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  • PLU French & Francophone Studies. At PLU, you will learn to speak, write, and comprehend French through interactive classes grounded in diverse media forms and cultural contexts.

    Bon appétit! Sometimes you just have to seize the day, cancel class, and have a French pique-nique. Learning Styles: The French & Francophone Studies program honors a diversity of learning styles. Here students build their interpretation of Christine de Pizan’s City of Ladies. High Impact Educational Practices: These students were the first to translate Louise Dupin’s “Preliminary Discourse” into English after first transcribing it from 250-year-old manuscripts. Cultural Events on Campus

    French & Francophone Studies Program
    Administration Building Room 222-G Tacoma, WA 98447-0003
  • Year-round programming in the multi-use Cultural Center includes musical concerts, lectures, films, language instruction, educational programs for school groups, and countless classes in Scandinavian

    EventsProgramsYear-round programming in the multi-use Cultural Center includes musical concerts, lectures, films, language instruction, educational programs for school groups, and countless classes in Scandinavian folk art and Nordic cuisine.Schedule An EventReserve the Scandinavian Cultural Center for your next eventMore view images descriptions print Select which month(s) you would like to print: Close Print view all events Annual EventsSeveral events have become annual traditions at the

  • Members of the Scandinavian Cultural Center receive personal invitations to members-only events, discounted ticket prices to paid events, a year's subscription to the Scandinavian Scene newsletter

    Get InvolvedBecome a MemberMembers of the Scandinavian Cultural Center receive personal invitations to members-only events, discounted ticket prices to paid events, a year’s subscription to the Scandinavian Scene newsletter (published quarterly), and a year’s subscription to the ResoLute (published bi-annually). But perhaps the most important reason to become a member is the opportunity to join others who share your interest and desire in promoting and preserving Nordic heritage. Membership

  • SCC Intern | Scandinavian Cultural Center | scancntr@plu.edu | Eleanor Sherry is a 2nd year PLU student working on a Bachelor of Musical Arts, with a focus on Jazz.

    Eleanor Sherry SCC Intern She/Her/Hers Email: scancntr@plu.edu Office Location:Anderson University Center - Room 109 Employed: 1 Year Biography Biography Eleanor Sherry is a 2nd year PLU student working on a Bachelor of Musical Arts, with a focus on Jazz. She first began working with the Scan Center this year, after being convinced to join the center at the Norwegian Cultural festival via lefse and pea soup. Eleanor works as the Scan Center’s general intern and does work that includes hosting

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  • “Tyranny of Oil” author to appear at PLU A nationally-known expert and critic of Big Oil will speak at PLU on Saturday, October 18, at 7:30 p.m. in Xavier Hall, Nordquist Lecture Hall, off Park Avenue South. The address is free and open to the…

    Georgetown University as well as a degree in public policy from Brown University. She has been associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Analysis and Ida Tarbell Fellow at Oil Change International, and is also the author of “The Bush Agenda” (William Morrow, 2006). Juhasz has served as congressional aide to two members of Congress and as the project director of the International Forum on Globalization. She has published in the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, and the Los Angeles Times

  • Hildahl Gallery: Our main exhibition space inside the Scandinavian Cultural Center. It consists of 6 bays equipped with special lighting, a flexible mounting system, security, and custom display

    ExhibitionsThe Scandinavian Cultural Center has three exhibition galleries: Hildahl Gallery: Our main exhibition space inside the Scandinavian Cultural Center. It consists of 6 bays equipped with special lighting, a flexible mounting system, security, and custom display cases. Larson Gallery: Always on view to the public as it is located in the hallway entrance to the Scandinavian Cultural Center. It consists of 5 custom-made, locked display cabinets. Stuen Room: An intimate gallery space where

  • 7 courses, 28 semester hours distributed as follows: IHON 111 - 112: Origins of the Contemporary World 8 semester hours Normally taken sequentially in the first year.

    concepts of justice and natural rights; capitalism and imperialism; the experience of war; narratives of progress and their critics; and globalization, sustainability, and the environment. (4) IHON 253 : Gender, Sexuality and Culture - H2 Uses multicultural, international, and feminist perspectives to examine issues such as socialization and stereotypes, relationships and sexuality, interpersonal and institutional violence, revolution and social change in the U.S. and in other selected international

  • What will the world look like when China is calling the shots? By Barbara Clements Even by the most conservative estimates, China will overtake the United States as the world’s largest economy by 2027 and will climb to the position of world economic leader by…

    by the book’s critics and noted that many of them use his predictions to debate the topic of China’s influence rather than dismiss his work entirely. Yet for pure clout, based on its populous, it’s hard to argue against some of Jacques’s views. This Asian giant with a billion-plus population-four times the population of the United States-will likely resist globalization as we know it and that, Jacques argues, will have powerful ramifications for the rest of the world and the U.S. in particular

  • The mission of the Scandinavian Cultural Center is to enrich understanding of Nordic and Nordic-American cultures in support of PLU’s educational mission and in recognition of PLU’s Nordic

    Photo compliments of Hallie PetersonStudy Away in Scandinavia and Beyond! The mission of the Scandinavian Cultural Center is to enrich understanding of Nordic and Nordic-American cultures in support of PLU’s educational mission and in recognition of PLU’s Nordic heritage. We also recognize the importance of global education, the growing interconnectedness of our world and the transformational experience of learning from, about and within other cultures and communities outside our own. The SCC

  • Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies | College of Liberal Studies | dowland@plu.edu | 253-535-8125 | Seth Dowland teaches courses in PLU’s International Honors, First-Year Experience, Religion, and Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies programs.

    for the Individual The New Dominionist Politics Books Gods, Games, and Globalization: New Perspectives on Religion and Sports Chapters 3, pgs. 58-73 (Mercer University Press 2019) : View Book Billy Graham: American Pilgrim Chapters 9, pgs. 216-231 (Oxford University Press 2017) : View Book The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Religion and American Politics Chapters 19, pgs. 225-236 (Wiley-Blackwell 2016) : View Book Family Values: Gender, Authority, and the Rise of the Christian Right (University of