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rigorous theoretical courses and cutting-edge applied courses, the latter in many cases taught by professionals from the financial industry. In addition to the finance, mathematics, and statistics courses offered by the program, the students can take courses from all over the university. The MAFN program attracts students whose academic background is in quantitative areas such as mathematics, statistics, physics, economics, computer science, or engineering. Most have previous work experience or

great if there was a simple checklist to help you review your course’s design? Well, read on… In support of the PLUTO Institute and initiatives, PLU holds an institutional subscription to the Quality Matters (QM) Program. The program rubric contains 44 standards to assess the design of online and blended courses. Quality Matters standards are based on best practices and help to guide the development of quality courses while providing a process for peer review. With PLU’s subscription to Quality

they liked and disliked about how Sakai was used in their courses. All students interviewed said they had taken courses where some tools on the Sakai site menu were not used. They described their frustration as a scavenger hunt where they clicked on the tool menu item but found a dead end with no content, wondering why the tool was even there or if they had missed something. When you create your Sakai site, it includes a default set of commonly used tools that appear in the left menu. But you can

understanding. PLU students volunteering at the Emergency Food Network in Tacoma.× It is one thing to offer general education courses. It is quite another to integrate the range of disciplines and design an educational experience that makes clear to students what their business management course has to do with their anthropology course, and what their anthropology and business courses have to do with the weekend they spent volunteering at a food bank, and what all three experiences have to do with the

Teaching with Sakai at PLU Posted by: bodewedl / August 22, 2018 August 22, 2018 By Dana Bodewes, Instructional Designer The Office of the Provost’s Faculty Resources website has a new webpage dedicated to Teaching and Learning with Sakai. Here faculty can learn more about how Sakai is being used across campus. View Real PLU Sakai Sites Ever wondered how your colleagues are using Sakai in their courses? The Teaching and Learning with Sakai site allows PLU faculty and staff to enroll in Sakai

associate professor of religion taught Christian ethics to students in the U.S. and abroad — at the same time.That’s thanks to PLU Teaching Online (PLUTO), a growing program on campus that prepares faculty to teach a variety of online-only courses as well as blended ones, which combine in-person interactive learning with online preparation and instruction. “It was a lot of work,” O’Brien said. “In a good way.” Online learning opportunities are already available at PLU with the potential for growth. So

marketplace helped inspire a new set of courses at PLU. During the 2015-2016 academic year, the Religion department will be offering a new set of linked courses: Religion and Healing in Comparative Religions (Fall 2015, taught by Dr. Suzanne Crawford O’Brien) and Health and Healing in Christianity (Spring 2016, taught by Dr. Brenda Llewellyn Ihssen). The courses will be linked, so that the same groups of students will be automatically enrolled in the second course. This will not only foster consistency

and Washington University in St. Louis. We also offer upper-division engineering courses at PLU, which count as engineering courses at both Washington University and Columbia. Learn about the Dual-Degree Engineering Program at PLU in one minute with Katrina Hay, associate professor of physics. Read Previous Advice for first-year students: Build a support system Read Next Rerun: Advice for first-year students—communicate with your professors LATEST POSTS PLU Scores 4.5 out of 5 on Campus Pride

New Faculty Profile: Adam Arnold Posted by: Matthew / December 8, 2017 Image: Dr. Adam Arnold, a Tacoma native, began teaching Philosophy courses at PLU in 2017. December 8, 2017 By Janet Koplitz '18PLU HumanitiesPhilosophy professor Adam Arnold is a new addition to PLU’s faculty. Originally from the Tacoma area, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Washington, Tacoma in 2009. From there, he earned the opportunity to study away at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of

opportunity for learning.” Other sessions included “Educational Experiences in India and Namibia,” “Art Perspectives from Two Continents,” looking at the art J-term courses in China and London, and even local programs like “Living and Learning Among the Makah,” which looked at the experiences in Neah Bay. Sobania said many of the sessions were planned in pairs, in order to intentionally get students from different disciplines and courses talking together about their different experiences in the same place