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applied to real-world policy and business problems? The PLU economics department equips students with expertise in economics and its applications in microeconomics, macroeconomics, development, trade, international, and environmental economics.Looking back, what does the trip mean to you now? All the knowledge I learned and reapplied makes me feel like a more global citizen. I went in not knowing anyone on the trip. The friends I left with, I still talk with and hang out with on a regular basis.Tell
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so far involve PLU’s small class sizes. “You get special attention and develop a relationship with professors, which can help you get potential research positions or referrals for companies,” Holland says. At a large university with packed lecture halls, it can be easy to miss out on these crucial breaks. “PLU positions itself well for creating global citizens with a duty to learn about other people and be open-minded about new experiences,” he says. This resonated for Holland, whose mother is
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great teaching experience – he’s teaching some of his fellow players Spanish, and he’s learning some Norwegian. Taylor plans to major in global studies and journalism and take those skills back to Tumaco, Colombia, where he plans to do volunteer work in literacy camps. The region is very important to him – he was adopted at an early age and lived in Gig Harbor, Wash., but Tumaco is where his birth parents are from. He relishes the opportunity to return to the area and give back to those who have not
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fold,” Anderson said. – Technology in the classroom will continue to grow. While PLU will never be a fully online university, and at least in the short term, shy away from fully online classes, it must meet the expectations of a student body that expects PLU to have cutting-edge technology “if we expect to compete for the next generation of the best and the brightest.” – New Masters’s programs need to be considered as well as possible Doctoral programs. A global focus to a PLU education must be
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together have sharpened and focused our mission as a Lutheran university. Together we have achieved our goals to cultivate academic excellence, to enhance our global perspective, to build an engaged community and to nurture life as vocation in the fullest sense. “Our community has turned these dreams into the reality of fiscal strength, balanced budgets, and enrollment stability while ensuring broad access to our programs for all,” he said. “These real and lasting accomplishments belong to the entire
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everyone to get involved, she said. “It’s just the environment there,” she said. “I don’t really feel like it was just shoved down our throats. Everyone you knew was working on a service project, or volunteering in some way. PLU does a really good job of emphasizing that you aren’t put on the planet to serve yourself, but to be a global steward.” A J-term program to Bolivia, and then a trip to Thailand while she pursued a graduate degree at the University of Washington in educational policy and
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cosmopolitan city of 200,000 in the geographical center of the country. (Namibia itself is along the southern Atlantic coast of Africa, between Angola and South Africa.) Windhoek also is the site of Namibia Nine sponsor Wang Center for Global Education’s Study Away program, just one of PLU’s powerful connections to Namibia. Professor Paula Leitz, who has traveled to Namibia since 2002, initiated a J-Term course in 2008 for PLU Education students to practice student teaching in Namibia’s primary and
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new program—and a new way to teach—that includes eight wide-ranging blended or hybrid courses this fall that combine in-class and self-directed online learning: • BUSA 302: Business Finance • BUSA 308: Principles of Marketing • COMA 360: Public Relations Writing • ECON 111: Principles of Microeconomics: Global and Environmental • ECON 322: Money and Banking • EDUC 394: Technology & Teaching • MUSI 120: Music and Culture • PHED 100: Personalized Fitness program In addition
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was your study away experience like at Oxford? I think it was the best J-term ever. Admittedly, I spent an average of 10 hours a day in one of the Oxford libraries. My tutor pushed me to understand complex social injustices in our world. Looking back, what does the trip mean to you now? All the knowledge I learned and reapplied makes me feel like a more global citizen. I went in not knowing anyone on the trip. The friends I left with, I still talk with and hang out with on a regular basis.Tell me
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attend college outside my hometown…but not too far. When I toured PLU, everyone was so personable. There was so much individual attention and care for every student on the tour, which continues that way today. I was also drawn by the values placed on diversity, justice and sustainability. What is your major and/or minor? Ruggeri: I have three majors—theatre, political science and environmental studies. I also have a minor in gender and sexuality studies. I took the PLUS Year to get it all done. Knapp
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