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Originally published in 1999 My lifelong commitment to the liberal arts took root in the fourth grade, when I met my classmate and dear life-long friend Sally. During that entire year, Sally rode her bike to my house, and after school, we both rode our…
. It is an identity molded from without. If transposed to the educational front, one might construe professional education in a parallel fashion, as the imbuing of factual knowledge and skills requisite for a career within a particular professional group. In this sense, an English course that might be based upon learning and using the bibliographic guidelines of the Modern Language Association would have a professional orientation. And a language course designed primarily to prepare students for
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if only electronically. We hope that this page will allow alumni to reconnect and current students to meet some of their predecessors. Please email us with pictures and stories to share.
today.Allison Snow (2001)After graduating in 2001 I spent three years living, teaching, and traveling in Guayaquil, Ecuador. I returned to Washington to complete a master’s degree in Elementary Education and will start teaching 5th grade in September 2007 at Puesta del Sol Elementary in Bellevue.L.A. Beard (1998)After graduating from PLU with a BA in anthropology in 1998, I moved to San Jose, Costa Rica where I taught English to third through sixth grade students at a French elementary school. Teaching
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For the 2012-2013 academic year, 877 students will have graduated from PLU. Spring Commencement takes place Sunday, May 26 in the Tacoma Dome. (Photo by John Froschauer) In their own words Compiled and edited by Chris Albert This spring, new PLU graduates closed a chapter…
teach English language arts on either the Pine Ridge or the Rosebud Indian Reservation as a 2013 Teach For America Corps member. The second year of the program I will be taking classes to obtain a master’s degree in secondary administration and then I plan to either become a principal, or continue teaching either language arts, Spanish or German at the middle school or high school level. Ian Metz, Bachelor of Arts in political science with a minor in global studies Ian Metz ’13 is from Olympia, Wash
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Welcome to the Spring 2020 Global Studies Capstones.
closer look at the contemporary effects of colonialism in Puerto Rico and how the United States has continued to perpetuate those effects, specifically in the areas of language, culture, education, migration, economics, and politics. Through an anthropological, economic, and linguistic lens, it is clear that after a century of U.S. colonial rule Puerto Rico has become a nation that obsesses over monolingualism, rejects the United States and English, has unequal educational opportunities, demonstrates
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From Diversity Abroad: Minority & Students of Color Abroad In the U.S. you might be classified by your ethnicity, but abroad, you may be identified first as an American.
diverse landscape and population, you will find all this and more in the land down under. Australia is a vast land of cosmopolitan cities and endless wilderness. Many United States students choose to study abroad in Australia because English is the official language, its universities are highly-ranked, and the higher education system gives students opportunities to conduct independent research. Australia’s unique history has shaped the diversity of its peoples, and the current state of diversity and
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The Spanish word, Duende (du-end-ay), has come to refer to the mysterious power that art has to deeply move a person. Soon-to-be graduates in the Department of Art and Design chose this word to rally around for their senior exhibition in the University Gallery, opening…
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
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describing lost or stolen luggage to airport officials. Always label your luggage with your name, address and telephone number in both English and the language spoken in the location(s) of your program, both inside and outside of each piece of luggage. Personal Item/Carry-on Luggage: – Items to keep on you at all times while you travel: Passport and visa (plus photocopies of each) Copy of letter of admission from the study abroad program (if applicable) Airline bookings and/or rail passes Cash and
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Associate Professor of Biology Jacob Egge works with students during a summer semester research project. (Photo by PLU Photographer John Froschauer) Faculty-Student Research Provides a Cornerstone of the PLU Mission By Pacific Lutheran University Marketing & Communications and the Office of the Provost This year’s…
. Division of Humanities Charles Bergman, Ph.D., and Nevis Granum Department of English Kelmer-Roe Fellowship Our research has three components: First, we joined Dr. Jane Goodall in a four-person team—Bergman, Granum, an ornithologist from the World Parrot Trust and Dr. Goodall—on a research excursion in Uganda in which we released 17 “laundered parrots.” The final remnants of about 200 smuggled birds, these parrots were historic—the first such release ever of parrots in Africa. They had been trapped in
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The following terms are used to describe academic standing at PLU; separate progression and retention policies may be in place in individual programs; please see the individual program section of the
Kappa Delta (Sociology & Criminal Justice) Phi Alpha (Social Work) Alpha Psi Omega (Theatre) Phi Alpha Theta (History) Beta Alpha Psi (Accounting) Pi Kappa Delta (Forensics) Beta Gamma Sigma (Business) Phi Kappa Phi (University-Wide) Chi Alpha Sigma (Athletics) Psi Chi (Psychology) Iota Iota Iota (Triota) (Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies) Sigma Tau Delta (English) Lambda Pi Eta (Communication) Sigma Theta Tau International (Nursing) Mu Phi Epsilon (Music) Theta Alpha Kappa (Religious Studies and
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Lute Telehealth Lute Telehealth is a resource for PLU students that expands access to mental health and medical care by providing HIPAA compliant access to online or phone-based services 24/7/365.
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