Clark Honors College Theses
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The thesis is the capstone of a student's academic program at the Clark Honors College. It is an opportunity for each CHC student to build on the education received in both CHC and the academic major to design an independent and original research project. It is the product of the student's original research or creative endeavor and, like graduate theses, must place the research or creative work in the context of prior research or artistic traditions, explain the techniques used to perform the research or develop the creative work, and present and elaborate on the results. Like graduate students, CHC students work closely with faculty members to develop and write their theses and, like graduate students, defend their theses in oral presentations to their thesis committees. There is a fundamental difference between graduate theses and CHC theses; the CHC thesis must be readable by a lay audience, while graduate theses may be written in technical or discipline-specific language.
Beginning in Winter 2005, Clark Honors College students have been notified of the option of submitting their theses to Scholars' Bank and many have done so. Some older theses are also available. Paper copies of all theses are available in the Robert D. Clark Library on the third floor of Chapman Hall, on the University of Oregon campus. To search the Robert D. Clark Library catalog online, visit: http://honors.uoregon.edu.
Paper copies of all theses are also available in the University Archives operated by the University of Oregon Libraries. To search the Libraries' catalog, visit the web site at: http://libweb.uoregon.edu/.
Recent Submissions
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(University of Oregon, 2009-06)Since the Spanish conquest, Ecuador's lowland indigenous groups have experienced two major periods of development: faith-based initiatives and petroleum exploitation. The early 1990s marked the beginning of a third, ...
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(University of Oregon, 2009-06)This thesis comprises six works of short fiction. These stories are diverse in origin, plot, and character, but bound by the theme of threatened romantic relationships. Admittedly, stories about romance abound; authors ...
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(University of Oregon, 2008-04)In the 1970' s when the Black Radical Movement was at its height and the United States was experiencing incredible social and political changes and challenges, there was a moment of dialogue and expression from the ...
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(University of Oregon, 2009-06)Past research has suggested that perceivers construct a schema of a target person in order to accurately infer that person's thoughts and feelings (Myers & Hodges, 2009). The current study was designed to test whether ...
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(University of Oregon, 2009-06)Emmanuel Levinas calls suffering "the very bond of human subjectivity," that by which we are most fundamentally connected. Albeit irrefutable in its own right, properly accounting for human suffering and pain resists ...
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(University of Oregon, 2008-06)Day-to-day human life requires functional sensory systems that enable us to perceive the surrounding environment. Often, the surrounding environment assessed by our sensory systems can be very complex, so that processes ...
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(University of Oregon, 2009-06)From its humble beginnings in the housing projects of the South Bronx in the 1970s, hip-hop has grown into a globalized musical genre and culture. Alleyways in Spain explode with the cryptic lettering of graffiti, South ...
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(University of Oregon, 2008-06)Millions of children around the globe have been killed, maimed, disabled, or orphaned as a result of armed conflict. Children have been exposed to brutal death, dangerous escape or flight; violence; physical injury; ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-06)Tweedie random variables are exponential dispersion models that have power unit variance functions, are infnitely divisible, and are closed under translations and scale transformations. Notably, a Tweedie random variable ...
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(University of Oregon, 2023-09)Thiamine (vitamin B1) is a micronutrient essential to both metabolic functioning and development. It helps the body to take energy from the nutrients it takes in. Due to a diet heavily reliant on polished white rice in ...
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The Spark of Sustainability: Analyzing the Energy Market's Response to Climate Disclosure Frameworks (University of Oregon, 2023-06)This study investigates current climate disclosure practices within the U.S. oil and gas (O&G) industry by analyzing the annual sustainability reports published by nine publicly listed companies in the industry. By centering ...
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(University of Oregon, 2023-06)Much of 20th-century biology has been driven by and proceeded through a finer understanding of biological mechanisms at the level of genes and molecules. These gene-centric approaches have located medical interventions, ...
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(University of Oregon, 2023-05)In the midst of a growing energy crisis, green energy is a central point of conversation. Green energy can be efficiently created in electrochemical devices via water electrolysis. Semiconductors can be used in electrochemical ...
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(University of Oregon, 2023-06)Portland, similarly to the rest of the country, is experiencing a housing crisis. Rising rents, low housing stocks and the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have combined to produce record numbers of people ...
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(University of Oregon, 2023-05)Cnidarians have among the most primitive nervous systems, yet they also display diverse behavioral patterns. Previous studies have shown that the hydromedusa Polyorchis penicillatus has a light response in which bell ...
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(University of Oregon, 2023-05)This research investigates the extent to which strict constitutionalists and religious fundamentalists might be intertwined and what implication this might have on the American legal system. Findings suggest close ties ...
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(University of Oregon, 2023-05)Spending time in nature fosters pro-environmental attitudes and behaviors, which are essential for achieving ecological resilience in the face of climate change. Spending time outdoors is additionally associated with several ...
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(University of Oregon, 2023-05)This undergraduate thesis explores two dominant narratives, the “Come Here” Narrative and the “Latino Threat” Narrative, in US immigration policies and public discourse. The project contends that the “Come Here” Narrative, ...
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(University of Oregon, 2023-06)U.S. criminal justice settings disproportionately involve minority defendants and white judges/juries, often involving cross-accent communication. Although it is known that racial and linguistic profiling can lead to ...
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(University of Oregon, 2023)In today’s highly digitized world, we are constantly consuming media. We watch so many movies and TV shows, listen to so much music, and scroll through so much social media that we have become numb to it. Just as we are ...