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  • ahead? Andrew Harron ‘09: PLU was a fount of opportunities that helped me to define and develop many aspects of who I am today. The opportunities I had with the Feminist Student Union, the Women’s and Gender Studies Program and Men As Partners Promoting Equality gave me a framework for understanding the privilege and inequality present in our everyday lives. This framework informs the work I do as a graduate student in clinical psychology and the work that I plan to do as a psychologist. The time I

  • and you hear these stories but to really [video: cut to Devon, who sits outside on PLU’s campus, a cherry blossom tree in bloom behind her.] Devon: understand what that means and what’s going on sometimes you just [video: Devon’s voice continues over more footage from China. A line of boats on a waterway, lily pads in the foreground. A red structure with curved roofs in an urban area. A view out of a car window driving through the city. Bikes passing through a city street. Students laughing as

  • are different from your own. I’m from a very rural place (my graduating class was 39 students), so coming to PLU in general and then going to downtown Tacoma for J-term on the Hill, which is even more urban, was a little bit of cultural shock for me. It was very similar to other study away experiences in that I went to a different community to able to learn from them and how to work with them. Every study away experience has had some kind of aspect of service to it, which I’ve really loved because

  • courses in LGBTQ memoir and the history and practice of the American literary magazine, and she edits Slag Glass City, a digital journal of the urban essay arts. A Chicago native, Borich lives with her spouse Linnea in the city’s historic Bryn Mawr District of the Edgewater Beach neighborhood, one of the most culturally and internationally diverse community areas of the city and few blocks south of the condo where the fictional characters Bob and Emily Hartley of the Bob Newhart show resided.Fleda

  • courses in LGBTQ memoir and the history and practice of the American literary magazine, and she edits Slag Glass City, a digital journal of the urban essay arts. A Chicago native, Borich lives with her spouse Linnea in the city’s historic Bryn Mawr District of the Edgewater Beach neighborhood, one of the most culturally and internationally diverse community areas of the city and recently voted the sixth “gayest” neighborhood in the United States.Rebecca McClanahanRebecca McClanahan’s most recent books

  • received an M.S. in Urban Planning from Columbia University, M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology from New York University. At Bard College, besides teaching in and chairing the Sociology department, she co-founded the Women’s Studies Program in 1979 and directed it for eight years. She has held visiting positions at Vassar College, at the University of Haifa and taught at the Buber Institute of the Free University of Brussels as the recipient of two Fulbright Senior Specialist grants. She has offered courses

  • non-migrants in urban neighbourhoods; the changing nature of borderlands in Europe and South Asia.Fredy GonzálezThe Importance of Migrant Voices and Perspectives 7 p. m. | March 8 | Scandinavian Cultural Center   The 44th annual Walter C. Schnackenberg Memorial Lecture speaker Who: Fredy González Title: Assistant Professor of Latin American History at the University of Colorado – Boulder Bio: Fredy González is assistant professor of Latin American History at the University of Colorado Boulder. He

  • constitute the main force of modern Chinese history. Therefore, the Chinese government’s main goal should focus on Chinese peasants’ interests, by giving them more benefits and equal opportunities in its future planning. Now China is facing the third wave of social benefit distribution in order to provide them with more equality in acquiring social material goods. Instead of continuing to build more super urban areas, China should focus more on creating a new socialist rural society by eliminating the

  • distinct advantages of PLU?First of all, PLU is in an urban environment, the midpoint of the Interstate 5 corridor megalopolis that runs from Olympia to Seattle and Everett, Washington. You are thirty minutes to an hour from major arts, sports, recreational, and intellectual venues. There are more job opportunities due to the more dense population and businesses. Next, PLU is largely an undergraduate school; therefore, undergrads RULE at PLU! As an undergraduate, you’ll get much more access to high-end

  • concepts in global studies and the perspectives of different peoples, states, and organizations as they relate to world events. Through specific units on global movements and reactions, global poverty and inequality, and global conflict and cooperation, students will gain global literacy and knowledge of contemporary issues. May be cross-listed with GLST 210. (4) HIST 218 : Women and Gender in World History - ES, GE This course uses a comparative and historical approach to understand gender ideologies