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Brenda Llewellyn Ihssen Associate Professor of Early and Medieval Christian History Full Profile 253-535-7237 bll@plu.edu

understanding of music. Not open to majors. (4) MUSI 103 : History of Jazz - CX Survey of America's unique art form−Jazz: Emphasis on history, listening, structure, and style from early developments through recent trends. (4) MUSI 105 : The Arts of China Exploration of a number of Chinese art forms, primarily music but also including calligraphy, painting, tai chi, poetry, Beijing opera, film and cuisine. (4) MUSI 106 : Music of Scandinavia and the Nordic Region - CX, GE A survey of Nordic and Scandinavian

Students select 8 semester hours from the following courses that study Indigenous topics and perspectives. ENGL 213: Topics in Literature (4) (when the topic is ‘Literature of the PNW’) ENGL 288: Special Topics in English (4) (when the topic is ‘Indigenous Literature of North America’) HISP 322: Latin American Cultural Studies (4) HIST 333: Colonization and Genocide in Native North America (4) HIST 348: Lewis and Clark: History and Memory (4) HIST 351: History of Western and Pacific Northwestern U.S

Philosophy and Law Sarah Klein Attorney Crystal Aikin ’97 Recording artist Alice Ripley Tony Award-winning actress and musician William Foege ‘57 Presidential Medal of Freedom honoree Denny Heck Congressman Jason Reynolds Awarding-winning novelist and poet Sven Beckert Author and Harvard University history professor James McLurkin Senior Hardware Engineer Mae Ngai Professor of Asian American Studies and History at Columbia University Ijeoma Oluo Author The People’s Gathering Conversations About Diversity

ENVT 350 Environmental Methods of Investigation is a watershed-based course that examines the health of PLU’s watershed – the Chambers-Clover Creek Watershed. The class has been the centerpiece of our interdisciplinary Environmental Studies program since the minor was first offered in 1992. Later the program offered its first major in 1998. In the class, students study the health of our watershed using multiple disciplines – this semester, including Biology, Chemistry, Geosciences, History, and

animal or plant, researched its unique qualities, and put the species in context with their own identity and life history.  Kinesiology major/Psychology minor Breeze Bartle introduces the hardy succulent Echeveria elegans. Link to Video Biology major/Environmental Studies minor Blake Clapp reflects on the resilience of the PNW’s coho salmon. Link to Video Business major/Dance minor Kei-Lynn Ono tells us about O‘ahu’s invasive coqui frog. Link to Video

diversity and political and economic reaction and adjustment. Approved CoursesCourses Offered in this Concentration:  HISP 321: Iberian Cultural Studies HIST 335: Slavery, Pirates, and Dictatorship: History of the Caribbean RELI 245: Global Christian Theologies *Courses that are not listed here but which meet the content descriptions of the respective concentrations may be considered via petition to the Global Studies Program. Contact Department Chair, Dr. Ami Shah – shahav@plu.edu

. Michelson https://paradigm.presswarehouse.com/Books/BookDetail.aspx?productID=409703 The Tailors of Tomaszo: A Memoir of Polish Jews By Rena Margulies Chernoff and Allan Chernoff http://www.amazon.com/The-Tailors-Tomaszow-Memoir-History/dp/089672879X Children During the Holocaust By Patricia Heberer Rice http://www.amazon.com/Children-During-Holocaust-Patricia-Heberer/dp/0759119848 Salvaged Pages: Young Writers` Diaries of the Holocaust By Alexandra Zapruder http://yalepress.yale.edu/book.asp?isbn

Resources TitleAuthorPublisher Holocaust Mothers and Daughters: Family, History, and Trauma F. K. Clementi Brandeis UP, 2013 We Only Know Men: The Rescue of Jews in France during the Holocaust Patrick Henry Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2007 Jewish Resistance Against the Nazis Patrick Henry (Editor) Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2014 The Beautiful Beast: The Life & Crimes of SS-Aufseherin Irma Grese – 2nd ed Daniel Brown Golden West, 2004

. Michelson https://paradigm.presswarehouse.com/Books/BookDetail.aspx?productID=409703 The Tailors of Tomaszo: A Memoir of Polish Jews By Rena Margulies Chernoff and Allan Chernoff http://www.amazon.com/The-Tailors-Tomaszow-Memoir-History/dp/089672879X Children During the Holocaust By Patricia Heberer Rice http://www.amazon.com/Children-During-Holocaust-Patricia-Heberer/dp/0759119848 Salvaged Pages: Young Writers` Diaries of the Holocaust By Alexandra Zapruder http://yalepress.yale.edu/book.asp?isbn