Academics Now
Asher Raboy Named PUC 2013-2014 Educator of the Year
Asher Raboy, M.F.A., artist in residence, was named the Pacific Union College 2013-2014 Educator of the Year at a special colloquy program on March 14. The title is awarded entirely by student votes. This is Raboy’s first time receiving the award.
A Law Career, From Court to Court: Brittany Cheney
Brittany Cheney’s law career began on the Pacific Union College basketball court. “To do well in law, you have to be competitive,” says the ‘07 alumna. “It’s the same thing with basketball."
PUC Partners with Brazil Adventist University
This year Pacific Union College launched a partnership with Brazil Adventist University (UNASP). Discussion began last spring, when UNASP president José Martini suggested the partnership to PUC president Heather Knight, initially with the main objective of UNASP students learning English.
Study Tours at Adventist Institutions
Pacific Union College
ARTH 296: The Art of Rome, Florence, and Paris
(3 quarter credits)
Milbert Mariano (mmariano@puc.edu)
Alexander Carpenter (acarpenter@puc.edu)
July 16-26, 2012
Intended student market: Visual Arts students; others wanting applicable G.E. credit.
Examination of the architecture, sculpture, painting, and decorative arts in Rome, Florence, and Paris. Organized around visits to museums and historical locations, the assigned readings, viewings, and lectures explore art's relationship to European ideas of life and death, the divine, nature, as well as gender and ethnic identity.
HIST 410: Seminar in African History
(4 quarter credits)
HIST 496: Directed Group Study – Christianity in Africa
(4 quarter credits)
Amy Rosenthal (arosenthal@puc.edu)
Paul McGraw (pmcgraw@puc.edu)
June 21 – July 2, 2012
Intended student market: History and Social Studies majors; others wanting upper-division elective credits; teachers.
HIST 410: Offered in conjunction with the History Department study tour to South Africa, this course takes an in-depth look at the history of South Africa from pre-historic times to the present day. Of particular interest will be African societies prior to European arrival, European colonialism, and South Africa in the twentieth century.
HIST 496: Also offered in conjunction with the History Department study tour to South Africa, this course takes an in-depth look at the history of Christianity in Sub-Saharan Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Topic include the spread of missions and missionary activity from the late-eighteenth century, religion in the colonial process, the role of Christianity in independence movements, and the growth of African Christian churches in the twentieth century. Of particular interest will be the role of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the region.
BIOL 496: Directed Group Study – Tropical Biology (Trinidad & Tobago)
(3 quarter credits)
Floyd Hayes (fhayes@puc.edu)
March 22 – April 1, 2012
Intended student market: Biology majors, but open to all students and non-students.
The purpose of Tropical Biology is to study the diversity of tropical organisms and ecosystems with an emphasis on the Neotropical biogeographical realm. The course includes classroom lectures and extensive field exercises studying the marine and terrestrial ecosystems of a tropical country.
BIOL 496: Directed Group Study – Tropical Biology (Galapagos Islands)
(3 quarter credits)
Floyd Hayes (fhayes@puc.edu)
June 26 – July 5, 2012
Intended student market: Biology majors, but open to all students and non-students.
The purpose of Tropical Biology is to study the diversity of tropical organisms and ecosystems with an emphasis on the Neotropical biogeographical realm. The course includes classroom lectures and extensive field exercises studying the marine and terrestrial ecosystems of a tropical country.