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  • Associate Professor of Music - Piano | Music | powerslm@plu.edu | 253-535-7647 | In demand as a solo and collaborative artist as well as an adjudicator and presenter, Dr.

    Lark Powers Associate Professor of Music - Piano Phone: 253-535-7647 Email: powerslm@plu.edu Office Location: Mary Baker Russell Music Center - 115 Office Hours: (On Campus) Mon - Fri: By Appointment Status:On Sabbatical Professional Biography Education D.M.A., Piano, University of Colorado Boulder M.M., Piano Performance, Peabody Institute M.M., Harpsichord Performance, Peabody Institute M.M., Theory Pedagogy, Peabody Institute G.P.D., Peabody Institute D.E.M., Conservatoire National de Region

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  • Gender, Sexuality, & Race Studies Program is proud to present the 2023 Senior Capstones.  May 25, 2023  -  AUC, Room 133  - 9:30 am-12:30 pm.

    , Environment, and Resistance: Cultivating a Community-Focused Pedagogy for a DJS-Focused First Year Experience Seminar.9:55 am - Sahara Jones``Thoughtful Inquiry``: Curriculum Creation for the First Year Experience Seminar 10:15 am - Isaac Madsen-BibeauWhat's In Our Attic, and What Do We Do With It Now?: A PLU Ethnographic Collections Repatriation Policy10:40 am - Annika Nordleaf-NelsonDecolonizing the Art Museum Narrative: Bainbridge Island Museum of Art Centering Indigenous Voices in Indigenous Strength

  • PLU’s vibrant vocal and choral program provides singers from all academic disciplines with outstanding opportunities for performance and study.

    , vocal pedagogy, and four semesters of conducting. This is one of the most extensive undergraduate choral music education degrees available. PLU graduates are consistently placed in outstanding elementary and secondary school choral music positions.See upcoming choral events hereLatest News A PLU Christmas Concert LIGHT Scholarships Inaugural Angela Meade Vocal Competition PLU music major Jack Burrows awarded first place at national singing competitionScholarshipsThe Department of Music offers more

    School of Music, Theatre & Dance
    253-535-8669
    Mary Baker Russell Music Center Tacoma, WA 98447
  • Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies | Native American and Indigenous Studies | storfjta@plu.edu | 253-535-8514 | Troy Storfjell (Sámi) specializes in Sámi and Indigenous studies, where his work is largely guided by Indigenist criticism and decolonize methodologies.

    Pedagogy of Sámi Place,” a pedagogical research project in Norwegian, Swedish and Finnish Sápmi, Summer 2016 Kelmer Roe Grant, Humanities Division, Pacific Lutheran University, for “Language Revitalization and Critical Indigenous Pedagogy,” joint project with Suzanne Crawford O’Brien and Kelly Hall, Fall 2014 and Spring 2015 NORTANA Travel Grant, The Royal Norwegian Foreign Ministry, Summer 2011 NORTANA Housing Grant, The Norwegian Researchers and Teachers Association of North America, Summer and Fall

  • Originally Published 1996 Introduction Like other disciplines such as English and Sociology, Foreign Languages also have a history in the United States which is linked to the changing values of society as a whole. The discipline of foreign language teaching has evolved over the last…

    acquisition of basic proficiency in the foreign language. As a result, innovation in foreign language pedagogy is not rewarded with promotion and tenure; in fact, teaching itself is deemed less important than non-pedagogically oriented research. A final consequence of the hierarchical division of labor in foreign language teaching is the preponderance of large multi-section courses, where syllabi and examinations are often course-wide, and where individual instructors (usually female graduate students

  • News articles and blog posts from Pacific Lutheran University.

    Flipping vs. Blending – What’s the Difference? by Dana Bodewes, Instructional Designer  Like it or not, technology is influencing the  process of teaching and learning in new and evolving ways. Two key trends that draw upon innovations in technology and pedagogy are the flipped learning format and the blended learning format. As… August 25, 2015 flipped learningonline learning

  • TACOMA, WASH. (Oct. 19, 2016)- Hosted by the Pacific Lutheran University Transformative Learning Club and Associate Professor of Communication Amanda Feller, the XII International Transformative Learning Conference is Oct. 20-23 at PLU. Devoted to embracing and engaging difficulties and challenges through learning, the conference is…

    new ways.” The conference will include more than 80 presentations by scholars from many of the world’s most prestigious universities. PLU Assistant Professor of Business Mark Mulder will present a paper titled “Transformation Intersection: Global Place-based Experience and Transformative Learning Pedagogy” at 9 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 22 in Hauge Admin 214. Read Previous A thousand-plus Lutes across generations join on campus to get a ‘Taste of Home’ for annual Homecoming celebration Read Next

  • News articles and blog posts from Pacific Lutheran University.

    Campuswire: An Online Discussion Tool for Engaging Course Communication The past few months have been a challenging time for education. PLU faculty had to quickly adapt their classrooms into an online environment and rethink how to deliver their pedagogy in entirely new ways. One of the biggest obstacles to online teaching and learning is… July 16, 2020

  • Look What (and Who) is New at PLU The newest members of PLU’s faculty gather in front of the library. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU Marketing & Communications It’s a historic time at PLU as we mark our 125th academic year, but…

    to the options it offers students, PLUTO also is an opportunity for PLU faculty to examine new technologies and innovations to improve the teaching and learning experience. As part of that process, PLUTO Institutes provide faculty with the training and support needed to design and implement online learning components. “The PLUTO Institute is thoughtful thinking about pedagogy, how we teach, what we teach, why we teach and thinking of better ways to deliver that to our students,” said Bridget

  • Message from Seth Dowland, WMGS Chair: We are delighted to present the abstracts of our 2020 Women's and Gender Studies capstone students.

    ensures basic needs are met through utilizing community connections to distribute resources, as a primary method through which trans* lives are made possible. This finding suggests that there should be a turn away from non-profits and a turn towards mutual aid when attempting to enable trans* ways of being. Brianna Papish Feminist Pedagogy in the K-12 CurriculumMy capstone research intends to answer the question of how Women’s and Gender Studies work or feminist theory can be implemented into K-12