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Speaker: David Treuer, Ph.D. Time: 7 p.m. Date: Thursday, April 13 Place: Regency room (AUC) Free and open to the public.
judge mother. Treuer’s talk, Adrift Between Two Americas, springs from a 2022 essay about his parents, published in The New York Times. David Treuer is the author of numerous books, including The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present (Penguin, 2019), which was a finalist for both the National Book Award and a Carnegie Medal. A writer of impressive range, from fiction and creative nonfiction to memoir and criticism, his essays and stories have appeared in Granta, Harper’s
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The first year experience is a sequence of courses designed to help you develop the skills necessary to be a successful college student and a thoughtful, engaged and caring member of society.
is in small groups with maximum individual feedback from your professor. Classes With Only First-Year Students: Build confidence by making the transition to college-level study with your peers. Compelling Course Themes: You’ll learn the crucial skills of thinking, speaking and writing by applying them to a thought-provoking topic. All First-Year Writing and DJS seminars are focused on important and compelling themes – like “The Art of Living,” “Banned Books,” “Climate Justice and Resilience,” and
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In the recently published Prophets, Gurus, and Pundits: Rhetorical Styles and Public Engagement , associate professor of communication Amy Young addresses the shortcomings in university academia, mainly that intellectuals are not encouraged, and in some ways, don’t know how, to become engaged in public dialogue. “I’m…
in some area of expertise manage to engage audiences that don’t necessarily know that much about their topic in a way that is accessible and exciting,” Young says. Young explains that there are a lot of barriers to intellectuals contributing to the leadership of public and social movements. “The idea of actually caring about writing for public audiences is seen as not serious and a bad use of your time. Because what you should be doing is writing for journals and writing books,” Young says
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Associate Professor of History | Department of History | hamesgl@plu.edu | 253-535-7132 | Gina Hames’ research interests focus on the historic role of how alcohol shapes identity from a comparative perspective across the globe, including Africa, Asia, including China, Japan, and India, Latin America, Western and Eastern Europe, Australia, the Middle East, and the United States.
Global Studies Program, “Modern World History”. She also teaches in the First Year Experience Program, including Writing 101, focusing on Global Human Rights, and two History 190 courses, World History, and Modern Latin American History. She participates in the Residence Hall Learning Communities program, linking Writing 101 to Hong International Hall, and she piloted a program linking Writing 101 courses to 190 courses. She has taught study abroad courses for many years in Bolivia and Peru, and Cuba
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This spring, the Strategic Enrollment Management Advisory Committee (known as SEMAC) will finalize PLU’s philosophy of enrollment, with the intention to ask our Board of Regents to adopt a final draft statement with enrollment targets in May. (See the current draft here on the Provost…
that provide for program sustainability. For example, in recent years, we’ve added programs mostly in areas where we have current strength (MSF, MSMR, DNP). But, PLU has also created a new program and hired an entire department to run it (MA in Marriage and Family Therapy back in the ‘70s); and we adopted a program from outside the university (MFA in Creative Writing). Both of those have been very successful. The only program discontinued in recent years is the major in Computer Engineering, and
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PLU students spend 96 hours figuring out halfpipes and VHF signals By Chris Albert Pro snowboarder Shaun White is entering a halfpipe going for maximum vertical air. For hours Dan Case ’11 and his team study the YouTube video of White during a 96 hour…
Froschauer) Case and 10 PLU other students, comprising of four teams, spent four days at Morken researching, testing and writing models to solve one of two problems in this year’s MCM which took place between Feb. 10 through 14. The contest tests undergraduate students ability to apply their mathematic skills to solving real-life scenarios. One was building a model to maximize vertical air in a snowboard halfpipe. The other involved line-of-sight transmission and reception of a VHF radio spectrum, with
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SEATTLE, WASH. (April 16, 2015)- Ordinarily, it takes many years for a Theatre Major to earn the opportunity to write, compose or star in a high-profile musical production. However, one Lute is dramatically defying that expectation. Justin Huertas graduated almost six years ago, in 2009,…
traditional musical theatre, Lizard Boy is a “somewhat-autobiographical solo-show-with-three-actors” that follows a boy with lizard skin who fights evil and learns about love. Huertas attributes some of his triple-threat skills in performing, composing and writing to his theatre education at PLU. “Doing theater at PLU was awesome!” he said. Specifically, Huertas recalls that the study of Shakespeare and the PLU Theatre Program‘s emphasis on language “stuck with [him] forever.” “I have a lot of my
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Established in 1996 to reward outstanding scholarship and encourage graduate study in history, this $2,000 award is presented annually to one or two senior history majors at PLU who intend to study
. For more information, contact Beth Griech-Polelle.Benson Summer Research Fellowships in Business and Economic HistoryEach year, 2-3 student research fellows are awarded for paid summer research in the field of Business and Economic History. For more information, visit the Business and Economic History website or contact Michael Halvorson.Raphael Lemkin Student Essay ContestYou can earn money and fame for writing a great history essay? Yup, you sure can! Each year, the History department sponsors
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One look at the exquisite Lagerquist Concert Hall, and you can tell that PLU has a passion for the arts.
team regularly travels to national and international intercollegiate competitions. For those interested in the visual arts, the University Gallery features five exhibitions each year including those by faculty and seniors. The Wekell Gallery regularly hosts exhibits from students in current art classes. There’s nothing stopping you from exploring your creative side at PLU.Lute enters Folgers jungle contest and winsJenny Snipstead, ’11, along with her Montana pals to entered the Folgers Jingle
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After beginning a career or graduate studies, our graduates often point to one person at PLU who had a profound influence on their intellectual development. Invariably, it's a professor.
-side with you on research and creative projects. No matter what you plan to do after you earn your PLU degree, you’ll have gained the experience that employers and graduate programs want.Summer research that rocksMany students take part in student-faculty summer research projects, often in the nearby forests, mountains and coastal areas. Read MoreScience happens (And so much more!)Of the numerous student-faculty research projects that take place at PLU each year, there is the science. But that is
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