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  • By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU Marketing & Communications TACOMA, WASH. (Jan. 26, 2015)—After World War II, government authorities removed thousands of American Indian children from their families and placed them in non-Indian foster or adoptive families. By the late 1960s, an estimated 25 to 35…

    interested in the widespread historical practice of Indigenous child removal when I carried out research in Australia in 1998, just a year after the Human Rights Commission issued its Bringing Them Home report,” Jacobs wrote in a post on the University of Nebraska Press blog. “The Commission had gathered deeply disturbing testimony from hundreds of Indigenous people—known as the Stolen Generations—who had been forcibly removed from their families to be raised in institutions or non-Indigenous homes. … I

  • The following is a wonderful sermon from Interim Campus Pastor John Rosenberg given at Resurrection Lutheran Church in Browns Point on Sunday, May 29th. Is PLU Lutheran Enough? Now That’s a Good Question (   ) Pastor John Rosenberg’s sermon at Grace Lutheran Church in Corvallis,…

    and learning led to a deep and abiding belief in the importance of education for all people (not just Lutherans!) at all levels—from preschool to graduate education—that Lutherans have been justly famous for throughout our 500-year history. Pacific Lutheran University is an expression of that Lutheran commitment to education and learning. But take it a step further. For Luther, learning was never an end in itself. It was always learning for the sake of serving our neighbor who, as Jesus taught us

  • This record celebrates the music of Latvian composer Ēriks Ešenvalds. One of the most sought-after composers of today, Ešenvalds studied both in Latvia and the UK.

    traditional carols heard in Conrad Susa’s A Christmas Garland medley; Ding Dong! Merrily on High, arranged by Mack Wilberg; Angels We Have Heard On High, arranged by Gabriel Dumitrescu; and the Swedish favorite, Wonderful Peace, by Gustav Nordqvist. Important historical composers Sergei Rachmaninoff and Herbert Howells are represented, as is popular British composer John Rutter. The album features beautiful new works by PLU choral faculty member Brian Galante (Ave Maria and In The Bleak Midwinter), a

  • The discipline of history focuses on critical analysis of text-based evidence from the past and seeks a detailed, complex understanding of individual and collective human behaviors as they have

    Why Study History?The discipline of history focuses on critical analysis of text-based evidence from the past and seeks a detailed, complex understanding of individual and collective human behaviors as they have emerged, intersected, and altered over time. Historical study examines and attempts to explain processes of change over time as they pertain to cultures, nations, institutions, value systems, and other major social phenomena. Historians also consider and outline patterns of causation

  • All majors must complete one of the Concentrations below. Students may complete more than one Concentration.

    , and Public Engagement 4 semester hours Prerequisites: ENGL 227, 275, and 300. The capstone seminar, generally taken in the senior year, includes a capstone presentation consistent with the general university requirements. Minors Literature, Culture, and Power Study of literature in its cultural and historical contexts; focusing on the ways literature both challenges and perpetuates systems of power; may include themes like environment, race and ethnicity, or gender and sexuality. 20 semester hours

  • Theatre Apply disciplinary standards in professional portfolio materials Interpret theater texts (play scripts and live performances) and their aesthetic and social values through time, cultures and

    Theatre & Dance Learning Outcomes Theatre Apply disciplinary standards in professional portfolio materials Interpret theater texts (play scripts and live performances) and their aesthetic and social values through time, cultures and movements Analyze theatrical texts and their dramatic structure Dance Integrate physical and artistic self-awareness into kinesthetic expression Analyze dance works and forms with regards to historical and societal context, technical elements, and kinesthetic

  • Theatre Apply disciplinary standards in professional portfolio materials Interpret theater texts (play scripts and live performances) and their aesthetic and social values through time, cultures and

    Theatre & Dance Learning Outcomes Theatre Apply disciplinary standards in professional portfolio materials Interpret theater texts (play scripts and live performances) and their aesthetic and social values through time, cultures and movements Analyze theatrical texts and their dramatic structure Dance Integrate physical and artistic self-awareness into kinesthetic expression Analyze dance works and forms with regards to historical and societal context, technical elements, and kinesthetic

  • Grete Brochmann is professor of sociology, Department of Sociology and Human Geography at the University of Oslo.

    Grete BrochmannGrete Brochmann is professor of sociology, Department of Sociology and Human Geography at the University of Oslo. She has published several books and articles on International migration; sending and receiving country perspectives, EU policies, welfare state dilemmas as well as historical studies on immigration. She has served as a visiting scholar in Bruxelles, Berkeley, and Boston. In 2002 she held the Willy Brandt visiting professorship in Malmo, Sweden. She was recently head

  • Rick Barot is a highly acclaimed national figure in poetry whose 2020 collection “The Galleons” was recently longlisted for the National Book Award. He’s also a dedicated creative writing teacher, serving as an English professor at Pacific Lutheran University and the director of the Rainier…

    actually kind of a miracle because we had no technical glitches, everybody knew where to be and what they were doing, but it required an amazing amount of planning in the month or two before the actual residency. It was a very successful residency online, but once again, it was disappointing that we could not be on campus to be together. But we still had a really great experience.“The Galleons” explores some historical themes which seem to have been new for your work. Was that something that came

  • About PAT Phi Alpha Theta (ΦΑΘ) is an American honor society for undergraduate and graduate students and professors of history.

    teaching, publication and the exchange of learning and ideas among historians. We seek to bring students and teachers together for intellectual and social exchanges, which promote and assist historical research and publication by our members in a variety of ways. Membership Benefits All members of the honor society are inducted through the local Phi Alpha Theta chapter at their respective college or university. The procedure at PLU is to email Prof. Gina Hames (advisor), who will collect the necessary