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  • by Dana Bodewes, Instructional Designer You may have noticed PLU promoting a new summer session campaign called “Stay Connected”. The campaign hopes to improve retention, decrease time to matriculation, and increase enrollments in summer session courses. A February 2015 survey of PLU students found:  …

    % plan to return home over summer break. To meet the challenge of staying connected to students during the summer, PLU will be offering twelve fully online courses taught by PLUTO trained faculty. Courses range from Christian Ethics to Beginning Watercolor Painting and allow students to fulfill general education requirements. Enrollment and budget challenges provide PLU with an opportunity to consider the evolving needs of our students. Pioneering faculty are helping PLU to explore how online

  • Douglas McGrath’s Emma (1996) stresses the importance of kindness and familial harmony, themes which are absent from Autumn de Wilde’s cool rendition, Emma . (2020). In the novel, Emma learns to be kind and caring to others as well as be considerate and helpful after…

    brightly lit with holiday decorations. Snow in de Wilde’s film is not just a background element that suggests a slight narrative tension as in McGrath’s adaptation. It is dark and unnerving. De Wilde’s Mr. Elton (Josh O’Connor) tries to make cheerful conversation at the dinner table and gleefully remarks that it looks like snow outside. Immediately there is panic. Isabella’s and John’s reactions to the snow foreground their animosity and annoyance with each other. In the novel, when Mr. Knightley

  • Sometimes the most random moments leave lasting impressions. Alex Reed’s first experience at PLU happened when she was a high school sophomore, when her school band came to the university to attend a music clinic. “This trip definitely put PLU on my radar as I…

    Journey.” My documentary focuses on the coming out stories of six LGBTQ students on campus, as well as several coming out scenes in popular TV series from the last couple years (for example “Heartstopper,” “Queer as Folk” and “Sex Education”). In the wake of groundbreaking queer representation on TV, I’m investigating the questions: What’s still missing from the mainstream coming out narrative? And how could these stories be better told to more accurately depict people’s real life experiences? My goal

  • The Intersection of Diversity, Justice and Sustainability Dr. Carolyn Finney addresses PLU’s University Conference 2014 on Sept. 3. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) At PLU’s University Conference 2014, UC-Berkeley Professor Shares Trailblazers’ Forgotten Stories—and Her Own Inspiring Path By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU Marketing & Communications Dr.…

    trying to sustain? We can’t afford to sustain an environmental narrative where my parents and others are ignored.” When Finney started collecting such previously ignored narratives for her dissertation (which, 10 years later, became her book), it helped her see how diversity, justice and sustainability come together—and it motivated her to tell those stories. Finney cited black environmentalist John Francis, who, after a 1970s oil spill, walked all across the U.S. and Latin America for 22 years

  • TACOMA, WASH. (Oct. 26, 2015)- Dr. Beth Griech-Polelle is taking on the dark roots of the Nazi’s genocidal plan in her first lecture as the new Kurt Mayer Endowed Chair of Holocaust Studies. To hit the ground running, Griech-Polelle, who joined the Lute family this…

    forgotten. Griech-Polelle, who moved this summer to Tacoma from Ohio, where she taught at Bowling Green State University, said she enjoys lecturing and discussing “history as a narrative, like telling a story.” “It’s fine to listen to lectures and those can be powerful,” Griech-Polelle said. “But hearing from someone that actually survived and can attest to what happened will change your life forever.” Other than scheduling lectures, teaching, and adapting the Holocaust and Genocide Studies courses

  • TACOMA, WASH. (April 3, 2018) — In response to years of student inquiries and interest, Pacific Lutheran University’s Department of Communication announced a new concentration in Film and Media Studies. Courses, which will be available for registration April 16-27, launch in fall 2018. The new…

    Film and Media Studies. Courses, which will be available for registration April 16-27, launch in fall 2018.The new concentration consists of up to 44 credit hours in core communication courses, as well as classes in theory, criticism, research and media production, all of which aim to engage students with interests in various types of media, including television, narrative and documentary filmmaking, advertising and marketing, and more. Amy Young, department chair and associate professor of

  • Sometimes the most random moments leave lasting impressions. Alex Reed’s first experience at PLU happened when she was a high school sophomore, when her school band came to the university to attend a music clinic. “This trip definitely put PLU on my radar as I…

    six LGBTQ students on campus, as well as several coming out scenes in popular TV series from the last couple years (for example “Heartstopper,” “Queer as Folk” and “Sex Education”). In the wake of groundbreaking queer representation on TV, I’m investigating the questions: What’s still missing from the mainstream coming out narrative? And how could these stories be better told to more accurately depict people’s real life experiences? My goal in creating this documentary is to prompt a conversation

  • The University of Washington Molecular Engineering Materials Center (UW MEM·C) summer REU program is focused on exposing underrepresented minorities and veterans to a viable and relevant career pathway focused on materials and energy research. OUR FOCUS: MATERIALS RESILIENCE AND INNOVATION Undergraduates, including veterans, will find…

    a graduate student and faculty to develop a research project, gain training in relevant techniques and instrumentation, collect data, and finally produce a poster and research abstract. Students participate in a weekly seminar on undergraduate research covering research ethics, writing a research abstract, making a scientific poster. Students participate in a weekly Materials Science special interest group in which they read scientific journals or tour other labs. Duration: 9 weeks Dates: June

  • Pacific Lutheran University leaders recently announced two new natural sciences programs. Officially launching in fall 2022, students will be able to pursue a major in applied mathematics and/or a minor in engineering and industry. The applied mathematics major builds upon the existing mathematics courses, incorporates…

    complete an internship/industry experience and/or courses in business, economics, history and ethics. “Project-based learning is a different kind of learning than in-class learning and adds a different kind of value to a student’s degree,” said Bogomil Gerganov, associate professor of physics. “Internships and apprenticeships are extremely valuable training for future engineers, and students with such experience are more attractive job and graduate school candidates.” To fulfill the engineering

  • The University of Washington Molecular Engineering Materials Center (UW MEM·C) summer REU program is focused on exposing underrepresented minorities and veterans to a viable and relevant career pathway focused on materials and energy research. OUR FOCUS: MATERIALS RESILIENCE AND INNOVATION Undergraduates, including veterans, will find…

    a graduate student and faculty to develop a research project, gain training in relevant techniques and instrumentation, collect data, and finally produce a poster and research abstract. Students participate in a weekly seminar on undergraduate research covering research ethics, writing a research abstract, making a scientific poster. Students participate in a weekly Materials Science special interest group in which they read scientific journals or tour other labs. Duration: 9 weeks Dates: June