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  • Immersive experience in classrooms on the other side of the world teach PLU students how to learn on the fly, one of many skills they bring home with them.

    . “They see it as an opportunity to get into the Western economic and communication world.” Tamara Williams, executive director of the Wang Center for Education at PLU, said STEM is a major academic focus throughout many aspects of the Namibia Gateway program. Writing is another, she said. Sam says his time teaching in PLU’s program helped affirm his love of teaching. More specifically, it affirmed his desire to work with marginalized communities. WINDHOEK, NAMIBIA This English-speaking country

  • For two decades, the Makah people have welcomed PLU students to Neah Bay to learn about the tribe’s culture and history.

    gallery is filled with artifacts representing spring, summer, fall and winter. Building the structure and the narrative was the easy part, Arnold said. Writing the copy to describe all the artifacts was most challenging. The years-long process resulted from creative tension between academics and the Makah people, who wanted to share their history in their own words. “This is our people’s museum,” Arnold said. “Out of Ozette came all this evidence that verified what our elders were telling us

  • NYT best-selling author Meg Medina to discuss writing about painful experiences for kids at PLU virtual lecture Posted by: bennetrr / February 9, 2021 February 9, 2021 By Rosemary Bennett '21PLU Marketing and CommunicationsPacific Lutheran University’s eleventh annual Jolita Hylland Benson Education Lecture will be held virtually at 5:30 p.m. on May 5. Meg Medina,, and New York Times best-selling author will deliver this year’s Benson lecture titled “Rough Patch: On Writing About Painful

  • More than a century after PLU was founded by Norwegian immigrants, the university maintains its connection to the founders’ homeland through study away programs.

    students looking at other disciplines. Kelsey Larson ’11 studied English writing and Norwegian at PLU. She says the experience in Telemark improved her language skills and her global perspective, aiding her post-graduate success, including a stint at The Norwegian-American newspaper. “It was intimidating, but I learned a lot,” she said. “I never would have become as advanced if I hadn’t lived there. You just don’t get the same experience taking classes in the states.” VESTFOLD Sitting around a table in

  • I appreciates PLU’s values of vocation, asking big and difficult questions, and for being a caring community that encourages everyone to succeed.

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  • TACOMA, WASH. (April 6, 2016)-The seventh episode of “Open to Interpretation” features a discussion of the word “failure” among host and Associate Professor of Communication Amy Young, Associate Professor of Art and Design Jp Avila , and Assistant Professor of Business Kory Brown . “Open…

    perhaps a motif for the movie. Think Wes Anderson, Charlie Kaufman movie about the book called The Cheese Monkey. Amy Young:  The Cheese Monkey. Jp Avila:  The Cheese Monkey. Amy Young:  Also, it’s a great penname, The Cheese Monkey. Jp Avila:  If you do look for it, try to find the hardback version. The paperback version, leaves a lot to be desired. Amy Young: Writing that down. Kory, any book into a movie? Kory Brown:  I’m stumped. The first that came to mind were all of the Bourne books that I used

  • Renee Simms Fiction, Nonfiction Biography Biography Renee Simms, J.D., MFA, is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, a John Gardner Fiction Fellowship at Bread Loaf, and fellowships from Ragdale and Vermont Studio Center. She’s an associate professor of African American Studies at University of Puget Sound and teaches with the Rainier Writing Workshop, Pacific Lutheran’s low-residency MFA program. Her debut story collection Meet Behind Mars was a Foreword

  • -oriented, contextually sensitive MFT Professionals who address the diverse needs and clinical concerns of individuals, couples, families, and communities. Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (MFA) The Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing is an innovative three-year, four-residency program in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Celebrating more than a decade of accomplishment. The Rainier Writing Workshop has been helping writers to answer those questions, and to generate new, even deeper

  • Erin Strubbe Visiting Assistant Professor of English Email: estrubbe@plu.edu Office Location: Hauge Administration Building - 227 I Professional Education MFA, Creative Writing, University of Washington, 2022 B.A., English/Creative Writing, Mills College, 2017 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Fiction Writing Speculative and Science Fiction Gender Studies

  • April Ayers Lawson Fiction Biography Biography April Ayers Lawson is the author of Virgin and Other Stories, which was named a Best Book of the Year by The Irish Times and Vice, and a Best Foreign Book of the Year by Spain’s Qué Leer Magazine.  Virgin and Other Stories has been (or will be) translated into German, Spanish, Norwegian, and Italian.  She has received The Plimpton Prize for Fiction, as well as a writing fellowship from The Corporation of Yaddo.   Her fiction has appeared in The