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Why Study English?Written works preserve our history, describe our current reality and color our future beyond imagination. Whether you aspire to analyze literature or write it, the study of English offers a versatile and challenging major. Through reading we have the opportunity to live a thousand lives, while writing with care and imagination can reveal new self-truths. A disciplined experience with the written word develops broad vision, fresh insight, and the more sophisticated skills of

International Pathway Program (IPP) International students who do not meet the English proficiency requirement for direct admission can instead apply for PLU’s International Pathway Program (IPP). The Undergraduate IPP prepares students for academic success at PLU by allowing them to improve their English language skills while taking university classes. First year students in the International Pathway Program will be able to reach sophomore status after one year.Learn more

skills that are applicable in a wide variety of contexts by studying, developing, and manipulating economic models. You will become more aware of the institutional arrangements that drive consumption and production choices both domestically and abroad and use your analytical skills to derive the implications of alternative policy choices. Working directly with a faculty member, you will conduct independent research and present your findings, developing both oral and written communications skills

, sociology, education or philosophy.  Students who study and work in these fields will find many instances in which their interests and goals are the subject matter of politics.Why PLU?If you major in political science at PLU, you will acquire the skills expected of liberal arts graduates and gain special skills and abilities that enable you to pursue career paths in fields such as the law, private interest groups and associations, governmental employment, campaign management and political polling

American & Caribbean Studies (LACS) program and also Assistant Director at the UW Center for Human Rights (UW CHR), also housed at the Jackson School. I frequently utilize language skills I gained in my undergraduate major,  skills that were bolstered, specifically, by the study abroad programs. Also, my knowledge of, and experience with, Oaxaca transfers to other parts of Latin America, which helps better facilitate my interactions with our LACS and UW CHR partners in Latin America. For example, at

Department OfferingsAnthropology Laboratory – The departmental lab emphasizes archaeological teaching and provides an excellent opportunity for students to apply scientific methods of hypothesis testing in the context of the social sciences. Among the goals of the program are to teach archaeological recording techniques, to develop an understanding of the procedures and mastery of the techniques of specific instruments, and to familiarize students with the analysis of artifacts and paleoenvironmental