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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

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

Wednesday, Oct. 5 2016 Third annual Thor Heyerdahl Lecture to open “Beyond the Horizon: The Legacy of Nordic Explorers” exhibit 2016Distinguished Norwegian sailor, journalist and writer Ragnar Kvam Jr. will present “The Life of Thor Heyerdahl: Writing the Biography of a Norwegian Icon,” for the third annual Thor Heyerdahl Lecture at 7 p.m. on Oct. 5. in the Scandinavian Cultural Center at PLU.Kvam wrote a three-volume biography on Heyerdahl, which earned him the Riksmålsforbundet’s literary

: 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) Any 300-level course with an LT designation ENGL 400: Studies in Criticism & Theory HIST 254: History of Hanford HIST 305: Slavery in the Americas HIST 346: Innovation & Technology HIST 351: History of the West and Northwest HIST 362: Christians in Nazi Germany RELI 211: Religion and

strong classes in Holocaust studies and U.S. business and economic history. History faculty work closely with individual students to help them choose the path best suited to each student’s interests in history and career plans. The history department offers exciting study away opportunities and has a highly successful alumni community with noteworthy achievements in a wide range of careers and areas of public service. Skills the Well Trained History Student DevelopsThe Ability to Assess Evidence

Communication Core Courses 20 semester hours COMA 101: Introduction to Communication (4) COMA 120: Introduction to Media Studies (4) COMA 212: Public Speaking (4) COMA 215: Writing in Communication Careers (4) COMA 499: Capstone (4) Film & Media Studies Cluster 20 semester hours from the following: Applied Contexts – maximum 8 hours COMA 226/426: MediaLab (0-2 , repeatable up to 8) COMA 229/429: Student Media (0-2, repeatable up to 8) COMA 301: Media and Cultural Criticism (4) COMA 303: Gender