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undergraduate situation. But participants in PLU’s innovative three-year, four-residency program—52 to 55 of them, counting all three years’ cohorts—come to campus only every August for 10 days, along with highly distinguished faculty. “It’s like if you mash up a boot camp and a summer camp,” Barot said. “It’s fun, but it’s incredibly rigorous.” Impactful Poetry Current MFA student Lena Khalaf Tuffaha wrote a heartbreakingly humanizing look at the Gaza conflict – Running Orders . Truthdig calls it “as gut

and development. This course is a requirement for all students in the Ed.D. program and for the superintendent certification. (2) EDUC 745 : School Board Relations The school board governs and the superintendent administers the school district. While this may sound simple, it is often the most difficult area for the board and superintendent to clarify. Not having a clear understanding of the board and superintendent's proper role can lead to poor communication, mistrust, and, in the end, conflict

same marks are also incised into the cheeks of child that she holds in her arms; the child carried on her back only has these marks on its forehead. These are marks of scarification, which was a common practice among many kingdoms of pre-colonial Nigeria, including the Yoruba. To create these marks on the human body, lines were incised into the skin, and left untreated for permanent scars to appear. The design of the scarification marks served as an indication of ethnic and lineage identities, and

. Award/Stipend/Benefits: Students receive awards valued at up to $45,000 in total support during their junior and senior years, including paid summer internships at NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) facilitiesFrederick Douglass Global Fellowship ScholarshipThe Frederick Douglass Global Fellowship scholarship is open to first-, second- and third-year students who have a GPA of 3.0 or higher and are from ethnic backgrounds typically underrepresented on study abroad programs. Award

, media influence on the attitudes toward suicide, and conceptions of self—just to name a few. “What I remember about his approach to teaching was the way he drew students into the material by telling stories about his life,” says Sociology Chair Kate Luther, a former PLU student of Arturo’s. “For example, as he taught about racial justice and ethnic identity, he would share about his experiences growing up in Colombia in a Polish family. I was grateful to Arturo’s support as I learned to teach

institutions, such as the economy, education, and criminal justice. Prerequisite: SOCI 101 or consent of instructor. (4) SOCI 336 : Deviance A general introduction to a variety of nonconforming, usually secretive, and illegal behavior, such as corporate crime, drug dealing, prostitution, industrial spying, child abuse, and suicide, with emphasis on the conflict of values and life-experiences within a society. Prerequisite: SOCI 101, SOCI 201, or consent of instructor. (4) SOCI 378 : Consumption An

venue for students and faculty to study literature written by and about sexual and gendered minority communities, including women writers of color and LGBTQ authors. Course content varies. Course is repeatable once with different topic. (4) ENGL 396 : Studies in Literature, Race, and Ethnicity - IT, GE Study of literature through the lens of race and ethnicity. Students explore English-language texts written by authors of color, and/or writers from marginalized ethnic, immigrant, or indigenous

challenge, it was also our motivation to work harder. Our efforts paid off when we produced our first annual API Club event in our second year. We were one of the stronger cultural clubs on campus, so other clubs looked to us for support in brainstorming and planning their own events. We were also fortunate that our club advisor was the director of Student Involvement and Leadership and the Multi-Ethnic Resource Center. As a result, we had the support of campus administration, a big victory in its own

, Philosophical and Religious Studies in 2011. She is also affiliated with the Center for Jewish Studies and the Melikian Center for Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies. Her research focuses on Polish-Jewish relations, antisemitism, and ethnic violence in Poland and in Polish-Jewish diaspora after the Holocaust. She teaches courses on the Holocaust, Modern Jewish History, East European Jewish History, History of Antisemitism, Poland in WWII, and Western Civilization, among others. She is an author of

/discrimination, financial difficulties, family conflict). We will also discuss the history of anti-Asian racism and present recent data on racism targeting Chinese and Chinese Americans during COVID-19. Participants will learn how to help Chinese American parents talk to their children about race and promote Chinese family strengths, parent-child communication and emotional wellbeing. Racial-ethnic socialization is defined as parents’ transmission of messages about race to their children, including cultural