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The Key to Innovation Innovation Studies program director Michael Halvorson discusses how understanding the past can unlock the future Posted by: Zach Powers / June 5, 2022 June 5, 2022 By Zach PowersResoLute EditorMichael Halvorson ’85 was a technologist before he was a historian. His PLU undergraduate degree is in computer science and he worked at Microsoft for the first 10 years of his career. He spent the next 15 years writing books about software and emerging technology. He went on to earn
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Arts, the Ragdale Foundation and the MacDowell Colony. His work appears in GQ, Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine, Travel & Leisure, Saveur, and several anthologies. For the past decade, Goodman has directed the undergraduate and graduate creative writing program at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. During that time he has organized and staged three major literary festivals: Diversity in African American Poetry; Translating Cultures: Latin American and Latina/o Writers Festival; and Miami
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Emporium just as she finished the Master of Fine Arts program at Pacific Lutheran University. The Rainier Writing Workshop — a three-year, low-residency program — provided Swift an outlet to pursue a graduate degree in creative writing. Open Books provided an outlet to continue to foster the community she built within the program. “The driving force was just that I wanted a poetry bookstore to exist,” Swift said. “But knowing I would be able to stay connected to the poetry community was good to know
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figure out a timeline for learning the platform and setting up your site. Recommended Website Platforms Drupal Weebly Wix Wordpress Squarespace ($) Assignment Website: Parkland AtlasScott Rogers (English/Writing) designed the assignment Parkland Atlas as part of an FYEP 101 (First-Year Writing Seminar). This assignment asks students to create a “dynamic text,” a text that is both an essay and an interactive map. The topic is Parkland, WA. The goal is twofold: first, students explore how people
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Biochemistry Emphasis Chemistry-Physics Emphasis Chinese Studies (Interdisciplinary B.A.) Communication (B.A.C.) Concentrations Film & Media Studies Strategic Communication Computer Science (B.A., B.S.) Criminal Justice (B.A.) Earth Science (B.A.) Economics (B.A.) Elementary Education (B.A.E.) Endorsements English Language Learners (ELL) Reading Special Education Engineering Dual-Degree: (Physics B.A.; Chemistry B.A.) English (B.A.) Concentrations Literature Creative Writing Professional, Public, & Digital
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Professions, the College of Liberal Studies, the College of Natural Sciences, and the College of Professional Studies. Undergraduate students may choose from a variety of majors and minors, and graduate degrees are offered in business administration, creative writing, education, finance, marketing research, marriage and family therapy, and nursing.
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Major Minute: English So, … what can you do with an English major? Endless possibilities await! Proficiency in critical and creative reading and writing is crucial in today’s information-driven economy. An English major will equip you for any path that demands, effective communication, appreciation of diversity, and creative… April 25, 2024 AcademicsEnglishProfessors
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, PLU educates students for courageous lives: lives of thoughtful inquiry, service, leadership, and care—for other people, their communities, and the earth. The following are the specific elements of the PLU General Education Program. The PLU Core (15-19) First-Year Experience Program (9) FYEP 101 (FW) (4): Students will learn strategies for writing, thinking, speaking, and reading. They encounter writing as a way of thinking, of learning, and of discovering and ordering ideas. Working with
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following his official denouncement from party leaders in 1936. In writing Symphony No. 5, Shostakovich called it a “Soviet artist’s creative response to justified criticism.” The contentious final movement of Symphony No. 5 is often characterized as Shostakovich’s most direct appeal to the Communist Party leaders. The character of the music varies wildly, beginning with a bombastic and excitable march that calms and then coalesces into a menacing developmental section. The finale feels militaristic
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Puget Sound region. Since the start of the academic term, these two have already begun to make crucial contributions to the learning and mentoring of our students and to our departmental and university community more generally.We are very happy to welcome Wendy Call back to PLU as our new faculty member specializing in Creative Nonfiction. Gaining her MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars in 2007, Prof. Call has extensive experience teaching at various institutions, including the BFA in Writing
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