Cultural Proficiency Minor
The Cultural Proficiency Minor is a unique opportunity for SDSU undergraduate students across colleges and degrees to design a personalized experience around cultural proficiency practices. Courses within degree requirements and electives will support developing critical self-reflection through the perspective of the professional career they are working towards. All 9 credits of required courses are offered in a collaborative, online format to maximize flexibility for the undergraduate.
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Liz Buffington, Advisor
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2 Strands to Choose From:
1. Pre-Professional Transformation Strand
Cultural self-awareness, ethnocentrism, individual biases, institutional oppression, microaggressions, race relations. Historical background of racism. Impacts on current majority-minority relationships.
Application for a democratic and pluralistic society to include critical thinking, multicultural awareness, and social issues. Beliefs and attitudes on cultural issues and identity.
Impact of interpersonal, social, and cultural variables on understandings of self, relationships, and the world. Social construction of multiple identities. Meaning and salience of fluid identity development.
Based on professional goals, students may select six units from the following:
- AFRAS 327 Critical Theories in Africana Studies
- AFRAS 331 The Black Family
- AFRAS 332 Black Women: Myth and Reality
- AFRAS 341 Cultural Patterns and African American Identity
- AFRAS 351 Black Religions and Spirituality
- AFRAS 363 Sociocultural Analysis of Black Languages
- AMIND 320 American Indians in Contemporary Society
- AMIND 420 Indian Peoples of California
- AMIND 451 American Indian Identity
- ANTH 439 Cultural Comparisons Through Film
- ASIAN 300 Asia's Global Future
- ASIAN 310 Contemporary Issues in Asian-American Communities
- ASIAN 421 Asian History since 1600
- ASIAN 422 Asian American Experience
- ASIAN 456 Contemporary Asian Film
- ASIAN 459 Modern Asian Cultures
- ASIAN 460 Contemporary Issues in Filipino-American Communities
- CCS 320 Chicana and Chicano Lifestyles
- CCS 350A Chicana and Chicano History
- CCS 350B Chicana and Chicano History
- CCS 376 Chicana and Chicano Culture and Thought
- CCS 380 US/Mexico Borderlands Folklore
- COMM 371 Intercultural Communication
- CFD 278 Nutrition, Health, and Safety for Young Children (2 Units)
- CFD 590 Children with Special Needs (4 Units)
- CSP 300 Stress Management and Life Planning
- CSP 420 Popular Culture and Counseling
- DLE 416 Biliteracy Foundations for Teaching and Learning in Diverse Communities
- DLE 515 Multilingual Education: Theory and Practice for Biliteracy Teachers
- ED 451 Introduction to Multicultural Education
- ED 484 Valuing Human Diversity
- LGBT 321 LGBT Identities in the Modern World
- LGBT 322 LGBT History and Culture
- SPED 450 Classroom Adaptations for Special Populations
- TE 280 Health Education for Teachers (1 Unit)
- WMNST 320 Socialization of Women
- WMNST 325 Psychology of Women
- WMNST 331 Women in Asian Societies
- WMNST 336 Women of Color in the United States
- WMNST 340 History of Women and Sexuality in Modern Europe
2. Teaching For Transformation Strand
Cultural self-awareness, ethnocentrism, individual biases, institutional oppression, microaggressions, race relations. Historical background of racism. Impacts on current majority-minority relationships.
Application for a democratic and pluralistic society to include critical thinking, multicultural awareness, and social issues. Beliefs and attitudes on cultural issues and identity.
Introduction to methods and theories of digital teaching and learning through demonstration, simulation, facilitation and performances that integrate the tools of technological knowledge with content and pedagogical knowledge. Hyflex mode of delivery. Support for service-learning tutoring.
Tutoring process and teaching strategies for the content being tutored.
Overview of cultural pluralism in education, industry, business, other institutions, and society at large.
TE 280 - Health Education for Teachers
Topics designated in health framework for California; infusing health topics in the K-12 general curriculum. For multiple or single subject candidates.
CFD 278 - Nutrition, Health, and Safety for Young Children
Health, safety and nutrition practices, and policies for young children in the context of the family, culture, and community.
SPED 450 - Classroom Adaptations for Special Populations
Historical, legal, and philosophical aspects of special education. Instructional and assessment support for access to general education curriculum. Meets requirements for preliminary multiple, single subject, and education specialist teaching credentials.
CFD 590 - Children with Special Needs
Adaptive and maladaptive processes throughout life span with emphasis on etiology, development, and adjustment of emotional, psychological, and physical disorders. Directed experience with special needs individuals and their families with focus on inclusion.
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