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  • ). Kiana Norman-Slack ’17 Kiana is finishing up her senior year at Pacific Lutheran University. She is studying communication with a concentration in journalism, as well as a minor in theatre. Kiana is very passionate about music, theatre and writing, and she hopes to find a successful way to incorporate all of her interests. Kiana is a self-proclaimed K-Pop enthusiast and happily invests most of her spare time exploring Korean culture. When she’s not doing that, she’s either binge watching a show on

  • Traveler. For 18 years, Cates was the executive director of Missoula Medical Aid, a non-profit that provides public health and surgery services in Honduras. In Missoula he has worked with the Missoula Writing Collaborative, teaching classes on short story writing in high schools, and the 406 writing workshop. For many years he worked as a fishing guide on the Smith River and raised cattle on his family farm in Wisconsin.Kent MeyersKent Meyers is the author of a memoir, a book of short fiction, and

  • undergraduate students with introductory study not available in the regular curriculum. The title will be listed on the student term-based record as DS: followed by the specific title designated by the student. (1 to 4) HISP 300 : Spanish Conversation - IT, GE In this course, you will build upon and further develop your listening and speaking skills through the interpretation of various texts from the Spanish-speaking world (may include film, literary works, visual and performing arts, music, digital media

  • of instrumental music ensembles and was a member of MediaLab. Genny Boots ’18 Genny is a communication/mass media and journalism major with a minor in global development at PLU. Since leaving her hometown of Anchorage, Alaska, Genny has been exploring new places. From backpacking in south and central America and central Europe to a semi-settled life in the Puget Sound, Genny has enjoyed writing and telling stories. You can find her work around campus, through PLU’s Division of Marketing and

  • program within the School of Education and Kinesiology offers individuals a high-quality, accelerated route to certification in high-needs educational areas, specifically special education. Through the yearlong program, candidates gain hands-on classroom experience while simultaneously taking flexible classes that work around professional and family life. “PLU does a fantastic job fast-tracking good, qualified teachers,” Wade said, adding that school districts don’t hesitate to bring a PLU graduate on

  • their learning and self-manage their progress. I wanted to be able to give them more personalized feedback. I didn’t want to limit their learning with a deadline or with grades, I wanted them to be able to think metacognitively about their learning and advocate for their learning needs. I started to draw on my experiences as a one-room schoolhouse teacher where students were self-paced and received immediate one-on-one feedback from me. I decided to eliminate the deadlines in my classes, only give

  • cultural immersion program. The program consists of three phases: Two months of intensive German language training One semester of classes in one’s academic or career field at a university, technical or professional school Three-month internships in one’s career field CBYX is open to candidates in all career fields who are interested in a year of academic, professional, and cultural exchange.DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Graduate Study ScholarshipDAAD scholarships support graduating seniors

  • support. “PLU has been so phenomenal through so much—beginnings, endings and hardships in between,” Hunt said. Health, Hardships and Healing Hardships don’t come much harder: In the summer of 2009, Hunt was diagnosed with cancer. “It was a very, very stressful semester,” Hunt said (in addition to classes, a job and bills, her namesake aunt was losing her own battle with cancer). “I was having a hard time. I thought I had an ulcer.” Hunt visited a local urgent-care clinic, which performed nine hours

  • National Science Foundation. Finney, one of the student researchers, became interested in summer research after taking organic chemistry classes. “I love how (research) is so different from the very structured labs. It’s very free-form,” said Finney, a chemistry major. “You run into so many more problems because it is stuff that is new. As Waldow has said, ‘if research was easy it would have already been done.’” Studying the evolution of fishHeidi Schutz To Heidi Schutz, happiness looks like graphs