AY 2024-2025

https://calstatela.curriculog.com/proposal:12002/form

C1. How will the changes fit with the Institutional Mission / Institutional Learning Outcomes (ILO)

The proposed Bilingual (Spanish) Integrated Option of the Urban Learning (ULRN) undergraduate degree aligns with and supports Cal State LA’s Institutional Learning Outcomes as it enables students to use powerful processes of inquiry through its required coursework. The program is designed to prepare bilingual and biliterate teachers using an array of social justice-oriented practices including critical classroom and community analysis. Graduates of this program will be able to develop a strong knowledge base of urban communities and the educational exigencies specific to those communities. Through an assets-based approach, graduates will be able to recognize and build on the skills of bilingual/multilingual children and their families to ensure long-term academic success. The coursework integrates a holistic approach to human development and thus equips students with the critical conceptual tools to evaluate information and make the best pedagogical and instructional decisions to ensure culturally relevant and sustaining learning spaces for bilingual/multilingual students. The Bilingual Pathway design includes rich clinical work experiences to prepare graduates to integrate theoretical knowledge into developing strategies to solve complex schooling problems including the development of bilingual/multilingual leaders. Graduates of this program will be prepared to contribute to engage in local, regional, and national advocacy efforts for bilingual and multiethnic communities.

C2. 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.