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topics impact your particular life and work contexts. While this pre-conference session was created in response to pastors and congregations of the ELCA, we welcome members of all religious denominations and secular perspectives as well. Our speakers of the morning will be: Dr. David Ward, PLU Dean of Health Professions and Professor of Marriage and Family Therapy. Dr. Jacqueline Bussie, Executive Director of the Collegeville Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research Rev. Molly Knutson Keller
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published by SUNY Press. In their chapter, Wogahn and Crawford O’Brien explore the efforts of Coast Salish tribes around Puget Sound to cultivate and restore huckleberry habitats. They consider the cultural and spiritual importance of these plants within traditional Coast Salish culture, and the ways in which restoring this species is also working to restore healthy human communities. Since graduating from PLU, Wogahn has put her degree and her passions into practice. She is currently the Food Resources
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Lessons from Julie Ann Hebert: The Art of RosemalingOn Tuesday, January 16, 2018, the director of the Scandinavian Cultural Center, Jason Schroeder, interviewed SCC member and rosemaler, Julie Ann Hebert about her rosemaling. In the three hours they spent together, they talked about rosemaling, art in general, family histories, and teaching. In the interview, Julie Ann pointed out that she created her sitting room as a gift for her Norwegian grandmother, who had not had a sitting room. Julie
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speak intelligently about the middle class in China, how the grandparents are so involved in children’s upbringing, and how much scholastic pressure children receive. Additionally, I was memorizing 40 new Chinese characters four times a week. By the end, I could talk to my host family about the Cultural Revolution in Chinese while sitting around the dinner table dexterously using my chopsticks to eat delicious home-cooked Chinese dishes. I developed strong relationships with everyone in my program
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loves working with learning communities and having conversations around identity, vocation and purpose. Outside of work, Jes enjoys spending time with her family, friends, and dog and exploring the many cultural and arts opportunities the Pacific Northwest has to offer.
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their relationship with nature through those representations. Focuses on major texts from various cultures and historical periods. Includes poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. (4) ENGL 235 : Children's Literature - IT An introduction to the critical reading of picture books, chapter books, novels, and nonfiction for young readers, addressing historical and cultural contexts. (4) ENGL 236 : Intro to Screenwriting - CX Introduces students to the elements of screenwriting; including, structure, character
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Favorites: Spending time with family and keeping up with TV shows like the Big Bang Theory with her older brother What PLU Has Been for MeMy experience at PLU has been wonderfully unbelievable, to say the least. I came to PLU intending to pursue a degree in psychology, but during my first semester, I took a cultural anthropology course and my vocational path immediately changed. In my cultural anthropology course, we read an article about the gender pay gap in America. The article attributed the pay gap
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. Black music makers not only had a means to make a reasonable living, but also had the means to be a public voice for personal and community cultural expression. By the beginning of the twentieth century, African-American music represented by ragtime, blues, jazz, and popular song was pulling the American cultural mainstream away from European influence. No one was more aware of this than Europeans themselves, who were captivated by the lively exoticism of this music that had risen from its societal
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New Holocaust Studies Chair Prepares to Give First PLU Public Lecture Posted by: Zach Powers / October 26, 2015 Image: Kurt Mayer Chair of Holocaust Studies Beth Griech-Polelle will lecture on ‘The First Victims: The Nazi Euthanasia Campaign’ on Tuesday, Nov. 10 at 7:00 p.m. in the Scandinavian Cultural Center. (Photo by John Froschauer/PLU) October 26, 2015 By Samantha Lund '16PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (Oct. 26, 2015)- Dr. Beth Griech-Polelle is taking on the dark roots of
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until the summer. Otey will be an English teaching assistant in Mexico, where she spent a semester abroad in Oaxaca through a PLU Gateway program. Otey’s time there sparked her interest in education and cultural exchange. Fulbright ProgramLearn more about the program and how to apply“I think I left Oaxaca with a lot more questions about social justice, diversity and culture that I thought would be cool to keep exploring,” Otey said. Otey — who also has rowed all four years at PLU, nabbing two
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