Graduate-level requirements include an in-depth research proposal or other project. Introduction to new literacies and computer-mediated tools for language arts and other educators; examination of current hardware and software; survey of research and new media trends impacting education; examination of social, psychological and educational consequences of technology in education.

An examination of curriculum and instruction for elementary readers and writers. Includes a focus on materials, instructional strategies, organizational structures, and evaluation. Provides linguistic, psychological and cultural bases of decoding and comprehension; theories that influence practice that facilitate learning to read.

Theory and practice in sheltered content instruction for English learners, national and state education policies affecting ELLs, and the relationship between these policies and second language acquisition theory.

This course will explore innovative ways to teach and learn with new media within and beyond classrooms. Using a socio-cultural lens and media and literacy frameworks, learners will examine the new media that surround us in the digital age and explore ways media are made and shared. Course content will address instructional design, connected learning, and participatory culture. Course projects will provide opportunities for learners to create and collaborate across disciplines using new media and a range of digital tools. Diverse forms of media analysis and production will be addressed along with implications for instruction, assessment and research.

Analysis of reading and writing situations encountered by bilingual and second language learners; phonological, semantic, and syntactic aspects of instruction; materials, and methods of teaching reading and writing in the native language. Graduate-level requirements include an in-depth research paper or other project.

Issues in early childhood education associated with the cultural and linguistic pluralism in the United States; analysis of the interaction of school, community, class, cultural, parent involvement, and family factors in the education of diverse populations. Graduate-level requirements include an in-depth research or theoretical paper or other project.

Socio-cultural factors, second language learning; analysis of theories, practices, and models (dual language, Structured English Immersion, etc.) affecting second language learners; historical, social and cultural influences; relationship of theory to the characteristics and needs of bilingual and second language learners. Graduate-level requirements include an in-depth research paper or other project.

The theoretical and research foundations of literacies are explored related to their significance for activist and critical pedagogies. Based on a broad definition of literacies as ways of thinking and practices used to make sense of the world and to communicate that go across sign systems and disciplines.

A critical exploration of the ways in which language and culture shape, and are shaped by, education in and out of school, particularly related to power dynamics at multiple levels of society.

This course is designed to explore theoretical and applied issues involving language and linguistics. Throughout the course we will examine an array of perspectives. In the light of the readings students will develop original research projects.