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, joy and boredom), with a goal of asking how existentialism engages these ideas relative to the question of human meaning. As an introductory course we will survey specifically the major thinkers of this tradition and illustrate how existentialism connects to other areas such as religion, psychology and literature. (4) PHIL 248 : Innovation, Ethics, & Society - ES A history of innovation, problem solving, and creativity in the global economy, emphasizing the ethical considerations that arise as a
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Marie Mutsuki Mockett Fiction, Nonfiction Biography Biography Marie Mutsuki Mockett was born to an American father and Japanese mother, and graduated from Columbia University with a degree in East Asian Languages and Civilizations. Her memoir, Where the Dead Pause and the Japanese Say Goodbye, examines grief against the backdrop of the 2011 Great East Earthquake, and Mockett’s family temple located 25 miles from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power reactor. Mockett’s awards include a
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Find out how Bailey Hamilton ’22 balances athletic involvement with academic excellence Posted by: vcraker / May 3, 2022 Image: Hamilton (left) and teammates with their medals after their winning race. (photo courtesy of Bailey Hamilton) May 3, 2022 Bailey Hamilton is a senior nursing student at PLU. She is also a member of PLU’s swim team. Recently, she was a member of the winning four-member relay team at this year’s Northwest Conference Championships —one of which set a new PLU record for
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We get it, it’s confusing to figure out when to take all the classes you need to graduate. And if you’re not sure about your major yet, that just adds to the overwhelm! We’re here to help! At a Grad Planning Small Group, here’s what we’ll do together: You pick a major to use for planning purposes We show you all of the requirements for your major, Gen Eds, and Graduation We help you place each class where it belongs in your future semesters After just one hour, you get to feel great about
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it a field—now it is, but a very, very small field.” A small field, maybe—but one with potentially huge impact. “She is on the ground floor of a relatively new field that has the possibility of making all kinds of great insights into cancer in the evolution of history,” Ryan said. As Hunt and other researchers unearth more and more ancient evidence—breast cancer in 3500 B.C. Egypt, osteo-sarcoma in a T. rex femur—Hunt has formed an intriguing theory: She believes cancer is inherent in human
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Norwegian Area Studies at Pacific Lutheran University to ensure the continuation of these programs. Today there are opportunities for students to learn a Scandinavian language, the culture and history of a Scandinavian country, and to study abroad to become immersed in current social developments and the role Scandinavia plays in international justice and peace mediation. We want to see these studies continue, and in order for that to happen, we would like to further the Svare-Toven Endowed
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Samuel Torvend ’73 Associate Professor of European Religious History Biography Biography Samuel Torvend teaches courses in the history of Christianity and historical courses on specific topics. In all of these courses, his early interest in the relationship between Christian insights and practices with a culture’s social, economic, and political systems continues to engage students with the power of religion to shape public life. He also teaches an introductory course in the International
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] Paul Tillich.” Paso graduated with a degree in religion and German, and after spending some time working in downtown Tacoma at a church, left last year to Germany on a Fulbright Scholarship to work with Armin Kohnle, director of the Institute of Church History at the University of Leipzig. With Kohnle, Paso studied “common chest” ordinances in the early reformation period. “Common chest” literally refers to a locked box where donations where kept for the poor in a church. “It was basically early
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Porter, Organist Widely known as a performer in the United States and in Europe, Dr. Porter has also achieved international recognition for his skill in improvisation in a wide variety of styles, ancient and modern. Read Previous Elise Rodrigues ’15 voted Eatonville School District Teacher of the Year Read Next A PLU Christmas, Winter Rose LATEST POSTS PLU’s Director of Jazz Studies, Cassio Vianna, receives grant from the City of Tacoma to write and perform genre-bending composition April 18, 2024
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popular as well as literary genres. We encourage our participants to work in more than one genre, and are interested in applicants who seriously work in multiple genres. Our goal is to help our participants build on their technical resources as writers, help them define their literary ambitions and goals, and help them create a sustainable writing life. When we evaluate applications for the program, these are the components of the application that we prioritize especially: the writing sample, the
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