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:45 AM - Becca McInally “Transcending Barriers: Risk, Resilience, and Mental Health Among Latin American Immigrants” 9:45 - 9:55 AM - QuestionsSecond Session 10:00 - 11:00 AM10:00 - 10:15 AM - Deborah Tafeaga10:15 - 10:30 AM - Maddie Landreth10:30 - 10:45 AM - April Reyes10:45 - 10:55 AM - Questions10:00 - 10:15 AM - Deborah Tafeaga “Addressing the Impact of Institutional Racism and the Incarcerated Populations”  10:15 - 10:30 AM - Maddie Landreth “A Social Work Perspective on the School-to-Prison

Kimura ’17, who works with Impact, the student-run advertising agency. She’s studying graphic design, publishing and printing arts, Latin, and art history.Nominated for an EmmyMediaLab, an applied research and multimedia program, received an Emmy Award nomination for its documentary film “Changing Currents: Protecting North America’s Rivers.”Composing Lux AeternaMusic Education major Jesús Gomez talks about the inspiration for composing ‘Lux Aeterna’, a piece later performed by PLU’s internationally

PNW’) ENGL 217: Topics in Literature (4) (when the topic is Native Literatures) ENGL 288: ST: Indigenous Literature of North America (4) HISP 322: Latin American Cultural Studies (4) HIST 333: Colonization and Genocide in Native North America (4) HIST 348: Lewis and Clark: History and Memory (4) HIST 351: History of Western and Pacific Northwestern U.S. (4) NAIS 230: Indigenous Creation Narratives of the Americas (4) NAIS 244: Environmental Justice and Indigenous Peoples (4) NAIS 286: Sámi Film

has published essays about numerous contemporary American poets. A regular essayist for The Georgia Review, his critical articles and reviews have appeared in many journals and collections, among them The Iowa Review, Papers on Language and Literature, The Southern Review, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and Poetry International. He was awarded the Distinguished Teaching Award at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, CA, where he taught poetry writing and modern and contemporary American literature. Still

university give their students foundational knowledge and methodologies necessary to discuss contemporary problems of interest to that discipline and contribute to their solution.  How that plays out, however, depends on each discipline’s focus.  English, for example, may ask students to become familiar with the literature of a particular time and place and how “critical traditions critical traditions frame our approaches to texts and define the issues that keep them meaningful and relevant in our lives

. interests and underrepresented in study abroad, including Africa, Asia, Central & Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. [Countries of Western Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand are excluded, although proven language ability in a European language is recognized as a measure of a candidate’s ability to learn a new language of a country considered critical to the U.S.] Note: special Boren scholarships are available for summer study abroad for students in STEM disciplines. Award/Stipend

through the study of heterogeneous Latin American and Latino experiences of coloniality, migration, and exile, and the realities of lived experience in borderland and/or transnational contact zones. 3) Students will come to know Latinos as subjects and producers of knowledge through the exploration of diverse and intersectional Latino/a/x identities. Students will engage questions of how indigeneity, race, class, gender, language, and nationality shape negotiations of Latino identities. Through their

objective to empower Latino/a/x students and educators through self-knowledge about their own histories and identities is central in these programs, as is the mandate to foment intersectional solidarities with peoples of diverse ethnic backgrounds. Sandra Estrada (2020) with LTST faculty Dr. Jordan Levy and Dr. Emily Davidson after presenting at the Latin American Studies Association Conference (2019) Learning Objectives MoreMinor Requirements More2 Year Course Cycle (PDF) More