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  • Beyoncé and Black Feminist Theory https://www.plu.edu/admission/blog/beyonce-and-black-feminist-theory/

    course.” One of the initial challenges for Smith and Taiwo was subduing students who are superfans of the music. “I want students to take pop culture seriously as political texts,” Smith said. “Really thinking about issues of identity and power within our pop culture texts is a significant skill for students to have. Will it get you a job? Maybe not, but it will leave you a more informed and aware citizen.” Read Previous The Glee Effect: PLU Adds Musical Theatre & Dance Read Next Study away as a

  • Living in the Pacific Northwest (PNW) https://www.plu.edu/campus-life/clif-pro-staff-search/living-in-the-pacific-nw/

    trying all of the different cuisines this area has to offer! Tacoma is nestled in the perfect location to give you the benefits of having a big city so close by while also being surrounded by the mountains and ocean – the best part being that it is all reachable within an hour drive!” PLU is just minutes away from downtown Tacoma and the unique culture that the city offers including the world famous Museum of Glass, the Tacoma Art Museum, and the Washington State History Museum. Tacoma also has

  • Welcome ‹ Resolute Online: Winter 2016 https://www.plu.edu/resolute/winter-2016/welcome/

    Welcome Note Setting The Course On Campus Discovery Research Grants Accolades Lute Library Blogs Alumni News Homecoming 2016 Connection Events Lute Recruit Alumni Profiles Class Notes Family and Friends Mike Benson Submit a Class Note Calendar Highlights Welcome Featured / January 22, 2014 Between memory and hope By Samuel Torvend, Ph.D. University Professor of Lutheran Studies In a culture such as ours, focused on the present moment and the immediate future, the very thought of considering something

  • Maylen Anthony https://www.plu.edu/studyaway/studyabroad/student-stories/maylen-anthony/

    major so I was able to fulfill 12 credits towards my major, two General Education requirements, plus improve my Spanish speaking and listening skills. I also have double minors in Women’s and Gender Studies and Religion, and Granada is a hot spot for religious conflict and the effects of machismo culture. I studied in Granada for J-Term and Spring Semester of my sophomore year (Spring 2014). While in Granada, I lived with a host family and another student from the ILACA Consortium, and studied at

  • Admin/Staff Opportunities https://www.plu.edu/wang-center/adminstaff-opportunities/

    the culture to name a few are some of the more obvious. However, I would argue that some of the deepest and most significant learning is about yourself. Who you are and how you fit in the world. A world that suddenly expands and gets smaller simultaneously. I certainly engaged in that kind of learning, however, when you accompany students on their own journey and assist a faculty member on theirs as they deliver course content in this context, you receive a type of professional development that is

  • Black History Month: Black Art Matters Exhibit https://www.plu.edu/library/news/black-history-month-black-art-matters-exhibit/

    American art The art of history : African American women artists engage the past Creating their own image : the history of African-American women artists Now dig this! : art & Black Los Angeles, 1960-1980 Jean-Michel Basquiat Basquiat Black visual culture : modernity and postmodernity Child of the fire : Mary Edmonia Lewis and the problem of art history’s Black and Indian subject Elizabeth Catlett : an American artist in Mexico Seeing the unspeakable : the art of Kara Walker Kara Walker : pictures from

  • The Book in Society https://www.plu.edu/ppa/courses/the-book-and-society/

    The Book in SocietyThe Book in Society surveys the history of print culture and discusses such issues as censorship, bestsellers, and the future of the book in the digital age. The course asks such questions as what exactly is a “book”? Who produces it, who reads it, and why? Students examine the ways in which books have been central to modern society—how they have informed, entertained, inspired, irritated, liberated, and challenged readers. They also look at the processes by which books are

  • Educational Advisors and Partners https://www.plu.edu/confucius-institute/department/educational-advisors-and-partners/

    Xinmin Liu Associate Professor of Chinese and American Studies and Culture, Washington State University. Full Profile 509-335-8713 xinmin.liu@wsu.edu

  • Faculty https://www.plu.edu/religion/department/faculty/

    Suzanne Crawford O’Brien Professor of Religion and Culture Full Profile 253-535-8107 suzanne.crawford@plu.edu

  • Speakers https://www.plu.edu/holocaustconference-distortion-and-denial/speakers/

    Above and Beyond for producer Nancy Spielberg, about the American–Jewish WWII pilots who volunteered to fight for Israel in the 1948 War. That film won the audience award at more than 20 film festivals worldwide. Grossman’s 2012 Hava Nagila (The Movie), which used the song as a portal into 150 years of Jewish history, culture and spirituality, was the opening or closing night film at more than 30 film festivals. Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh, Grossman’s 2008 film was