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five years of my career I worked in business development and category management. How consumers are making decisions and what motivations stand behind their choices were questions I put in front of myself and the reasons why I was motivated to pursue a program dedicated to Market Research. Earning the [MSMA] degree not only helped me accumulate an important knowledge but also was a starting point of my research career in the US. What advice would you give to a current MSMA student or someone
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New Critical Conscience.” The conference challenges participants to align concepts of education and justice in ways that call for conscience, critique and change—all concepts, in turn, that align precisely with PLU’s mission. PLU participants include: • Ruth Bernstein, Visiting Assistant Professor of Business Management and Nonprofit Studies • Callista Brown, Associate Professor of English • Melannie Denise Cunningham, Director of Multicultural Recruitment • Emily Davidson, Assistant
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anything with an open mind to be willing to listen. I’ve developed a much more critical way of thinking because of my time at PLU. That’s helped me learn how to form my own ideas, but at the same time, my experiences here have taught me to stay open and listen. That openness was so important last summer during my research project. Dr. Saxowsky handed me a huge stack of articles and research to review when I started, and I had to accept the fact that I didn’t know anything. Moving through the stages of
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working in small groups, or large organizations, such as nonprofits, universities, and government organizations. How does Social Innovation work? At Pacific Lutheran University, we begin by investigating political, social, environmental, and economic challenges, and then we apply attributes like critical thinking, economic analysis, and sustainable business design to imagine solutions to the problems. Social innovations are often complex–they take on big issues like human rights abuses, stigmas in
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reformers insisted that the best education is an education in the liberal arts, “liberal” in that the study of the arts and sciences held the power to liberate the mind from uncritical thinking and religious parochialism. They argued that no religious litmus test should govern university education. While they promoted the study of religious subjects in departments of theology, they also argued that religious instruction cannot serve as a substitute for learning in the liberal arts. Philip Melanchthon
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what you can build from it, or what patterns you can find and connections you can make. When did you decide on environmental studies? My Writing 101 course was “Evolutionary Biology and Taxonomy.” The purpose of the class was to learn scientific technical writing, but I was surprised at how arbitrary taxonomy is. That got me interested in animal studies and a critical lens of the sciences, which is why I added environmental studies. The first thing I noticed on the bus from the airport [in Oxford
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set of premises, and find out what you can build from it, or what patterns you can find and connections you can make. When did you decide on environmental studies? My Writing 101 course was “Evolutionary Biology and Taxonomy.” The purpose of the class was to learn scientific technical writing, but I was surprised at how arbitrary taxonomy is. That got me interested in animal studies and a critical lens of the sciences, which is why I added environmental studies. "The first thing I noticed on the
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environmental degradation, methods of non-market valuation of environmental amenities, and valuation of a statistical life. Attention will be given to both domestic and global examples. Prerequisites: ECON 101 or consent of instructor. (4) ECON 331 : International Trade and Commercial Policy Theories of trade based on labor productivity, factor endowments, and scale economies. Welfare analysis of commercial policy instruments. Political economy of interest groups and trade policy. Critical analysis of
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sessions to enhance their critical thinking and problem-solving skills, MCAT review/testing and mock interviews. Weill Cornell Medical College (New York) – The Gateways to The Laboratory Summer Program is a 10-week program designed to provide students a mentored individual research project at Weill Cornell Medical College, Rockefeller University, or Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Select interns participate in workshops for improving lab techniques and clinical research skills, scrub into
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sessions to enhance their critical thinking and problem-solving skills, MCAT review/testing and mock interviews. Weill Cornell Medical College (New York) – The Gateways to The Laboratory Summer Program is a 10-week program designed to provide students a mentored individual research project at Weill Cornell Medical College, Rockefeller University, or Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Select interns participate in workshops for improving lab techniques and clinical research skills, scrub into
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