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Travel Medication Reimbursement In support of the university’s commitments to global education and healthy lifestyles, Human Resources will reimburse eligible employees for work-related travel medications. To be eligible for reimbursement you must: Be a benefits eligible PLU employee Complete a Travel Medication Reimbursement Form and obtain verification from your supervisor (signature) Provide adequate documentation so the services and reimbursement amount may be easily determined Medication

Jamie Rose’s Story – IAU Aix-en-Provence Global Studies and French (Peace Corps Prep minor) – Class of 2020 What she would like other students to know: During my semester abroad, I practiced French every day with an amazing host family and took courses on the Muslim presence in France and refugee politics in Europe. It was an enriching cultural and academic experience. A piece of advice to future study away students: Don’t be afraid to speak a foreign language while abroad! It’s okay to make

Berg ’18 Rhiannon graduates from PLU in May 2018 with a bachelor’s degree in communication and minors in Hispanic studies and women’s and gender studies. While at PLU, she discovered storytelling was her vocation, serving as a leader for two award-winning student media organizations, Mast Media and MediaLab. In her time away from PLU, she interned for both The Olympian and Alaska Airlines and spent a semester studying away in Granada, Spain. When she’s not traveling, Rhiannon can be found reading

last spring,” Davidson said. “I was really moved when I watched the groundbreaking 2013 PBS documentary series Latino Americans: The 500-Year Legacy That Shaped a Nation (which attempts to historicize the Latino experience in the United States from the 1500s to the present). In fact, my family gathered to watch the first episode together. As a second-generation Latina in the U.S., I felt very emotional watching our history finally represented in this way—on mainstream television!—but I was troubled

Norwegian Inspiration for Disney's FrozenDisney’s Frozen is a world-wide success, but did you know the film makers studied Norwegian history and culture extensively while working on the film? And did you know it is based on a Hans Christian Andersen tale? Come find out these tidbits and many more at the Scandinavian Cultural Center! A new exhibition opens on Sunday, January 11th, 2015 at 2pm with a screening of the film Frozen, a rosemaling demonstration by Julie Ann Hebert, and a discussion

Colleen Hacker was the first woman to head-coach a national-champion women’s soccer team? In 1995-96, a school-record 27 Lutes were named first-team All-Americans? Or that in 2000 the PLU football team was featured in Sports Illustrated? Athletics at PLU has sustained an elite status throughout every era of its 115-year history. Competing at both the NAIA Division II and NCAA Division III levels (since 1996), PLU teams have won 11 national championships and claimed regional or conference championships

understanding of music. Not open to majors. (4) MUSI 103 : History of Jazz - CX Survey of America's unique art form−Jazz: Emphasis on history, listening, structure, and style from early developments through recent trends. (4) MUSI 105 : The Arts of China Exploration of a number of Chinese art forms, primarily music but also including calligraphy, painting, tai chi, poetry, Beijing opera, film and cuisine. (4) MUSI 106 : Music of Scandinavia and the Nordic Region - CX, GE A survey of Nordic and Scandinavian

of Religion (RL) (4): Students will engage in critical and empathetic analysis of religious traditions. Fitness and Wellness (FT) (2): Students will develop skills for lifelong physical and mental wellness. Global Engagement (GE) (4): Students will learn about the factors that shape human experience in transnational, cross-cultural, or non-US contexts. Study away and world language courses with these emphases will also meet this requirement. Global Engagement is the second course in the PLU

claims that “A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none.” No human is intrinsically superior to another. This sentiment is distilled into Luther’s famous insistence on a “priesthood of all believers” – a community of spiritual equals – which challenged many of the hierarchical structures and practices of his day. Following this lead, Lutheran higher education assumes that humans are fundamentally equal and no race, gender, social status or orientation can claim an intrinsic