PLU Project Gallery

Born out of a project from Dr. Emily Davidson’s (Hispanic Studies) “Hispanic Voices for Social Change” class, Riley Dolan (PLU ’19) identified a lack of visual and written information about monuments erected to memorialize victims of the 20th Century Civil War in Guatemala. After researching and documenting memorials in Guatemala, having identified over 45 items , and with the support of the Digital Humanities Lab at PLU, Riley and Josh Smith (PLU I&TS) have worked on creating this free and public collection of material. Together they have uploaded these photos, written descriptions, and identified GPS locations of the monuments.

In the fall of 2018, Dr. Jenny James’ first-year writing seminar titled “Water, Politics, Place” took part in a community engagement partnership with the Deschutes Estuary Restoration Team (DERT), located in Olympia, WA. Students created a web-based class project that supports DERT’s efforts to restore the Deschutes estuary, which includes video interviews of local community advocates for estuary restoration as well as read essays authored by PLU students which make a case for the removal of Olympia’s 5th Avenue Dam to promote the ecological renewal of the Deschutes watershed.

These place profiles were written during the January 2019 iteration of the course ENGL 323: Writing in Professional and Public Contexts. Students were asked to select important locations featured in the “Parkland Tour” offered by PLU’s Center for Community Engagement and Service.

In Spring 2019, Dr. Schroeder’s (Nordic Studies) “Nordic Folklore” class not only learned about folklore, but gathered and practiced it. This collection of legends, tales, and stories comes from their second ethnographic fieldwork assignment, which was to collect and record ghost stories and is presented using an interactive map of PLU and beyond.

In Spring 2018, women involved in the Therapeutic Community at the Washington Corrections Center for Women shared their stories of addiction and recovery with a group of IHON 253: Gender and Sexuality students from Pacific Lutheran University. This Scalar book is an ongoing project resulting from this transformative collaboration.

In fall 2018 while leading the Oaxaca Program, Prof. Wendy Call designed this two-part assignment which asks a team of students to translate two poems by Mexican indigenous writers and then craft a podcast where they share their experience as translators.

A project created using Google Fusion Tables to map the Women’s and Gender Studies curriculum overlaps, focusing on the readings assigned in each one of its two required courses.

This project, produced by Dr. Seth Dowland’s Spring 2017 FYEP 190 course titled “Religion and Gender in American History,” explores the records of the Lutheran Women’s Missionary Foundation, housed in the PLU Archives and Special Collections.

This project was produced by three groups of Writing/FYEP 101 students from Dr. Scott Rogers’s course entitled “Walking and Talking: An Exploration of Language, Movement, and Space.”