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  • Board Chair, Associate Provost and Professor of Hispanic and Latino Studies | Confucius Institute of the State of Washington | byaden@plu.edu | 253-535-7283 | Bridget Yaden is the Associate Provost and Professor of Hispanic and Latino Studies at PLU, where she has worked since 1996.

    Bridget Yaden Board Chair, Associate Provost and Professor of Hispanic and Latino Studies Phone: 253-535-7283 Email: byaden@plu.edu Biography Biography Bridget Yaden is the Associate Provost and Professor of Hispanic and Latino Studies at PLU, where she has worked since 1996. She has a PhD in Romance Linguistics from the University of Washington. Bridget has served as the national 2020 ACTFL president, the leading organization of world language educators in the United States with over 12,000

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  • 22 semester hours completed with a grade of C- or higher

    Harald Gaski and Britt Rajala (Sámi) visiting in 2013. Professor David Huelsbeck engages with students at the Makah Research and Cultural Center in Neah Bay. 2. Northwest Language and Worldview8 semester hours Students will take 8 semester hours that explore Indigenous language and worldviews of the Pacific Northwest. Equivalent coursework or demonstrated fluency to an equivalent level in another Indigenous language may be substituted for SOLU 101 and SOLU 102. SOLU 101: Southern Lushootseed

  • The Global Community serves as the hub of international and global engagement education at PLU. The community is home to a variety of students coming from near and far.

    academic program, coming to PLU from beyond the fifty states, or simply have a passion for global education, the Global Community is a great place to celebrate cultural and globally held identities. Students participating in the Global Community receive support when getting ready to study away and a welcoming home to return to after the adventures of study away. Within the Global Community, there are five sub-communities, including: Global Language & Culture Community — for any and all students

  • Select your program below to see the tuition cost for students entering the cohort in Summer 2024.

    , etc.MAE Alternative Routes to Certification 2024 CohortThe MAE Alternative Route to Certification (MAE-ARC) has two options. Students can choose to complete both the certification and the degree requirements, or complete the certification portion only. English Language Learners and Special Education endorsement options represent an additional tuition cost. Students will complete the Summer Endorsements @ PLU Continuing Education sequence in the summer as directed by the Academic Advisor. The MAE-ARC

  • By Zach Powers ’10 PLU Marketing & Communications TACOMA, WASH. (July 27, 2015)- Known as the Rainier Writing Workshop (RWW), Pacific Lutheran University’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program challenges its students to consider difficult questions relating to artistry, self-awareness and commission. “What are…

    Readings by its Esteemed Faculty]   Rick Barot, who serves as Director of the RWW and is an Associate Professor in PLU’s English Department, is a poet and essayist. He has published three books of poetry with Sarabande Books: The Darker Fall (2002), which received the Kathryn A. Morton Prize; and Want (2008), which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and won the 2009 Grub Street Book Prize; and the just-published Chord (2015). He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the

  • PLU News documents good work Lutes are doing, on and off campus, as they live and pursue lives of thoughtful inquiry, service, leadership and care.

    PLU College of Liberal Studies welcomes Dean Stephanie Johnson The Pacific Lutheran University community recently welcomed Stephanie Johnson, the new dean of the College of Liberal Studies, to campus. Johnson comes to PLU from The College of St. Scholastica, where she most recently served as the chair of the Department of English and Communication.… July 24, 2024 News, Announcements, Accolades

  • Originally Published in 2014 When I was a graduate student at the University of Iowa, the classicist and writer Anne Carson came to campus to give a reading and a colloquium. During the colloquium, she was asked how she navigated among the wild variety of…

    in which those discussions happen. It’s then that I have to remind my students that even though our primary definition of craft may have to do with technique and making, another definition of craft is cunning. A poet is a maker, but he or she is also a kind of trickster. English students discuss writing with visiting writer Minal Hajratwala in 2018 Professor Barot’s most recent book of poetry Gaps and GiftsBeing a Scholar-Teacher and a Teacher-Scholar Read Previous Scholarship, Sleep, and Self in

  • ELL Instructor | Understanding the World Through Sports and Recreation | Jackal Tanelorn graduated summa cum laude in May 2009 from Pacific Lutheran.

    Jackal Tanelorn ELL Instructor Biography Biography Jackal Tanelorn graduated summa cum laude in May 2009 from Pacific Lutheran. He spent the summer after graduation teaching English in a small rural community as part of Chile’s English Opens Doors project. Jackal has applied to PhD graduate programs in California in hopes of pursuing his academic and personal interests in transnational relations with Latin America. He currently works teaching ELL at Tacoma Community House.

  • Biology major Elizabeth Larios ’21 was awarded a Fullbright scholarship for her work in Namibia. When she was in fourth grade, Larios wanted to be a neurosurgeon. That’s when her class took a field trip to a science museum and Larios saw an exhibit about…

    , Larios has been fighting against stereotypes her whole life. Neither of her parents finished high school and she didn’t learn to speak English until kindergarten when, after becoming lost during a spelling lesson, she started taking English language acquisition (ELA) classes. “Our school nurse was actually the teacher and she would sit the three of us down — me, my cousin, and my uncle, who was in the fifth grade — two to three times a week, every week, until fifth grade,” she recalls. Larios

  • The Office of Advancement works to raise charitable contributions, which support the mission of Pacific Lutheran University.

    laughter and joy are a big thanks to you for making all of this possible. Thank you for supporting athletics and on behalf of myself and all of the other student athletes, you have made such a positive impact on the stories we get to tell to our friends, families and loved ones.Callie Simmonds ’25 Nursing major; Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies major Volleyball There are two things that I have wanted to do my whole life: learn and teach. My goals are to teach English and/or work in genocide

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