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TACOMA, WASH. (May 6, 2016)- Kelly Hall couldn’t decide on a major when she first came to Pacific Lutheran University. “I didn’t know for sure what I wanted to do, and several fields I explored just didn’t fit right,” said Hall, a senior at PLU.…
PLU senior Kelly Hall prepares to graduate with an indigenous studies major she designed herself Posted by: Kari Plog / May 6, 2016 Image: Kelly Hall ’16 is graduating this spring with an individualized major in Native American and indigenous studies. (Photo courtesy of Hall). May 6, 2016 By Natalie DeFord '16PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (May 6, 2016)- Kelly Hall couldn’t decide on a major when she first came to Pacific Lutheran University. “I didn’t know for sure what I wanted
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“Our future is China,” declare Boeing executives who are exploring newly opened trade opportunities with the world’s most populated country and the globe’s fastest growing economy.
Why Study Chinese Studies?“Our future is China,” declare Boeing executives who are exploring newly opened trade opportunities with the world’s most populated country and the globe’s fastest growing economy. This emerging global superpower will increasingly influence international politics, culture and trade in the 21st century; there is a growing demand throughout the world for people trained in Chinese Studies.Why Study Chinese Studies at PLU?Pacific Lutheran University offers a unique program
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“There is nothing comfortable about studying genocide,” Beth Griech-Polelle, a Pacific Lutheran University history professor and the Kurt Mayer Chair in Holocaust Studies, says. “It’s filthy, violent, degrading, and the worst of humanity.” Yet Griech-Polelle says the study and discussion of these atrocities are crucial…
reflection on this subject begins with the “Introduction to Holocaust & Genocide Studies” course, which serves the minor but is also a general education course open to all PLU students. Professors from the history, English, German, religion, social work and Hispanic Studies departments worked together to create the course to allow students to investigate the intersections of dehumanization, violent oppression, cultural destruction, and war. “We wanted to highlight the interdisciplinary and global focus
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All majors must complete one of the Concentrations below. Students may complete more than one Concentration.
-cultural issues and themes, or major authors in British literature. Emphasis is on careful interpretation of literary texts with attention to their contexts. Course content varies. Course is repeatable once with different topic. (4) ENGL 370 : Studies in American Literature - IT Study of specific historical periods, literary movements, socio-cultural issues and themes, or major authors in American literature. Emphasis is on careful interpretation of literary texts with attention to their contexts
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The value of a college education increases when graduates have a better understanding of religion’s diversity and influence in regional, national, and global life.
religion’s diversity and influence in regional, national, and global life. The study of religion will help you speak to why religion gives meaning and purpose to billions of people on the planet. At PLU, students can take classes in environmental ethics, the religions of Asia, feminist theology, Luther, Native American traditions of the Pacific Northwest – to name just a few. PLU students study religion in Tacoma and Seattle as well as far off destinations such as Hawaii, Rome, or Trinidad-Tobago. Our
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Saxifrage is PLU's premier literary and art magazine. It consists of work by students, staff and alumni - poems, traditional art, literary essays, print, short stories, photography, musical scores
Saxifrage EditorDescriptionSaxifrage is PLU’s premier literary and art magazine. It consists of work by students, staff and alumni – poems, traditional art, literary essays, print, short stories, photography, musical scores and other works, all selected by volunteer judges from the PLU community. A book by the people, for the people. A celebration and review of excellence. A piece of PLU you can take with you. Saxifrage is ran by two coeditors whose responsibilities are planning events
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Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies | Native American and Indigenous Studies | storfjta@plu.edu | 253-535-8514 | Troy Storfjell (Sámi) specializes in Sámi and Indigenous studies, where his work is largely guided by Indigenist criticism and decolonize methodologies.
Indigenous studies Nordic literature and film Responsibilities Council Member, Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA). 2017 to present. Selected Presentations Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, These songs of freedom: Matti Aikio, Aagot Vinterbo-Hohr and the aesthetics of Sámi literary survivance, University of Hawai'i, Manoa (May 2016) Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, Unraveling the Master’s Voice: Matti Aikio’s Subversive Turn, New Orleans (May
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Associate Professor of Anthropology | Department of Anthropology | nosakaaa@plu.edu | 253-535-7664 | Dr.
, fertility, migration, and ethnicity. She conducted fieldwork research on female fertility behavior in relation to socio-cultural values and norms in rural Bangladesh. Her study results have been published in the Journal of Comparative Family Studies (2000) and the Journal of International Women’s Studies (2004). She also conducted research on the inter-generational family relationships of Germans and Turkish immigrants living in Germany. Some of the conclusions from this research have been published in
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The Common Reading Selection Committee is delighted to announce that for the 2018-2019 FYEP Common Reading, we will revisit Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates . The text, drawing from an autobiographical account of the author’s youth, is written in the form of…
lecture for first-year students and a symposium through the Wang Center. Published in 2015, the awards won by the author for Between the World and Me include the 2015 National Book Award for Nonfiction and the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work. It was also a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. The committee would like to continue to highlight the following themes in Between the World and Me: 1. Constructions of race: the social, political, economic and cultural
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Graduate students from a range of disciplines (Physics, Chemistry, Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering, and Geo/Planetary Science) have a unique opportunity to study the response of materials at extreme conditions with the internationally renowned scientists at Washington State University (WSU). Working within their respective academic departments,…
Scholarships for Graduate Studies at the Institute for Shock Physics Posted by: alemanem / November 6, 2019 November 6, 2019 Graduate students from a range of disciplines (Physics, Chemistry, Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering, and Geo/Planetary Science) have a unique opportunity to study the response of materials at extreme conditions with the internationally renowned scientists at Washington State University (WSU). Working within their respective academic departments, graduate students
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