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  • Pacific Lutheran University is located six miles south of Tacoma, in suburban Parkland, Washington, on a 156-acre woodland campus.

    Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies. Activities: Twelve choral and instrumental ensembles, dance ensemble, theatre, speech and debate, newspaper, radio, television, literary magazine. Seventy-two clubs including community service, religious, environmental, social justice, political, cultural/ethnic, business, non-traditional student, nursing, science, computer and outdoor recreation. Athletics: NCAA Division III. Women’s intercollegiate sports: Soccer, cross-country, volleyball, basketball, swimming

  • Yannet Urgessa ’16 has lived on three continents and speaks five languages. But it took coming to PLU for her to feel comfortable in her own skin for the first time.

    family relocated when she was 6 years old, fleeing a country rife with political instability. Her family never abandoned their ethnic Oromo roots, but actively immersed themselves in their new culture. Now, she’s relocated again, extending her international education to a third continent as a sociology major at PLU. The university’s commitment to global education is a value that’s familiar to Urgessa. She speaks five languages — Amhara and Oromo that are native to Ethiopia, English, Norwegian and

  • While the country was divided in joy and grief over Donald Trump being elected President, various U.S Congressional staff members wrote a handbook to encourage resistance to Trump’s political agenda, which sparked the creation of Indivisible, a grassroots and non-partisan political group dedicated to that…

    status as a white male, and thus began his activist work with the group. Professor Albrecht says, “We’re in a crisis as a country and as a concerned citizen, I had to get involved.” He also expressed concern about the “brand of politics Trump is practicing and the support he gained from demonizing various ethnic and religious groups.” Professor Albrecht believes that the importance of Indivisible lies in the fact that “a lot of people feel isolated, and this group is a unifying factor. We combat

  • Originally Published 1996 Introduction Like other disciplines such as English and Sociology, Foreign Languages also have a history in the United States which is linked to the changing values of society as a whole. The discipline of foreign language teaching has evolved over the last…

    foreign languages—particularly the “soft” ones such as Spanish and French—while men gravitate to the “hard” languages (German, Russian) and other academic subjects such as science and math. In the larger university setting, most foreign language departments have traditionally been split between (mostly male) tenured and tenure-track faculty members engaged in original research in literature or literary theory, and (mostly female) non-tenured lecturers and teaching assistants responsible for the

  • Visiting Assistant Professor of Education | School of Education | rizzardi@plu.edu | 301-788-8270 | Jonathan M.

    Visiting Assistant Professor of Education at Pacific Lutheran University where they teach instructional methodologies for trauma-informed, equity-centered education to future teachers, Jonathan earned their BA and Master of Arts in Teaching at St. Mary’s College of Maryland where they were winner of the Margaret Eagle Dixon Award in Literature and Maryland’s Teachers of Promise distinction. Rizzardi’s practitioner work extends across fields of youth creative drama, arts integration for mental health

  • 1975 - David B. Truman 1976 - Page Smith 1977 - Lewis W. Spitz 1978 - Paul T.K. Lin 1979 - Roderick Nash 1980 - Raul Hilberg 1981 - Margot Liberty 1982 - Warren Cohen 1983 - Gerald Strauss 1984 -

    Present-Day Ukraine``2007 - Robin C. Stacey``Down to the Very Last Cat: Law as Literature in Medieval Wales``2006 - Elliott J. Gorn2005 - Philip Short2004 - Michael Grossberg2003 - Steven Mintz2002 - Gerhard Hirschfeld2001 - Orville Schell2000 - Vicki L. Ruiz1999 - Peter N. Stearns1998 - Christopher R. Browning2006 - Elliott J. Gorn``Who Was Mother Jones?``2005 - Philip Short``Pol Pot: Anatomy of the Cambodian Nightmare``2004 - Michael Grossberg``How Can We Save Our Kids?: The Rise of Child Protection

  • Our MFA, the Rainier Writing Workshop, is the Pacific Northwest’s premier low-residency Master of Fine Arts in creative writing.

    Innovation. Challenge. Community.What are your goals as a student and maker of literature, as an artist contributing to the conversation about the urgent matters of our time? What is the work you want to do, the work that is specific to your experience, talent, and imagination? Now celebrating over 19 years of accomplishment, the Rainier Writing Workshop has been helping writers to answer those questions, and to generate new, even deeper questions about the writer’s aspirations. Our MFA is an

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    Pacific Lutheran University 12180 Park Avenue South Tacoma, WA 98447-0003
  • Our MFA, the Rainier Writing Workshop, is the Pacific Northwest’s premier low-residency Master of Fine Arts in creative writing.

    Innovation. Challenge. Community.What are your goals as a student and maker of literature, as an artist contributing to the conversation about the urgent matters of our time? What is the work you want to do, the work that is specific to your experience, talent, and imagination? Now celebrating over 19 years of accomplishment, the Rainier Writing Workshop has been helping writers to answer those questions, and to generate new, even deeper questions about the writer’s aspirations. Our MFA is an

  • If you can't find an advising guide for your major, then email AADV@plu.edu for assistance.

    and Fitness Education with K-12 Certification, BAK Kinesiology – Health and Fitness Promotion, BAK Kinesiology – Exercise Science Concentration, BSK Kinesiology – Pre-Physical Therapy Concentration, BSK Nursing, BSN Social Work, BSWCollege of Liberal StudiesChinese Studies, BA Criminal Justice, BA Economics, BA English – Creative Writing, BA English – Literature, BA English – Professional, Public, and Digital Literacies, BA  Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies, BA Global Studies – Development and

  • The Natural Sciences Summer Undergraduate Research Program involves PLU faculty mentors with basic science research reflecting the natural sciences fields of Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science,

    , Physics, and Psychology. Mentors engage with their student researchers one-on-one, in the laboratory, and in the field, guiding student researchers as they study research ethics, read peer-reviewed research literature, formulate research questions, carry out specific research procedures, record results, analyze data, write research reports, and present their findings through oral and poster forms. Through research failures and triumphs, students gain confidence in their ability to face unknowns and to