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My name is Anna and I was born and raised just outside of Portland, Oregon. I am a white, non-binary lesbian.
Anna Sweetland, Therapist in Training My name is Anna and I was born and raised just outside of Portland, Oregon. I am a white, non-binary lesbian. I define my non-binary identity as a gender that is neither male nor female, and I should be referred to using they/them pronouns (ex. “My therapist’s name is Anna. They have brown hair”). In my free time, I really enjoy being outside walking around, bird-watching, and always keeping an eye out for whales in the sound! I am an artist, and I enjoy
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Director of IHON | International Honors | dowland@plu.edu | 253-535-8125 | Seth Dowland teaches courses in PLU’s International Honors, First-Year Experience, Religion, and Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies programs.
Seth Dowland Director of IHON Phone: 253-535-8125 Email: dowland@plu.edu Office Location: Hauge Administration Building - 227-I Status:On Sabbatical Blog: http://usreligion.blogspot.com/ Curriculum Vitae: View my CV Professional Biography Additional Titles/Roles Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies Education Ph.D., American Religions, Duke University, 2007 M.A., American Religions, Duke University, 2004 B.A. with distinction, Religious Studies & History, University of Virginia, 2001 Areas of
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Students who take Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies courses at PLU will learn how to: Understand the social construction of gender, sexuality, and race. Analyze systems of privilege and oppression.
Learning Outcomes for the Gender, Sexuality and Race Studies MajorStudents who take Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies courses at PLU will learn how to: Understand the social construction of gender, sexuality, and race. Analyze systems of privilege and oppression. Assess the intersectional relationship between knowledge production, identities, and power. Communicate and collaborate across differences. Practice community-engaged scholarship and coalition building. Engage in critical imagining
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PLU Global Studies Statement Against RacismWe, the Faculty Committee of the Global Studies Program at Pacific Lutheran University, stand in solidarity with those protesting racism, white supremacy, and state violence across the world. These events demonstrate local-global connections, which we continually strive to emphasize within the Global Studies curriculum. Locally, police killed Manuel Ellis here in Tacoma. Beyond Washington State, the police killings of George Floyd in Minneapolis and
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PLU offers over 40 academic majors, 50 minors, and purposefully integrates professional studies with the liberal arts and sciences for a comprehensive education to successfully prepare students for
do about what they’re teaching. They are mentors and fellow learners who encourage you to consider new ways of thinking, to take risks and grow. Experiential Learning Learn inside and outside the classroom. PLU offers close student-faculty research opportunities, along with study away experiences, internships, field studies, lab work, clinical hours, and more. Why the liberal arts & sciences? At the core of a liberal arts and sciences education is flexibility, creativity, critical thinking, and
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By Michael Halvorson, Director of Innovation Studies. We are delighted to announce the graduation of seven Innovation Studies minors this May, and we wish them well in all future endeavors. This year’s graduates include Sage Allen, Anastasia Bidne, Megan Goninan, Robert Helle, Benjamin Leschensky, Michelle…
photography. Blaise is also one of the original Innovation Studies cohort. “Studying all aspects of innovation has helped me become a critical-thinker. It has helped me see how small my scope truly is, which allows me to be more understanding of differing views and opinions before presenting solutions and conclusions of my own. Overall, Innovation Studies has given me life-skills that I can utilize to make my life more efficient, and in turn make the world a better place.” Congratulations to all graduates
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On a visit to a U.S.-funded mine-risk education seminar in Kayah State, Jerry White stands with fellow landmine survivors. U.S.-supported mine-risk education in Burma can serve as a platform to build trust between these armed groups, the military and the Burmese government. Photo courtesy of…
1997 Nobel Peace Prize for the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, and author of I Will Not Be Broken. such as this that we all carry around with us, he noted recently. It’s a date, a time when life changes, and it’s up to us to decide how to respond to the event and make critical choices that will shape our future. One individual, White noted, “can make changes that have ripple effects around the world,” if there is enough determination behind that passion to make a change for the better
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The Community for Creative Expression (CCE) challenges students to explore the meaning of creativity and innovation in our world and promotes creativity as a mechanism of expression, activism,
disciplines Love dancing, paint, doodling, music, acting, writing, building, and more Program + Learning OutcomesBy participating in Community for Creative Expression, students will be able to: Articulate what creativity means in their own terms, as it relates to their chosen academic field of study Identify diverse ways to engage in “everyday creativity” in order to cultivate creativity as a lifelong practice or vocation Demonstrate critical reflection on personal identity and social justice through
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Overview Hypothesis is a social annotation tool that can be used to facilitate online class discussions and group work, annotate lectures and syllabi, share and organize research, take notes, and more. Hypothesis is integrated into PLU’s Sakai Learning Management System. Students and instructors can annotate webpages or PDFs with comments, formulas, highlights, and tags without...
readily available in every Sakai course site. To get started, visit the PLU Knowledge Base for instructions. Why Use Hypothesis? Hypothesis fosters critical thinking, reading, and writing on Sakai. It is a text-centered alternative to forums that allows you to: Ask students to respond to specific passages (e.g., a single sentence or an entire paragraph) by composing an annotation. Annotate your syllabi or lectures, formulas or lab reports to introduce students to concepts and/or ask them to reply to
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Spring 2023 Capstone presentation schedules from PLU Global Studies graduating seniors.
The Department of Global Studies is proud to present the 2023 Senior Capstones. Presentation dates: May 24th, 2023 – 10:30-2:30 May 25th, 2023 – 11:00-2:30 Anderson University Center, Room 201 Click on each student name to see their presentation title. Zoom Link For Presentations May 24, 202310:30 am - Jasneet Sandhu11:00 am - Henri Coronado-Volta11:30 - Tamber Price10:30 am - Jasneet SandhuSikhs vs. the System: Uncovering the Ongoing Government Led Sikh Genocide in Panjab11:00 am - Henri
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