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Majors should plan their course of study in consultation with their departmental advisor. Major in Political Science 36 semester hours Required Courses 16 semester hours POLS 151, POLS 251, POLS 301,
hours, including POLS 151 Minor in Pre-Law 20 semester hours Foundations in the Law (4 semester hours) BUSA 303: Business Law & Ethics POLS 370: Prisons & Prisoners POLS 371: Judicial Process POLS 372: Constitutional Law POLS 373: Civil Rights & Civil Liberties RELI 361: Church History Studies Analytical Reasoning (4 semester hours) ECON 101: Principles of Microeconomics ECON 102: Principles of Macroeconomics MATH 107: Mathematical Explorations (or higher level mathematics course) Math placement or
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The Molecules Meet Materials REU site at the University of South Dakota will support the training of 10 students for 10 weeks during summers 2022-2024. In this program, participants pursue collaborative research projects, with a focus on chemistry at interfaces in which molecular processes occur…
microscopy, X-ray diffraction, and computational methods to study materials and molecules at interfaces. All students will also take part in a professional development and ethics training program, with a focus on science communication and preparation for graduate school or industrial careers. Through independent research projects and the workshop and seminar series, this site seeks to broaden the participation in STEM. Preference will be given to applications received by March 1st. We strongly encourage
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Some books are shipped from Amazon, others are found cataloged in libraries, under beds with lost socks, digitized in e-readers, collecting dust on shelves or housed on nightstands. Other books are labored over, crafted with care, written, printed, drawn, sculpted and bound with artist hands.…
handwork begin. Each step represents a major investment of time and a commitment to keeping the crafts of storytelling and personal narrative, and printing, binding and illustration by hand alive. Many of us use antiquated technologies like the ones used by Gutenberg, and the same methods are taught in the Art of the Book class at the Elliott Press here at PLU.” The University Gallery is open Monday – Friday, 8am-4pm and by appointment. The Gallery is located in Ingram Hall on the northwest corner of
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I’m Marc Dollinger and I get to teach, write, and give lots of public talks as a member of the Jewish Studies faculty at San Francisco State University.
scholar’s obligation (and privilege) to “complicate the narrative and deepen learning.” I bring that motto to every place I teach. Whatever you learned growing up about Jews and social justice, it’s my job to turn it on its head…and convince you to think about things in new, different, and exciting ways. When I was hired at SF State, its president Robert Corrigan urged me to devote my career to the “town-gown relationship.” He asked, and I gladly agreed, to become a public intellectual. I want to
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhD9U3jPRdE MediaLab returns with a new groundbreaking documentary in April By Katie Baumann ’14 The award winning MediaLab is proud to present its newest film , “Beyond Burkas and Bombers: Anti Muslim Sentiment in America,” premiering during Pacific Lutheran University’s School of Arts + Communication…
, from different walks of life and backgrounds to help bridge this gap and create personal connections. Throughout the course of the documentary, the filmmakers crafted a story that follows the day-to-day journey of an average American couple, finishing up their undergraduate degrees and beginning their life journey as a married pair. They also happen to be Muslim. Surrounding this narrative, the audience will hear from academics, students, comedians and politicians from around the nation and, in
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PLU Sustainability Program is a Finalist in Nationwide Competition This is a still photograph of one of the opening slides of PLU’s sustainability video. (Photo: Katherine Martell / PLU) Voting on PLU’s stop-motion video begins April 1 By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU Marketing & Communications…
involving students in the educational process when dedicating the remaining funds to sustainability projects. PLU’s video, conceived and produced entirely on campus, illustrates the new sustainability program through stop-motion photography, colorful felt cutouts and a rhyming narrative. Narrated by Kirsten Kendrick of KPLU, it uses vignettes from Study Away programs around the world—and even locally—to illustrate the impact of travel and carbon mitigation. (Sample line: Students learn about climate
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Somaye Nargesi, a second-year business professor, came to PLU from a large research institution. She immediately noticed a stark difference in how her new institution approached the field. “At PLU, the business curriculum is mostly designed around soft skills, meaning how you build insightful inquiries,…
foundation to this balance is a nuanced understanding of business ethics. A welcome emphasis for Melanie Brisbane ‘21, a working student who has been with Boeing for 15 years. “I feel like there has been a strong focus on ethics in all of my classes and a lot of learning about management styles,” Brisbane says. “As a student with a career within a large company I feel like what I learn at PLU is very aligned with the way business is run where I work and also a good example of how things should be run
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Chair’s report on scholarships and activities By Robert P. Ericksen, Kurt Mayer Chair of Holocaust Studies Bob Ericksen received several notable invitations this year, including an opportunity to give the annual Raul Hilberg Memorial Lecture at the University of Vermont. Hilberg spent his entire career…
scholarship. These talks, intended to be published as a collection of essays, allowed each speaker to review his or her own place in the field. Bob spoke on “Pastors and Professors: Assessing Complicity and Unfolding Complexity,” drawing upon his recent book, Complicity in the Holocaust: Churches and Universities in Nazi Germany (Cambridge, 2012). Ericksen’s connections with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC continued in 2012. He is Chair of the Committee on Ethics, Religion and the
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On a January morning, sixteen PLU students stepped waist deep into the flooded, muddy field of the loʻi, a traditional taro patch, to take part in a practice that once sustained the Hawaiʻian people. Elle Sina Sørensen, a senior majoring in anthropology and global studies…
of Captain Cook and western colonizers, the once prevalent cultivation of kalo dwindled dangerously while Native Hawaiʻians were killed by Western diseases and their land was stolen and repurposed. Sharing Passion through ScholarshipEnvironmental Ethics at Holden Village Read Previous Revisiting the Visiting Writer Series: the 15th Anniversary Edition Read Next Environmental Ethics at Holden Village LATEST POSTS Gaps and Gifts May 26, 2022 Academic Animals: Making Nonhuman Creatures Matter in
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On September 18th and 19th, 2019, the Innovation Studies Program co-sponsored the Life Under Drones Symposium , which took place on the PLU campus and featured students, faculty, and an array of national experts on the subject. Life Under Drones was the first of its…
participate in a panel session on September 18 chaired by Dr. Michael Halvorson. Students from Halvorson and Mike Schleeter’s Innovation, Ethics, and Society course attended several sessions, and Innovation Studies hosted a reception the first evening in Ingram Hall. To learn more about the symposium and the scholars who attended, please visit http://www.plu.edu/drones Read Previous Sven Beckert of Harvard University to Give Benson Lecture Read Next May 2020 Innovation Studies Graduates LATEST POSTS INOV
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