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I’m doing an individualized major with a focus on global health and economics. Over the past year, I’ve done a Global Studies capstone in relation to this major, and I’m organizing the curriculum so that it prepares me for medical school and (hopefully) a future career in medicine and public policy.” Matt: “Well done, Marc. Everyone: I’m Matt Macfarlane. I am majoring in Economics and History, and for the last several years I’ve also competed with the track and cross country teams here at PLU. For

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buying tickets to Uganda again, this time with his girlfriend and fellow Lute, Margaret Chang, ’07, a global studies major. Kennedy at first couldn’t find his fellow organizers, but with new confidence, headed into the slum and quickly found them, including Ocitti. But the field they’d used for the first tournament was gone, now the home of an office complex. So they found another field outside of town and another at a nearby school. When the bus arrived to take spectators to the school, the kids and

said. When he returned from Chengdu, he was hooked. China was “like studying a puzzle,” Ford says. And a puzzle that drew him in with its people, its art, history and politics. His intellectual curiosity simply wouldn’t let him put the topic or the place, aside.  He  future was going to be linked to international studies; he just couldn’t wait to get back. He did manage to go back in 2011 to study ethnic minorities in China. It was Professor Adam Cathcart, who happened to be in China at the same

valuable spring break experience that opened his eyes and shifted his perspective. Now, upon returning to PLU, he brings that perspective with him. “After witnessing these different sorts of case studies, I am now able to reflect back on how Tacoma and Parkland were created,” Dobies said, “how certain vices have played out in the development of where we live.” Megan Grover, manager of short-term study away programs, said this alternative spring break is just one of the many ways Lutes can study away

Scandinavian studies from PLU in 1982. Then, she eventually earned a master’s degree in archives and record management from the University of Washington in 1987. In her time as archivist, Ringdahl was responsible for massive amounts of cataloguing and collecting university history. She started the Scandinavian Immigrant Collection, which includes pictures, artifacts and interviews from 280 Scandinavian immigrants. Ringdahl also was an early member of Northwest Digital Archives, partnering PLU with larger

place to live.” — Kristina Walker ‘02 sworn into the Tacoma City Council tonight. Attaway, Councilmember Walker! #TacCouncil #GoLutes pic.twitter.com/FQRlVeEPD4— Pacific Lutheran University (@PLUNEWS) January 8, 2020 Read Previous PLU environmental studies students chart the challenges facing the nearby Clover Creek Watershed Read Next The Power of Faculty Mentorship COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently

. Ambassadors are individuals that for whatever reason cannot be released back into the wild. At that point, their options are euthanasia or becoming an ambassador and spending the rest of their lives in captivity where they are used for educational purposes. Ambassadors are an essential part of wildlife education because they allow the general public to develop a relationship with an individual. Numerous studies have shown that relationship greatly increases the likelihood that individuals will do

different standards than their white peers and being treated as though they don’t speak English well based on their race.   CURTAIN CALL Maria Cruse, another senior teaching assistant majoring in women’s and gender studies, said the J-Term course was “an act of service,” not just a standard learning opportunity. “I enjoy being a social justice educator,” Cruse said. “This was another platform to do that.” Many of the students were eager to tell their stories, she said. They did so in front of a crowd on

university's curriculum caters to those eclectic interests. Beyoncé and Black Feminist Theory“Who Beyoncé is for?” is not usually a question that you ask when you’re bopping your head to “Single Ladies,” or “Partition,” or any of the other hundreds of hit songs that have made Beyoncé a worldwide music icon. But it is just one of the questions students will tackle in the Women’s and Gender Studies course titled “Beyoncé and Black Feminist Theory.” “The general premise of the course is to think about Beyoncé