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align experiences and coursework. The First-Year Cornerstones classes include a Fall-semester theme-based seminar focusing on academic writing, and a Spring-semester seminar grounded in a particular discipline. The Sophomore-Year Cornerstones classes are two courses linked from Fall to Spring where you will investigate, alongside your professor and classmates, a big question from multiple perspectives. The Distributive Core courses, from a variety of academic disciplines, allow you explore new
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with local colleagues, Gordon Research Conferences, and ACS meetings. He has been using a tablet for projected real-time drawing in class since 2009, and started using clickers in 2007. Supported by an NSF grant with Dean Waldow in 1994 that brought one of the first web and email servers to PLU and the first computational chemistry resources to the Chemistry Department, he started The Organic Journal Club in 1998, an email discussion forum that helped students learn by writing and explaining
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-minute video outlines this research. The website for the Transparency in Learning & Teaching project provides excellent resources for how to make your assignments as accessible to your students as possible. It has some great before-and-after assignment examples across many disciplines, and the Transparent Assignment Template is an easy-to-follow guide for writing instructions that explicitly outline the purpose, task, and criteria for any assignment. Have a teaching tip about creating an inclusive
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Putting the Local in Global Education: Models for Transformative Learning through Domestic Off-Campus Programs (Stylus Press, 2015), which includes not his own chapter, and those authored by six other PLU colleagues. During an academic leave during the 2012-13 academic year, he spent the fall semester in Ethiopia, completing the research and writing draft chapters for a book on the place of contemporary Ethiopian church painters and painting. Paintings cover the walls of Ethiopian churches from floor
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“Stein, a UCLA historian, has ferocious research talents […] and a writing voice that is admirably light and human.” Stein’s most recent book, Wartime North Africa, A Documentary History 1934-1950 (Stanford University Press, with the cooperation of the USHMM, 2022), the first-ever collection of primary documents on North African history and the Holocaust, gives voice to the diversity of those involved—Muslims, Christians, and Jews; women, men, and children; black, brown, and white; the unknown and
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and colonial and post-colonial authors. Gerzso also teaches an IHON 257 on theories and representations of labor under capitalism since the Industrial Revolution, and has taught an IHON 257 course on the modern university in Britain for the International Honors Program at Oxford University, where he served as site director in fall 2018. His Writing 101 course focuses on visual art and culture, and in 2019-2020 he will teach an IHON 328 course on politics and utopia, focusing on theories and
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advising weeks). Any changes to the proposed plan of study must be submitted in writing.
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to understand and act within F-1 or J-1 visa regulations. Do not engage in unauthorized work. Plan ahead! Consider job hunting time, application deadlines, timeline for work authorization approval and more! Use on-campus services, faculty advisors and classmates as resources. Don’t get disappointed if turned down. Keep applying! The entire process will help you gain important skills in job hunting, resume and cover letter writing, interviewing and networking.OPT Employment and Address Change
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teaching, like a skill for writing or a skill for critical thinking, never loses value. School systems will always need high-quality, passionate teachers. According to Department of Education data, in 2011, 48% of the teaching population had more than 10 years of experience. More recent data from 2017 suggest that the “average teacher” has 14 years of working experience.Work for diversity and positive social changeCompassion, empathy, communication, and respect are life skills that are learned early on
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