
A highlight of the University Scholars program is the required senior honors project. Honors projects involve an intensive exploration of a topic that is related to the student’s major and is studied within the context of the Christian faith. These projects demonstrate one way in which SPU students engage the culture in order to change the world.
All completed Honors Projects are catalogued and put into the permanent collection at the SPU Library for public access.
2011 University Scholars Honors Projects
William Anderson, Computing Science. Philosophical Perspectives on Semantic Web Development
Kristen Andre, European Studies: Spanish and Linguistics. Waking Sleeping Beauty: A Translation of Ana Maria Matute’s El verdadero final de la Bella Durmiente
Sarah Baggs, Student Designed Major. Who Wears the Pants in Evangelical Marriages? An Analysis of Headship and Submission
Joel Bradshaw, Computing Science and Electrical Engineering. Personal Sound Localization: Building a Device to Monitor Sound Events Outside Visual Focus
Tyson Conner, Sociology. Spiritual Acculturation: North American Missionaries in Southeast Asia
Lorrie Cope, Accounting. The Economic and Psychological Effects of Cash for Clunkers
Sarah Cunningham, English. Confession and Conscience in Four Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe
Harrison Dietzman, English. A Solitary Journey Home: What It Means to Be Lost and the Possibility of Salvation in Denis Johnson’s Tree of Smoke
Laura Grafham, English. The Just Death: Destruction and Repair in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony
Derek Hanson, Computing Science. TheaSearch.com: A Search Engine for Theatre Company Websites
Alexander Kato, Communication. Mark Driscoll, Aristotle, and Authoritative Preaching in a Postmodern World
Caitlin Kincaid, Political Science. Revolutionary Referendum: The AKP and Turkey's Quest for Democratization
Hannah Shun-yu Larson, Mathematics. An Exploration of Graph Similarity Scores
Olivia Lenz, Chemistry. Chemical Synthesis of Inorganic Nanomaterials for Energy-harvesting Devices
Christopher Lute, Philosophy. Women Priests: A Case for the Ordination of Women in the Eastern Orthodox Churches
James McDonald, Biochemistry. Investigation of Homologous Recombination Efficiency in Agrobacterium tumefaciens C58
Hannah McMillen, Global Development Studies. The Development of Civil Society in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan: Comparative Perspectives
Zachary McNay, Philosophy and Classics. David Lewis's Counterparts: Too High a Price to Pay, to Gain Modal Satisfaction
Brent Miles, History. Writing “in a field cultivated with such labor”: The Chronica of Guilhem de Puylaurens and the Future of the Midi
Emily Miller, Global Development Studies and European Studies–French. Civil Society in Algeria
Valerie Moser, English. The Internalization of the Onion: Grushenka's Transformative Discourse in The Brothers Karamazov
Lauren Oglesby, Music. Synthesis and Subversion: Word-Tone Interaction in Three Settings of Goethe's Gretchen am Spinnrade
Michael Richards, Business Administration. Mobile Money at the Base of the Pyramid: Profitable Business Empowering the Poor
Nathaniel Rogers, English. One Hand on a Hexagram, One Hand on a Girl: Leonard Cohen and the Heresy of Artistic Creation
David Rowan, Biology. In Ethical Consideration of Personal Genetic Information and Its Use In Personalized Medicine
Alina Sayre, English. Light: A Palimpsest
Stephen Schale, Chemistry. Classifying Biodiesel Source and/or Biodiesel/Petrodiesel Blend Ratios Using Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry with Chemometrics
Anna Schwulst, English. A Philosophy of Story: Knowing Relational Truth Through C.S. Lewis’s Myth and Gabriel García Márquez’s Magical Realism
Noah Simpson, Global Development Studies. “God Is for All”: Re-narrating Hutu and Tutsi Identities Toward Reconcilation in Rwanda
Kali Wagner, English. Poetry and the Art of Conciliation
Adam Waldo, Political Science. Peace Talks Reinitiated: Palestinian, Israeli, and U.S. Policy in 2010 and 2011
Kael Wanamaker, Psychology. Childrearing Experiences and Practices in Three Generations of an Enrolled Tlingit Family
Project Guidelines and Requirements (PDF)
For more information about the University Scholars program,
refer to the University Undergraduate Catalog. You may also contact Luke
Reinsma, director of University Scholars, at lreinsma@spu.edu
or
206- 281-2093.
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