Teaching Certificate in Ethnic Studies
Catalog Description
Given the continued need to diversify educational curricula, the racial diversity in California, and the multiple benefits of participating in Ethnic Studies, the California public education context requires that students participate in Ethnic Studies courses at the K-12, community college, and four-year college levels. Ethnic Studies education represents a project to center the contributions of Communities of Color and “encourages both teachers and students to critique racial oppression at the institutional, interpersonal, an internalized levels while also showing how each level influences the other” (Tintiangco-Cubales, et al., 2015, p. 113).
Admissions Requirements
- Students who enroll in this course can co-concurrently enroll in the Multiple Subject or Single Subject Credential programs
- Students who have completed their teaching credential
- Teachers of records in K-12
- Students with a bachelor's or master's degree.
Certificates may be earned by regularly matriculated or extended learning students and denote successful completion of a prescribed program of study designed to:
- impart specified professional/vocational/career competencies; or
- produce mastery of the content of a sub-field of an academic major (discipline); or
- provide exposure to the range of materials in a traditional or emerging interdisciplinary field.
Certain certificate programs contain 6000-level courses as requirements and/or electives. These 6000-level courses may not be taken by undergraduate students. Candidates must receive two-thirds of their certificate-applicable credit from the university. The transferring of credit or the substitution of courses may occur only after application to the appropriate campus authority.
Certificate Requirements (12 units)
| Core Requirements (12) | ||
| EDES 5001 | Race and Racism in the U.S. Educational System | 3 |
| EDES 5002 | History of Ethnic Studies Education | 3 |
| EDES 5003 | Pedagogies and Methodologies of Ethnic Studies Education | 3 |
| EDES 5004 | Creating the Future of Ethnic Studies Education | 3 |
| Total Units | 12 | |