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  • Elijah Paez ’24 is a double major in environmental studies and mathematics . While at PLU, he founded Birders of PLU , served as a Peace Scholar , and studied abroad in Oxford, England, and Oslo, Norway. We recently met with Paez to learn more…

    set of premises, and find out what you can build from it, or what patterns you can find and connections you can make. When did you decide on environmental studies? My Writing 101 course was “Evolutionary Biology and Taxonomy.” The purpose of the class was to learn scientific technical writing, but I was surprised at how arbitrary taxonomy is. That got me interested in animal studies and a critical lens of the sciences, which is why I added environmental studies. "The first thing I noticed on the

  • PLU Makes Strong Showing at National Race & Pedagogy Conference By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU Marketing & Communications The 2014 Race & Pedagogy National Conference in Tacoma Sept. 25-27 features more than 2,000 local, regional, national and international participants—including a large contingent from Pacific Lutheran…

    New Critical Conscience.” The conference challenges participants to align concepts of education and justice in ways that call for conscience, critique and change—all concepts, in turn, that align precisely with PLU’s mission. PLU participants include: •    Ruth Bernstein, Visiting Assistant Professor of Business Management and Nonprofit Studies •    Callista Brown, Associate Professor of English •    Melannie Denise Cunningham, Director of Multicultural Recruitment •    Emily Davidson, Assistant

  • Information Literacy Outcomes Critique and evaluate information to contribute to the construction of knowledge and make it stronger.

    Information Literacy Outcomes Critique and evaluate information to contribute to the construction of knowledge and make it stronger. (Aligned to Integrative Learning Outcomes: Critical Reflection, Valuing, Expression) Apply research methods and strategies that are appropriate for the need, context, and type of inquiry. (Aligned to Integrative Learning Outcomes: Critical Reflection, Valuing) Determine attributes of authoritative information for different needs, with the understanding that

  • Major in Social Work 52 semester hours, including SOCW 245, 250, 350, 360, 460, 465, 475, 476, 485, 486, 498, and 499 SOCW 232 or SOCI 232 SOCI 101 STAT 233 (must be completed at PLU) 4 semester

    staff and community members, readings and reflections, develop an understanding of the meaning of service in another culture and deepen one's own ethic of meaningful service. (4) SOCW 350 : Social Policy II: Social Policy Analysis Students develop legislative policy practice and advocacy skills, and examine the impact of policy implementation, administration, and governmental structure on services to vulnerable populations. Critical thinking is used to analyze contemporary global and local policy in

  • Associate Vice President - Diversity, Justice, and Sustainability | Diversity and Inclusion | hambriaz@plu.edu | 253-535-8180

    Angie Hambrick Associate Vice President - Diversity, Justice, and Sustainability Phone: 253-535-8180 Email: hambriaz@plu.edu Professional Education Ph.D., Higher Education, Azusa Pacific University, 2020 M.S.Ed., College Student Personnel, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 2004 B.A., Public Communication, University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire, 2003 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Critical white Studies Critical Race Studies

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  • Associate Vice President - Diversity, Justice, and Sustainability | Center for Diversity, Justice and Sustainability | hambriaz@plu.edu | 253-535-8180

    Angie Hambrick Associate Vice President - Diversity, Justice, and Sustainability Phone: 253-535-8180 Email: hambriaz@plu.edu Professional Education Ph.D, Higher Education, Azusa Pacific University, 2020 M.S.Ed., College Student Personnel , Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 2004 B.A., Public Communication, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire, 2003 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Critical white Studies Critical Race Studies

  • Fiction, Nonfiction | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | Justin St.

    emphasizes description first: what effects the piece has on the reader, what it seems to be doing and trying to do, identifying the major formal and craft decisions made by the author. My critiques of student work are usually more suggestive than prescriptive, pointing toward other approaches or models that might be useful to consider, rather than telling you how to “fix” a draft. Because the study of craft is critical for an aspiring writer, and will serve them for the rest of their writing lives, I

  • Angie Hambrick, Resident Instructor of Gender, Sexuality and Race Studies | Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies | hambriaz@plu.edu | 253-535-8180

    Angie Hambrick Angie Hambrick, Resident Instructor of Gender, Sexuality and Race Studies Phone: 253-535-8180 Email: hambriaz@plu.edu Professional Additional Titles/Roles Associate Vice President - Diversity, Justice, and Sustainability Education Ph.D,, Higher Education, Azusa Pacific University, 2020 M.S.Ed., College Student Personnel, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 2004 B.A., Public Communication, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire, 2003 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Critical

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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

  • In April 2023, PLU religion professor Brenda Llewellyn Ihssen , Ph.D., attended the Natural History Museum Late Night with PLU students at the University of Oxford. At Late Night events, the Museum of Natural History and Pitt Rivers Museum host tours and various evening activities offered…

    contribution relies on decades of experience in intersections of religion, disability, health, and healing. An associate professor of early and medieval Christian history at PLU, Llewellyn Ihssen is the program director of IHON-Oxford. Llewellyn Ihssen uses critical disability theory in her work on ancient, late antique, and medieval religious texts.  After earning an undergraduate degree in English literature and secondary education, Llewellyn Ihssen worked in special-education classrooms. Yearning to