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list of possible careers. At the top of that list was anthropology and archaeology. “Hm,” she remembered thinking. “That could be pretty cool.” But it was a passing thought. She never thought that would open the door to studying ancient civilizations, going on digs and travelling to East Africa. Now a senior at Pacific Lutheran University, Wonderly is graduating with degrees in anthropology and history. She recently finished an internship at Mount Rainier National Park and traveled to Ethiopia to

characterizes too many contemporary visions of higher education. When education is conceived in terms of the instrumental reason of a market-driven world, students become consumers, acquiring discrete packets of knowledge or skills. Education is reduced to training. Higher education becomes a Flatland where costs are conceived in terms of time, inconvenience, and money, but where the student as person —because in a two-dimensional world there are no persons— remains untouched. Ironically, the same kind of

Center for Global and Community Engaged Education. In partnership with the PLU Diversity Center, the trip sent eight students to Georgia and South Carolina to study environmental justice in a civil rights context. The trip focused largely on the history of racism and slavery, the importance of primary resources in an economic context and modern devices in society that unjustly divide people into different socioeconomic and racial areas. “The whole experience was very meaningful,” Dobies said. “It put

Duke Steps Out’ Read Previous Army, PLU team up for free concert in honor of Music in our Schools Month Read Next New work celebrates the 500th anniversary of the Reformation LATEST POSTS PLU’s Director of Jazz Studies, Cassio Vianna, receives grant from the City of Tacoma to write and perform genre-bending composition April 18, 2024 PLU Music Announces Inaugural Paul Fritts Endowed Chair in Organ Studies and Performance January 29, 2024 PLU’s Weathermon Jazz Festival to Feature Acclaimed Musician

, new faculty member Soon Cho’s positive impact on the PLU music department Read Next Remembering Gordon Gilbertson LATEST POSTS PLU’s Director of Jazz Studies, Cassio Vianna, receives grant from the City of Tacoma to write and perform genre-bending composition April 18, 2024 PLU Music Announces Inaugural Paul Fritts Endowed Chair in Organ Studies and Performance January 29, 2024 PLU’s Weathermon Jazz Festival to Feature Acclaimed Musician Aubrey Logan February 28, 2023 Horn & Fixed Media Premiere

Studies program. The 20-credit minor is designed as a companion program to strengthen each major on campus and make it outward facing. Innovation Studies is currently among the fastest-growing programs at PLU, with students enrolling with core interests in Business, Art & Design, Computer Science, History, Economics, Communication, and more. Mariken Lund (right) and her friends model ELSK the Studio products at a photo shoot Innovation Studies seems to fit a new generation of students that is eager to

which the intellectual historian Leonard Krieger, in his recent book Time’s Reasons: Philosophies of History Old and New (1989), speaks of a contemporary “crisis” of faith in the notion of historical truth. He writes: The most potent contemporary influence on the discipline of history . . . is the challenge to the very substance of the historical approach to life that has been mounted by antithetical agents of the general culture. What is new and especially lethal in the current rejection of history

history, innovation, and media studies via a new podcast series that will be piloted over the Summer. The “Innovation in History” project will investigate important moments of creativity in the disciplines of History and Innovation, from historical scholarship on video games, to the use of portraits in contemporary society, to exploring music as an historical source. The faculty mentor for the project is Prof. Michael Halvorson (History/Innovation Studies), who will co-host the podcast. The team will

Press. He is arranger, vocalist, and pianist In Full Swing, a Dallas-based jazz vocal group act that appears with symphony pops orchestra across the country. August 9 – Neil Andersson and Malibu Manouche Malibu Manouche is a quartet that blends Gypsy jazz, surf, guitar classics and original compositions to form an eclectic mix of instrumental music. Members are guitarists Peter Pendras and Neil Andersson, bassist Chuck Deardorf, and drummer Mark Ivester. August 16 – Tribute to Bill Ramsay Big Band

, the annual spring dance production at PLU. “Designing and performance is my life, basically, in a nutshell,” Ragoonanan said. “This is what I had dreamt to do.” In his native country, Trinidad and Tobago, he is considered a professional designer for a theater company, and he has seven years of design experience. He develops his skills by being around other designers, and through online sources. “I consider myself as a YouTube Junkie,” he smiled. “If there is something that I find interesting and I