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musty smell and crinkly feel of old yellow pages and wondering who, in 1954, was the first person to check out this copy of Descartes’ Meditations. You will find out that one of the best places to study is up in the Language Resource Center on the third floor. If you sit at the back of the room and look out the window, you can see the lawn and trees north of Harstad, and the people scurrying across the grass to get to work or class. Occasionally during the damp days of fall and spring, they don’t
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national security interests of the United States. The region includes China, which is rapidly assuming prominence on the global stage. Rare are the days that go by without at least one news story on China. Given PLU’s Chinese language studies, its China summer Service Learning program, as well as other international programs sponsored by the Wang center, I thought I would devote a few minutes to this most fascinating country. For the past 20 years, China’s GDP has grown by an average of 9.0% per year
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: Researching Educational and Community Development in the Esmeraldas Province Sarah Sandgren, Domestic and International Policy in Ecuador: Following the Government in the First Year, Post-Election Melissa Severson-Hampton, Proponents of Change: Norway’s Shifting Perspectives on Language Faculty Projects Amy Beegle, Afro-Peruvian Jazz Performance and Transmission in Peru Peter Davis, A Field-Based Geologic Investigation of Panama’s Dulling Subduction Zones Steven Thomson, “Children of the Village”: On
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Wang Center Photo & Video Contest Winners 2022 Posted by: Holly Senn / March 30, 2022 March 30, 2022 During the 2021-2022 academic year, 149 PLU students participated in global and local study away programs to acquire new perspectives on critical global issues, advance their language and intercultural skills, form valuable new contacts and lasting connections, and advance their academic and career trajectory. Due to the worldwide pandemic, 46 students returned home early in spring of 2020 and
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Stuart Gavidia ’24 majored in computer science while interning at Amazon, Cannon, and Pierce County June 13, 2024 Ash Bechtel ’24 combines science and social work for holistic view of patient care; aims to serve Hispanic community June 13, 2024 Universal language: how teaching music in rural Namibia was a life-changing experience for Jessa Delos Reyes ’24 May 20, 2024
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High School Math will not be accepted as a substitute Ethics (4 semester hours) HIST 248: Innovation, Ethics, and Society PHIL 125: Ethics & the Good Life PHIL 128: Politics & the Good Society PHIL 229: Human Rights RELI 226: Christian Ethics Communication (4 semester hours) COMA 212: Public Speaking COMA 306: Persuasion ENGL 323: Writing in Professional and Public Settings ENGL 393: The English Language PPAP 301: The Book in Society PPAP 302: Publishing Procedures Close Reading (4 semester hours
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has published essays about numerous contemporary American poets. A regular essayist for The Georgia Review, his critical articles and reviews have appeared in many journals and collections, among them The Iowa Review, Papers on Language and Literature, The Southern Review, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and Poetry International. He was awarded the Distinguished Teaching Award at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, CA, where he taught poetry writing and modern and contemporary American literature. Still
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own voice. This is not this month’s featured National Geographic article. There is no glossy shine to these images. Our tour guide Uanee’s voice blares through the bus’ speaker system, jolting me upright. He tells the group of 16 college students and two professors that Katutura was founded during apartheid. Black people were forcibly relocated outside the capital city. Katutura translates roughly to “the place we do not want to stay” in Herero, a native Namibian tribal language. Uanee says it is
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it causes disease. One of the big diseases that we will focus on will be Huntington’s. After I get my Ph.D., I want to be a professor at a small personal institution like PLU because it has left its mark and the professors I have encountered have inspired me to be like them. But if there is anything that I have learned from PLU, it is to keep an open mind and follow your passion wherever it leads. Lynsey Tveit – Bachelor of Arts in elementary education with an English language learners
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. As preparation for this study away to US, we know that you practiced and worked hard on improving your English skills in every perspective – and that you want to continue improving while you are here. However, this improvement will not happen unless practice frequently with people who speak English. PLU has a great environment and friendly community where you can improve your language skills, so we strongly encourage you to speak up with others. Don’t be afraid to get laughed at or confuse other
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