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  • September 2, 2009 Studying the laws behind international adoption Trained as an historian of the American Revolution and blessed with an abundance of sources, I saw no scholarly reason to travel abroad, although I had wanted to see England, the mother country from which America was born. My subsequent research on the history of adoption, which produced three books over the course of 20 years, focused entirely on the United States. I had little interest in writing or teaching history in a

  • YouTube Short: Week 1 in Oxford Posted by: shortea / March 1, 2023 March 1, 2023 Jenny Kamimura ’24 studied abroad during January Term in Oxford as part of the International Honors Program. She shares some of her adventures from Week 1! Read Previous You Ask, We Answer: I’m undecided on my major, so should I even go to college? Read Next Quan Huynh ’25 Discusses her Internship at the Washington State Senate LATEST POSTS Summer Reading Recommendations July 11, 2024 Stuart Gavidia ’24 majored in

  • History Department, Michael Halvorson (PLU ’85) is a member of the PLU International Honors faculty. He received his Ph.D. in History from the University of Washington and has taught at PLU since 2003. His recent publications about Jewish-Christian relations in Europe include Heinrich Heshusius and Confessional Polemic in Early Lutheran Orthodoxy (Ashgate, 2010) and Defining Community in Early Modern Europe (Ashgate, 2008), co-edited with Karen E. Spierling.

  • Brian Sung ’24 discusses his business and econ majors, Oxford trip, and PLU experience as a first generation Chinese immigrant Posted by: tpotts / April 4, 2024 April 4, 2024 Brian Sung ’24 has made the most out of his PLU years inside and outside the classroom. In the classroom, he’s an international honors student with a double major in business and economics and a double minor in data science and statistics. Outside the classroom, he’s served as DECA Club president, a resident assistant, and

  • 2017 Special Focus: Crossing DisciplinesHumanities faculty are involved with all of the interdisciplinary programs at PLU. These programs include majors in Chinese Studies, Environmental Studies, Global Studies, Scandinavian Area Studies (soon to be Nordic Studies), and Women’s and Gender Studies, as well as minors in Holocaust Studies, Publishing and Printing Arts, and Children’s Literature and Culture. Additionally, the First-Year Experience Program and International Honors Program are taught

  • ProgramFor students in any major, the International Honors Program (IHON) is a rigorous alternative to the General Education Program, and is designed for independently-motivated students with an interest in pursuing their studies in a global context. The IHON application priority date is February 15.LEARN MORE ABOUT IHONBusiness Direct AdmissionStudents interested in business when they apply are automatically admitted to the School of Business. To guarantee their spot in the School of Business, students

  • conditions, financial resources or any other status protected by law.Weighted GPAWeighted GPAWhen reviewing applications of prospective first year students, PLU computes an “admission GPA” for the applicant. The admission GPA weights classes that are identified on the high school transcript as International Baccalaureate (IB), Advanced Placement (AP), Cambridge, Honors, or Advanced (with the exception of Advanced Algebra, which will not be weighted). This weighted GPA will be used throughout the

  • A Semester in OxfordMédecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), Oxfam, British Parliament, world class professors, highly focused seminars, and individual tutorials. These are just a few of the opportunities for students participating in the International Honors (IHON)-Oxford Program on social justice. The 2014 inaugural year of the program was better than we could have imagined. Among other things, students learned that their PLU education prepares them to engage with the very best of

  • International Honors Program builds a ‘Starship’ On day one of PLU Professor of Mathematics Daniel Heath’s Designing a Starship class, students have no idea what they have signed up for — and that’s exactly how Heath wants it. The course is part of PLU’s International Honors Program (IHON), which means it… December 20, 2022 AcademicsBiologyCommunityCurrent StudentsDiversity Justice SustainabilityGlobal EducationInvolvementLife on CampusLutheran Higher EducationMathematicsPacific

  • International Honors Program builds a ‘Starship’ On day one of PLU Professor of Mathematics Daniel Heath’s Designing a Starship class, students have no idea what they have signed up for — and that’s exactly how Heath wants it. The course is part of PLU’s International Honors Program (IHON), which means it… December 20, 2022 AcademicsBiologyCommunityCurrent StudentsDiversity Justice SustainabilityGlobal EducationInvolvementLife on CampusLutheran Higher EducationMathematicsPacific