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ALL CURRENT OFFERINGSQuality Continuing Education for NursesThe Center for Continued Nursing Learning (CCNL) provides excellent continuing education and professional development for nurses and other interested health care professionals. We offer multiple programs that provide the opportunity to gain contact hours and clock hours. Our professional and educational standards, our innovative responses to changing health care markets, and our distinguished history of educating students for lives of

of expression. Our students directly apply what they’re learning in the classroom to real world opportunities and challenges. With this strong foundation, our graduates enter a variety of careers. Many become professionals in print and digital design, consulting, art education, journalism, publishing, speech writing, and other fields including law and public policy. Still others take post-graduate studio positions or pursue graduate school in studio art, art history, or communication. Whatever

scholars from all over the world broaden our understanding of the terrible impact that the Holocaust had on Jewish communities. Our opening keynote speaker on Wednesday, November 6, 2024 at 7:00 pm in the AUC Regency Room, will be Professor Devin E. Naar, the Isaac Alhadeff Professor of Sephardic Studies and Associate Professor of History, and is faculty at the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies in the Jackson School of International Studies at University of Washington-Seattle. His talk will be “From the

, “love of wisdom.” To be a friend of philosophy, then, is certainly to seek understanding of the history and development of philosophy as it engages the world, but more notably it is to take up the question, “How do I live philosophically, ethically, or in ways that make a difference?” Seen in this light, philosophy examines basic issues in all fields and explores connections among diverse areas of life. The major intersects with questions such as: How can humans gain knowledge about their world

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Emeritus of History at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, North Carolina, began his academic career in 1974 at PLU, offering the university’s first college-level Holocaust course. Dr. Browning’s research and teaching excellence put PLU on the academic landscape of Holocaust and Genocide Studies. His work continues to influence the field of Holocaust scholarship worldwide. This year’s conference will be offered both in a virtual and in-person format, with registration for both. In-person

universe have a purpose? Does human history have a direction? What is ‘home’? IHON is also an alternate way to satisfy your general education requirements at PLU. Instead of taking classes offered by specific academic departments, you’ll take courses designed just for IHON, around problems or questions, using diverse methods and ways of thinking. IHON is for any student in any major – you don’t need to have taken honors classes in high school to be successful in IHON! As long as you have the commitment

Polish history, one would find that Jews were first invited to come to live under the king’s protection in the 13th century. This led to Poland becoming a relatively safe haven for Jews for centuries. It also meant that Poland had one of the largest Jewish populations in all of Christian-dominated Europe. Life was full and Jews were part of the very fabric of Polish culture and society. Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, Jews in Poland witnessed an upsurge in persecution and other antisemitic

without notice. -Will Durant Why Study Earth Science at PLU?Civilization exists by geologic consent, subject to change without notice. – Will Durant Global society is based on geology. Our energy resources, construction and manufacturing materials, food and agricultural products, and building sites all depend on the geologic environment.What is Earth Science?Earth Science is a multidisciplinary field that studies the features, processes and history of the earth. The role of geoscientists will be

Heller speaks before the keynote address titled “Wartime North Africa” during the 15th Annual Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education, Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023, at PLU. (PLU Photo / Emma Stafki).Convener Dr. Christopher Browning, the Frank Porter Graham Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, introduces Sarah Abrevaya Stein before her the keynote address titled “Wartime North Africa” during the 15th Annual Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education, Thursday, Oct. 26