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. I’m especially interested in the proximate experiences of two immigrant groups in our area, the Chinese and the Norwegians. As the Norwegian immigrants were looking to found a college to educate their children (that became PLU), Chinese immigrants were expelled from Tacoma and dispossessed of their flourishing businesses in the area. By putting PLU’s history in the broader community context, I want to help us think about how connections and exclusions have been developed and continue to shape our
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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
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ResourcesChicago Manual of Style Modern Language Association (MLA) AP Stylebook Oxford English Dictionary Elements of StyleGetting PublishedSelfpublishing.com Tools & Resources Writer’s Digest Published.comBook ArtsBook Arts Web Center for Book Arts Independent Publishing Resource Center Tacoma Wayzgoose Letterology (Jennifer Kennard) Kyoko Imazu The Third & the Seventh (Alex Roman) Presstidigitation Springtide PressPublishing Studies ProgramsAmerican Printing History Association Mark Samuel Lasner Fellowship
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individual and symbolic levels, addressing private losses as well as the enormous scope of National Socialist violence as a whole. As they give testimony to the past, might these artworks also offer opportunities for healing in the present? Dr. Mathews received her Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Texas at Austin, writing on the role of the artist in public discourse in East and West Germany in the 1950s. In addition to writing and teaching on topics such as identity and memory in modern and
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sustainable tourism Learn MoreOaxaca, Mexico: Development, Culture, Environment and Social Change in Mexico Explore Mexican history, development, society and environment through an interdisciplinary view of Ancient, Modern, and Contemporary Mexico Learn about U.S.-Mexico relations and gain an in-depth perspective of Mexican immigration to — and the hispanization of — the United States Experience approaches to, and strategies for, social change, and the value placed on these processes by diverse groups in
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Course DescriptionsClick on the pictures for course descriptions.The French Language Sequence French 102 students get ready to play soccer on je ne sais quoi day. French/Francophone Literature & Film 2023 French class with Assistant Professor Lise Mba Ekani Topics in French/Francophone Cultures Way back in 2012, French 310 students went to Seattle to compare the Space Needle (built for the 1962 World’s Fair) to the Eiffel Tower (built for the 1889 World’s Fair).
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terribly important they consider themselves a part of a community and that they serve that community. I think art should serve a purpose and that should be a purpose that people can understand.” Youtz, who fittingly teaches a class called On Creativity, involves himself, additionally, in a wide variety of community engagements, including but not limited, to assistant teaching at the Tacoma Youth Symphony, and membership on a board for the building of a Chinese park on the Tacoma water front. “I’m all
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, Jakob was even able to access the world-famous Bodleian Library. Jakob had access to educational opportunities at Oxford that he wouldn’t have anywhere else, including classes led by organizations such as the International Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders, as well as university lectures given by esteemed academic leaders. He even had the opportunity to take a one-on-one course with an Oxford professor focused on Modernist poetry, which Jakob describes as “one of my favorite classes of all time
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body but her spirit and poetry continue to speak. Mary Oliver’s words are as common in our community as the scriptures themselves. Her “Instructions for Living a Life” are the armature of our liturgy. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. These same words have formed my own personal liturgy. For almost two decades they were posted above my desk or on the first page of my journal. Her words were painted on an exterior door that leads from my back yard to the alley. A reminder to me every time
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, early American, and 17th- and 18th-century British literature. He has served as General Editor of the McNair Papers monograph series and Managing Editor of War, Literature, and the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities. He has published numerous articles and other works, including Caribbeana: An Anthology of English Literature of the West Indies, 1657-1777 (University of Chicago Press). Krise will arrive at PLU in June to assume the presidency. He succeeds Loren J. Anderson who will leave
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