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  • PLU Alumni Travel Seminar Beginning in 2018, through a collaboration between the Office of Alumni and Student Connections and the Wang Center for Global and Community Engaged Education, PLU has offered Alumni Travel Seminars. Led by PLU faculty, these programs provide a study away like experience for PLU alumni and friends of the university. Unlike a destination vacation, this program aims to provide an academic lens in locations around the globe, through readings, on-site experiences and

  • Individualized ConcentrationOn rare occasions when a student would like to focus their studies in a direction not covered by our official concentrations, they may with the help of a business faculty member develop an individualized concentration. That concentration should include 16 semester hours of upper division electives in purposeful selection. Proposal must be made in advance and no later than the second semester of the junior year. Proposal will include statement of objectives, rationale

  • cultural meanings attached to health and well-being, see how healthcare policy is implemented in other countries and communities, and learn about access to and quality of health care in a global context. Prerequisite: SOCW 555.(4) SOCW 573 : Policy Practice & Advocacy in Health Care This course builds on policy content offered in previous courses. The course provides students with knowledge, skills, and abilities for understanding the interrelationship between developments in health policy, the health

  • : Publishing Procedures A workshop introduction to the world of book publishing, involving students in decisions about what to publish and how to produce it. Cross-listed with PPAP 302, ENGL 312. (4) COMA 340 : Conflict and Communication Studies the role of communication in the development and management of human and global conflict. Research and theories of prominent conflict and peace scholars along with significant case studies are used to analyze and understand sources of conflict and methods for

  • Mines, will soon be heading to France as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar to pursue research at the Institut Physique du Globe de Paris. He’ll be investigating nanoparticles in French streams and rivers, distinguishing engineered ones from naturally occurring ones using “single particle inductively coupled plasma-mass spectometry” or spICP-MS. Way to go, Logan! A stint as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Togo inspired Sarah Slinker (Class of 2013; Majors: French and Global Studies; Minors: Anthropology and

  • imposed if the student violates the Alcoholic Beverages Policy in the future. Students who are found responsible for a future violation, regardless of the nature of their involvement, will be sanctioned as required for a second violation. Additional future violations will be sanctioned at subsequently higher levels.Second Alcohol Violation:Required completion of an Ethics Workshop, with an included $75.00 workshop fee. Parental/guardian notification will be required, as allowed by the Family

  • Mycal Ford Mycal standing on a bridge in Taiwan PLU Class of 2012 Chinese Studies and Political Science Double Major Studied away in Hamar, Norway and Chengdu, China; Wang Grant in China Completed Fulbright in Kaohsiung, Taiwan Will begin Masters of International Affairs in Global Governance, Politics, and Security I graduated in 2012 with a Bachelor of Arts in Chinese Studies and Political Science. In Fall 2009, I studied conflict resolution abroad in Hamar, Norway under Nobel Peace Prize

  • articles and chapters on Quaker antislavery efforts, global theology and colonial American theology. His book on John Woolman is currently under peer review, as is a book on Quakers and mysticism. A chapter on evangelicalism and global Christianity will soon be published in the new Cambridge Companion to Quaker Studies. His teaching interests include theologies of peace and justice, historical theology and the history of Christianity. Dr. Kershner makes his home in Renton with his wife Jessica, a high

  • January 25, 2008 Ambassadors spotlight climate change Growing up in Oregon, recycling was part of junior Kate Wilson’s everyday life.“It was the norm for me,” she said. “I was always passionate about it, but I never knew why recycling was important.” During J-Term, Wilson is among the 16 students involved in the Climate Change Ambassadors program. The group meets over dinner once a week to learn the facts about global climate change and devise creative ways to share that knowledge with the PLU

  • diversity and political and economic reaction and adjustment. Approved CoursesCourses Offered in this Concentration:  HISP 321: Iberian Cultural Studies HIST 335: Slavery, Pirates, and Dictatorship: History of the Caribbean RELI 245: Global Christian Theologies *Courses that are not listed here but which meet the content descriptions of the respective concentrations may be considered via petition to the Global Studies Program. Contact Department Chair, Dr. Ami Shah – shahav@plu.edu