Kindia du Plessis Cutler and Daniel Barney, Pd.D. Art Introduction Social practice is a growing area in art that is seeking to expand what art is through what it does. Artists working in this way are more interested in the interactions and situations they might create than the things they produce. This project was a […]
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The Effects of Dual Citizenship on Civic Duty Perceptions, National Identity, and the Global Community
Daniel Cottam and Dr. Christ Karpowitz, Political Science Department In America alone, the number of dual citizens is estimated between one to five million. In this age of globalization, this number is expected to increase as more and more families consist of parents from two different countries. Despite the everincreasing number of dual citizens, and […]
WIC Clients and Immunizations: A Community-wide Educational Project
PI: Karlen E. Luthy Although most well-known for formula and food vouchers, the WIC Program also excels with their education programs. In fact, every three months WIC parents are required to complete authorized on-line educational modules or attend approved educational classes prior to obtaining their food vouchers for the subsequent quarter. In Utah, WIC clients […]
Preserving a Sinking Culture: An Investigative Report on the Kiribati Community in New Zealand and Fiji
Ryan Turner and Steven Thomsen, Department of Communications For thousands of years the peoples of the Pacific have been a people of exploration and travel. However, with the small country of Kiribati its people are now traveling to escape climate change and overpopulation¹. With such a small population at risk of relocating to another country […]
Community Literacies: Examining the Availability of Texts in Rural Communities and Their Integration into the Elementary School Classroom
Chelsi Tolbert and Jennifer Wimmer, Teacher Education Introduction It is an unarguable fact that literacy instruction is one of the most vital aspects of elementary education. Without literacy, knowing how to read and write, students will find success in the “real” world difficult to come by. Traditionally, the focus of literacy instruction has been linked to giving students […]
Cultural Celebration and Exchange in Mongolia: An Artistic Inquiry of Community and Tradition
Sarah Waldron and Daniel T. Barney, Art Education After spending time in Switzerland with Mongolian immigrants back in 2012, I became interested in their culture and heritage. I attended several events with my Mongolian friends in Switzerland, most notably a cultural event in the summer time called Naadam, or what we describe in English as […]
Understanding the Conversion to Christianity and Messianism in a Hmong Community in Nan, Thailand
Lindsey Fields and Dr. Jacob Hickman, Anthropology Introduction: Hmong of Thailand find themselves at the beginning of the 21st century embedded in a unique religious context. Though traditionally, Hmong people have practiced a mixture of spirit rituals and ancestral worship known as Dab Qhuas shamanism, in an increasingly globalized world these traditional practices have in […]
Children’s Expressions: Using the Creative Process of Theatre to Instruct and Inspire Children in the Community
Danielle Peterson and Dr. Megan Sanborn Jones, Dept. of Theatre and Media Arts The Project Most children’s theatre involves adults putting on plays for kids. Rarely are the children given the opportunity to sit in the creative seat. With this particular project, I attempted to shift the paradigm of “children’s theatre.” Working with the local […]
Community Affair: The Effect of Public Consumption on Cooperation in Redistribution Markets
Jowanza Joseph and Dr. Sterling Bone, Business Management Department Protocol and Hypothesis: In this research we set out to understand why people choose to trade in redistribution markets. We define a redistribution market as a market where people swap good-for-good, and no cash exchanges take place. Economic theory predicts that individuals would be reluctant to […]
Indian Illnesses Due To Mercury Poisoning At The Colonial Spanish Mining Community At Huancavelica, Peru In The Sixteenth And Seventeenth Centuries
James D. Harrop and Dr. Kendall Brown, History The Spanish mining operations in the Americas during Colonial times were operated by the only supply of manpower available to the Spanish; the indigenous peoples. Huancavelica was a mercury mine essential to the continued production of the silver mines. Mercury was necessary to extract silver from ore […]
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