Source (2025): https://calstatela.curriculog.com/proposal:18989/form
Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs)
1. Students will apply critical analysis in their academic research and writing.
2. Students will design learning experiences and projects with urban schools and communities that include community cultural wealth.
3. Students will refine their foundational knowledge relevant to a contextual understanding of urban schools and communities.
4. Students will analyze teaching, learning, and community education through culturally and linguistically relevant, sustaining, and re-rooting frameworks.
5. Students will critically analyze how curricular and pedagogical processes meaningfully integrate the urban learners’ strengths, including their languages, cultures, and community ways of knowing.
6. Students will envision ways to re-imagine teaching and learning informed by anti-oppressive, social justice and rehumanizing methodologies.
Fit with the Institutional Mission or Institutional Learning Outcomes (ILO)
The proposed Integrated Option of the Urban Learning (ULRN) undergraduate degree aligns with and supports Cal State LA’s Institutional Learning Outcomes by engaging students in powerful processes of inquiry through its required coursework. The program is designed to prepare future teachers using social justice-oriented practices, including critical classroom and community analysis.
Graduates will develop a strong knowledge base of urban communities and the educational needs specific to those contexts. Through an assets-based approach, they will be equipped to recognize and build on the strengths of children and their families to support long-term academic success.
The coursework integrates a holistic approach to human development and provides students with critical conceptual tools to evaluate information and make sound pedagogical and instructional decisions. This ensures the creation of culturally relevant and sustaining learning spaces for diverse student populations.
The program design also includes rich clinical experiences, preparing graduates to apply theoretical knowledge in addressing complex educational challenges and developing leadership capacity. Graduates will be prepared to contribute to, and engage in, local, regional, and national advocacy efforts that support equity and access in education.
