Recent Thesis Titles
2011-2012
"They're Closer Than You Think: The Role of Genre and Spectatorship in Contemporary American Mainstream and Independent Cinema"
Christopher Bragg (FILM)
"Cents and Sensibility. A Case for the Introduction of Incentives to Sustain Development Outcomes."
Robyn High Klapatiuk (DEST)
"Unfair Advantage: Identifying and Addressing the Economic Barriers of Access to Justice"
Sean Hume (LWSO)
2010-2011
"A Foot on Both Sides of the Cultural Dividing Line" Hugh Dempsey's Aboriginal Acquisitions for Glenbow Museum
Laura Golebiowski (COMS)
"A Symphony of Styles: Reexamining the Research on Sex Bias and Sex-Role Attribution in the Evaluation of Writing"
Matthew Maillet (COMS)
"Biochar and Development: The Contentions and Potentials for Tropical Countries and the Global Climate"
Daniel Palmer (DEST)
"Aligning Priorities: Analyzing the Political Separation of Research and Development and Sustainable Development in Canada"
Anne Rainville (STAS)
"Communications Technologies and Hutterite Culture A Theoretical Analysis of ICT uses and Practices within the Hutterite Community"
Rueben Tschetter (COMS)
"Do Not Resuscitate: A Study of the Legality, Validity, and use of DNR orders in Canada"
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Jenna Will (LWSO)
2009-2010
"Orientalism and the Beijing Olympics: An Analysis of the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times"
Heidi Koot (COMS)
"My Brother and I: Disability, Citizenship and Family"
Meghan Locke (LWSO)
"Loosening the Frame: Social Protest and Multiculturalism in Michael Ondaatje’s In the Skin of a Lion"
Heather Laursen (COMS)
"Hegemonic Power, Conflict Resolution, & Critical Reflexivity: Lessons from Intentional Communities"
Patricia Minor (DEST)
"The Price of Progress: Analysis of Television Sitcoms and Communication in Marriage"
Elisabeth Morgan (COMS)
“Diversity and Discord in Post-punk The Wipers, Sonic Youth, and Wire”
Wendy Pringle (COMS)
"The Globalization of Health: Health Policy and the Global Obesity Crisis"
Arunan Sivalingam (DEST)
2008-2009
"Divided: The impact of social divisions on homosexuals and the acceptance of homosexuality in South Africa"
Andrew Barry (GNST)
"The Pembina Institute: Balancing Environmental Policy with Oil Sands Development in an Industry-Oriented Economy"
Jordan Brown (DEST)
"Transformations: The Discontinuities of the Anti-Globalization Movement in Canada and as Arbiters of Global Change"
Katie Clancy (COMS)
"Queervisions: Queer Women Speak About Their First Experiences of Queer Representations in Film and Television"
Jasmine Ing (WMST)
"Teenage Pregnancy: An Autoethnographic Analysis"
Wendy Nadon (LWSO)
"Unequal and Inferior: Towards an Understanding of Women's Experiences in Fundamentalist Christianity and Islam"
Michelle Pomeroy (LWSO)
"Online Investor Communities and Their Effect on Business Communications"
Sonia Ross (COMS)
"Human Rights and the Olympic Games: The Role of International Sporting Events in the Promotion of the Rights of First Nations"
Cassandra Schwarz (DEST)
"James Watson and Francis Crisk's " A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid" as an Informal Argument"
Tom Spark (COMS)
"Good Girls and Gardasil:The HPV Vaccine and Sexual Health Discourse in Popular Media"
Shannon Vogels (COMS)
2007 - 2008
"The Heart of the Matter: An integrative journey"
Gaurau Daggal (GNST)
Sudanese Diaspora IN Calgary & Post-Conflict Reconstruction in South Sudan
BA (Honours) DEST Marcel Gelein
Muletas, Bandanas, and the Bull: an analysis of Bull Fighting, Bull Riding, and Masculinity
Clive Marsh (COMS)
The Decameron:Balm for a Ravaged Society
BA (Honours) Meghan Masterson
Running head: HIV/AIDS, WOMEN AND POSTCOLONIAL FEMINISM
Ashley I. Mollison
The World Bank and Gender Mainstreaming
(DEST) Honours - Kimberly Smith
The Line Dividing Good and Evil
(COMS) Honours - Tiffany Wiebe
2006 - 2007
"Everybody Loves Family Ties?" The (De)evolution of the American Situation Comedy
BA (Honours) Communications Studies - Dawn Cho
Hitler's Youth: A Study of the Nazi Primer
BA (Honours) Communications Studies - Chelsea Sambells
Determining the Forces of Influence: Burke's Dramatism and the Popularity of Freud
BA (Honours) Communications Studies - Lauren Cheal
Fort McKay First Nation & Shell Canada: Understanding an Oil Sands Agreement
BA (Honours) Development Studies - Jeffrey Halvorsen
The Future of Digital Cinema Distribution and Exhibition
BA (Honours) Science, Technology and Society - Dan Meeking
The Quilter Identity: An Exploration of West Coast Canadian Women's Lived Experiences
BA (Honours) Women's Studies - Camille Stengel
2005 - 2006
Prospects for Privatization
BA (Honours) Canadian Studies
Warts, Warts, Warts: Apocalyptic Aesop Fables adn the Myth of Canadian Inferiority
BA (1st Class Honours) Canadian Studies
Construction and reconstruction of the "Ideal Wife" in Indian cinema
BA (1st Class Honours) Communications Studies
A New Sphere for Historical Rhetoric: The Medieval Rhetoric of Hildegard of Bingen and Catherine of Siena
BA (1st Class Honours) Communications Studies
Photography and the Tourist Gaze: A Visual Analysis of Himalayan Images
BA (1st Class Honours) Communications Studies
