The Master of Education in multicultural literature for children is a professional degree designed to meet the needs of certified teaching professionals desiring to enhance their knowledge of appropriate literature for children in the classroom.

The purpose of this degree is to provide information that will enable teachers to make careful, informed and sensitive choices from among the increasing number of books being published as multicultural literature and to prepare teachers to incorporate this knowledge into a holistic, global classroom. Multicultural literature is one of the most powerful components of a multicultural education curriculum, the underlying purpose of which is to help make our society a more equitable one.