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and Website Content Manager, National Organization of Women (NOW), Seattle chapter; Development Coordinator, Korean Women’s Association (KWA), Tacoma Post-graduation plans: Working as an HR Advisor at Providence Healthcare, considering graduate studies in political communication For her Capstone project in Political Science, April Rose M. Nguyen created a documentary on the 10,000 untested rape kits in Washington, and helped raise awareness of the issue with a post-screening panel featuring two

offers studentsThe individualized major gives students the chance to design and propose their own program of study, charting a course through PLU’s curriculum that allows them to pursue their interests and prepare for their future. Recent individualized majors include: Music Business Global Health Business of Visual Art Movement Linguistics Digital Media Holocaust, Genocide & Indigenous Studies “It was kind of serendipitous that after not being able to really do anything vocationally, I was

long offered a pre-law advising program, but continued interest in the program prompted the university to create a formal minor to meet student needs. The curriculum utilizes the American Bar Association’s guidance on undergraduate preparation for law school.“That event was so cool, and it went quite smoothly,” Whalen said. “A lot of the representatives were like, ‘yeah, we’ll definitely do this in the future,’ and one of the law schools even offered to come down and do one in-person.” Whalen also

. Currently, most lithium-ion batteries use an organic liquid (made of compounds that contain carbon atoms) to move ions, and they work well in smaller electronics, as well as new electric vehicles, but can become dangerous. Study Chemistry at PLUThe Department of Chemistry has an outstanding curriculum, excellent faculty, great facilities, and is accredited by the American Chemical Society. Its faculty and staff will be happy to help if you need more information about the department or PLU.These liquids

quantitative skills and learning how to do your own research. (Access to student-faculty research opportunities is a great strength of PLU’s program.) The Psychology major at PLU requires (just) 42 semester hours, and this flexibility allows for students to explore other courses of study in addition to those required for the major. This is where the Innovation Studies minor can come into play. With just a 20 semester hour curriculum, Innovation Studies offers a simple and flexible plan that can be a great

itself. I created the beginnings of a curriculum that highlights the intersection between mental skills and social-emotional learning for middle school PE. This project was something that I had the opportunity to talk about in my interviews and show that I was knowledgeable about social-emotional learning (which is a hot-topic in education right now) and had a little leg up with its application to mental skills.Impactful faculty memberDr. Karen McConnell was my faculty mentor for my applied project

Leadership School. There are so many topics I am excited to explore and gain expertise in, including flow, resilience training, arousal control, and imagery use, among many others. In addition to exploring the research, I am excited to learn the field’s best practices so I can develop tools and curriculum to better serve my athletes and students as they seek to maximize performance and enjoyment in their respective domains.How would you use this degree in your future career? I am pursuing this degree in

Social-Emotional Learning and incorporating executive functioning skills in dance curriculum. With this training, I started a dance class for children with special needs. From 2016-2018, I attended Smith College in Massachusetts and earned a Master of Fine Arts in dance choreography and performance. What made you choose PLU?One of the co-founders of Sapience Dance Collective held this position at PLU years ago–which is a fun full-circle. She had told me about the job and how much she loved working at

analytical reasoning, growing in their written and oral communication skills, and the ability to read and discern meaning from complex texts. “I’m really excited about the pre-law minor because it will bring more pre-law students to PLU,” she said. “I’m an environmental studies major, which is interdisciplinary, and the pre-law minor is set up to be like that too.”Dept. of Political SciencePre-Law MinorPreparation for law school at PLU is an advising system rather than a curriculum of prescribed major

outside the typical curriculum in a given department, usually concern a professor’s unique research interests or offer insight into contemporary issues outside the standard course sequence. Gregson, who worked with criminology as a graduate student, thought the policing course was well suited, since police have been at the center of public discourse. Gregson wanted to create an interesting experience for students who chose to stay on campus rather than study away during J-Term — an experience that