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atmosphere of ‘co-learning,’ in which students from Washington and Keithley and students from PLU are approaching the activity of learning from an equal playing field,” said student assistant director Nick Templeton ’19. “As a result, the atmosphere aims to be as welcoming as possible, eliminating hierarchies of learning and creating a space where learners of all ages come together to study,” continued Templeton, an English and Hispanic studies double major.Now that the co-directors have solid footing

in my HISP 301 class last semester that were enrolled in the School of Nursing. And I was thinking about the importance of studying narratives, and how important it can be in the field of healthcare. When you talk to a patient, how do they communicate their ailments? Like, how do they tell you what happened? How did they get hurt? What is the reason that they’re here, what happened? What happens, then, is that the patient starts weaving a narrative. “Well I was doing this… and then this happened

no “animal studies program” in any American university. In fact, the phrase “animal studies” does not even exist except as I am here using it informally. Even making the comparison between animals and historically oppressed people is much more likely to offend the people involved than ennoble the cause of animals. This even though many feminists, like Carol J. Adams in The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory (Continuum 1990), have argued animals and women have both been

adrenaline.” For me, Senn gave meaning to a disaster whose influence I never fully understood. I was in the fifth grade when 9/11 happened. I remember seeing the planes crashing on the news, but I couldn’t comprehend how horrendous the tragedy was until I heard it in Bobby’s words. His words were real, unlike anything I heard on the news. Our own fatigue While I learned a lot about compassion fatigue from our interviews and field experiences, I also learned a lot about my teammates, and myself because of

also some of the same attributes he values personally and ones that attracted him to PLU, he said. In one way, he feels that coming to PLU, with its strong academic programs, as well as being near Joint Base Lewis-McChord has intertwined the threads of his life. “I feel like everything in my life is coming together,” he said, adding that both his academic and leadership credentials will be valued here. Thomas W. Krise joined PLU softball Head coach Erin Van Nostrand and the team at Safeco Field to

learning both in and outside of classrooms. Qualifying photos for this category may depict student interaction with their host communities and their natural environment. Examples may include students in internship and service projects, field study, culturally relevant activities, group study tours, etc.1st Place Jessa de los Reyes “A Bridge to Friendship” College comes in many forms. This picture proves just that. This is from a 5 day trip in the winter forests of Norway. Hard to believe, but having

. Finally, my students are free. The asceticism of teaching entails respecting their freedom.While respecting the freedom of my students is prior to all else in teaching humanities, there still is much that I do to invite them into the space where the power of the humanities resides. I introduce them to the field of American religious history in the most engaging way possible, letting them see my own fascination with it. l show them issues; require them to translate material from one frame of reference

, and to see meaning-making as a social activity, something negotiated. This is true whether we are working in the classroom or the community center, in print or online.My field, English and Writing Studies, shows us how to read deeply and to understand the world. More specifically, it helps us see, value, and interpret the enormous scope and scale of life and experience. When we see ourselves reflected in a children’s book or when we are seen through our virtual identities, we are situated within a

raised in the Inland Northwest of Washington State. After crossing the Cascades, she began working toward a double major in studio art and English literature at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, WA, with the intent of becoming a secondary educator in the field of art or English. While not attending to her own education, she spent her summers away from college teaching preschool and elementary school aged children ne arts at the Corbin Art Center in Spokane, WA. Like the children she taught, art

in the eco-ministry field, facilitating spiritual and religious action on environmental and climate justice. It doesn’t just rely on religious foundations, however. The center engages secular and faith-based environmental leaders for education, outreach, support, and action. CEE is creating “incredible spaces where people from all walks of life come together for problems and solutions, while cultivating beauty and a sense of community,” he says. “It keeps me coming back to embrace the struggle