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high standards and help students believe in themselves. Excellence in that endeavor takes time and practice. We constantly strive to improve our approach: To be creative, never boring or routine. Teachers, too, play an important role in a democratic society whose vitality depends upon a well-educated and discerning citizenry. Thus, we seek interactive, collaborative partnerships between students, teachers, administrators, parents, and the business and social community. The School of Education’s

broken pottery back together with gold, a symbol of embracing flaws and imperfections and living with brokenness. Beauty is possible even when things fall apart. We will look at how we carry both joy and brokenness as individuals and also what it means for our vocations of caregiving for one another and our community. As always, registration is free. All events will be available virtually. The keynote lecture will be open to the campus community for in-person, social distanced, limited attendance

methodology, statistics, and historical and systemic perspectives. In addition, professors offer seminar level courses in their own specialties, ranging from physiological to social issues relevant in psychology. Our psychology courses focus on the development of skills in critical thinking, theory building, research methods, statistical analysis and using psychology in human contexts. Throughout the program direct experience and interactive teaching methods are emphasized. Our goal is to prepare you to

, spiritual and societal levels. The conference features an incredible line up of leading experts from social and natural science approaches as well as counselors, educators, and student advocates for mental health and wellness. At the start of each session, these speakers will lead the conference participants through a brief strategy or tool to manage anxiety. See also the suggested readings below for reading suggestions on the topic of anxiety. We encourage you to read individually or with others prior

service shapes a common life and mission. Lutheran Studies at PLU welcomes students, faculty, staff, and alumni into this global network, into the significant dialogue between cultures as we engage the pressing economic, political, and social issues of the new millennium. In January 2011, the PLU Board of Regents established a professorship in Lutheran Studies and confirmed the nomination of Dr. Samuel Torvend as the first University Professor of Lutheran Studies. Dr. Marit Trelstad is the second

three. It also describes an ability or power, energy, and cleansing of grief, trouble, or evil. The concept is relevant in a wide range of disciplines, including medicine, nursing, psychology, public health, education, religion, and spirituality. Healing occurs in multiple dimensions—physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, familial, social, communal, and environmental. Healing occurs at multiple levels from the micro level, as cellular wound healing, to the macro level, as in national and global

-curricular opportunities that are offered every year.Program & Learning Outcomes By participating in Lutes Commute, the Commuter Learning Community, students will be able to: Identify and connect with campus resources designed to support their academic and social transition and success at PLU. Develop meaningful relationships with the PLU community. Identify and utilize spaces/opportunities to deepen their understanding of diversity, justice and sustainability. Engage in opportunities to connect with

writing code for software simulations of proteins, creating the next big video game, or developing a social application that connects people in new ways.  The possibilities seem limitless. Software is a fundamental part of modern life.  Most of what we do runs on software, and the world needs quality people to create that software.  At PLU, we strive to educate our students to be responsible citizens, critical thinkers, effective communicators, and to value life-long learning.  Employers value our

. Learn more > Vocation is about identifying an overarching passion and purpose that fuels many aspects of your life. In one word, “vocation” means “a calling.” While a career is about your professional development, vocation has a broader scope and addresses your purpose in life. Your career might be one expression of your vocation but each student’s journey is unique. Being a teacher, a social activist, a community organizer, or a student can all be examples of vocation. The vocation of a student can

and use the imaginative, persuasive, and ethical powers of the written word. to illuminate human experience to move audiences and inspire them to action to complicate our understanding of human nature to communicate across social differences to bear witness to what has happened to recover and honor what has been lost to speak truth to power and erasure to critique existing institutions and imagine different futures and, not least, to give pleasure: through the aesthetic possibilities of language