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Graduate Catalog 2024-2025

CLD (Culturally and Linguistically Diverse) Education Core Graduate Certificate

Program Overview

College of Education and Behavioral Sciences

General Graduate Certificate Admission Requirements

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The 12 credit CLD Core Graduate Certificate program provides licensed K-12 teachers with the opportunity to develop knowledge, skills, and disposition needed to work with CLD students in the U.S. K-12 classrooms. The certificate will help teachers fulfill one of the licensure renewal requirements in Colorado. All coursework in the program will count towards a CDE recognized CLD endorsement program offered at UNC. 

 

Certificate Requirements — 12 Credits

Take all of the following:

ECLD 504Field Experience in Culturally & Linguistically Diverse Education

3

ECLD 594Foundations of Language and Linguistics for ESL/Bilingual Educators

3

ECLD 611CLD Methods and Assessment I

3

Choose one of the following:

ECLD 592Second Language Acquisition Theory

3

ECLD 593Language, School and Society

3

ECLD 602Teaching Culturally Linguistically Diverse and Bilingual Learners

3

ECLD 593 or ECLD 602 may be taken with approval from program coordinator.

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