PGDip in Language & Literacy Education

This Graduate Diploma explores what it means to develop citizens whose personal, economic, and intellectual lives are enhanced through advancing their language and literacy skills. Course themes include oral language in classrooms, language and literacy in various contexts, second-language and multilingual education, language and literacy as practices, language and literacy for specific groups of learners, modalities and literacy, children's literature, and the processes of teaching reading and writing. The Diploma is offered concurrently with the Master of Education (MEd) and PhD in the Graduate Program in Education, or as a stand-alone Direct Entry diploma for new part-time students. Concurrent candidates must be accepted as MEd or PhD students in the Graduate Program in Education: Language, Culture and Teaching; direct-entry candidates apply to the diploma itself through the Faculty of Education's Graduate Program. The direct-entry, stand-alone diploma requires 12 credits and must be completed on a part-time basis; courses may be offered online, in blended format, or face-to-face, and the format can vary each academic year.