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International AffairsInteraction on an international scale raises complex issues that are best analyzed from multiple disciplinary perspectives. Diplomacy and political relations require understanding not just of political relationships, but also of economic interactions. Conflict resolution at both domestic (such as in Rwanda) and international (such as between Israel and Palestine) levels requires diplomacy, but also deep cultural understandings. This concentration is designed to provide
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Our Story In 2003, former PLU provosts Paul Menzel and Patricia Killen secured a $2 million grant from the Lilly Endowment to launch a program for the exploration of vocation at PLU. What do we mean by vocation? Our understanding of this term is informed by Martin Luther’s view: a vocation is a calling to work with others for the good of others. In the Wild Hope Center for Vocation we speak of vocation as being called to promote human and ecological flourishing. This understanding aligns
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and the prestigious Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education. As a result, we debuted the first-ever Spring Spotlight Series, four months of events that naturally fell under the perfectly PLU theme “ …and justice for all? ” The semester focus was such a natural fit, we decided to take the concept one step further and devote this whole edition of ResoLUTE to the justice theme, too. Justice—and the search for justice—is one of The Big Three pillars of Pacific Lutheran University (along with
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was generous with a financial aid package and credit for my International Baccalaureate (IB) classes. So, I’m graduating in three years thanks to a year of college credit. What was it like going to school during COVID? The first full year was primarily spent in dorm-room isolation on Zoom calls. We took meals back to our dorm rooms. It was an odd way to start. But I made great friends on campus during the COVID year and now live off-campus with some of them. Now as things have returned to normal
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. Rikke Platz Cortsen is Danish lecturer at University of Texas, Austin where she teaches Danish language and culture including courses on Hans Christian Andersen, Northern European Comics, Contemporary Scandinavian Stories and Copenhagen as a City of Culture. She got her PhD from the University of Copenhagen with a thesis on time and space in comics. She researches space and place in comics in the Nordic countries and her latest peer reviewed publication is “Kverneland and Fiske in the Footsteps of
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Museum, and the Lutheran Academy of Scholars at Harvard University; he has received research awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, among others; he is a founding member on the board of editors of a German journal, Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte, and of an online journal, Contemporary Church History Quarterly; and he serves as Chair of the Committee on Ethics, Religion and the Holocaust at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. In 2004 Ericksen delivered the biennial Kaplan Holocaust Lectures
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. Instructor Biography: Instructor Ms. Jing Yu is a lecturer from Sichuan University, CIWA’s partner institution in China. Before joining UW as a guest instructor in fall 2018, Ms. Yu worked as a Chinese language instructor at the University of Puget Sound for three years. Prior to that, Ms. Yu taught Chinese language and culture courses for two years in an institution of higher education in South Korea.Tai Chi ClassCIWA offers Tai Chi classes for UW faculty and staff on a quarterly basis. Tai Chi is “an
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background checks before earning a residency teaching certificate. When that expires (after about four years), teachers have a choice: move on to gain a ProTeach Professional Certification, or go through the more-rigorous program to receive a certificate from the National Board of Professional Teacher Standards, awarding them the title of a National Board Certified Teacher. The NBCT process consists of four parts, involving analysis and reflection in writing as well as submitted videos and student work
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Homecoming Highlights Awards Recognition Alumni Profiles Alumni Events Class Notes Calendar Home Alumni News Alumni Awards & Recognition David Olson Special Recognition Award D r. David Olson served as athletic director and Dean of the School of Physical Education at PLU from 1968-96. During Olson’s tenure, PLU athletic teams won nine National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Championships, including three each in football and women’s soccer, two in softball and one in women’s cross country. At
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December 2, 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uu94p78Pz0 ‘Sunrise’ and Stardom By Sandy Deneau Dunham One amazing Sunrise is shining quite a spotlight on Luke Olson ’16. Olson and his band, The Olson Bros, are the new national champions of The Texaco Country Showdown songwriting contest, billed as the nation’s largest and longest-running country-music talent search. The band’s original song Sunrise earned its members $5,000 and a January trip to Nashville, where they will be introduced at
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