Journal of Undergraduate Research

Natalie Thompson and Dr. Jane Gardner Hinckley, Humanities Humanities professors face the difficulty of finding the visual resources necessary for specialized courses. Professors may not be able to find slides of specific monuments in university slide libraries or even reproductions of the monuments in texts. Yet in order to teach about these monuments effectively, the […]

David Charles and Dr. David Seely, Humanities, Classics and Comparative Literature The aim of this project was to produce, in German, a substantial piece of writing on the Joseph Smith Translation for the benefit of LDS and non-LDS interested in the JST. To date, there is virtually no literature available on the JST in German, […]

Jennifer Smith Black and Drs. Joseph Parry, Harrison Powley, Humanities, Classics and Comp. Lit. Renaissance humanism was the central philosophy and ordering principle of the era. It had a profound influence on all the art and philosophy of the time. It is easy to see humanism translated into painting and architecture, but much more difficult […]

Jared E. Berg and Professor Thomas G. Plummer, Humanities, Classics and Comparative Literature The novel Homo Faber by the Swiss author Max Frisch is an important post-war work that describes the psychic tragedy resulting from the denial of myth, beauty, and the feminine by a mind rooted too firmly in reason and logic. It is a […]

Angela Dawn Lowe and Dr. George B. Handley, Humanities, Classics and Comparative Literature According to Eric Sundquist, “the actual Civil War has been concealed under layers of comforting legends and nostalgic sentiments” and has been inaccurately portrayed as “a panorama of colorful uniforms, heroic deeds, noble purposes, and sword-and-roses courtships” (45). Walt Whitman and Winslow […]

Justin Halverson and Dr. Steven Sondrup, Humanities, Classics and Comparative Literature During the week of 4–8 October 1999, the College of Humanities at Brigham Young University in cooperation with the David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies hosted a small conference dedicated to comparative concepts of self, especially with regard to the various firstperson narrative […]

Jeremy P. Call and Dr. George B. Handley, Classic and Comparative Literature Lying in the geographic heart of the Mormon faith, the Salt Lake Temple has become a popular icon for the Mormon Church throughout the world and has been the subject of numerous architectural and theological analyses. Architectural analyses often trace historical and stylistic […]

Christopher Meldrum and Dr. Cecilia Peek, Classics and Comparative Literature Written around 8 A.D., the Metamorphoses by Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) is considered a classic of both Roman and World culture. It holds a unique place in Classical literature, which has caused it to remain an object of focused interest in the academic community. Although […]

Leslie Macfarlane and Dr. Stephen Bay, Classics and Comparative Literature Main Text The term “reception” defines the product of referring to or relying upon one work of literature or art within another. Anything from translating a work into a different language, reusing a well known title, quoting directly from a work, or writing in a […]

Kevin Jenson and Dr. Christopher Oscarson, Scandinavian Studies Director One of the most difficult aspects of teaching a foreign language course is finding materials that are in line with the methodology and learning objectives specific to the class being taught. In the case of languages that are more commonly taught, such as French or Spanish, […]