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Pacific Lutheran University Washigton

Welcome To PLU

At PLU, Challenge means more than rigorous academic classes. Challenge means professors who encourage you to explore beyond the textbook. Challenge comes from friends, faculty and mentors who inspire you to seek life’s purpose. PLU will challenge you to appreciate other opinions, cultures and new ways of thinking.
Many universities talk about challenge. PLU promises challenge with support. Support at PLU comes from a community that helps you build confidence in your abilities, while encouraging you to take risks and grow. PLU will support you with faculty mentors and a wealth of student services. The support does more than train you for a job, it prepares you for life.
Through the challenge and support of a PLU education, you will come to develop a definition of success beyond a bottom line. Success is not only excelling a career, but also participating in a community and making a difference in the world around you. Success, both as a student and a graduate, come from the challenge and support PLU will provide you throughout life.

Unique Blend of Programs

PLU offers a unique blend of academically rigorous liberal arts and professional programs. The essence of the liberal arts is to prepare you for a lifetime of success in a rapidly changing and highly competitive world. PLU will help you develop skills in decision making, analysis, communication and reasoning.

In addition to the liberal arts, PLU provides students with the opportunity for professional studies. Whether it’s business, education, nursing or social work, PLU will prepare you for the future with accredited professional programs.

It is committed to giving you a global view of the world, providing a strong and supportive community, and doing so in a way that prepares you for multiple and changing careers.

Why Select Pacific Lutheran University Washigton?


Why PLU?
Global Studies presents a holistic view of the rapidly changing and increasingly integrated world in which it lives. The program is based on the idea that events occurring in one area or nation have worldwide ramifications. Based on a multi-disciplinary approach, the program helps you develop a breadth and depth of understanding designed to enhance and accompany your traditional majors. Global Studies also equips you with the ability to analyze pressing world issues, including social change, pollution, industrial growth, food shortages, global energy politics, and human rights.

Career Opportunities
The Global Studies program imparts a wide range of knowledge and perspectives that can be applied to many employment opportunities, both foreign and local. These talents can be put to use in such areas as:

  • Education
  • Television and Radio
  • Land Use Planning
  • Public Administration
  • International Trade
  • Foreign Service
  • Government Positions
  • Film
  • Business
  • Trade Relations
  • Good Works Organizations (e.g., Red Cross)
  • Nonprofit Organizations for Social Change
  • Natural Resources Management
  • Environmental Organizations
  • International Development

Issue Concentrations

The Global Environment
Probably no issue challenges the global community more than the future of the world’s environment. From waterways to the ozone layer, how itlives has a dramatic and long-term effect on the environment and, therefore, the future of humanity. This concentration prepares students with the technical and perceptual skills necessary to begin dealing with environmental issues at the local and global levels.

Development Issues
Eighty percent of the globe’s population struggle to develop the resources that lead to a dignified and productive life. This struggle is often called “development,” and this concentration focuses on what development means globally and in specific regional and national contexts. Questions about hunger, population, women’s contributions, the environment, revolution, and war are discussed and analyzed as part of this concentration.

Global Business
Trade has linked countries for centuries. Today, markets are becoming globalized at an unprecedented pace, and even many small businesses find they must become knowledgeable about doing business in foreign cultures. This concentration exposes students not only to technical aspects of the international economic system and international business practices, but also to cultural differences that are involved in international trade and to adjustments that must be made in dealing across cultures.

Comparative Ethnicities
The interdependence of the world mandates understanding the majority of the world’s population whose world views and ways of life differ significantly from those of the United States. This concentration gives you an active knowledge of other cultures and their perceptions of global issues and the world around them.

International Relations
The period of transition at the beginning of the 21st century is a dynamic and critical time in international relations. It is characterized by large-scale technology-induced change, rapid population growth, and an increased demand for natural resources to support industrialization over much of the planet. This concentration focuses on the patterns of interaction between states in the international system as they negotiate over pressing issues.

Courses

Majors and academic offerings

  • Anthropology
  • Art
  • Biology
  • Business
  • Chemistry
  • Communication & Theatre
  • Computer Science
  • Economics
  • Education
  • Engineering
  • English
  • Environmental Studies
  • Geosciences
  • Global Studies
  • History
  • Individualized Major
  • Languages & Literatures
  • Legal Studies
  • Math
  • Music
  • Nursing
  • Philosophy
  • Physical Education
  • Physics
  • Political Science
  • Pre-Professional Health
  • Psychology
  • Social Work
  • Sociology
  • Women's Studies

Graduate Programs

  • Master of Business Administration
  • Masters of Fine Arts
  • Master of Arts in Education
  • Master of Science in Nursing
  • Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy

Anthropology
Areas of emphasis:

  • Cultural Anthropology
  • Archaeology
  • Linguistic Anthropology
  • Physical Anthropology

Minors available : Anthropology

Art
Areas of emphasis:
  • Design
  • Drawing/Painting
  • Printmaking
  • Film Arts
  • Ceramics
  • Sculpture

Minors available:

  • Art History
  • Studio Art
  • Publishing and Printing Arts
Graduate offerings: Creative Writing


Biology
Pre-profesional emphasis:

  • Medical
  • Dentistry
  • Veterinary Medicine
  • Pharmacy

Minors available : Biology

Business
Areas of emphasis:

  • Business Administration
  • Financial Resources Management
  • Professional Accounting
  • Human Resources Management
  • International Business
  • Marketing Resource Management
  • Entrepreneurship and New Venture Management
  • Information Management

Minors available:

  • Business Administration
  • Finance
  • Information Management
  • Marketing
  • Accounting
  • Accounting Certificate Program (CPA)

Graduate offerings:

  • Business Administration
  • Technology and Innovation Management

Chemistry
Minors available :
Chemistry

Communication & Theatre

Areas of emphasis:

  • Broadcast and Print Journalism
  • Public Relations
  • Communication Studies
  • Communication & Social Justice
  • Theatre (Acting/Directing)
  • Theatre (Design/Technical)
  • Social Justice and Advocacy

Minors available:

  • Communications
  • Film
  • Theatre

Computer Science
  • Areas of emphasis:

  • Computer Science
  • Computer Engineering

Minors available:

  • Computer Science
  • Information Science
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Economics

Areas of emphasis:

  • Domestic Economic Analysis
  • International Economic Analysis
  • Mathematical Economics
  • The Modern Economic Enterprise

Minors available : Economics

Engineering Areas of emphasis:

Engineering (Dual Degree)
Minors available: Electrical Engineering

English
Areas of emphasis:

Literature
Writing

Minors available:

Publishing and Printing Arts
Literature
Writing
English (English as a second language)
Geosciences

Minors available: Geosciences

Math

Minors available:

  • Math
  • Actuarial Science
  • Statistics
  • Nursing

Areas of emphasis:

Licensed Practical Nurse
Registered Nurse

Minors available:

Health Services

Graduate offerings:

Entry Level MS Nursing
Nursing
Philosophy

Minors available: Philosophy

Physics
Minors available: Physics

Political Science

Minors available:

Political Science
Public Affairs
The Americas
Pre-Professional Health ( Biology)

Areas of emphasis:

Medical
Dentistry
Veterinary Medicine
Pharmacy
Psychology
Minors available: Psychology

Sociology
Areas of emphasis:

Family/Gender
Crime/Deviance

Minors available: Sociology
 
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