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Jul 31, 2025
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2025-2026 Undergraduate Academic Catalog
Justice, Community and Leadership: Educational Specialist Teacher Education, BA
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The Educational Specialist (SPED) concentration prepares individuals with a passion for teaching students with mild-to-moderate disabilities in grades K-12. We provide a balance of theory and current practice to meet the individual needs of exceptional learners. This concentration allows students to complete their BA and earn a teaching credential in 4 years.
Learning Outcomes
Students who complete this program will be able to:
- DEMONSTRATE knowledge of the ways systemic inequities (e.g. economic, racial, gender, environmental) are reproduced and interconnected historically and in our contemporary world.
- UTILIZE critical transdisciplinary lenses to analyze unjust power relations and systemic oppression, centering the experiences, histories, and visions of oppressed communities.
- USE appropriate library and information literacy skills, evaluate and apply research methodologies in ways that challenge dominant assumptions about knowledge production to articulate, interpret and contribute to social justice.
- COLLABORATE with diverse community formations to imagine, co-construct, organize for and sustain strategies that contribute to a more just social order.
- UTILIZE oral, written, artistic, expressive and new media formats to advocate for transformative social change with attention to audience and power relations.
- DEMONSTRATE cultural humility and an understanding of one’s positionality within historical and intersecting systems of power.
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Foundation
Take the following required courses: Electives
Take 2 of the following: U.S. History
Take 1 of the following: Education Core
Required Courses: SPED Credential
Additional Required Courses (for SPED teaching credential): |
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