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traditional musical theatre, Lizard Boy is a “somewhat-autobiographical solo-show-with-three-actors” that follows a boy with lizard skin who fights evil and learns about love. Huertas attributes some of his triple-threat skills in performing, composing and writing to his theatre education at PLU. “Doing theater at PLU was awesome!” he said. Specifically, Huertas recalls that the study of Shakespeare and the PLU Theatre Program‘s emphasis on language “stuck with [him] forever.” “I have a lot of my

shaped by our culture, so our responses to a film’s foreign-ness can tell us a lot about our own assumptions and expectations. Why is “Tus Padres Volverán” a film that PLU students will enjoy and learn from? Urdangarain: The film tells a story that, despite its specific reference to a historical event that occurred in Uruguay in the 1980s, resonates with any person who has experienced migration or is interested in learning about the impact of this experience. I believe that PLU students will be moved

Library Association.   Other Hispanic Heritage Month EventsPLU’s Visiting Writers Series will host author and activist Stephanie Elizondo Griest (Mexican Enough: My Life Between the Borderlines) on Sept. 24, and PLU’s Office of Admission will hold a Latinos Unidos @ PLU event on Oct. 3 in collaboration with Amigos Unidos and the Hispanic Studies program. On a related note, Associate Director of Admission Emily McCann said Davidson also is teaching a new Spanish language class series (HISP 251-252) for

If you lived with your classmates, what would learning look like? Posted by: Marcom Web Team / April 2, 2018 April 2, 2018 By Thomas Kyle-MilwardPLU Marketing & CommunicationsFor many college students, residence halls are the fertile grounds of first-year camaraderie from which lifelong friendships spring. At Pacific Lutheran University, students get to roll that experience over to the classroom by enrolling in courses thematically linked to their Residential Learning Communities (RLCs) — an

students while maximizing the learning experience, the importance of understanding and flexibility when it comes to the challenges students are working through, and the support systems faculty have put in place to stay connected.PLU: What’s the adjustment period been like for you and other faculty transitioning to this distance-learning approach? Yaden: As director of the Language Resource Center since 1996, and before that as a teaching assistant in graduate school, I’ve been fortunate to make

? Thanks to the maker movement and some creative minds, it isn’t. Pacific Lutheran University’s School of Education & Kinesiology is bringing that creative spirit to campus April 12 in the form of a hands-on workshop and free public lecture.The seventh annual Benson Lecture, “A Learning Revolution Goes to School: The Maker Movement,” will focus on the growing trend in which creators use so-called “makerspaces” and “fablabs” to invent and create products. More specifically, speakers will discuss how the