent bilingual students in content instruction. Class modules will include review and analysis of content and English Language Development standards as well as specific strategies for meeting these students’ needs in the areas of oral language, literacy, and content knowledge. It is designed to be taken over the academic school year, 2 credits in the fall (5825), and 1 credit (5826) in the spring.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
Requires prerequisite course of CLDE 5825.
CLDE 5827 - Developing CLD Content Teaching through Professional Learning (1-2 Credits)
In this credit for prior learning, you will synthesize and reflect on work done through approved district professional learning (focused on content methods for CLD populations). Prior to enrolling, consult with your faculty advisor to ensure that the professional learning experiences will meet the requirements.
Grading Basis: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory
Repeatable. Max Credits: 3.
CLDE 5828 - Developing CLD Content Teaching through Applied Independent Study (1 Credit)
CLDE 5835 - Special Topics: Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Education (0.5-3 Credits)
Advanced study of special topics that examine multilingualism, cultural pluralism, and community in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Education. Repeatable.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
Repeatable. Max Credits: 15.
CLDE 5840 - Independent Study: CLDE (1-4 Credits)
Repeatable.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
Repeatable. Max Credits: 4.
CLDE 5850 - Culminating Experience: Bilingual Specialist (1 Credit)
In this capstone, students compose a 3-5 minute video, plus provide artifacts from teaching and coursework with explanations of how these artifacts show mastery of CDE Standards 8.23 for Bilingual Education Specialist competencies.
Grading Basis: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory
CLDE 5910 - Improving Student Outcomes: Interdisciplinary Inquiry (3 Credits)
This course operates from three distinct disciplinary perspectives: urban planning (community and schools), education (quality teaching), and public policy (accountability). Students explore important factors related to improving K-12 student outcomes: resources, leadership, teaching and parent/community involvement from three disciplinary perspectives.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
CLDE 5920 - Immigration through Children's Literature (3 Credits)
This class explores themes of immigration and multilingualism by examining children's and young adult literature. Combines techniques for teaching literacy in multilingual environments with foundational themes in the study of immigration and multilingualism.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
CLDE 6910 - Leadership Practicum in CLDE (1-3 Credits)
This practicum course grants credit for field significant experiences, connected to the program of study and the Colorado standards for endorsement. Teachers who can engage in, synthesize, and reflect on these experiences are eligible for this course credit. Repeatable.
Grading Basis: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory
Repeatable. Max Credits: 3.
CLDE 6912 - Teacher Inquiry in Multilingual Classrooms (3 Credits)
This seminar provides opportunities for advanced students in the M.A. program to apply an inquiry lens to the concepts of CLDE. Students design an inquiry project, where they focus on a problem of practice, create an action research question, collect student work as data, and analyze findings and results. Students work in research teams, providing feedback and observing each other's classrooms.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
CLDE 6950 - Master's Thesis (4 Credits)
This class provides the opportunity for CLDE MA students to complete a Masters' thesis in place of the CLDE Culminating Experience. This class is open to students with advisor support and approval.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
Additional Information: Report as Full Time.
CLDE 7040 - Social Justice Liberation: A Rehearsal for the Revolution (3 Credits)
We will explore TO and CRT. Students will engage in class discussions, theatre workshops, and critically analyze the applicability of these concepts to education and community work through deep and thorough engagement of readings, TO activities, and discussions about school and community activism with peers and the greater community. Cross-listed with CLDE 5040.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
CLDE 7090 - Research Seminar (3 Credits)
An advanced course which focuses on specific issues in language, language acquisition and language teaching.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
CLDE 7230 - Language and Literacy in Bilingual Learners (3 Credits)
This course focuses on first and second language acquisition, and its impact on literacy in young children, elementary and secondary students, and students with special needs. Topics are literacy and language development, assessment, culturally responsive teaching, and school reform policies.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
CLDE 7310 - Critical Race Theory: History, Theory, and Application (3 Credits)
Students will gain knowledge of Critical Race Theory and its early origins. Key themes to be explored include interest convergence, intersectionality, revisionist history, critiques of Liberalism, and critiques of CRT. Students also explore methodological issues and the potential applicability of CRT to their own research.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
CLDE 7320 - (Re)Claiming Dominant Narratives: History, Education, & Activism in Latinx (3 Credits)
Students will review a condensed history of Latinx peoples in America. Working with civil rights activists, scholars, and local community members, students will utilize decolonized methodologies to conduct a community story preservation project to reclaim the dominant narrative of local movements.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
CLDE 7330 - Languages and Literacies in Latinx Communities (3 Credits)
This course considers language and literacy from a critical sociocultural perspective and examines the impacts of language and literacy policies in the lives of Latinx communities in the U.S. The topics covered include language policies and ideologies, language as a colonial concept, bilingualism, translanguaging, biliteracy, and assessment.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
Typically Offered: Spring.
CLDE 7713 - Introduction to Language Policy (3 Credits)
The legal, ideological, and historic foundations of language policies are examined. Also examined are connections with related topics such as language rights, language and power, and issues from the sociology of language, such as language loyalty.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
CLDE 7800 - Language Variation & Implications for Teaching (3 Credits)
Provides an introduction to the field of educational sociolinguistics and research of classroom discourse. Students are introduced to the collection and analysis of oral and written language in educational contexts. Basic concepts and key issues regarding the form-function relationships of language use in instructional settings are discussed. Cross-listed with CLDE 5800.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
CLDE 7830 - Special Topics: Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Education (1-3 Credits)
Advanced study of special topics that examine multilingualism, cultural pluralism, and community in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Education.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
Repeatable. Max Credits: 9.
CLDE 7840 - Independent Study: CLDE (1-4 Credits)
Repeatable.
Grading Basis: Letter Grade
Repeatable. Max Credits: 4.