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(Not) Persuadable: The Discourse About Persuasion Posted by: ramosam / August 29, 2022 August 29, 2022 By Katherine Voyles The conventional wisdom around the most recent cinematic take on Jane Austen’s Persuasion (2022) hardened almost immediately. Too Fleabag-y, too Bridgerton-y, and not Austen-y or Persuasion-y enough to tempt me was the consensus. I focus here mainly on U.S. based publications and reactions, but British GQ sums up takes from Britain’s papers. It’s worth slowing down to
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modeled Rilke’s wisdom was the great Norwegian anthropologist and explorer Thor Heyerdahl. In 1939, he was conducting research along the coast of British Columbia in a effort to understand the northern Pacific ocean currents, when he as called home because WW II had broken out in Europe. In 1998, 59 years later, and at age 83, Heyerdahl came to be our PLU commencement speaker, and he arrived three days early so that he could visit BC and continue his research. Heyerdahl personified our great human
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. Purposes, advantages, and limitations of standardized and other assessment tools are explored. (2) EDUC 429 : Diversity Responsive Children's Literature Explores diversity responsive children's literature and why these texts are imperative for all readers. Emphasizing identifying, selecting, and evaluating high-quality, diversity responsive books across genres and formats (e.g. novels in verse, graphic novels, print/digital) as well as strategies for advocacy and use in K-6 classrooms. (2) EDUC 438
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collaborators Brief overview: In many fields, research is conducted in teams or with a collaborator. This activity will help students learn about important voices within a field, as well as identify their own potential “collaborators” from existing scholarship. Instructors, particularly those in introductory courses, will be able to help students understand why certain voices are important in their field, and how to draw on the expertise of others. This activity can be used in lieu of a literature review
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. (4) ANTH 368 : Edible Landscapes: The Foraging Spectrum - ES, GE The course examines foragers in Africa, North America, and Australia. Using classic ethnographic literature, it provides a cultural ecological perspective of foraging societies in a variety of environments. It also examines how foraging studies inform archaeological research and the challenges that these peoples now face in a rapidly changing world. (4) ANTH 370 : The Archaeology of Ancient Empires - ES, GE The origins of
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research. Bachelors of Arts (BA) students present a capstone paper and seminar about a literature research topic. Each capstone student arranges for a faculty member to be their mentor. Capstone capstone seminars are presented during afternoons of the Chemistry Capstone Celebration Week in late April or early May each year. The Organic Special Projects Laboratory (CHEM 336)The Organic Special Projects Laboratory (CHEM 336) is a by-application-only alternative to the regular Organic II Laboratory
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(ESCI 498-499) in their final full year. Prerequisite: at least 8 semester hours of 300-level or above courses in earth science. Pass/Fail. (1) ESCI 499 : Capstone: Senior Seminar - SR Culminating experience applying geological methods and theory through original literature or field or laboratory research under the guidance of a faculty mentor, with written and oral presentation of results. Required of all majors in their senior year. Prerequisite: ESCI 498. (4)
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full-term courses. Instructors are encouraged to consider obtaining mid-semester feedback. Our colleagues on the Teaching Evaluation Task Force (2013-14) reviewed the literature on best practices for measuring effective teaching, and learned that, “response rates for end of term evaluations increase when a mid-course evaluation is also administered.” Mid-semester feedback is consistent with the Task Force’s recommendation for formative assessment, as it “can foster our professional development as
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Professor of Philosophy and Literature, Whitman College, Washington Title: “Seeing Things Differently: Community and Theatre in Charlotte Delbo’s ‘Auschwitz and After'” Dee Simon, Baral Family Executive Director, Holocaust Center for Humanity, Seattle, Washington Simon is a second generation survivor. Her mother was interned in Theresienstadt during WWII. 10:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. – Reconsidering Anne Frank (Regency Room, AUC) For many people, their first encounter with studying about the Holocaust comes
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resistance to those forces) in the United States, and especially in the 20th century. Her research into the subject include examinations of anti-gay ballot measures in the 1970s, racism in the military in World War II, and feminist voices in popular literature in the post-WWII decades. She is actively involved in interdisciplinary programs and fields of study, including Women’s Studies and Peace Studies, and has participated in research and projects that center on the importance of historical thinking in
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