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<h2>Programs of Study - Academic Goals </h2><p>In assessing its
goals over the past twenty-five years, the department has addressed the
preparation of Bilingual Single and Multiple Subjects teachers seeking a
credential and/or a graduate degree in Policy Studies in Language and
Cross-cultural Education. In the next five years the department seeks to
prepare teachers and educational leaders to provide relevant and
effective instruction in K-12 settings for children who will enter a
high-tech and ethno-linguistically diverse world. Furthermore, the
department seeks to continue to be a leading producer of bilingual
teachers in both the state and the nation. The academic goals of the
department in the next five years are to:</p><p> </p><ol style="clear:none;list-style-position:inside;padding-left:2em;max-width:554px;text-align:left"><li style="list-style-position:outside;margin:0px;padding:5px 0px 0px">
Provide the bilingual cross-cultural language and academic development credentials (MS & SS).</li><li style="list-style-position:outside;margin:0px;padding:5px 0px 0px">Provide the cross-cultural language and academic certificate (with the Linguistics Department) to credentialed teachers.</li>
<li style="list-style-position:outside;margin:0px;padding:5px 0px 0px">Provide a master's degree program with an emphasis in critical pedagogy and multicultural/cross-cultural and language education.</li><li style="list-style-position:outside;margin:0px;padding:5px 0px 0px">
Provide
doctoral courses and guidance to doctoral candidates in the joint
doctoral programs in policy studies in language, culture and action
research.</li><li style="list-style-position:outside;margin:0px;padding:5px 0px 0px">Provide
support services to students, faculty, school districts, colleges, and
universities in program planning, implementation, and evaluation in the
area of multicultural policy studies in language and culture.</li><li style="list-style-position:outside;margin:0px;padding:5px 0px 0px">Provide
community leadership in addressing educational policy that empowers the
academic achievement of linguistically and ethnically diverse students
in California through faculty action research with school communities,
policy advocacy, and in the preparation of educational leaders.</li><li style="list-style-position:outside;margin:0px;padding:5px 0px 0px">Provide support to the College of Education in the development and mentoring of ethnically diverse faculty.</li>
</ol><p> </p><p>Department
goals reinforce those of the COE and University. The department goals
match the SDSU goals articulated through the Shared Vision process
undertaken by President Weber that generated the following five academic
goals:</p><p> </p><ol style="clear:none;list-style-position:inside;padding-left:2em;max-width:554px;text-align:left"><li style="list-style-position:outside;margin:0px;padding:5px 0px 0px">Extend
and enhance San Diego State's deep and abiding commitment to academic
excellence expressed through superior teaching, research, creative
activity, and public service.</li><li style="list-style-position:outside;margin:0px;padding:5px 0px 0px">Nurture a learning-centered university that supports the growth and development of the whole person.</li><li style="list-style-position:outside;margin:0px;padding:5px 0px 0px">
Create a community proud of its diversity and committed to furthering social justice on and off campus.</li><li style="list-style-position:outside;margin:0px;padding:5px 0px 0px">Promote the growth, development, and wise use of our precious human and fiscal resources.</li>
<li style="list-style-position:outside;margin:0px;padding:5px 0px 0px">Create a genuinely global university.</li></ol><p> </p><p>In
seeking to actualize these five goals the department will seek to
maintain and hire university faculty who demonstrate the following
attributes: (a) faculty who are teacher/scholars -- valuing both quality
teaching and quality scholarship; (b) faculty who are
diverse--promoting academic discourse that is enriched and informed by a
true diversity of ideas; (c) faculty who provide international
perspectives--who have had international experience and can bring
international perspectives to their work; (d) faculty with
community-based interests--who are involved in addressing the needs of
the region through teaching, research, and service, (e) faculty who
provide interdisciplinary perspective--who possess disciplinary
expertise in addressing major issues confronting society, e.g. racism
and economic inequality.</p><p>The department also seeks to actualize
and support the College of Education through its strategic planning
initiatives over the past ten years. The department is committed to:</p><p> </p><ol style="clear:none;list-style-position:inside;padding-left:2em;max-width:554px;text-align:left"><li style="list-style-position:outside;margin:0px;padding:5px 0px 0px">
Serve the needs of diverse learners.</li><li style="list-style-position:outside;margin:0px;padding:5px 0px 0px">Strengthen partnerships and other ties to the community.</li><li style="list-style-position:outside;margin:0px;padding:5px 0px 0px">
Focus on inquiry and action research.</li><li style="list-style-position:outside;margin:0px;padding:5px 0px 0px">Provide
faculty with professional development opportunities to become competent
in as well as critical creators and evaluators of educational
applications of technology.</li></ol><p> </p><p>To address the
demographic growth of ethno-linguistic students in the service area
(projected to increase from 1.4 to 2.5 million); the need for Bilingual
Credential teachers, and the demand to address the academic gap between
ethnically diverse low income students and non-low income students the
Department programs seek to maintain and expand its curriculum offerings
in its: (1) Multiple Subjects and Single Subject Bilingual Credential
programs; (2) MA degree options in critical pedagogy and curriculum
development; (3) involvement with undergraduate programs to prepare
prospective teachers to work in ethnically diverse school communities;
(4) to maintain its involvement with the Claremont Graduate
University/SDSU doctoral program in the preparation of leadership for
school transformation; and (6) continue to seek grants and contracts
that support the goals of the department.</p><p>To strengthen its
bilingual-multicultural teacher education programs (Bilingual Credential
emphasis), the department seeks to actualize a research agenda based on
democratic schooling and the role of biliteracy in the curricula
(language, cultural and academic content literacy) of the schools. In
terms of service to the community, the department seeks to continue to
work in actualizing the goals of the department, college and university
to provide disciplinary expertise in addressing major issues confronting
society such as racism, economic inequality, dehumanization of
children, and global relations of exploitation.</p>
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