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Four PLU women from the Department of Economics present their research at a national undergraduate conference in Memphis, Tennessee.
’17 also values that bond. She studied the effect of health status on economic growth, and struggled with some of the public responses she received amid her presentation in Memphis. “People weren’t afraid to be critical,” she said. “That was not something I had experience with. It was difficult at first.” Domini confided in Travis for emotional support before, during and after the experience. “She helped me realize that just because people are curious and have questions, doesn’t meant that what
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Landon Packard ’17 says it’s time to rescue the rescuers. The sociology major researched first responders’ emotional labor — the process of managing emotions to satisfy the requirements of a
and success by sharing our own passion for sociology,” Leon-Guerrero said. “Their capstone highs and lows are no different than what we’ve experienced in our own scholarship.” Leon-Guerrero noted that one theme within Packard’s findings surprised her. “His subjects reported that they were never formally trained on how to manage their emotional labor,” she said. “Landon was critical about the lack of preparation and training for emotion management and questioned the long-term effects on first
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It’s been 25 years since David Akuien ’10 was separated from his mother at age 5, 16 years since he came to the United States as an orphan.
a black man. I’m a second-class citizen here with the set of struggles that come with that. To this day I experience racism essentially wherever I go in America. People making assumptions about me before they even meet me. Having this color of skin is a death sentence here when it comes to leading a normal American life. I can’t even go down the street on a nice day a lot of times without someone thinking I am a dangerous person. This color of skin isn’t associated with good things in America
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1. Critical questioning of current knowledge and valuesA commitment to the advance of knowledge and skill is nothing new at a Lutheran university. Indeed, the Lutheran reform of education began with one sixteenth century professor’s doubts and questions concerning the received tradition of the previous three hundred years. While the dominant paradigm of religion informed almost every aspect of late medieval life and thought – including education – Martin Luther, among others, asked if that
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TACOMA, WASH. (August 10, 2015)- Each summer PLU students fan out across the globe — working, researching, studying or just plain relaxing. Many students leverage the summer months as an opportunity to add depth to their resumes by completing internships at local and corporate businesses,…
. The hands-on learning has shown me that a job in sports allows for variations in each day and each week, which makes things extremely interesting and inviting to come back to. The field allows for open-minded thinking and idea generation, which brings out a lot of creativity. Has your experience as a member of the PLU Men’s Golf team contributed to your interest interning in sports marketing? I would definitely say that my experience as a collegiate athlete has contributed to my interest in sports
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Spring Graduate Programs Week March 11-15, 2024 Thinking about what’s next after you graduate from PLU? Did you know PLU has SEVEN different master’s (and two doctorate) programs, open to ALL PLU students, no matter what you majored in? We invite you to participate in our PLU Graduate Programs Week to learn more about PLU’s graduate programs – career options and opportunities, program lengths (some as short as 9 months!), admission requirements and how to apply, and costs and financial aid
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Austen’s critique of what media can do to unsuspecting consumers can teach us about our current relationship with digital media and visual culture. The final project will ask students to develop a podcast based on Austen’s work where they explore critical questions about diversity and representation in digital media and visual culture. Please note: We will do a lot of reading, writing, and critical thinking in this course! The course is set up so that students work in groups throughout the entire
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Presentations Critical Library and Pedagogy Symposium, Do I Have to Have a Librarian Come to my Class? Power imbalances and power moves in library instruction., University of Arizona (09/2020) Critical Library and Pedagogy Symposium, Design Thinking in an Hour? Or, Design Thinking: A Cautionary Tale., University of Arizona (11/2018) LOEX, Charting the Library Firmament: Transforming Teaching to Create Meaningful Learning Experiences for Students., Lexington, KY (05/2017) Biography Roberto is an Instruction
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Chapters Welcome to Your Library: How an Orientation Can Set Up International Students for Academic Success. (ACRL 2019) Selected Presentations Critical Library and Pedagogy Symposium, Do I Have to Have a Librarian Come to my Class? Power imbalances and power moves in library instruction., University of Arizona (09/2020) Critical Library and Pedagogy Symposium, Design Thinking in an Hour? Or, Design Thinking: A Cautionary Tale., University of Arizona (11/2018) LOEX, Charting the Library Firmament
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impact the delivery of and access to social services; apply critical thinking to analyze, formulate, and advocate for policies that advance human rights and social, economic, and environmental justice.3. Upon completion of the social work program, students will be able to assess individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities by collecting and organizing data and applying critical thinking to interpret data, applying knowledge of human behavior and the social environment and other
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