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  • the General Education Council, the council began its work in Fall 2019. For up to date information, including most recent Annual Reports, please visit the Core Curriculum Committee page. General Education Council Membership 2017-2019Embracing the Life of the Mind (First Year Experience Program)Rona Kaufman, FYEP Program DirectorEngaging Arts and Performance (Art/Theater/Music, PE)Ron Gerhardstein, Department of MusicInterpreting Living Traditions (Humanities)Scott Rogers, Department of

  • disrespect for the person talking. It can even be interpreted as a lack of interest in what is being said. What can I talk about? One might expect that, in an environment where directness is valued in communication, all topics are appropriate for conversation. That is not really true. Some topics that are generally discussed with acquaintances or those one does not know well: The weather One’s commuting experience and cars Classes and jobs Sports Music, movies Fashion, shopping, and clothes Topics not to

  • Business, Communication, Media & Design Arts, Education, Humanities, Innovation Studies, Interdisciplinary Studies, Kinesiology, Marriage & Family Therapy, Music, Natural Sciences, Nursing, Social Sciences, Social Work, and Theatre & Dance. Global Education PLU is a national leader in global education, with a vision for “educating for a just, healthy, sustainable and peaceful world, both locally and globally. International Honors The International Honors Program is a rigorous alternative to the General

  • 4. Learning and research within communityLutheran education is indelibly marked by a love of liberal and collegial learning. It was, in fact, a group of Wittenberg scholars – working together – who launched the reform of education, ethics, language study, marriage, music, social welfare, and theology – to mention only a few. Such reform began with the serious questioning of the status quo, a questioning which led the authorities of church and state to brand Luther as a heretic and a criminal

  • Grohmann). The Lutheran intellectual tradition, then, was closely allied with a renewed liberal arts curriculum, which in the cases of Erasmus and Luther was highly rhetorical, taking the study of words seriously. Moreover, this tradition continued the Renaissance appreciation of the arts and music, and remained open to the emerging modern sciences. The German universities of the Enlightenment consequently developed what Sydney Ahlstrom called the “critical Lutheran tradition.” These liberal

  • Theatre Guest Artists in Spring 2021 PLU Theatre and Dance are thrilled to announce our Spring 2021 guest artist meet-ups and masterclasses! Our diverse roster of professionals will be connecting with our students about dance, acting, voice work, auditioning, directing, and more! R.J. Tancioco R.J. Tancioco has served as the music… February 16, 2021 DanceTheatre

  • to bits of advice as workshops he held in January at Pacific Lutheran University. His main points: Follow your passion and take risks. On the first point of following his passion, Hobson told the class that during his sophomore year at PLU, his father nearly died of an aneurysm, and Hobson, who was an music education major, decided that he was done with playing it safe. His real passion was the theater. So he switched and hasn’t looked back since. “Life is too short to do something you don’t love

  • November 17, 2008 Serving so others don’t have to While serving in Iraq Col. Scott E. Leith came to know one of the luckiest or unluckiest people he has ever met.“It depends on how you look at it,” he told a crowd last week at the Veterans Day Celebration in Mary Baker Russell Music Center Lagerquist Concert Hall. Leith and about 1,000 of his “best friends” were positioned in the backyard of the Iraq Insurgency. Their days were filled with firefights during the ongoing battles. There he met an

  • unfriendly competitors,” said Gregory Youtz, professor of music and a Chinese Studies faculty member. There’s a desire to be a good neighbor, he said.  Bell will speak about “Reviving Tradition in China: Towards a Progressive and Humane Confucian Ethics.” Bell will speak at PLU from 7 to 9 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 18 in the Scandinavian Cultural Center in the UC. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sBB6hT3hU0&feature=player_embedded The program is part of the Chinese Studies Program’s lecture series. The last

  • winnings to help pay for tuition. This January, she will be heading out to Ecuador for J-term. When she graduates, she plans to find a job to put her bilingual skills to use, and of course, her musical talents. “Music is a huge passion of mine, but so is helping people, so we’ll see,” she laughed, while strumming her guitar in The Cave earlier this fall. Oh, and does she even like coffee?  Do you have to ask? Of course. After all, it’s the best part of waking up. Read Previous Lauren Thiele ’11 Read