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History Majors  |  Lower-Division  |  Upper-Division  |  History 301 & CapstoneLearning Outcomes for History Majors at PLU Build historical knowledge. Develop historical methods. Recognize the provisional nature of knowledge, the disciplinary preference for complexity, and the comfort with ambiguity that history requires. Apply the range of skills it takes to decode the historical record because of its incomplete, complex, and contradictory nature. Create historical arguments and narratives

On May 8, 2024, a new group of History students joined the PLU chapter of Phi Alpha Theta. Phi Alpha Theta History Honors SocietyAbout PAT Phi Alpha Theta (ΦΑΘ) is an American honor society for undergraduate and graduate students and professors of history. The society has over 400,000 members, with about 9,500 new members joining each year through 860 local chapters. We are a professional society whose mission is to promote the study of history through the encouragement of research, good

at PLU from 1963 until his retirement in 2005. He taught History of Civilization and early modern European history courses to nearly 5000 students. He also served as department chair, faculty representative to the Board of Regents, faculty athletic representative, faculty chair and acting provost. He also won a number of student-organized teaching and service awards. In 1983 the PLU Alumni Association gave him its Heritage Award, and in 1993 its Distinguished Alumnus Award. He has written and

Samuel Torvend '73 Associate Professor of European Religious History Full Profile

stages. But with the guidance of my advisors in the history and German departments, I had somehow managed to create my own HGST program that mirrors (quite closely) the current program of study for the HGST minor. I double majored in German and History, studied abroad for an academic year in Freiburg, Germany, and took Bob Ericksen’s History of the Holocaust Class, Rabbi Kadden’s Judaism class, Beth Kraig’s History 301 on Human Rights, and a European History capstone class centered on genocide

stages. But with the guidance of my advisors in the history and German departments, I had somehow managed to create my own HGST program that mirrors (quite closely) the current program of study for the HGST minor. I double majored in German and History, studied abroad for an academic year in Freiburg, Germany, and took Bob Ericksen’s History of the Holocaust Class, Rabbi Kadden’s Judaism class, Beth Kraig’s History 301 on Human Rights, and a European History capstone class centered on genocide

stages. But with the guidance of my advisors in the history and German departments, I had somehow managed to create my own HGST program that mirrors (quite closely) the current program of study for the HGST minor. I double majored in German and History, studied abroad for an academic year in Freiburg, Germany, and took Bob Ericksen’s History of the Holocaust Class, Rabbi Kadden’s Judaism class, Beth Kraig’s History 301 on Human Rights, and a European History capstone class centered on genocide

stages. But with the guidance of my advisors in the history and German departments, I had somehow managed to create my own HGST program that mirrors (quite closely) the current program of study for the HGST minor. I double majored in German and History, studied abroad for an academic year in Freiburg, Germany, and took Bob Ericksen’s History of the Holocaust Class, Rabbi Kadden’s Judaism class, Beth Kraig’s History 301 on Human Rights, and a European History capstone class centered on genocide

stages. But with the guidance of my advisors in the history and German departments, I had somehow managed to create my own HGST program that mirrors (quite closely) the current program of study for the HGST minor. I double majored in German and History, studied abroad for an academic year in Freiburg, Germany, and took Bob Ericksen’s History of the Holocaust Class, Rabbi Kadden’s Judaism class, Beth Kraig’s History 301 on Human Rights, and a European History capstone class centered on genocide

About the ChoirThe Choir of the West is comprised of undergraduate majors from a wide variety of aca