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potential, the following offices are great places to visit: Academic Assistance Center, Writing Center, and the Language Resource Center. (See individual sections in “Items of Interest” for more information about these resources.) What is “J-Term”?The four-week term in January provides the opportunity for intensive study of a single subject or topic. This includes courses in a student’s major, general university requirement courses, and special elective offerings unique to the intensive one-month
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might interact and reinforce each other, as well as how to assess student learning. The process was unnerving because, after working his way through the complex process of integrating readings, forums, screen-casts, quizzes, audio uploads, video downloads, Chinese character writing practice and the rest, Dr. Manfredi had to relinquish much of the control over the students’ actual engagement with the class, as all of their learning now happened outside of the classroom. In other words, once
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’ sense of belonging and the impact of program resources over time. Not only will this funding allow us to provide significant scholarship support for low-income students in STEM, but it will also allow us to better integrate PLU resources and build new structures to support these students’ success.- Ann Auman Curricular engagement will include a transitions course, linked introductory courses and supplemental instruction. Students will learn resume writing, scientific communication, interviewing and
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Public health concerns update Posted by: Student Life / August 23, 2022 August 23, 2022 Dear PLU Community, We are writing today to provide you with a follow up to the communication that you received on July 29, 2022. In that communication, we outlined fall protocols for both COVID-19 and MPX (previously referred to as Monkeypox). Now that more detailed information about risk mitigation for MPX has become available from the CDC, the Washington Department of Health (WADOH), and Tacoma–Pierce
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The University’s mission is to “educate students for lives of thoughtful inquiry, leadership, se
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Jameson and Wolf gained a playfully dark atmosphere and a Dr. Seuss-like rhyme scheme. Petersen said telling the story through rhymes was one of the most strenuous aspects of writing the film: “Sometimes we would agonize over one line, but if we changed that, then we’d have to change the paragraph before that.” The film’s concept came to Petersen while pondering an ancestral bag of marbles at his work desk in Los Angeles. The marbles belonged to his grandfather and were passed down to Petersen through
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Center for Media Studies, was another mentor to Reed. It was in his “Journalism Writing” course that Reed found her niche in photojournalism, a style that guides her work today. Between Stasinos and Wells, Reed began to iron out her next few years at PLU. “The faculty are amazing,” Reed said. “I don’t know that I would have stayed and finished a (biology) degree if I hadn’t been connected with Professor Stasinos and Professor Wells. They really helped me find the track that worked for me.” This might
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. “As long as I can remember, I knew I wanted to do something to protect animals and work with them,” Whalen said. “I liked animal law, not only because of the great protection that the law and lawyers can give animals, but I like that sort of work. I like reading, I like writing, and I like problem-solving and dealing with places where animals or the environment face troubles, and finding protections for them.” Whalen is an environmental studies major and political science minor with plans to add
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align experiences and coursework. The First-Year Cornerstones classes include a Fall-semester theme-based seminar focusing on academic writing, and a Spring-semester seminar grounded in a particular discipline. The Sophomore-Year Cornerstones classes are two courses linked from Fall to Spring where you will investigate, alongside your professor and classmates, a big question from multiple perspectives. The Distributive Core courses, from a variety of academic disciplines, allow you explore new
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Spots on Campus: In a hammock behind Ordal, hanging out in the Diversity Center or at Campus Ministry Extracurricular Activities: English Honor Society and Creative Writing Club Current Job: Supervisor in the Tutoring Center at Pierce College Free-time Activities: Hammocking and cooking for small groups at her off-campus house What PLU Has Been for MeHonestly, PLU wasn’t even on my radar, but my best friend was going to a Lute OverKnight — that’s when high schoolers stay in the dorms and tour the
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