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  • As you know, PLU went through a difficult process of prioritization this year, responding to lower enrollments and seeking to proactively budget for a sustainable future rather than wait until we reached emergency conditions. This led to hard conversations and hard choices, ultimately made by…

    life takes them.  We teach Aristotle in the language he spoke, we explore issues of race and ethnicity in part by relating them to such issues in the Greco-Roman world, and we are tracing the roots of the contemporary medical profession thousands of years into history.Second, Classics is one of the most innovative academic programs at PLU. Our Classics faculty work with the departments of Women’s and Gender Studies, Religion, Honors, History, English, and Art, to create cross-listed and

  • Philosophy involves inquiry about the most basic and compelling questions of life. German philosopher Immanuel Kant once summed up these questions in this way: “What can I know? What should I do?

    -authored with Greg Hibbard PLU ’15) Philosophy in the Contemporary World 2016 Greg Johnson: The Situated Self and Utopian Thinking. Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy (Summer 2002) On the Importance of Reversibility in Deliberative Democracy. Social Philosophy Today (Fall 2004) Pauline Shanks Kaurin: The Warrior, Military Ethics and Contemporary Warfare: Achilles Goes Asymmetric (Routledge 2014) Paul Menzel: Strong Medicine: The Ethical Rationing of Health Care. (Oxford University Press) How

  • Dr. Marit Trelstad, PLU Chair of Lutheran Studies 

    the Center for Worship at Seattle Pacific University A Theology of African American Sacred Song and LiberationIn African American Sacred Song, the human body represents the rhythm, the soul, the melodic range and the spirit articulates meter and time. For African American Christians, this holistic way of experiencing and creating music is a means of serving and enjoining oneself with Jesus Christ. The awareness of sacrificing the body in Christian worship can be connected to the slave trade

  • Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | Rigoberto González is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Unpeopled Eden, which won the Lambda Literary Award and the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets, and eleven books of prose, including Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa, which received the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation.

    Rigoberto González Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry Biography Biography Rigoberto González is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Unpeopled Eden, which won the Lambda Literary Award and the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets, and eleven books of prose, including Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa, which received the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation.  The recipient of Guggenheim, NEA and USA Rolón fellowships, a NYFA grant in

  • Branding PLU’s Hebrew Idol By Chris Albert In its fourth season, Antonios Finitsis says the show just keeps on growing. This year, Finitsis, assistant professor of religion, worked closely with the Digital Media Center’s Nick Butler to revamp the Hebrew Idol logo. PLU’s Hebrew Idol…

    intentional about it,” he said. He wanted the logo to incorporate a few PLU specific elements. First, rather than the American Idol-esque purple they went with gold, and then green to highlight the Green Dot campaign that PLU is participating in and finally the Rose Window, which was recently refurbished and installed. Hebrew Idol is a video project for Religion 211 – Religion and Literature in the Hebrew Bible. Students produce their own interpretations of biblical stories, putting anything from a

  • Associate Professor Claudia Berguson says PLU’s link to Norway informs the values carried through its mission.

    today with its founding by Scandinavians in 1890 — anything at all? Many are familiar with the pictures of PLU’s founder the Rev. Bjug Harstad, the Norwegian flag flying in Red Square between the American and Washington state flags, the Norwegian names of many campus buildings. To some, these are near and dear reminders of our university’s beginnings. To others, these are foreign images of another culture and another time. In a time when labels of people and ideologies are too quickly and carelessly

  • News for Pacific Lutheran University.

    Black History Month: Black Art Matters Exhibit Black Art Matters uplifts the diverse contributions of Black visual artists working a variety of mediums. Art as a creative expression examines history, contemporary life, and the future by documenting lived experiences; engaging social commentary, protest and social justice; surfacing uncomfortable histories; exploring emotion; creating… January 31, 2023

  • PLU’s language offerings have been enhanced this year with the addition of new courses entitled “SOLU 101: Southern Lushootseed: Introduction to Oral Language” and “SOLU 102: Southern

    that. Today the Southern Lushootseed language is known in both written and oral forms by seven Native American tribes: Duwamish, Muckleshoot, Suquamish, Snoqualmie, Puyallup, Squaxin, and Nisqually. The orally-transmitted Changer Story is a narrative about how the language was a gift to the people, a gift that changes based on the needs of the people over time. With the new course now in session, PLU is inviting any students wishing to be closer to the Indigenous community to participate in events

  • Native American and Indigenous Studies is an interdisciplinary program grounded in a partnership between students, faculty, staff and local communities, with a global Indigenous focus centered in

    Indigenous LearningMission:Native American and Indigenous Studies is an interdisciplinary program grounded in a partnership between students, faculty, staff and local communities, with a global Indigenous focus centered in local and regional contexts. We empower students to recognize, honor and value Indigenous ways of knowing, so that they can work in collaboration with Indigenous communities and all their relations. The Native American and Indigenous Studies minor combines NAIS courses with

  • A Pacific Lutheran University Bachelor of Science in Nursing curriculum is based on the American Association of Colleges of Nursing The Essentials: Core Competencies for Professional Nursing

    Science in Nursing curriculum is based on the American Association of Colleges of Nursing The Essentials: Core Competencies for Professional Nursing Education (2021) and achievement of the program outcomes will enable graduates to practice as generalist nurses within a complex healthcare system. The BSN curriculum builds on the PLU core liberal education in the arts, humanities and sciences as the cornerstone for the practice of nursing. Bachelor of Science in Nursing Program Outcomes: Demonstrate the