Graduate Programs M. Ed. in Multicultural Education

Contact: Dr. Heewon Chang (hchang@eastern.edu)

• Program Description
• New: Online ELL/ESL Concentration Executive Summary
• Graduate Admissions Requirements
• Course Requirements

Program Description

The M.Ed. in Multicultural Education is committed to providing quality education and instruction that will equip our graduates to face the challenges of the highly diverse school-age population of the United States in the coming decades.

The M.Ed. in Multicultural Education program seeks to:

• help students to integrate faith and learning into a philosophy of education which can guide to 
  education professional in daily activities, both personal and professional;
• enable students to understand the theoretical and research base of education;
• assist students to demonstrate sensitivity to ethnic, gender and racial diversity;
• enable graduates to provide leadership in professional positions within the schools;
• encourage graduates to demonstrate evidence of a continuing commitment to further professional development for themselves and their colleagues.
• enable graduates to draw from multicultural materials to develop curricula for the schools; and
• enable graduates to integrate students from multicultural backgrounds into the classroom by using the students’ cultures in the teaching process.

The M.Ed. in Multicultural Education has two tracks:  Curriculum Design and ESL.  Applicants may work on this M. Ed. program concurrently with combined with teaching, specialist, supervision, or administrator certification.

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Course Requirements

The M. Ed. in Multicultural Education with the Curriculum Design track requires the following coursework:

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The M. Ed. in Multicultural Education with the ESL track requires the following coursework:

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