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best it provides a false sense of security. One way to discourage cheating is to design assessments that are unique and authentic, requiring higher order thinking skills like synthesis, analysis, or the creation of original content. For written work, Turnitin’s Originality Check (via Sakai Assignments) is a popular tool to discourage plagiarism and cheating. An option for multiple choice assessments is to use “question pools” where assessment questions are drawn randomly from a large pool of
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2009 release, Wait For Me. July 31 The Rob Hutchinson Group Hutchinson teaches music theory, orchestration, analysis, counterpoint, improvisation and composition at the University of Puget Sound. He is also a jazz bassist and organizes and appears at the Jazz in the Rotunda series at the UPS. His band, the Rob Hutchinson Group, includes Kareem Kandi on saxophone, David Deacon-Joyner on keyboards and Jacques Willis on drums and performs original compositions in the jazz/rock fusion style of groups
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An Open Letter to the PLU Community from President Tom Krise Posted by: Lace M. Smith / November 24, 2015 November 24, 2015 Dear Colleagues and Friends: In the past few days there has been a lot of impassioned debate about the proposed sale of KPLU to KUOW. There has also been a lot of misinformation and misinterpreted facts. Following is some context: This is a strategic decision based on careful analysis of the future of radio and a concern about how best to sustain public media in the region
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with students during the Wang Center Symposium "The Countenance of Hope" at PLU, on Friday, Feb. 26, 2016. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) We have courses that engage the perennial philosophical questions and present implications for our contemporary contexts. We ask students to examine their own ideas, commitments, lives, and assumptions; they learn how to think and read texts critically, give analysis and generate and charitably defend their own arguments while considering possible objections and
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Philosophy and the Other Disciplinesby Pauline Shanks KaurinPhilosophy, perhaps fairly, has a reputation as a discipline that holds itself up as judge and arbiter of the claims and methods of other disciplines. Consider some subfields within philosophy: philosophy of law, philosophy of science and philosophy of religion to name only a few. These areas involve the philosophical examination of claims, methods and conclusions within these specific areas; we subject to critical analysis and
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motivates me to be a good neighbor. Nikolas Gable “Celtic Roots in Christianity” Abstract: I am doing my Capstone project on forms of Celtic tradition and values that appear in Christianity. Analysis of select passages from the Life of St. Brigit suggests the presence and importance of three pre-Christian ideals within an emerging Christian/Celtic culture that sought to retain and incorporate ancient ideals: fiery goddess, respect of nature, and freedom of movement for women. Why I Majored in Religion
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account of the author’s youth, is written in the form of a raw, emotional, poignant letter to his teenage son and depicts the feelings, symbolism and violent realities of being black in America. All first-year students, faculty and staff are encouraged to read the book as part of that campus-wide Common Reading experience. The conversation between Hambrick, Eckstein and Jordan, split into two podcasts for easy consumption, examines the text and bring a rich, lively analysis to bear grounded in the
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December IRTS Summer Fellowship ProgramGoogle News Lab fellowship Eligibility: The Google News Lab Fellowship offers students interested in journalism and technology the opportunity to spend the summer working at relevant organizations across the US to gain valuable experience and make lifelong contacts and friends. While the work of each host organization is unique, Fellows have opportunities to research and write stories, contribute to open source data programs, and create timely data to accurately
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communication, interviewing and how to apply to undergraduate research programs and graduate schools. “By collecting data along the way about what strategies work best, this project will help not only those students receiving scholarship support from the grant, but will also help PLU STEM students and those at other institutions in the years to come,” Auman said. A student-faculty research project analyzing artificial intelligence, smart home technology and their potential effects on energy conservation won
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Introduction to the fundamental techniques and concepts of analysis and design of DC and AC circuits including Kirchhoff’s Laws, circuit theorems, OP Amps, first and second order transient and steady state circuits, and frequency response. Computer simulation and laboratory work are essential parts of the course. Prerequisites: MATH 151; PHYS 154 or consent of instructor. (4) ENGR 495: Internship To permit undergraduate students to relate theory and practice in a work situation. The title will be listed on
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