Jethro Gillespie and Professor Sharon Gray, Arts Education One of the most significant problems that I observed during my time completing the student teaching requirement of my degree was the general approach to the visual arts in public education. American schools almost exclusively treat the subject of visual arts lightly, with an almost purely technical approach. […]
Metamorphoses Classroom Workshop: The Benefits of Theatrical Experiences in the Classroom
Miranda B Giles and Professor George Nelson, Theatre and Media Arts As the debate over the necessity of the arts in the classroom continues, this project allowed me to discover clear and measurable benefits for their inclusion in regular classroom instruction. The project began to take shape during the 100 or so hours of rehearsal that […]
The Mastermind of Sinan: The Tekkiya Suleymaniye in Damascus Syria
Atanacia Nicole Franco and Dr. Cynthia Finlayson, Visual Arts One of the most mysterious architects of the Islamic Middle East was Mimar Sinan, the Ottoman architect who designed some of the most famous Ottoman buildings during the 16th century CE. He grew up as a Christian youth in the central part of Anatolia (modern day […]
Final BFA Statement
Melissa Esplin My initial proposal was to have 12 works, 3’x6′ hung as an installation, for the viewers to walk through. I didn’t end up getting the space that I had hoped for, which dramatically changed how I decided to hang the work. The space didn’t lend itself to an installation, but because of the […]
Building Bridges through Music Tamil Nadu, India
Shaunel Watts and Professor Susan Kenney, Elementary Music Education The southern most Indian state, Tamil Nadu, is home to over 40 colonies of leprosy affected people. To maintain livelihood, these “untouchables” generally resort to a life of begging. The situation has vastly improved in the past decade as charitable groups have helped accommodate the medical and […]
The Accuracy of Descriptive Norms: Body Image Perception of Fellow Female Students
Cari Breckenridge-Brown and Dr. Steve Thomsen, Communications Eating disorders have long been a major concern for college-aged women. It is no secret that peer pressure (also known as peer “descriptive norms”) has a strong effect on women’s self-perception. More specifically, a descriptive norm is the perception a person holds about the prevalence of a behavior […]
An Off-Court Story: The Life of Kresimir Cosic
Lindsey Blumell and Professor Robert Walz, Department of Communications This was a great undertaking and a great project and I feel so blessed to have been apart of making a documentary about the great life of Kresimir Cosic. It was a process that took almost a year to complete and hundreds and hundreds of hours, but […]
Assailing the Academy: Helping BYU Student Films Compete
Eric Anderson and Dr. Darl Larsen, Media Arts Department Beginnings After receiving the award from the Office of Research and Creative Activities, I set out to follow the exact design of my proposal in accomplishing something for my fellow Media Arts students and friends. I thought it would be a fairly easy task to try […]
Correlating Thomboembolism to Individual Platelet Aggregation Rate
Luke Werrett and Dr. Kenneth Solen, Chemical Engineering The objective of this research project was to identify a correlation between a traditional platelet activity test using an aggregometer, and a new test that measures interactions between blood and man-made materials in a simulated blood flow environment. A correlation between these data would give artificial organ […]
A Model Worth a Thousand Pictures
Tyson Triplett and Professor Paul Skaggs, School of Technology, Industrial Design Model-making is an essential part of the Industrial Design profession. An idea, no matter how good, is only as valuable as you are able to present it to others. Model-making can be seen as a language by which we share and validate our ideas as […]