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: Explorations & Encounters HIST 103: Conflicts and Convergences in the Modern World HIST 109: East Asian Societies HIST 210: Contemporary Global Issues: Migration, Poverty, and Conflict HIST 218: Women and Gender in World History HIST 220: Modern Latin American History HIST 335: Slavery, Pirates, and Dictatorships: The History of the Caribbean HIST 337: The History of Mexico MUSI 105: The Arts of China NAIS 230: Indigenous Creation Narratives of the Americas and their Resonance NAIS 361: Storied Survivance

Student ResourcesGender, Sexuality, and Race Studies students pursue careers in law, advocacy, counseling, education, international policy, health, politics, psychology, social work, sociology, public administration, and history–among many others. Click on the links below to read what graduates from our program have to say about how their degrees prepared them for their careers! (Note that the GSRS Program was the Women’s and Gender Studies (WMGS) Program through the end of Spring 2020.) By

Sarah Caitlin Slinker ’13(served in Togo from 2014 – 2015) At PLU, Sarah majored in Global Studies (responses to violence concentration) and French and minored in Anthropology and Political Science. She lived in Hong International Hall for two and a half years and was an RA for one semester in “La Maison Française” (the French Wing). She joined the US Peace Corps predominately because of her love of travel, languages, culture, and cultural exchange; she also wanted to learn more about the

, healing from trauma, or its expression within the arts, political activism, and theology. (4) RELI 241 : Islam in the United States - RL, VW, GE An introduction to the history and practices of Islam in the United States. Special attention paid to the intersection of race and gender in Muslim-American communities, the role of immigration in Muslim growth, and contemporary political issues involving Muslims and Islamophobia. (4) RELI 245 : Global Christian Theologies - RL, VW, GE Over the last 100 years

. | Thursday, April 12 | Xavier 201 Please join the Women’s and Gender Studies and Hispanic Studies at Pacific Lutheran for a screening of Dolores: Rebel. Activist. Feminist. Mother. Dolores Huerta is among the most important, yet least known, activists in American history. She tirelessly led the fight for racial and labor justice alongside César Chávez, but her enormous contributions have gone largely unrecognized. This multi-award winning film explores her life and reveals the raw, personal stakes