Undergraduate Honors in Education Thesis Presentations

Final Presentations Schedule

8:50       Coffee/Juice and Pastries

9:00       Introductory Remarks

9:15       Lizz Fay, “The Discourse of Intercourse: Risk and Responsibility in Undergraduate Sexual Relationships"

9:30       Emily Rains, “Faulty Assumptions: How Women-Focused Global HIV Discourse May be too Narrow”

9:45       Adriana Campos, “Making Sense of Differences: Examining Children’s Own Words about Differences in a Two-Way Immersion Program”

10:00     Ada Ocampo, “Comfort and Confidence: Rural and Suburban Latino Students' Educational Experiences”

10:15     James Chu, “Collaboration, Compliance, and Rebellion: How Chinese Students Respond to Authority in Rural-to-Urban Migrant Schools"

10:30     Break

10:45     Sandy Nader, “Home and School Factors in Language Minority Students' Reading Development during the Transition into the Middle Grades: New Evidence   from the ECLS-K"

11:00     Manny Fassihi, “Mindful Schools, Mindful Teachers? An Exploration of Teachers’ Response to a Mindfulness-Based Intervention”

11:15     Jenna Queenan, “The Language of Threats: A Study on the Portrayal of Communism and Terrorism in High School U.S. History Textbooks”

11:30     Marloes Sijstermans, “Out in the Classroom or Left Out of the Classroom? Negotiating the Queer Identity in Class Discussions”

11:45     Closing Remarks

12:00     Lunch in the CERAS Lobby

Please join us!