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  • Pacific Lutheran University students are people of many interests. Last fall semester, several courses illustrated how the university’s curriculum caters to those eclectic interests. One of these classes was Beyoncé and Black Feminist Theory. “Who Beyoncé is for?” is not usually a question that you…

    other hundreds of hit songs that have made Beyoncé a worldwide music icon. But it was just one of the questions students tackled in the Women’s and Gender Studies course titled Beyoncé and Black Feminist Theory. “The general premise of the course is to think about Beyoncé as a social, political and cultural figure through the lens of black feminist theory,” said Jennifer Smith, PLU’s first dean for inclusive excellence. Smith co-taught the class with PLU’s Center for Gender Equity Outreach and

  • Pacific Lutheran University offers graduate and post-baccalaureate certificate programs in advanced professional education within a context of the liberal arts tradition.

    Degrees and CertificatesPacific Lutheran University offers graduate and post-baccalaureate certificate programs in advanced professional education within a context of the liberal arts tradition. Graduate degree programs in business, marketing analytics, creative writing, education, marriage and family therapy, kinesiology, social work, and nursing challenge students to increase their understanding and competence in theory, research and practice. Graduates are prepared to become thoughtful and

  • Below are links to Mortvedt Library or open web materials by panelists and PLU faculty participating in the Wang Center 2022 symposium, HEALING: PATHWAYS FOR RESTORATION AND RENEWAL. Panelists: Eamonn Baker Video interview with Eamon Baker who gives an account of his experience on Bloody Sunday (January 30, 1972); the impact this had on his...

    Suh accessible from the Mortvedt Library website. Rachel Wax An article that mentions the Urban Youth Trauma Center is accessible from the Mortvedt Library website. PLU Faculty: Suzanne Crawford O’Brien Books and articles by Suzanne Crawford O’Brien , accessible from the Mortvedt Library website or book shelves. Denise Glover Articles by Denise Glover, accessible from the Mortvedt Library website. Brenda Ihssen Book chapters and articles by Brenda Ihssen, accessible from the Mortvedt Library

  • One of Martin Luther’s essential reforming insights insisted that while human beings are called to work diligently in this world, they can do nothing to work for or earn God’s favor.

    7. Service to the advancement of life, health, and wholenessOne of Martin Luther’s essential reforming insights insisted that while human beings are called to work diligently in this world, they can do nothing to work for or earn God’s favor. This counter-intuitive insight, discovered in Luther’s study of the New Testament, contradicted the cultural perception that human beings are called to strive for “perfection” or keep many religious rules and, in so doing, earn the favor of the divine. To

  • Chair, Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies | Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies | jamesja@plu.edu | 253-535-7217 | Jenny James was born and raised in Michigan, the home of the Great Lakes and the Michigan Wolverines.

    -1945 American Literature Contemporary Canadian Literature Gender and Queer Studies Comparative Ethnic Studies Cultural Memory Studies Accolades Karen Hille Phillips Regency Advancement Award, presented my accepted paper “London Calling: Dislocated Kinship and Transatlanticism in Baldwin’s Just Above My Head (1979)” at this year’s International Baldwin Conference in Montpellier, France Biography Jenny James was born and raised in Michigan, the home of the Great Lakes and the Michigan Wolverines

  • Director, Native American & Indigenous Studies | Native American and Indigenous Studies | jamesja@plu.edu | 253-535-7217 | Jenny James was born and raised in Michigan, the home of the Great Lakes and the Michigan Wolverines.

    -1945 American Literature Contemporary Canadian Literature Gender and Queer Studies Comparative Ethnic Studies Cultural Memory Studies Accolades Karen Hille Phillips Regency Advancement Award, presented my accepted paper “London Calling: Dislocated Kinship and Transatlanticism in Baldwin’s Just Above My Head (1979)” at this year’s International Baldwin Conference in Montpellier, France Biography Jenny James was born and raised in Michigan, the home of the Great Lakes and the Michigan Wolverines

  • Source: Yale Center for Teaching and Learning on Formative and Summative Assessment

    , in order to provide feedback that speaks to a student’s term-long trajectory. If instructors wish to provide truly unbiased summative assessment, they can also consider blind grading.ReferencesNicol, D.J. and Macfarlane-Dick, D. (2006) Formative assessment and self-regulated learning: a model and seven principles of good feedback practice. Studies in Higher Education 31(2): 2-19. Trumbull, E., & Lash, A. (2013). Understanding formative assessment: Insights from learning theory and measurement

  • Screening of Three Minutes: A Lengthening, a film based on Glenn Kurtz’s acclaimed book Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film Three minutes of footage are the only

    Chair of Holocaust Studies, PLU 11:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. – Lunch, AUC, Room 133Presentations by Mayer Summer ScholarsIntroduction: Natalie Mayer Sarah Calvin-Stupfel will present Witnessing Memory, Trauma, and Survival: Lessons from Molly Applebaum’s Testimonies in Buried Words Sage Warner will present American Jewish Responses to Nazi Persecution of European Jews (Zoom presentation) Convener: Rona Kaufman, Associate Professor, English & Director, FYEP, PLU 12:45 - 1:35 p.m. – Klezmer Music by

  • Tacoma, May 16, 2021 This week we interviewed Mariken Lund , a PLU junior and Innovation Studies minor who recently started her own sustainable clothing business in Norway. Mariken is an international student who normally studies Business and other subjects on the PLU campus. However,…

    Sustainability and Innovation: An Interview with Fashion Designer Mariken Lund An Innovation Studies student explains how she started ELSK the Studio Posted by: halvormj / May 16, 2021 May 16, 2021 Tacoma, May 16, 2021 This week we interviewed Mariken Lund, a PLU junior and Innovation Studies minor who recently started her own sustainable clothing business in Norway. Mariken is an international student who normally studies Business and other subjects on the PLU campus. However, during the

  • How and why do you choose allyship even when it is unpopular? Katie Monsen ‘96 and Emily Davidson ‘98 (links to full interviews here and here)

    in part by the School of Music and the leadership of Raydell Bradley, the first Black PLU band director. She’d been involved in activism throughout high school and wanted to continue engaging with these causes, particularly Hispanic/Latino organizing, in college, so she felt that the opportunity to study in the Hispanic Studies Department, as well as the connections to the Multiethnic Resource Center that she received from her Rieke scholarship, made it a perfect place. Once she arrived in