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national security interests of the United States. The region includes China, which is rapidly assuming prominence on the global stage. Rare are the days that go by without at least one news story on China. Given PLU’s Chinese language studies, its China summer Service Learning program, as well as other international programs sponsored by the Wang center, I thought I would devote a few minutes to this most fascinating country. For the past 20 years, China’s GDP has grown by an average of 9.0% per year
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substance-abuse diagnosis. My time is split between helping clients work on their symptoms and connecting them to resources to help aid in their recovery. How did studying Psychology at PLU help prepare you for your graduate studies and your current career? Studying Psychology helped form my clinical background prior to going to social-work school, which was helpful because social work largely focused on systems and policies, rather than the individual. I have to say that my ethics came largely from my
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be drawing for an archaeological project, students not only have to do research and preliminary studies; they also have to communicate with someone else at stages of its development to show the progress and get feedback and make changes based upon that feedback. I saw it as a great opportunity for students to experience. Instead of having one student doing something for him, I tried to give students the opportunity to build something over time. Andrews: My specialty is stone-tool analysis, so I
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growing field with dynamic career opportunities. As a PLU Kinesiology major, you’ll have options to pursue the area(s) that interest you most and be well-prepared for graduate studies or careers in physical education, exercise science, physical therapy, athletic training, sport psychology, recreation, public health, personal training, promotions and management, youth programming, coaching, and more. PLU’s Kinesiology department offers two degrees – the Bachelor of Arts (BAK) includes options in Health
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, and in 2013 created an innovative new course in the PLU School of Business that allows students to earn internship credit and participate in a unique, global project. In this course, students experience and grow in the areas of community building and engagement, outreach and education (locally and globally), fundraising, crowdfunding, and international nonprofit projects. The course utilizes an interdisciplinary approach blending business, philosophy, Hispanic studies, communication, culture and
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Global Studies. Hometown: Rancho Santa Margarita, California. Accomplishments at PLU: Club Keithley; Women’s Lacrosse; For the King; Relay for Life committee for two years; Study Away in Kolkata, India, through a Service Learning Program; received Van Beek Service Scholarship; 2015 Partner in Education Award from the FPSD; Pinnacle Society; Mortar Board Society; International Sociology Honor Society; Orientation Guide as well as a Student Orientation Coordinator for PLU’s New Student Orientation
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in my office at a mental-health center, in their homes and in the community. I’m on a unique team that services adults with severe and persistent mental-health illnesses as well as a substance-abuse diagnosis. My time is split between helping clients work on their symptoms and connecting them to resources to help aid in their recovery. How did studying Psychology at PLU help prepare you for your graduate studies and your current career? Studying Psychology helped form my clinical background prior
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. Beyond these interpersonal relationships, which I cherish to this day and intend to maintain for years to come, I also gained knowledge and skills through my coursework that have proven useful to me in later academic endeavors. While I was in Norway, I conducted an independent field research project on Norwegian approaches to development aid, which involved personal interviews with several prominent scholars and practitioners. Now, in my graduate studies in the anthropology and sociology of
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inclusion, and of discerning one’s vocation and service in the world. Jen RudeUniversity Pastor“Lutheran higher education is the foundation for all the other values that we live. Lutheran higher education is the wisdom and the nourishment that supports those values and those ways of living together.” Rooted in Questioning “In order to understand the present, and ultimately the future, we must understand the tradition we’re rooted in,” says Marit Trelstad, endowed chair of Lutheran Studies and director
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beliefs, practices, imaginings that people have attempted to erase or eradicate. That’s a different way of thinking about the work. Maya: Which I think, like Tyler said, is resurfacing, returning, unearthing and making space for things to breathe after having been buried.Narrator: (With a sigh of appreciation into the thoughtful silence following that evocative image, remembering Maya had focused her studies at PLU “around inequality and its intersections with our natural environment.”) Whew. Tyler
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