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with students during the Wang Center Symposium "The Countenance of Hope" at PLU, on Friday, Feb. 26, 2016. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) We have courses that engage the perennial philosophical questions and present implications for our contemporary contexts. We ask students to examine their own ideas, commitments, lives,  and assumptions; they learn how to think and read texts critically, give analysis and generate and charitably defend their own arguments while considering possible objections and

-winning, Oscar-nominated documentary, and he was elected by The Great Books Foundation as a Significant Writer of War-time Literature for the anthology Standing Down. Hrivnak has made contributions to the greater good of the Northwest region through his involvement in aviation as well as nursing. He is an original member of the Northwest Regional Aviation Program, the Puget Sound Urban Search and Rescue Task Force, and the Pierce County Rescue Systems. Currently, Hrivnak is serving as Assistant Fire

-winning, Oscar-nominated documentary, and he was elected by The Great Books Foundation as a Significant Writer of War-time Literature for the anthology Standing Down. Hrivnak has made contributions to the greater good of the Northwest region through his involvement in aviation as well as nursing. He is an original member of the Northwest Regional Aviation Program, the Puget Sound Urban Search and Rescue Task Force, and the Pierce County Rescue Systems. Currently, Hrivnak is serving as Assistant Fire

the value of literature and writing is even more paramount as we move forward, because it’s acting as kind of a resistance to forces in our culture that want to reduce or simplify experience,” Barot said. “What literature does is restore complexity to the things that people feel and do and think, and celebrate complex emotional, social, intellectual experiences.” As for the future of the Rainier Writing Workshop, Barot looks backward and forward, always with the founders’ vision—and achievements

exploring your calling? I’m at a spot where I’m self-reflecting on my skills and, through that, trying to best utilize them. I’m also working on self-exploration. How do you see yourself applying information from these seminars into your daily life? I think being self-aware and perceptive to the needs of others. The readings that we’ve been doing have been very informative to provide a historical context for America as I’m Canadian. Getting the cultural and societal context has been interesting and

immense agency — this was uncharacteristic for women at the time. Er’s libretto includes a statement about the work that details why Cai Yan is a figure important to modern time. “Although the heroine lived one thousand eight hundred years ago, her story speaks to the tragedies still faced by contemporary women, such as domestic violence, losing loved ones, being abducted and raped in war, among others.” With women being abducted by ISIS or fleeing their homes in Syria with their families, Youtz

Assistant Professor of Communication Justin Eckstein has held an unwavering interest in argumentation, from a debate summer camp after seventh grade through all levels of college — undergraduate, graduate and doctorate.   “Debate taught me how to construct arguments, it introduced me to a whole host of literature that I would have never been exposed to otherwise. It spiked my curiosity in alternative positions. It also gave me material advantages, it introduced me to a network of potential

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New Delete Sociology Academic Programs all programs program website Sociology Undergraduate Major & Minor College of Liberal Studies Bachelor of Arts Meet the Professors More Stories Visit About Sociology touches on almost every aspect of our lives as social beings — and as global citizens. Human relationships and experience, contemporary family life, ethnic diversity and race relations, poverty and social stratification, social justice and community organization are just some of the topics you

. Without such, students risk seeing computers and networks as “black boxes,” and lack understanding of the power, risks, societal impacts, and limitations of computing technology. Students who become leaders need to understand technology in order to practice thoughtful care for people, local and global communities, and the Earth. As Walker and Kelemen [1] articulate, “…computer systems have become a significant factor in contemporary life. Understanding this technology and its implications, therefore