Senior Independent Study Theses from 2013
The Grey Area: Using Film to Educate Independent Music Artists in Practices of Branding and Promotion, Darius Dixson
Department: Communication Studies
Ears, Hooks, Hunchbacks, and Fins: An Ideological Analysis of Physical Disability in Disney Animated Films, Dana L. Feit
Department: Communication Studies
From Cold Warrior to Peace Advocate: How John F. Kennedy Utilized Epideictic Progression in His June 10, 1963, Commencement Address at American University, Shawna Ferris
Department: Communication Studies
Use of Bibliotherapy in a First Grade Classroom and Its Efficacy in Positively Impacting Perceptions of Disabilities and Increasing the Knowledge of Students, Morgan Foster
Department: Communication Studies
Fashion Blogs... the New Black: the Creation of Identity and Use of Consumption Through Fashion Blogs Within the Millennial Generation, Brenna Fujimoto
Department: Communication Studies
Exploration of Play Behaviors of Children with Autism and Typically Developing Children as Perceived by College Students, Amanda Kay Graeser
Department: Communication Studies
The Manliest of Men: Understanding Heterosexual Male Same-Sex Friendships in the Context of Football, Kelsey Grassman
Department: Communication Studies
They're As Clear As Mud: An Investigation of the Quality of Life of Children with Childhood Apraxia of Speech, Michelle Louraine Hamstra
Department: Communication Studies
Heading into Overtime/Tie Between Work and Life: Exploring Factors that Could Influence the Work-Life Balance of NCAA Division III Athletic Directors, Kelley Ann Johnson
Department: Communication Studies
Seeds of Slavery: a Mainstream Economic Interpretation and Rhetorical Analysis of Vandana Shiva's Criticism of the Green Revolution and the Alienation of Rural Indian Women, David C. Mallinson
Department: Communication Studies; Economics
Work Hard, Play Hard: a Qualitative Analysis of How Fantasy Sports Affect Organizational Commitment, Ryan Miner
Department: Communication Studies
It's Complicated: the Identification of Learning Disabilities in Children With Hearing Loss, Taylor M. Morgan
Department: Communication Studies
Living the iLife: a Descriptive Analysis of the Impact of Technology on Dating Relationships, Clare Nelson-Johnson
Department: Communication Studies
I Just Want to Be Heard: An Analysis of the Concerns of Parents Who Have Children Using High-Tech Augmentative and Alternative Communication Devices, Gina Marissa Pirolozzi
Department: Communication Studies
An Investigation of the Potential Relationship Between Hearing Loss and Alzheimer's Disease, Mary Ellen Scherer
Department: Communication Studies
Influences of Age and Education Level on Non-Literal Language Usage in Adults, Kimberly Michelle Schmitz
Department: Communication Studies
Understanding Division-I Ethical Sports Scandals, Their Public Relations' Approaches, and Effects, Tyler J. Sinclair
Department: Communication Studies
A Quantitative Analysis of the Diagnostic Assessment Procedures Audiologists Use When Determining Candidacy For Cochlear Implants in Children With Multiple Disabilities, Jennifer Springmier
Department: Communication Studies
Attachment Theory Applied to Middle School Students' Parent and Peer Relationships in Connection to Their Self-Reported Academic Achievement and Involvement, Deidre Lynn Thompson
Department: Communication Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2012
Say Yes to My Fair Bridezilla: a Q-Sorting Analysis of the Effects of Reality Tv Wedding Programming on College Women's Wedding Reception Desires, Sarah Abboud
Department: Communication Studies
Art of Voice Therapy: An Investigation of Estill Voice Training and Fitzmaurice Voicework As Nontraditional Techniques For Voice Therapy, Lindsey Marie Allen
Department: Communication Studies
Promoting and Critiquing Child Beauty Pageants: a Narrative Analysis Through a Feminist Sensibility, Isabel Rivka Baylor
Department: Communication Studies
Waiting on the World to Change: a Study of Professors' and Disability Support Staff Members' Knowledge of Asperger's Syndrome, Elizabeth A. Beal
Department: Communication Studies
A Rhetorical Analysis: Using a Generic Criticism to Find the Visual and Verbal Advertising Strategies of the Top Five Supplement Companies in Print Magazines , Matthew Breidigam
Department: Communication Studies
They Will Lie to You: a Solution For Interorganizational Conflict Through a Quantitative Analysis of the Communication Patterns Between Law Enforcement and Journalists in Small Town America, Julia Chunglo
Department: Communication Studies
Jihad Calling: a Rhetorical Fantasy Theme Analysis of Al Qaeda's Online Magazine Inspire, Gregory Crocker
Department: Communication Studies
No Child Will Be Left Behind in My Classroom!: NCLB's Effects and Elementary Teachers' Strategies to Beat the Test, Logan Dunn
Department: Communication Studies
Techno Kids: An Experimental Study Comparing iPod Applications and Traditional Approaches For Teaching Third Graders How to Pre-Write, Madeline Hart
Department: Communication Studies
