All Upcoming Events
Fifty and Better Fall Session
Lundring Events Center and Online via Zoom
This course will explore and trace the past, present and future of global authoritarian movements.
Fifty and Better Fall Session
Online Via Zoom
The Arctic world is a land of stark duality. Geographically peripheral, yet central to today’s most pressing strategic, economic and climatological questions.
Fifty and Better Fall Session
GSFC 253 and Zoom
This second course will discuss some lesser-known cults, such as Heaven’s Gate and Synanon. Each week will examine one specific cult to understand its inception and its end.
Photographs by Tim Bradley
Prufrock's Days of Hands by Tim Bradley reimagines T. S. Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock through photography and collage, pairing decades of images with the poem’s text to explore memory, longing and renewal in a striking visual dialogue.
The Scandinavian American Cultural and Historical Foundation invites the community to participate in free Swedish language lessons.
Are you ready for seminary?
Zoom
Join us for a Zoom virtual discernment event with representatives from all seven ELCA seminaries. Explore your sense of call, learn about your seminary options and consider your next steps.
Fifty and Better Fall Session
Lundring Events Center and Online via Zoom
In this course, we will listen to some great music and explore how Bruce Springsteen has engaged in and continued to influence the American cultural and political landscape.
10th Annual Executive Talent Management Forum
This forum will explore how businesses can build a resilient workforce capable of adapting to rapid change.
Fifty and Better Fall Session
Online Via Zoom
Two-time Grammy Award Winner Mads Tolling's lecture will teach you all you need to know about the violin, including a demonstration to accompany the presentation.
Virtual Info Session
Zoom
Learn about PLTS’ unique perspective and offerings, including our Center for Climate Justice and Faith, the Master of Arts in Spirituality and Social Change program. Explore how our programs might be customized to suit your needs and goals through concentrations, multiple study pathways and our distributed learning modality. Get your questions answered about financial aid and the application process.
Ahmanson Science Center 108
Exploring the vibrant world of Puerto Rican culture through the lens of music, identity, pop culture and gaming with guest speaker Juan Pablo Rivera.
Fifty and Better Fall Session
Lundring Events Center and Online via Zoom
This course focuses on the most popular, influential and enduring artists of the British Invasion, which spanned roughly the years 1964 to 1968.
Fifty and Better Fall Session
Lundring Events Center and Online via Zoom
This course will take a closer look at historical sites to provide an overview of how California and the West Coast experienced WWII and the Cold War.
Announcing speaker soon!
PLTS Campus
On St. Matthew's Day, Sept. 21, 1952, a worship service opened the first academic year of Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary. The annual Founders' Day lecture occurs the Wednesday closest to St. Matthew's Day and features topics related to Lutheranism's particular challenges on the West Coast.
Fifty and Better Fall Session
GSFC 253 and Zoom
This course will dive into questions behind one of the most infamous events in American history, Lincoln’s assassination.
Fifty and Better Fall Session
Kingsmen Room and Zoom
In this course, we explore the varied works of the Regionalist Triumvirate — Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry, as well as the New York-based Edward Hopper and Pennsylvania's Andrew Wyeth.
Fifty and Better Fall Session
Online Via Zoom
This course will introduce participants to the history of wine making and the difference between “old world” and “new world” wines.
Lessons from Native American Law
Join us for an academic lecture and panel discussion with Khrystyne Wilson, PhD.
Photographs by Tim Bradley
Join us for the reception of Prufrock's Days of Hands by photographer Tim Bradley, featuring a decades-spanning project in dialogue with T. S. Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.
Mark Gulsrud ’72
Mark Gulsrud ’72 will speak about his work designing the stained glass windows in Samuelson Chapel and his family’s connections to Cal Lutheran.
We've got a full Homecoming weekend lined up to welcome you back to campus — filled with favorite traditions, new memories in the making and plenty of Cal Lu spirit.
Gilbert Sports and Fitness Center
Join us for the Inauguration of Cal Lutheran's ninth president, John A. Nunes, PhD, and a Founders Day Convocation address from the Rev. Lamont Anthony Wells.
Gilbert Sports and Fitness Center
The 2025 Hall of Fame Class represents excellence across generations of student-athletes, coaches and teams who have made a lasting impact on Cal Lutheran Athletics.
The symposium will feature short research talks in which undergraduate student scholars will present their findings and ideas in fields such as chemistry, biology, physics, exercise science, psychology, political science and religion.
As part of Homecoming Weekend, join the Cal Lutheran community for worship with beautiful music and reflections. All are welcome; come as you are. Alumni choir participation is welcome.
The Cal Lutheran Choir and Cielo (treble choir) will present an eclectic program of choral music, led by new conductor Franco Basili, marking an exciting new chapter for the ensembles.
Virtual Info Session
Zoom
Explore what it means to be a distributed learner at PLTS: program structure, in-person requirements, contextual education placements, etc. Learn how PLTS online courses are designed to build community and provide quality learning experiences specifically designed for the online classroom.
In-person at the PLTS campus in Berkeley
PLTS Campus
Engage your sense of call, explore what it’s like to be a distributed learning student at PLTS and experience a PLTS class and connect with current students, faculty and staff.