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course. The first was to introduce or deepen students’ knowledge of the creation stories of the Americas, and to allow them to grasp the connections between these myths and contemporary literature produced in Mexico and in Latin America. At a deeper level, I also hoped to show the students how they might utilize literature in order to reflect upon their own experiences in Oaxaca. While the first part of the course centered on ancient Mesoamerican texts, and the cultural traditions they communicated
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By Damian Alessandro ’19 The Innovation Studies program at Pacific Lutheran University is interested in the diverse environments innovation can be found in, including the entertainment industry. The popularity of HBO’s blockbuster show, Game of Thrones, highlights an important place to study innovation principles. Spoiler…
is to modern television what Star Wars was to the Second Golden Age of movies in the 1970s. And it most likely will be the last of its kind. The non-serialized, binge-worthy model of releasing an entire season at once, introduced by Netflix and followed now by other streaming services, seems unable to create the same spectacle and shared collective experience of the weekly Game of Thrones phenomenon. Amazon spent $200 million just to buy the rights to adapt the popular fantasy series Lord of the
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For some, summer is a time for play. For others, it’s a time for work. But for many at PLU, it’s a time for a little bit of both — through science.
starts with an algorithm and then learns and adjusts on its own. Machine learning is an integral part of the modern technology world, used by companies such as Facebook and Google — and now, Renzhi Cao’s summer research at PLU. “We want to create a technique, where instead of telling the machine what to do, we want to give the intelligence to the machine,” Cao said. (Video by Rustin Dwyer, PLU) Cao and his team are working on applying machine learning to bioinformatics. They are writing an algorithm
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Will students avoid difficult or challenging courses with this design? We do not feel that an effective course is necessarily one that is “difficult.
students who are not interested in DJS to care about the FYEP 102/DJS Seminar? Many PLU students are seeking additional opportunities to engage with DJS in the curriculum, but there will be some that are less interested. We hope the course will be attractive for these students because it will offer them experience developing skills that are highly valued in the contemporary professional marketplace (NACE 2021). Increasingly, employers want soft skills that prepare students to work in dynamic, diverse
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TACOMA, WASH. (Sept. 28, 2016) – The Pacific Lutheran University Department of Languages and Literatures will host the Tournées Film Festival this fall for screenings of nine recently released films representing a wide variety of cultures and historical periods. (Film trailers and descriptions below.) A…
Festival films have in common? Wilkin: PLU’s 2016 Tournées film festival features ambitious films with universal themes. “The Pearl Button” and “Francofonia” engage with history on an epic scale, asking whether atrocities are an exclusive trait of our planet, and what is the value of art. “Jauja” and “The Marquise of O,” both historical dramas, celebrate human determination in the quest for truth. “Mustang” and “Hippocrates: Diary of a Doctor” deal with contemporary problems that far exceed the borders
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TACOMA, Wash. (May 23, 2019 ) — Judging by its accomplishments, Pacific Lutheran University’s Class of 2019 is poised to make an immediate impact on the world — mostly because they already have done so much at PLU. Here’s a look at just a handful…
situations that will help you grow to your greatest potential and accomplish your goals.”Nelago NuunyangoMajor: Political Science, with a minor in Literature Hometown: Epato village, Namibia Selected accomplishments: Graduation Honors (magna cum laude); PLU Q Club Scholarship; PLU Academic Scholarship; First in Family Scholarship; Donald R. Farmer Award; Lutheran Leadership Award; Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society; Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society Post-graduation plans: Pursuing graduate study in
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TACOMA, WASH. (May 15, 2017)- Classes are over, tests are on the horizon and therapy dogs are waiting in the wings. It’s the end of spring semester, and for several hundred Lutes that means life after college beckons. Pacific Lutheran University students are fast approaching…
prepare high school students for college. Horn expects to hear back about the opportunity by May 20. In the future, Horn sees himself becoming a teacher. At the moment, his end goal is to teach English and find a way to incorporate literature and film in the classroom. While his time at PLU challenged him, Horn suspects it’s only the beginning. He anticipates leaving the PLU community will be an adjustment post graduation, but he’s ready. “Maybe the most challenging thing hasn’t come yet,” he said
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- IT ENGL 235 Children's Literature - IT ENGL 241 American Traditions in Literature - IT ENGL 251 British Traditions in Literature - IT ENGL 334 Studies in Literature for Young Readers - IT ENGL 360 Studies in British Literature - IT ENGL 370 Studies in American Literature - IT ENGL 380 Studies in Global Anglophone Literature - IT, GE ENGL 394 Studies in Literature and the Environment IT, GE ENGL 395 Studies in Literature, Gender, and Sexuality - IT, GE ENGL 396 Studies in Literature, Race, and
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A year of achievement and a Decade of Change Dear Colleagues and Friends, It is a great joy for me to welcome each of you to University Fall Conference as we prepare to launch the 2010-2011 academic year, the 121st year in the life of…
, professor of chemistry, received another in a long series of Natural Sciences Foundation grants–this one for $98,000 for his research in polymer chemistry. Archaeologist Don Ryan, a PLU alumnus and a faculty fellow in humanities, published “Beneath the Sands of Egypt” to critical and popular acclaim. These are just a few examples of faculty scholarship, to which one can add the dozens of performances by our music faculty, creative works by our faculty in art and theater, as well as the contemporary
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Ed.D. with Superintendent Certification 60 semester hours Superintendent Strand - 16 semester hours EDUC 741: Educational Law, Policy, and Governance (2) EDUC 742: Human Resources in K-12 (2) EDUC
. There will be an examination of human resource planning, development, and utilization in modern organizations. Topics include: recruitment, selection, training and development, performance appraisal, collective bargaining, contracts, benefit programs, relationships, and role of the human resource department. (2) EDUC 743 : Educational Finance in P12 The primary goal of this course is to help aspiring school leaders understand school finance and the systemic and political impacts on P12. Students
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