Degree Programs

Graduate Thesis

This list is a collectin of these titles submitted by Sociology graduate students at Humboldt State University.

Spring 2007 Master of Arts Graduate Thesis Titles

Maral Attallah
Choosing Silence: The United States, Turkey, and the Armenian Genocide
Mark Bauermeister
Small Farm Disinvestment in Eastern Nebraska: Seeking Sustainability in the Periphery
Timothy Faiella
Media and Social Change Processes Humboldt State University
Gisela Rutishauser- Chappelle
Assesment and redesign of teaching "theories and methods of alternative dispute resolution" onliney

Spring 2006 Master of Arts Graduate Thesis Titles

Elizabeth Archibald
Learning Disability Assessment and Student Retention Rate at Humboldt State University
Dorothea Bott
Your Voice~ Your Choice Coalition Transportation Committee Project
Margaret Campbell
Social Sustainability of Rural Community Well-Being and Designing a Planning Process that will Minimize the Negative Impacts of "Big Box" Retailers
Megan McDrew
Peace Corps: Motivational Factors to Enhance Recruitment and Volunteer Retention
Leah Thompson
Girls Participation in Math and Science: A Program Evaluation of Expanding your Horizons

Spring 2005 Master of Arts Graduates Thesis Titles

Elizabeth Archibald
Learning Disability Assessment and Student Retention Rate at Humboldt State University
Dolly L. Bott
The Voice Coalition
Jordan T. Camp
Zapatismo and Autonomous Social Movements: Reading the Communities Politically
Yi-Lang Chao
The Equip Mode and the New Horizons Program
Adrian L. Chevraux-Fitshugh
Discovering Democracy: Grassroots Organizations and Strategies of Mobilization
Stephanie Daley
An Evaluation of Humboldt County's Juvenile Detention Risk Assessment Tool
David D. Dominguez
Totalitarian Democracy
Christina E. Fritschi
Barriers to the Process of Change in the Integrated Health Care Model for Clients and Health Care Providers
Jeffrey Gunn
The Nation-State and the Transitional Capitalist Class in the Era of Global Accumulation
Micheal Levy
Globalization, Biodiversity, and Resistance in Mexico: Deconstructing Plan Puebla-Panama
Lorrie A. Loveman
The Global Genie Project
Henryetta H. Martin
The Suppression of Honor: Sexual Molestation of Young Men in the Boy Scouts of America
Keiko Mori
Social Change in the Emperor System
Adriane S. Mozzini
Learning for Life: The Social and Academic Outcomes of a Waldorf Education
Leah A. Thompson
Girls Participation in Math and Science: A Program Evaluation of Expanding Your Horizons .pdf file
Tiffany Wilson
The Fusion of Asset Mapping and a Community Network: Bayside as a Case Study
Paula Yoon
Utilizing Principles of Transformative Mediation in the Development of the Redwood Regional Watershed Center

Spring 2004 Master of Arts Graduate Thesis Titles

Hermine Amoussou
Social Perception of Working Women in Benin: Gender Analysis.
Michael Levy
Globalization, Diversity, and Resistance in Mexico: Reconstructing Plan Puebla- Panama.
Andrew Lord
A Brief History of Place: a Guide to Economic Recovery for Timber Dependent Communities.
Lorrie Loveman
The Global Genie Project
Nicholas Osborne
Prostitution as Legitimate Work: an Analysis of Sex Work in America.
Jenny Shayani
A Sociological Theory of Depression: an Integrated Approach to Optimism and Pessimism, Toward Effective Resolution of a Societal Problem

Spring 2003 Master of Arts Graduate Thesis Titles

Andrea Bustos
Examining Organizational Social Change in CA and Chile
Richard Jennings
RV Tourism in Humboldt County, California: an Exploratory Case Study.
Jodi Kateiva
When the Abused Fightback: Analysis of Victim Precipitated Trigger Response.
Jacelyn Macedo
Working Butch: Lesbian Gender Nonconformity in the Workplace.
Dan Saveliff
The Hurdles We Overcome: Factors and Processes Influencing the Social and Academic Integration of Non-traditional College Students.
Will Tift
Exploring Alcohol use Among University Students in Social Context: The Impacts of Binge Drinking, Connectedness to Drinking Peers
Bethaney Weber
A Rationalization of Bureaucratic Infrastructure: Federally Recognized Indian tribes in California

Spring 2002 Master of Arts Graduate Thesis Titles

Christina Begley
Training Mediators to be Reflective Practitioners.
Fergus Breck
Five Cases of African Revolution- a Comparative Historical Study of Successful Anti-colonial Revolutions.
Farnad Darnell
Iranian Americans: a Comparative Study of Iranian Cultural Retention Among Three Generations of Iranian Americans.
Gregory Gibson
Carnegie Heroes: a Social Exchange Theory Examination.
Michael Grossman
A Feminist/ Interactionist Approach to Disability.
Thomas Hunnicutt
A Teacher's Guide to Genocide in California History.
Karla Lusby
Men Who Batter: an Examination of a Typology in Batterers Completing Treatment.
James Vaughn
The Culture of the Bohemian Grove: a Symbolic Interactionist Study

Spring 2001 Master of Arts Graduate Thesis Titles

Elizabeth Bennett
Surf like a Girl: Women, Identity, and Representation in Surf Culture.
Laura Estetter
Personal Assistance for People with Disabilities: an Exploratory Study.
Joel Mitchell
The Moral Panic About Raves: Newspaper Transmission and Legislation.
Robyn Schroeder
Designing a Parent-teen Mediation Program for the Eureka, Arcata, McKinleyville, Area.
Lael Washington
Black Women at the Intersection of Race, Gender, and Class: How These Issues Affect our Lives and How we Deal with Them