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Students are expected to complete a thesis as part of the M.A.L.S. degree
requirements.
Students work under the supervision of three faculty advisors, and may begin
work at any time after the proposal has been formally approved. The thesis may
take the form of academic or applied research, or it may be a creative
work.
Below are some recent M.A.L.S.thesis titles:
- "HALF LIFE: Loss and American Remains After 9/11"
(Creative Writing)
- "BETWEEN CUES AND BEHAVIOR: How Individual Differences In Self
Consciousness Mediate Processes That Influence Inhibition And Moral
Cognition"
(Cognitive Studies)
- "From Ohiyesa's 'Deep Wounds' to the 'Civilization' of Charles:
Critiquing and Articulating Native American Manhood in Eastman's
Autobiography"
(Cultural Studies)
- "WE'RE THE LUCKY ONES: An Oral History of Parents who Adopted from
China"
(Creative Writing)
- "Who Gets Left Behind? Christian Fundamentalist Literature's Depiction
of Multiculturalism"
(General Liberal Studies)
- "The Evolving Mission of the Public Women's College"
(General Liberal Studies)
- "What Hip Hop Looks Like: Recontextualizing the Hip Hop
Aesthetic"
(Cultural Studies)
- "The Compatibility of Islam and Democracy in the Middle
East"
(Globalization Studies)
- "Deliberate Falsehoods; The Rhetoric of Production and the
Disappearance of the Animal"
(Cultural Studies)
- "Lexical Transilience and Counter-Colonial Poetics: Contemporary Keys
to Roger Williams' 'A Key into the Language of America'"
(Cultural Studies)
- "It Indeed Feels Real: Archival Photographs and Ken Burns' 'The Civil
War'"
(General Liberal Studies)
- "WHO KNOWS GOD'S WAYS?: An Oral History of Catholic Nuns in
Ireland"
(Creative Writing)
- "Post-Secondary Education for African American Students in America:
Problems and Prospects"
(General Liberal Studies)
- "'On Campus': Creative Non-Fictitious Television for The College-Bound
Audience"
(Creative Writing)
- "I Will Chant Homage to the Orisha: Oriki and the Yoruba Oral
Culture"
(General Liberal Studies)
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