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  • Screening of Three Minutes: A Lengthening, a film based on Glenn Kurtz’s acclaimed book Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film Three minutes of footage are the only

    p.m. – Keynote Lecture, AUC, Regency RoomDr. Jan Grabowski “Poland’s Problem with the Holocaust: History, Memory and Commemoration” In Poland, the Holocaust, its history, and commemoration are a constantly evolving memorial battlefield where public debates go hand in hand with state-sponsored and state-enforced attempts to establish an official historical narrative. The unresolved issues include the attitudes of the Polish society to the Jewish catastrophe, the role of individual and organized

  • PLU's MFT Department partners with local community mental health agencies and an AAMFT Approved Supervisor at each site.

    , & Family Services website253 Therapy and Consult, Tacoma, WA 253 Therapy and Consult is an inclusive, multidisciplinary Mental Health Practice in University Place, WA. The practice has years of experience providing culturally sensitive therapy services to clients. The team of therapists is highly trained and skilled in modalities such as Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, African-Centered Therapy, and Narrative Therapy. Visit 253 Therapy and Consult WebsiteYWCA Pierce County

  • TACOMA, Wash. (Sept. 24, 2015)—On Sept. 21, I had the immense privilege of meeting and getting to know members of the iDebate Rwanda team. Although it is always an honor to spend time with international guests, their visit was of special importance to me as…

    then can I add their stories to the narrative I only roughly comprehend so far. Part of the reason I chose to pursue Holocaust and Genocide Studies is because I have come to recognize, through speakers like these, that the aftermath of genocide does not simply end when the killing stops. The coordinator of the trip, Jean Michel Habineza, mentioned several times: “To you the death of a million is a statistic, but to us it is an uncle you have never met.” Emotion has a place in academic discourse

  • Symposium 2012 Suggested Readings Maude Barlow, Blue Covenant (The New Press, 2007) (Available at the PLU Bookstore for purchase) Maude Barlow has for decades been a leading voice arguing that access

    challenges, driving new political, economic, and environmental realities across the globe. In Water, Steven Solomon offers the first-ever narrative portrait of the power struggles, personalities, and breakthroughs that have shaped humanity from antiquity’s earliest civilizations through the steam-powered Industrial Revolution and America’s century. Charles Fishman, The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water (Free Press, 2011) “As Charles Fishman writes, ‘Many civilizations have been

  • 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

  • PLU has added a  Master of Social Work  (MSW) degree to its offerings and is now accepting applicants for the fall of 2024. Rooted in PLU’s tradition of academic excellence and community engagement, the new MSW program will equip aspiring social work professionals with the skills…

    Dean of Health Professions David Ward. “Our MSW program is designed to nurture compassionate leaders equipped with the necessary skills and grounded in a strong ethical framework. We’re excited to provide a platform for our students to make tangible, positive changes in the lives of those they serve.” Diverse Learning Pathways and Global Focus The curriculum will immerse students in social work theory, practice, and ethics with practical applications. To accommodate working students, courses will

  • By Michael Halvorson, Director of Innovation Studies. We are delighted to announce the graduation of seven Innovation Studies minors this May, and we wish them well in all future endeavors. This year’s graduates include Sage Allen, Anastasia Bidne, Megan Goninan, Robert Helle, Benjamin Leschensky, Michelle…

    course (Innovation Seminar), in addition to supporting coursework in design thinking, ethics, business principles, and the history of technology. Now in its third year, Innovation Studies currently has 45 students enrolled in the program. Congratulations to all 2021 graduates! Sage Allen Sage Allen majored in Strategic Communication with two supporting minors in Innovation Studies and Specialized Marketing. His next step is commissioning as an officer into the Army Reserves and pursuing a career in

  • TACOMA, WASH. (Sept. 28, 2016) – The Pacific Lutheran University Department of Languages and Literatures  will host the Tournées Film Festival this fall for screenings of nine recently released films representing a wide variety of cultures and historical periods. (Film trailers and descriptions below.) A…

    leading roles in bringing the Tournées Film Festival to PLU. Both faculty members are confident the featured films will have a lasting impact on the PLU community.What makes film such a valuable window into other cultures? Wilkin: For many people, film is the only means to get a glimpse of other places, other cultures. Film is a means of storytelling, and it is through narrative that we gain empathy for others who may be different from us. At the same time, how we tell stories (and make films) is

  • Associate Professor School of Business | Peace Scholars | muldermr@plu.edu | 253-535-7258 | Why do you serve on the Peace Scholars Committee? I hope to inspire students to consider avenues of peace through a variety of interdisciplinary lenses, including those that might tie to their area of academic study.

    ‘Newest’ Editions Matter to Students? Marketing Educators Association National Conference, Portland, OR. Mulder, M.R. & Joireman, J. (2012). Managing & Marketing Global Not-For-Profit Services: Encouraging the Gifting of Charity via Charity Gift Cards. Proceedings of the Global Marketing Conference, Seoul, South Korea. Gillespie, B., Taylor, D., Mulder, M.R., & Lieb, M. (2012). The Interactive Role of Narrative Transportation on Repeated Viewership and Program Familiarity in Television Programming

  • Tuesday, May 19th, 2020 Welcome! We, Rose McKenney and Adela Ramos, are excited to share with you the work of the 2020 class of Environmental Studies students.

    me with great feedback. My capstone wouldn’t be possible without them. I’d also like to thank each catering student that helped make this project possible, as well as student life staff members.An Application of Christian Ethics to PLU Catering Food Waste.In this paper, I explain how PLU’s catering department functions and why it creates food waste. Using mathematical modeling, I estimate how much food waste catering generates in a given year, and how many people we could feed with that waste, as