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literature and film. Special attention will be given to recent developments and cultural shifts within the Francophone context. The course aims to deepen students’ understanding of the dynamic nature of popular culture and its significance in shaping identities, communities, and global perspectives. It is an elective for the Global Studies major (Development and Social Justice concentration) and can count for the major in Gender, Sexuality, & Race Studies and the minor in Critical Race Studies. French

the contemporary world. In IHON, you will learn to evaluate the claims past and present societies and communities tend to make about their achievements. You will also learn to contextualize these claims, in order to explore those societies’ and communities’ achievements and shortcomings.  But you’ll also use those perspectives to contextualize your own claims and your own society. Think about how social issues are different in different societies and different times: the basic questions may be the

, and oceans that compose her novels without wallowing in despair. Instead, our project seeks to spark a lively conversation through social annotation and to create a space for reflection. Climate activists have taught us that our troubles cannot be solved by one or just a few individuals. Rather, these times call on us to collaborate. So, we turn to collaborative reading to raise old and new questions. Social annotation involves the collaborative creation of digital notes on the margins of a text

and complexity of life in a globalized world—a world that rests on a history of colonization, slavery, oppression, and genocide. The book is built around historic events and clashes and situates the philosophies discussed in their time and place.  The emergence of social Darwinism, the Social Gospel Movement, two world wars, McCarthyism, the war in Vietnam, and the “culture wars” of the 1980’s are some of the signal events.  Events like these—along with the emergence of movements to address civil

A Semester in OxfordMédecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), Oxfam, British Parliament, world class professors, highly focused seminars, and individual tutorials. These are just a few of the opportunities for students participating in the International Honors (IHON)-Oxford Program on social justice. The 2014 inaugural year of the program was better than we could have imagined. Among other things, students learned that their PLU education prepares them to engage with the very best of

, Communities, and ActivismThe Lavender Community seeks to honor, celebrate, and uplift the lived experiences of LGBTQ+ students. The community seeks to bring LGBTQ+ identified students and allies together in community to share their hopes, dreams, and challenges. Through programming, the Lavender Community invites participants to learn more about how social identities intersect here at PLU and beyond. Through volunteer opportunities participants are encouraged to connect with LGBTQ+ communities in the

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