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engaged in exploring the most important issues of our time in local, national, and global contexts. Through generous gifts from donors we can continue our collaborative learning and research endeavors as we seek to better understand human behavior and experience and apply that knowledge to improve society.`` Michelle Ceynar, Ph.D. Dean, Social SciencesMake a GiftInterdisciplinary Studies``Students in Interdisciplinary Studies embody PLU's commitment to diversity, justice, and sustainability. They work
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Women’s Studies Association conferences in 2016, and were accepted to present. Taiwo and Hambrick presented different aspects of their research at each conference that November. At ASHE, the pair participated in a roundtable discussion during which they shared their research process. Hambrick said she enjoyed how the roundtable dialogue centered on black women. They discussed transitioning, black women in doctoral studies at PWIs, and black girls in K-12. Engaging in conversation with black women
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episode, the podcast examines what teaching in the Lutheran tradition means from the perspective of PLU Lutheran Studies chair Marit Trelstad. “I grew up Lutheran and questions about meaning were always important to me,” said Trelstad. “I teach in the Christian theological tradition and Lutheran studies, but I have Muslim, Buddhist, Jewish, Christian students, secular students who are all in the classroom, and we use that same material to say, ’Here’s one way someone has approached it, what about you
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no “animal studies program” in any American university. In fact, the phrase “animal studies” does not even exist except as I am here using it informally. Even making the comparison between animals and historically oppressed people is much more likely to offend the people involved than ennoble the cause of animals. This even though many feminists, like Carol J. Adams in The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory (Continuum 1990), have argued animals and women have both been
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prove herself to her grandmother. “I wanted to prove to her that I was really Latina,” she said, with a laugh. Davidson, now an assistant professor of Hispanic studies at Pacific Lutheran University, says many of her college experiences — including traveling by herself to her mother’s home country Panama after graduation — were motivated by a desire to show her family she was authentically one of them. “For me, it was important in developing my identity to fully develop my language skills,” she said
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]. Henry Golding could play Mr. Elliot because it doesn’t really matter. And Nikki could play Lady Russell. There’s no reason not to. Although Cracknell is defending the film against critics upset about its casting, by undermining the decision to have a diverse cast, she denies the contemporary and historical significances of race. Austen’s time certainly was about racial issues: Britain abolished the slave trade in 1807 and slavery in 1830, while Persuasion was published between these dates, in 1817
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not only on the skills students will need in the future, we also focus on the timeless skills that we know are critical.” “Students need to be ready for 2030 via their skills, though they also need to be highly effective communicators, teammates, innovators and leaders,” continues Mulder. “We seek to help students stay ahead of the curve, and as we see in the success of our alumni, a PLU business degree is a great foundation for an excellent career.”A Modern Approach Somaye Nargesi, a third-year
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memory of these events alive and helps students understand the importance of speaking out against intolerance and the difference one person can make. Sponsored in part by the Washington State Holocaust Education Resource Center, these sessions will give teachers some tools and best practices to effectively place the Holocaust in its historical context and teach the critical lessons we need to apply to today’s world. A Holocaust survivor from the Warsaw Ghetto, George Elbaum, will speak Friday
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memory of these events alive and helps students understand the importance of speaking out against intolerance and the difference one person can make. Sponsored in part by the Washington State Holocaust Education Resource Center, these sessions will give teachers some tools and best practices to effectively place the Holocaust in its historical context and teach the critical lessons we need to apply to today’s world. A Holocaust survivor from the Warsaw Ghetto, George Elbaum, will speak Friday
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