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Community Learning Through Endowed LecturesEach year, the Bjug Harstad Memorial Lecture is arranged by the Scandinavian Area Studies program.  This endowed lecture series, made possible by generous donations by descendants of PLU’s first president and friends of the Harstad family, offers the campus and local community a diverse range of topics intended to further our understanding of Scandinavian culture and society.  Topics in recent years have included migrant literature of Norway, the

Course Descriptions RELI 131 : The Religions of South Asia - RL, VW, GE Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism - their origins and development, expansion, and contemporary issues. (4) RELI 211 : Religion and Literature of the Hebrew Bible - RL, IT This course introduces students to the critical study of the books in the Hebrew Bible Canon. Students will become familiar with the socio-historical context of these biblical books and their major theological themes; explore in depth a

interested in all aspects of German cultural and history. Her research and publications are focused on the role of the artist in public discourse in East and West Germany, as well as on the exhibition of contemporary art as a cultural and political force in the Cold War era and today. Her most recent work deals with contemporary art and cultural integration. PLU Faculty ProfileIn addition to teaching on topics such as gender issues, identity, and memory in modern and contemporary art, Heather is

intellectual skills and resources apt to generate success in legal study and practice. Recent successful PLU applicants to law schools have taken such diverse courses as those in the anthropology of contemporary America, social science research methods, American popular culture, English Renaissance literature, news writing and argumentation, recent political thought, international relations, free-lance writing, animal behavior, neuropsychology, public finance, logic, and moral philosophy. Diversity and

, blood, and kindred in American narrative. Fall 2020 marks her 25th year at PLU. She teaches several Holocaust-focused courses, including most recently a literature class on Anne Frank as a Holocaust icon, and a seminar on trauma, memory, and memorialization in contemporary American post-slavery and post-Holocaust narrative. Among her recent publications are an essay on the Jewish American Girl doll and a poem, “I did not lose my father at Auschwitz.” Ongoing projects include Finding Zlata Jampolski

University, where she completed a dissertation on race, blood, and kindred in American narrative. Fall 2020 marks her 25th year at PLU. She teaches several Holocaust-focused courses, including most recently a literature class on Anne Frank as a Holocaust icon, and a seminar on trauma, memory, and memorialization in contemporary American post-slavery and post-Holocaust narrative. Among her recent publications are an essay on the Jewish American Girl doll and a poem, “I did not lose my father at Auschwitz

consists of seven interdisciplinary courses that explore contemporary issues and their historical foundations through an integrated and multi-national approach. For more information, go to the International Honors home page. Global Study On-Campus. PLU offers eight foreign languages, cross-disciplinary majors in Chinese Studies, Global Studies, Scandinavian Area Studies and Environmental Studies, and courses and programs which integrate international and global perspectives throughout the curriculum