Kelsey Simons and Dr. Tony Brown, Department of German and Slavic Languages In matters of international politics today, Russia is the wildcard. Its history of power on the international stage, along with an impressive military and large sphere of influence give it a commanding presence, even as it still struggles to find its identity after […]
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Creating Community While Learning Italian: An Experiment in Communitarian Language Learning
David Sabey and Professor Jennifer Brown, Department of German and Slavic Languages Explanation As a student instructor of an Italian 102 class, I adopted an action-research methodology in hopes to understand more fully how to develop sense of community in a language-learning classroom environment. Thus, my research goal was twofold: 1. I wanted to work […]
Collecting Folklore
Trent Leinenbach and Dr. Stephen Tuttle, Department of Humanities Our purpose in collecting folklore was to examine what happens to a society when the people can no longer identify themselves by nationality. Transylvania is a particularly good case study, because the borders have been disputed between Hungarians and Romanians essentially for as long as both […]
Prophets, Scripts, and Nations: Hmong Religious and Ethnonational Borders in Northern Thailand
Belinda Ramirez and Dr. Jacob Hickman, Department of Anthropology As a sociocultural anthropology major, my ORCA project entailed spending three months on an ethnographic study. I chose to conduct this study in northern Thailand among the Hmong, a small hill tribe ethnic group. During my stay in a Hmong community near Pua, Nan Province, I […]
Recognizing Faces: Women’s Portraits on the Salt Lake City and County Building
Diana Lauritzen and Dr. James Swensen, Department of Art History and Curatorial Studies Sixteen women’s portraits grace the capitals of four piers at the two main entrances to the Salt Lake City and County Building, a building which though controversial at the time, serves today as the icon of the city’s logo. Much like the […]
Validation of a Secondary School Eating Disorder Prevention Curriculum
Dr. Lane Fischer, Department of Counseling Psychology & Special Education Introduction and Overview In winter semseter, 2009, I received a Mentoring Environment Grant (MEG) to study the effectiveness of a secondary school eating disorder prevention curriculum. Four students, Jill Smedley, Rachel McCarty (Doyle) Jenna Johnson (Murray) and Janine Stickney worked as a team to execute […]
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