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On Friday, September 29th, Athena Gordon had a conversation about vocation, teaching, and the importance of languages with two professors in the Department of Languages & Literatures. José Ramón Ortigas is an Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies who earned his PhD from the University of…
. But we had a lot of tests and exams, and I failed them. It was really tough! [Laughs] So, I was disillusioned at that point. I discovered that I liked teaching. I became an elementary, middle, and high school teacher [for several years]. I wasn’t set on being a university professor at first.AG: Did you have a mentor who helped shape your vocation?JRO: Yes, and that mentor eventually became my dissertation supervisor. I took undergraduate literature classes and that is where my initial passion for
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Tami Charles is an award winning and New York Times bestselling author of children’s, middle grade, and young adult books.
discusses the role of the imagination and stories in challenging times—and how books can create the opportunity for deep connections that transcend the page. About the Speaker Minh Lê is the author of the picture books Lift (a Washington Post Best Book of the Year), Drawn Together (winner of the 2019 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature), and most recently The Blur. He also wrote Green Lantern: Legacy, a middle grade graphic novel for DC Comics and the recently released follow up, Green Lantern
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PLU seeks to educate students for lives of thoughtful inquiry, service, leadership and care—for other people, for their communities, and for the earth.
until 1918, when it closed for two years because of complications produced by the creation of the Norwegian Lutheran Church of America in 1917, regional collegiate rivalries, and World War I. It reopened as the two-year Pacific Lutheran College, after merging with Columbia College, previously located in Everett. Further consolidation occurred when Spokane College merged with PLC in 1929. Four-year baccalaureate degrees were first offered in education in 1939 and in the liberal arts in 1942. The
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Transfer students enrich campus Each year, PLU admits anywhere from 250 to 300 transfer students to campus. It’s a diverse mix of students from all walks of life. Some are in their 50s, looking to complete a degree they’d left unfinished. Some are a year…
has been really accepting and open-minded. People can really be themselves here.” His experience playing on the men’s soccer has been a great teaching experience, he said. Nicknamed “uncle” by the younger players – which are just about everyone – Taylor has been teaching fellow players Spanish and picking up some Norwegian. “Each transfer student is different, but that is why they are so valuable,” Pretty said. “Every individual journey they have taken makes the PLU community that much stronger
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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
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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
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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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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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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
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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
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