2010-2011 Senior Honors Proposal Defenses

Senior candidates for SUSE honors will give brief summaries of their thesis proposals and elicit feedback from mentors, faculty, and the SUSE community.

A detailed schedule is below. Please feel free to drop-in to see specific presentations and enjoy some light refreshments.

SCHEDULE:

4:30 - Welcome

Prof. Mitchell Stevens

4:45 - Sandy Nader

“The Pursuit of Literacy:
Understanding Generational Differences in Language Minority Adolescents’
Reading”

5:00 - James Chu

“A
Rebellious Generation? How Chinese Students in Rural-to-Urban Migrant Schools
Respond to Authority”

5:15 - Ada Ocampo

“From
the Middle of Nowhere: the Rural/Urban Effect on Identity Construction”

5:30 - Emily Rains

“Sex and Power: How Gendered Assumptions May Hinder HIV Prevention Education in
East Africa”

5:45 - Marloes Sijstermans

TBA

6:00 - Break

6:15 - Jennifer Queenan

“9-11 and the KKK: Defining Terrorism in Texas and California High School
History Curricula”

6:30 - Manny Reza

“Can a Practice Rooted in a Spiritual Tradition be Put to Secular Use? A Case Study
of Mindful Schools”

6:45 - Adriana Campos

“Making Sense of Differences:
Examining Children’s Own Words about their Relationships in a Two-Way Immersion
Classroom”

7:00 - Lizz Fay

“The Discourse of
Intercourse: Using Collective Understandings of ‘Safe Sex’ to Make Sense
of Sexual Health Education”

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