Diversity in Practice
Diversity Related Courses
The larger commitment of the University and the College of Education to diversity is emphasized in teacher education programs in the curriculum. Teacher preparation programs require two common blocks.
- EDCI 285- Multiculturalism and Education - Block I (sample syllabus) the diversity emphasis is multicultural education and serves as an introduction to the study of multiculturalism and its multiple meanings within American society along with discussing how multiculturalism intersects with education.
- EDCI 205, Exploring Teaching as a Career , Students develop a critical and reflexive understanding of how they are as individuals and social beings, examining how consciousness is/was constructed, promoting understanding through the complexity of difference.
- EDPS 265-The Inclusive Classroom the diversity emphasis is students with special needs and talents - Block II (sample syllabus)
- EDPS 507- Counseling Multicultural and Diverse Populations - advanced level (sample syllabus), is required of all counseling graduate students and challenges them to examine themselves in terms of their own racial identity development, but also in terms of being able to enter the world of children/adolescents from differing cultural backgrounds.
COE Diversity programming
Diversity Resources at Purdue