"I Know How to Read, But I Can't Teach It": The Effectiveness of a Short-Term Training Session on College-Aged Literacy Tutors' Knowledge of Reading Concepts, Katelynn Heugel
Department: Communication Studies
Fissures in the Sand: a Narrartive Ethnography of the Fishing Culture in Gloucester, Massachusetts, Christopher Hudson
Department: Communication Studies; English
You Witch!: a Feminist Rhetorical Criticism of the Transcribed Documents of the Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692, Kasey Hunsicker
Department: Communication Studies
College Students' Perceptions of Individuals Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing: the Influence of Speech Intelligibility on Perceptions of Speech Skills, Social Acceptance, Academic Achievement, and Behavioral Conduct, Rosalie B. Keane
Department: Communication Studies
Time to Occupy: a Study of the Folk and Hip-Hop Song Lyrics of Musicians Who Performed at Occupy Wall Street New York City, Nathan Keck
Department: Communication Studies
Feeding Techniques For Infants With Cleft Lip and Palate: a Survey of Midwives and Recommendations For Strengthening Knowledge, Megan Keefe
Department: Communication Studies
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities of Regular Education Elementary School Teachers in Educating Mainstreamed Students Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing, Amanda Klump
Department: Communication Studies
Analysis of Nonverbal Communication That Occurs Within the Organizational Culture of America's Pasttime, Colin Meinzer
Department: Communication Studies
That Is All the Details I Have, Scott Merrifield
Department: Communication Studies; Political Science
Grass Is Always Greener: a Quantitative Study of Effective Messages in Producing Pro-Environmental Behaviors, Madalyn Myers
Department: Communication Studies
Fire From the Stars to Spark Enlightenment and Action in a Generation: Drawing From Scholarly Research to Create a Digital Magazine For the Millennial Generation in the Realm of Travel, Culture, and Civic Engagement, Sage Nenyue
Department: Communication Studies
Wellness: An Unmet Need for Survivors of Traumatic Brain Injury, Jessica Quiery
Department: Communication Studies
Truthiness in News: How Stephen Colbert Embodies and Critiques Conventional News Through and Ironic Persona, Mark Russell
Department: Communication Studies
Internalization Measures Not Influenced By Media Image Presentation: An Examination of Female Athletes and Non-Athletes, Meredith Shaul
Department: Communication Studies; Psychology
Seize the Internet: Using Facebook As a Successful Marketing Tool For New Companies, Melanie Ann Sidman
Department: Communication Studies
Perfect Corporate Makeover: a Rhetorical Analysis of Mcdonald's "I'm Lovin' It" Rebranding Campaign, David Smith
Department: Communication Studies
It's So Me: a Study of Product Personality - Consumer Personality Congruence, Ashley Nicole Stockwell
Department: Communication Studies
Professionals' Perceptions Regarding the Knowledge, Components and Materials For Adudiologic Rehabilitation With Adult Cochlear Implant Recipients, Elizabeth Striegl
Department: Communication Studies
"I Couldn't Have Said It Better Myself:" An Analysis of Functional Delayed Echolalia Produced By Children With Autism in Home and Non-Home Environments, Emma Sullivan
Department: Communication Studies
Dressed to Impress: a Quantitative Analysis of the Communicative Role of Female Fashion in the Workplace, Samantha J. Sulzer
Department: Communication Studies
Consumer Perception of Fashion Advertising: An Analysis of the Opinions of College Aged Students Regarding Various Print Advertising Strategies in the Fashion Industry, Zachery C. Vesco
Department: Communication Studies
Brick By Brick: An Analysis and Recreation of The College of Wooster's Primary Marketing Images, Jason Weingardt
Department: Communication Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2011
A Daydream of Freddie Cool: An Examiniation of Record Label Promotion of Its Artist, Nana Boamah-Acheampong
Department: Communication Studies
Psychosocial Development: the Socio-Emotional Dimensions of Deafness and Hearing Loss in Jamaica, Nikitta Chin-See
Department: Communication Studies
Using Dynamic Assessment to Measure Word-Learning Ability in Low-And Middle-Socioeconomic Status Preschoolers, Kelly R. Harrold
Department: Communication Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2010
To Entertain or to Inform: An Examination and Comparison of Taiwanese and Mainland Chinese Audiences' Perceptions of Entertainment Oriented Television News Programs, Fengzhi Chen
Department: Communication Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2009
Reliable and Valid Revision of the Word Intelligibility By Picture Identification (WIPI) Test, Megan Earle
Department: Communication Studies
Recruiting in Division III Football: What Techniques Are Being Used and How Do Players Perceive Their Effectiveness?, Jordan Ferns
Department: Communication Studies
Is It As Bad As They Say It Is?: Epistemic Rhetorical Analysis of Hip-Hop Songs and Music Videos, Curtis Harnisch
