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Publishing & Printing Arts (PPA) Program (Interdisciplinary Minor)Learning Outcomes Through studying the history of print culture, students will review the variety of modes of human expression from antiquity to the present day and analyze the interrelationships between particular cultures and their modes of recording, disseminating, and interpreting information. Through studio press work, students will practice the traditional arts and crafts of the book, its design, and its production and

Re-envisioning the Language Resource CenterThe Language Resource Center (LRC) at PLU has served as a virtual and physical hub for language study since opening in 1996.  Our mission is to provide a multimedia environment with hardware, software, and learning resources that facilitate and promote the research and study of the world’s languages and cultures.  The LRC has kept up with changing technologies over the years and continues to adapt to meet the needs of our students. Over the summer of

Social Work Learning Outcomes1. Upon completion of the social work program, students will demonstrate professional and ethical behavior, including ethical decision-making, using reflection & self-regulation, demonstrating professional demeanor.2. By the end of the social work program, students will be able to identify social policy at the local, state, and federal level that impacts well-being, service delivery, and access to social services; assess how social welfare and economic policies

Communication, Media & Design Arts Learning OutcomesUpon completion of the program, a student receiving a BA in Communication will be able to: Deliver a public and/or professional presentation for an audience within a specified timeframe. Effectively communicate in written formats appropriate to situation, audience, and medium (journalistic formats, academic essays and research writing, press releases and promotional writing, media writing, etc.). Identify credible media and information sources

Learning Outcomes for the Gender, Sexuality and Race Studies MajorStudents who take Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies courses at PLU will learn how to: Understand the social construction of gender, sexuality, and race. Analyze systems of privilege and oppression. Assess the intersectional relationship between knowledge production, identities, and power. Communicate and collaborate across differences. Practice community-engaged scholarship and coalition building. Engage in critical imagining

reading, scholarly thesis-driven research and writing, and effective oral presentation. Student Learning Outcomes in General EducationReligion Courses SkillsSpring 2012SkillsStudents in lower-division Religion courses should accomplish: Basic reading: accurate reporting on texts, beginning to identify an author’s assumptions and the structures of arguments Basic writing: writing a short paper (5-7 pages) for clear expression and understanding in lower division courses; command of basic grammar

and think about a question that matters to you in a complex, nuanced way. Put it all together to think through your own, personal ethics.  Reflect on how the values expressed in PLU’s mission – service, justice, and vocation – might inform your life now and in the future.  You will use all of your skills in multiple disciplines, scholarship, and care for others to work out and support your thoughts in a way that will make a difference in the world. International Honors Program Learning Outcomes

Anthropology Program Learning Outcomes Identify and explain the complexity of biological and cultural diversity over time and across space. (ILOs 1, 2, 3, 5, 6) Illustrate the importance of studying cultures with the holistic, comparative, and biocultural approaches to studying humans over time and across space. (ILOs 1, 2, 3, 5, 6) Explain the importance of the concepts/issues associated with the terms cultural relativism, ethnocentrism, and racism with reference to a variety of cultural