Re-Conceptualizing Reasonableness: R. V. Lavallee and Self-Defence in Canada
BA (1st Class Honours) Law and Society
Gender and Sexuality within Islam
BA (1st Class Honours) Law and Society
In the Name of National Security: An Analysis of the Effects of the Security Certificate Process on Civil Liberties from a Foucauldian Perspective
BA (Honours) Law and Society
The Emergent Paradigm: Complexity and Modeling in the Social Sciences
BA (1st Class Honours) Science, Technology, and Society
Translating Childbirth: A Feminist Literary Analysis of Preparations for Motherhood
BA (1st Class Honours) Women's Studies
Who Will Rear the Space Age Baby? A Feminist Analysis of Pro-Life and Pro Choice Literature in Calgary
BA (1st Class Honours) Women's Studies
2003-2004
Pharmacists’ Narratives of Opiate-Addicted Patients on Methadone
BA (1st Class Honours) Communications Studies
Film and the Holocaust: Marketing and Distribution Strategies in Hollywood
BA (1st Class Honours) Communications Studies
The Rant: A Controversial Simulation of Canadian Identity within a Postmodern Context
BA (Honours) Communications Studies
What US Weekly is Selling: Consumption, Ideology, and the Construction of Identity in the Mass Media
BA (Honours) Communications Studies
A Temporal Look at Israel: The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai
BA (Honours) Communications Studies
The Socio-Rhetorical Influences on Baltasar Gracian’s Oracle
BA (Honours) Communications Studies
The Non-language Based Communication of Intercultural Couples in Japan
BA (Honours) Communications Studies
Faking the Real: An analysis of romance reality television mimicking real life
BA (Honours) Communications Studies
War of Words: A Mythic Analysis of the Rhetoric of the 2003 Iraq War
BA (Honours) Communications Studies
Rhetoric and Resistance: An Analysis of Harold Cardinal’s The Unjust Society
BA (Honours) Communications Studies
Ethnic Community Development: Implications and Opportunities for Ghanaians in Calgary
BA (Honours) Development Studies
Fitting a Round Peg Into a Square Hole: Native Culture in the Canadian Legal System
BA (Honours) Law and Society
The Compatibility of Acupuncture in the Western World
BSc (1st Class Honours) Science, Technology & Society
Ideological Constructions of Place: The Conflict over Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
BA (1st Class Honours) Urban Studies
Radical Doubt of the Rational Self: A Feminist Response to Postmodern Critiques of Enlightenment
BA (1st Class Honours) Women’s Studies
2002 - 2003
Dreamer on a Crazy Train: Ozzy Osbourne and Heavy Metal Music
BA (Honours) Communications Studies
An Analysis of Feminine Ideals and Feminist Ideology within Advertisements in Seventeen
BA (Honours) Communications Studies
In Our Own Backyard: A Study of Western Canada's Eugenics Movement and its Key Supporters
BA (Honours) Communications Studies
ICTs, Advocacy Networks, and the Zapatistas: The Shift Towards an Information and Communication Strategy
BA (Honours) Communications Studies
Rhetoric Outline: The Web Designer's Web Site
BA (Honours) Communications Studies
We Are All Made of Stars: Complexity and the Flow of Consciousness
BA (Honours) Communications Studies
Celebrating Resistance: A Performance Studies Analysis of the Calgary G8 Protests
BA (Honours) Communications Studies
Raising Our Sights: An Examination
BA (1st Class Honours) Communications Studies
CIDA's Human Rights Policy for China: A Study of Human Rights Development Policy and Practices
BA (Honours) Development Studies
Distinguishing the Limits of the Democratic Right to Dissent: An Analysis of the McDonald Commission
BA (Honours) Law and Society
2001 - 2002
Our Voice Must Be Seen To Be Heard: Contemporary Native Art in Canadian Society
BA (1st Class Honours) Canadian Studies
PentePop: Church Growth in the New Millennium
BA (Honours) Communications Studies
The Media and Social Protest: A Study of the Calgary Herald’s Coverage of the
Summit of the Americas
BA (1st Class Honours) Communications Studies
The Lost Voice: Karel Kryl’s Poetic Struggle Against Oppression in Czechoslovakia, 1944-1994
BA (Honours) Communications Studies
The Empty Promise: Work-Life Balance in a Modern Technology Corporation
BA (1st Class Honours) Communications Studies
Intentional Communities: Alternative Cultures and Their Lessons
BA (Honours) Communications Studies and Development Studies
Developing and Assessing an Integrated Theory of Empowerment: Interviews with CPIRG Activists
BA (1st Class Honours) Development Studies
Education in Rural Northern Ghana
BA (Honours) Development Studies
Rwandese Refugees, Militarized Camps, and Challenges Facing the UNHCR
BA (Honours) Development Studies
Bases & Brothels: U.S. Military Involvement in the Asian Sex Trade
BA (Honours) Development Studies
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees: Challenges to Returnee Reintegration and Development
BA (Honours) Development Studies
Tom Flanagan? Second Thoughts: A Pragmatic Defense of Aboriginal Justice
BA (1st Class Honours) Law and Society
Justice in the Gulf: Did the Americans Violate International Law in the Bombing of the Al-Amariyah Shelter and the Attack on Withdrawing Iraqi Troops?
BA (Honours) Law and Society