NEW Post Baccalaureate Certificate—Innovations in Undergraduate Multicultural Teaching and Learning!
Are you planning to teach or currently teaching at the
postsecondary-level? Do you want an opportunity to learn more
about current multicultural education theory and how to apply
theory to your teaching practice? Do you want to increase
your competitiveness in today's job market? If you answered yes
to any of these questions, a new Post-Baccalaureate Certificate
“Innovations in Undergraduate Multicultural Teaching and
Learning" and several new courses offered by the Department of
Postsecondary Teaching and Learning (PsTL) are a great fit. The
on-line application will be ready in June. Contact the PSTL
Director of Graduate Studies, Karen Miksch, at
pstlgrad@umn.edu for more
information.
Fall 2009 and spring 2010 certificate course offerings:
Fall 2009 graduate courses:
PsTL 5106: Multicultural Teaching and Learning in Diverse Postsecondary Contexts
This graduate seminar provides an overview of the issues, principles, and practices associated with effective college teaching in diverse postsecondary contexts. Students will explore theory and pedagogy as they relate to culturally responsive teaching from the perspectives of both the teacher and the learner in postsecondary settings. In addition to exploring teachers’ and students’ diverse and multiple social identities and a variety of student learning styles, course topics will include Critical Multicultural Education (CME), Social Justice Education (SIJ), Universal Instructional Design (UID), Integrated Multicultural Instructional Design (IMID), problem-based learning, inquiry-based teaching, and other models for ensuring engagement and inclusion. The interaction of theory and practice is an important theme (and challenge) of the course.
PsTL 5106 will be taught by Karen Miksch on Monday evenings from 6:00-9:00 pm.
PsTL 5212: Multicultural Theories of College Student Development Applied to Teaching and Learning
This seminar-style course will introduce graduate students to influential student development theories and theorists (e.g., Chickering, Astin, Erikson, Josselson, Schlossberg, Perry, Kohlberg, Gilligan, Baxter Magolda) and examine implications for teaching and learning. Students will reflect on The Student Personnel Point of View (American Council on Education, 1937, 1949) and Learning Reconsidered: A Campus-wide Focus on the Student Experience (ACPA—College Student Educators International & National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, 2004) and other collaborative efforts to ensure the development of the “whole student.”
PsTL 5212 will be taught by Jeanne Higbee on Thursday evenings from 5:30-8:30 pm.
Spring 2010 graduate courses:
PsTL 5106: Multicultural Teaching and Learning in Diverse Postsecondary Contexts
PsTL 5106 will be taught by Jeanne Higbee on Thursday evenings from 5:30-8:30 pm.
PsTL 5212: Multicultural Theories of College Student Development Applied to Teaching and Learning
PsTL 5212 will be taught by Mike Stebleton on Thursday evenings from 5:30-8:30 pm.