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By Sarah Cornell-Maier ‘19. This Fall, Pacific Lutheran University is introducing a new history class that serves as a gateway to the Innovation Studies Program . Hist/Phil 248: Innovation, Ethics, and Society is a team-taught course that combines many different fields of study into one.…
Philosophy 248 section (led by Michael Schleeter), but the sections always meet together and the students work on shared assignments. This multi-disciplinary collaboration allows students to get two professors for the price of one, and they also encounter diverse perspectives in the classroom on a daily basis. Learning through multiple perspectives isn’t necessarily more difficult, but it feels more relevant and connected to the worlds of work and research. Students complete drawing and improv exercises
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PLU provides diverse opportunities to develop the skills to navigate the challenges of an increasingly complex and interconnected world.
programs both locally and globally. Students earn PLU credit and have access to Financial Aid and Scholarships while studying away for a Semester, Year or Short-Term program. LEARN MOREGLOBAL STUDIES The Global Studies Program educates students to engage critically and actively with contending perspectives on global issues, their origins, and possible solutions to global problems drawing on methods and perspectives from multiple disciplines. LEARN MOREIHON (International Honors Program) PLU’s
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Each team will be comprised of 1-3 middle or high school students and you may make substitutions for contestants who are unable or unwilling to compete, provided that the team Coach/
team will retain the trophy for one year to be displayed at their school. All participants are eligible for prizes in the drawing at the end of the awards ceremony.
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TIES Program Update from Joel Zylstra (Director, Center for Community Engagement and Service) The Tacoma Immersion Experience Semester (TIES) program has been discontinued indefinitely. TIES served as one expression of PLU’s long-term commitments to linking global education with our local community. In the early 2000’s,…
in internships in downtown Tacoma. In Spring 2017, five students enrolled full-time in the TIES program while 32 students enrolled in TIES-affiliated courses. Due to low enrollment in Spring 2018 and financial risks associated with pausing and relaunching the program in Spring 2019, we have decided to discontinue TIES indefinitely. While TIES won’t look like a PLU Gateway program going forward, PLU’s commitment to linking global education with Tacoma will continue. Drawing on unique
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Intersectional Environmentalism and Environmental Justice: If you’re interested in reading up on the intersections of environmental justice and anti-racism, we invite you to draw on the wealth
and telling a story by one of the greatest contemporary storytellers, Vi Hilbert. The Story of Lady Louse A literary tour of the watershed | Dr. Adela Ramos Students in ENVT 350 read Mary Shelly’s famous novel, Frankenstein (1818), to consider how the language of sensibility and the values it carries shape our relationship to the environment. Drawing inspiration from the novel’s letters and language, they each created and recorded a letter using audio or audiovisual materials, where they addressed
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“The Shack” author says he never meant to write a book. William P. Young said he first wrote “The Shack,” for his children, and didn’t think anything more of it, until friends and family encouraged him to publish the book, which he did, with the…
book has stayed on the New York Times best seller list for 18 weeks, Young told a packed audience last month at the Garfield Book Company that God is using the book, and the story, in ways he never dreamed of. Drawing on pain he experienced in his own life over an 11-year span between 1994 and 2005, Young told the rapt crowd at the book signing that he picked a large African American woman to be God to blow away preconceived notions. “I don’t want my kids growing up thinking that God is Gandalf
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The Olympic Games, Social Activism and Responsibility: How Sport Can Affect Change in the World Keynote Speaker: Joey Cheek Olympic Champion, Darfur Activist and Humanitarian Gold medal-winning
Humanitarian Award in December 2006. In August – just days before the Opening Ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Games – the Chinese Embassy in Washington contacted Cheek to inform him that his previously issued visa was revoked. The official who called Cheek stated simply that he was “not required to give a reason” for revoking visas. Cheek planned to attend the Games to support the more than 72 Team Darfur athletes competing in Beijing, while also drawing attention to the ongoing Darfur genocide and what
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Elizabeth Reeves’ (‘13) fondest memories of the Diversity Center are how it felt like a community. They remember the friends they made and the time they all spent together, bonding. “If you had the right combination, you would get zero homework done but it would…
in Fine Arts-Drawing & Painting and a minor in Religion. They are currently a grad student at Iowa State University getting their Masters in Fine Arts. Elizabeth hopes to one day be a college or high school teacher. Outside of being a student, Elizabeth is also a professional artist and substitute teacher. Read Previous Austin Beierman ‘18 Read Next Isamar Henriquez ‘13 LATEST POSTS Jazmyn Caroll ’15 February 23, 2022 Isamar Henriquez ‘13 February 23, 2022 Austin Beierman ‘18 February 23, 2022
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Within the environmental studies curriculum at PLU, the social sciences provide perspectives on the environment from a human point of view, balancing the ecological perspectives contributed by the
PresentationsMajors and Minors Our majors and minors learn how to ask questions about the complex relationships between people and the environment by drawing from a range of disciplinary perspectives. Learn MoreClover Creek Watershed Check out our Clover Creek Watershed website to learn about the unique interdisciplinary coursework our students complete in ENVT 350. Learn MoreMajor gift to programPLU alums David '57 & Lorilie '58 Steen's generous donation establishes the Steen Family Symposium on Environmental
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Learning about the environment offers opportunities to integrate studies of nature and natural systems with those of human systems, and to bring both into dialogue with a humanistic understanding of
. Specifically, we educate to engage actively and critically the complex relationships between people and the environment, drawing upon integrated and interdisciplinary perspectives. Students graduating from Environmental Studies will be able to: Use an array of theoretical and practical tools to examine the complex relationships between people and the environment. Gather and assess data about local, regional, and global environmental issues. Interpret the values, assumptions and language that structure
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