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  • 253.535.7321 www.plu.edu/liberal-studies/ cols@plu.edu Patricia Bixel, Ph.D., Interim Dean Degrees Offered The College of Liberal Studies educates students to engage critically and creatively with what it means to be human and how humans form communities across diverse cultural contexts, time periods, and environments. Disciplines within the College are foundational to the Liberal Arts, our Core Curriculum, and interdisciplinary programs that reach across the University. Our majors prepare

  • , or shorter January Term and summer programs from a diverse rotating list of countries that include Italy, Namibia and New Zealand. For those looking to explore other parts of Washington or the United States, domestic options include Neah Bay, Washington, and Honolulu, Hawaii. Internships, research, language immersion and cultural exploration are foundational elements of study away experiences, and vary from program to program. Whereas many of PLU’s peer institutions contract with outside

  • When Jordan Levy first visited Honduras in high school, he had no idea that someday he’d be serving as an expert witness on Honduras in the U.S. court system. He first visited the Central American nation to perform volunteer work, and then returned annually throughout…

    Jordan Levy: Anthropology and a Just Society Posted by: Zach Powers / November 15, 2019 Image: Professor Jordan Levy in front of the Federal Courthouse in Downtown Tacoma. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) November 15, 2019 By Lora ShinnGuest Writer for Marketing & CommunicationsWhen Jordan Levy first visited Honduras in high school, he had no idea that someday he’d be serving as an expert witness on Honduras in the U.S. court system.He first visited the Central American nation to perform volunteer

  • and China to Trinidad and Tobago, or shorter January Term and summer programs from a diverse rotating list of countries that include Italy, Namibia and New Zealand. For those looking to explore other parts of Washington or the United States, domestic options include Neah Bay, Washington, and Honolulu, Hawaii. Internships, research, language immersion and cultural exploration are foundational elements of study away experiences, and vary from program to program. Whereas many of PLU’s peer

  • & Gender” COMA 303: Gender and Communication ENGL 217 when taught as “Queer American Literature” ENGL 232: Women’s Literature ENGL 300 when taught as “Gender Literacies” ENGL 348 when taught as “19th Century American Women Writers”; “Anne Frank: Holocaust Icon” ENGL 397: Sex, Gender, and the Holocaust ENGL 395: Studies in Literature, Gender, and Sexuality FREN 306/406: French and Francophone Feminisms HISP 433 when taught as “politics and Gender Identities in Contemporary Southern-Cone Narrative and

  • 8th WANG CENTER SYMPOSIUM Migration: Towards an Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Understanding of Human Mobility

    Opening Keynote AddressMarch 8-9, 2018, Anderson University CenterFree and open to PLU and surrounding communities; registration strongly recommended The greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail. – Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela PRÉCIS8th WANG CENTER SYMPOSIUM Migration: Towards an Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Understanding of Human MobilityMaking use of a defining trait, mobility, humans and non-humans alike embark on both short and long, often

    Wang Center for Global and Community Engaged Education
    868 Wheeler St. Tacoma, WA 98447
  • Norwegian and Scandinavian Area Studies Program (pdf) view download

  • The Seventh Annual Lutheran Studies Conference will take place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., on Thursday, Sept.

    Trelstad, University Chair of Lutheran Studies, and “The Church’s Song:  Always in Reform” Dr. David Cherwien, Director of The National Lutheran Choir“A Theology of African American Sacred Song and Liberation” Dr. Stephen Newby, Seattle Pacific UniversityScheduleFind out what will be happening during the conference.Lutheran Studies Conference ScheduleSpeakersGet to know more about this year's conference speakers.Learn more about the speakers of 500! SingAboutLearn more about the annual Lutheran Studies

    Dr. Marit Trelstad, University Chair in Lutheran Studies
  • , race, class and gender. Prerequisite: HISP 252, HISP 300, HISP 301 or 351, or permission of instructor. (4) HISP 322 : Latin American Cultural Studies - VW, GE Interdisciplinary exploration of the construction of “Latin America” throughout history as it relates to conditions of coloniality and negotiations of culture, race, religion, class, and gender. Prerequisite: HISP 252, 300, 301 or 351, or permission of instructor. (4) HISP 325 : Introduction to Hispanic Literary Studies - IT, GE Acquaints

  • 200 : Introduction to Holocaust and Genocide Studies - VW, GE This multidisciplinary class examines the Holocaust and selected examples of genocide and systematic mass violence to probe the intersections of dehumanization, violent oppression, cultural destruction, and war in the last two centuries. Voices of resisters and case studies from the U.S. are included. (4) HGST 287 : Special Topics in Holocaust & Genocide Studies To provide undergraduate students with new, one-time, and developing