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  • . Other topics featured during the conference include visual arts during the Holocaust, a dramatic presentation of the writing of Anne Frank and approaches to teaching Holocaust history. The conference will also showcase the work of PLU faculty and students. This conference is free and all sessions are open to the public. Registration is requested. The program on Friday, March 18, is designed with educators in mind, and is focused on lessons of diversity and tolerance that can be learned through the

  • "private" window. LATEST POSTS PLU College of Liberal Studies welcomes Dean Stephanie Johnson July 24, 2024 Three students share how scholarships support them in their pursuit to make the world better than how they found it June 24, 2024 Kaden Bolton ’24 explored civics and public policy on campus and studying away in Oxford June 12, 2024 PLU welcomes new Chief Operating Officer and VP Shalita Myrick to campus June 11, 2024

  • Sejal ShahProse writer and PLU Rainier Writing Workshop faculty member Sejal Shah will be the first writer in PLU’s 2020-21 Visiting Writer Series. See her bio at RWW’s site and also at her website. Shah’s debut essay collection, This Is One Way to Dance, was published by University of Georgia Press in June 2020 to much acclaim. Publishers Weekly noted: “The poetic, probing debut from short story writer and essayist Shah forcefully tackles the complicated intersection of identity, language

  • Four Semester Hours HIST 248 – Innovation, Ethics, and Society (S0), PHIL 248 – Innovation, Ethics, and Society (PH), or HIST 346 – History of Innovation and Technology (SO) 2) Innovation Principles Eight Semester Hours Economics principles (4 credits from the following): ECON 111: Principles of Microeconomics: Global and Environmental Design and Communication principles (4 credits from the following): COMA 215: Writing in Communication Careers 3) Elective Four Semester Hours COMA 361: Public

  • to find guidance, let their writing breathe and listen to constructive criticism from their peers in a way that makes their work stronger. “Our goal is a sustainable writing life,” said Stan Rubin, MFA program director. Rubin said being a writer in the world with a sustainable writing career is what all of his adult students strive for, many of whom already have established writing success. “The only requirement is to come as writers, published or not,” Rubin said. Still, accomplished writers are

  • Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America (2010). She writes on immigration history and policy for the NY Times, Washington Post, CNN, Dissent, and other venues. Ngai is now writing two books, The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics (forthcoming from WW Norton) and Nation of Immigrants: A Short History of an Idea (forthcoming from Princeton).We hope that you will be able to attend this yearThe lecture is accessible to wide ranging audiences, including

  • in the federal government wants me to work for them, I would be happy to jump into the federal Senate. I am very open, as long as I’m always supporting an amazing candidate who’s fighting for what we need. Read Previous Jared Wright ’14, discusses working on refugee resettlement, impactful internships, and more Read Next Professor Maria Chavez selected for 2021-23 Humanities Washington Speakers Bureau LATEST POSTS Kaden Bolton ’24 explored civics and public policy on campus and studying away in

  • her studies as part of the Rainier Writing Workshop. These and other stories throughout these pages highlight the persistent, creative and driven alumni who help make PLU’s programs distinct. They chose PLU for their advanced degree, for much more than the letters after their name. Who will be next? Visit plu.edu/graduate to learn more about our distinct graduate programs, and the possibilities awaiting you. Geoff Foy, Associate Provost for Graduate Programs and Continuing Education Catherine Chan

  • intellectual skills and resources apt to generate success in legal study and practice. Recent successful PLU applicants to law schools have taken such diverse courses as those in the anthropology of contemporary America, social science research methods, American popular culture, English Renaissance literature, news writing and argumentation, recent political thought, international relations, free-lance writing, animal behavior, neuropsychology, public finance, logic, and moral philosophy. Diversity and

  • Elizabeth AustenAusten is the Washington State Poet Laureate for 2014-16. Her debut collection Every Dress a Decision was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. She’s also the author of two chapbooks, The Girl Who Goes Alone and Where Currents Meet. Her poems have been featured on The Writer’s Almanac and Verse Daily and in Poetry Northwest, Bellingham Review and Willow Springs. She is noted for her engaging public performances of poetry and has been featured at Poets House in New York