Department: Communication Studies
Cluttering: Perspectives From Speech-Language Pathologists and Individuals Who Clutter, Avery Berier Harris
Department: Communication Studies
Inconvenient Love: a Fantasy Type Analysis of the 1990s British Romantic Comedies Four Weddings and a Funeral, Sliding Doors, and Notting Hill, Elizabeth Hoy
Department: Communication Studies
An Agenda For Change: a Burkean Pentadic Analysis of Barack Obama's Speech, "A More Perfect Union", Rebecca A. Niemeyer
Department: Communication Studies
Coach-Athlete Relationship: The Impact of the Coach-Athlete Relationship on the Performance of Division III Women's Basketball Players, Meredith Colette Wilson
Department: Communication Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2008
Your Choice. Their Future: A Study of How to Promote Early Learning Education in the Wooster Community, Piper Teresa Annese
Department: Communication Studies
Sinking or Swimming in the Corporate Ocean: An Investigation of Product Recalls and the Most Successful Public Relations Tactics to Survive the Recall, Carolyn Ciriegio
Department: Communication Studies
Content Analysis Study of Food Advertisements and Children, Lauren Nicole DeZellar
Department: Communication Studies
Why Am I Taking This Class?: An Investigation of College Students and Their Expectations About Interacting With Culturally Different Others When They Enter the Workplace, Jeffrey Bartholomew Geffert
Department: Communication Studies
How Do Sales Representatives Create a Successful Buyer-Seller Relationship? An Investigation of Cisco Systems Sales Representatives' Perceptions of How They Build and Maintain Client Trust and Their Views of Mediated and Face-To-Face Methods of Communication, James B. Ipema
Department: Communication Studies
Stuck Between a Rock and a Hard Place: a Toulminian Analysis of First Amendment and Privacy-Based Judicial Rhetoric and An Exploration of the Constitutionality of Anti-Paparazzi Legislation, Cassia Jo Pangas
Department: Communication Studies
Desecrating the Flag: a Genre Analysis of Congressional Hearings Concerning the Appropriate Use of a Powerful Symbol, Manu Samanna-Spagnoli
Department: Communication Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2007
Misconceptions of the War in Iraq: College-Aged Students' Socially Constructed Reality of the War in Iraq, Wiliam Frederick Behnke
Department: Communication Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2006
Can it be Done?: Creating an Advertisement for Planned Parenthood as an Exercise in Feminist Marketing, Amy Nicole Grammatico
Department: Communication Studies; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2005
Turning the Now Into Always: a Look at Persuasion, Group Identity, Ritual, and the Evolution of Epideictic Rhetoric in the Funeral Orations of Pericles, Abraham Lincoln, and Ronald Reagan, Amanda Lynn Rollins
Department: Classical Studies; Communication Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2003
ProFootballGamePlan.com, Duke Johnson
Department: Communication Studies
The Clinical Use of Electroacoustic Analysis of Hearing Aids and American National Standards Institute Specifications of Hearing Aid Characteristics, Brandon Seth Lichtman
Department: Communication Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2002
Monkey See, Monkey Do: a Project Demonstrating Ceative and Practical Applications of Race, Gendern and Disability in Children's Literature, Diana M. Smith
Department: English; Communication Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2001
Can You Hear Me: a Comparison of Major and Third-Party Candidate Rhetoric in the 2000 Presidential Election, Katherine M. Randall
Department: Political Science; Communication Studies
About Face: Mass Media's Influence on Perceiving Facial Beauty, through the use of a Computer Program to Generate the Ideal Female Face, Heather Ann Wallat
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2000
In Pursuit of Prospectives: The Private, Liberal Arts College, Marketing, and the View Book, Christina P. Stern
Department: Communication Studies; English
Theses/Dissertations from 1996
Maximizing the Academic Potential of Deaf Children Through the Use of Bilingual Education Programs, Shannon M. Preece
Maximizing the Academic Potential of Deaf Children Through the Use of Bilingual Education Programs, Shannon M. Preece
Theses/Dissertations from 1995
Religion, Rhetoric, and Grassroots Political Organization: An In-Depth Examination of Christian Coalition and People for the American Way, Noah D. Parker
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1989
A Study of the Political Bias in the Great Lakes College Association Faculty, Dennis G. Solensky Jr.
Department: Communication Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1988
The Depiction of Women in Television Commercials: An Attempt by the Controllers of Society to Maintain Power Over them, Beth A. Pohl
Department: Communication Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1967
Wild Duck: An Adaptation of Reader's Theatre, Linda Jennings
Department: English; Communication Studies