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  • We will accept take any form of transcript you may have kept over the years, and in any format. If your schooling is a project-based curriculum instead of a traditional in-person or online

    curriculum. The following are required and recommended courses that may be used as a guideline when selecting classes to teach: Required: Mathematics – Two years of college prep math with an average grade of C or higher.* (Typically Algebra II) Foreign Language – Two years of the same language with an average grade of C or higher.* *If you are deficient in the math or foreign language entrance requirements, but are admissible by all other criteria, you may still be offered admission. You will be required

  • We will accept take any form of transcript you may have kept over the years, and in any format. If your schooling is a project-based curriculum instead of a traditional in-person or online

    students to challenge themselves through a college preparatory curriculum. The following are required and recommended courses that may be used as a guideline when selecting classes to teach: Required: Mathematics – Two years of college prep math with an average grade of C or higher.* (Typically Algebra II) Foreign Language – Two years of the same language with an average grade of C or higher.* *If you are deficient in the math or foreign language entrance requirements, but are admissible by all other

  • We will accept take any form of transcript you may have kept over the years, and in any format. If your schooling is a project-based curriculum instead of a traditional in-person or online

    students to challenge themselves through a college preparatory curriculum. The following are required and recommended courses that may be used as a guideline when selecting classes to teach: Required: Mathematics – Two years of college prep math with an average grade of C or higher.* (Typically Algebra II) Foreign Language – Two years of the same language with an average grade of C or higher.* *If you are deficient in the math or foreign language entrance requirements, but are admissible by all other

  • Notched ladders are used by the Dogon people to access the upper levels of granaries, climb onto the flat roofs of houses, and bridge clefts in cliffs.

    interior design because of their simplistic and abstract use of form. The Dogon mainly live in southwest Mali and parts of northwest Burkina Faso, constructing their adobe villages among the cliffs in an area that is relatively inaccessible and rugged. Agriculture is an essential part of survival and the Dogon primarily grow sorghum and millet for local consumption and onions to sell in markets as a cash crop. Granaries for storing sorghum and millet play a particularly important role in Dogon life

  • The Moba who live in northeastern Ghana and northwestern Togo are an African society that lives in patrilineal clans, in which individuals are grouped based on a common ancestor traced through the

    them through the use of protective medicine, however this is considered dangerous.  (Kreamer, 1987, 53) Moba figures are made in the likeness of the human form, but are abstract. Typically, figures have short legs in comparison to the rest of the body, limited facial features, lack of detailed hands and feet, and gender is only rarely indicated. The Moba found in the PLU collection have all of these characteristics and the genders are unknown. The figures also show sign of wood deterioration and

  • With a population of about 300,000, the Bwa live in both Mali and Burkina Faso. The Bwa are governed by a council of elders.

    carrying a different meaning. For example, the monkey is a trickster. Bush pigs are considered dirty, and are avoided by people in other masks. Others of more abstract animals, are various representations of Dwo/Do, who is charged with the purpose of safeguarding humanity. Birds are believed to be messengers, communicating from the Bwa people to the supernatural world. There is not much know about the bird masks because they are not common animals to be represented, but Dagan has suggested they

  • PLU Music Professor Gregory Youtz teams up with prominent Chinese poet Zhang Er, Professor at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, to create this new work around the life of an extraordinary woman poet of ancient China, Cai Yan. In this new opera, Fiery Jade:…

    the plot and the music is the combination of harp and cello,  working together to evoke the ancient Chinese zither called Guqin, which was played by the historical Cai Yan. The stage design by Art Giddings includes projections of luminous abstract paintings by Tacoma painter Becky Frehse, the makeup in Chinese theater style is by Portland makeup artist Ashley Bryant, who has studied in Beijing, and the costumes by Kathleen Anderson evoke China of the Han dynasty but also read as universal and

  • Earth & Diversity Week  is an opportunity to explore the interconnected relationship between diversity, justice, and sustainability and how these values experienced in our contexts today. Earth & Diversity Week is hosted annually during the week of Earth Day and features Earth Day lectures, campus…

    in the northwest United States, and the unique ways the sea has influenced their culture and identity. Reid prepared the following abstract for his lecture: “Twenty-five years ago, the Makah Nation successfully hunted a gray whale. This action drew the ire of animal rights activists who often rooted their criticism in racism and stereotypes of Indigenous authenticity. Drawing from the tribal nation’s historical and contemporary relationship with the sea, this talk will focus on Makah statements

  • Math Department has 4 MAA Honorees on Staff TACOMA, Wash. (April 20, 2015)— Pacific Lutheran University Associate Professor of Mathematics Daniel (Deej) Heath will be recognized with the 2015 Carl B. Allendoerfer Award, a national award sponsored by the Mathematical Association of America, in August.…

    Gene Abrams received the Allendoerfer prize for their article “Mad Veterinarians.” Sklar said when she originally got her Ph.D., her area of research was very abstract and not accessible by most undergraduates, let alone lay audiences. “But my passion has always been for popularizing and inspiring enthusiasm for mathematics, so during my time at PLU my scholarship has become increasingly devoted to these goals,” she said. “Mathematics Magazine is the perfect journal for presenting mathematics in an

  • Earth & Diversity Week is an opportunity to explore the interconnected relationship between diversity, justice, and sustainability and how these values experienced in our contexts today. Earth & Diversity Week is hosted annually during the week of Earth Day and features Earth Day lectures, campus…

    in the northwest United States, and the unique ways the sea has influenced their culture and identity. Reid prepared the following abstract for his lecture: “Twenty-five years ago, the Makah Nation successfully hunted a gray whale. This action drew the ire of animal rights activists who often rooted their criticism in racism and stereotypes of Indigenous authenticity. Drawing from the tribal nation’s historical and contemporary relationship with the sea, this talk will focus on Makah statements