Senior Project Presentations 2003
2064
Health Science Center
Thursday, December 11th
9am-11am
Crystal
Neeb—Scent and Attraction: What Nonverbal Messages are “Scent”?
Meri Miller—Affinity-Seeking and College Dating: A Qualitative Study of Affinity-Seeking Behaviors and Skills
Bethany Leaver—Parent-Daughter Communication: The Impact and Importance of Self-Disclosure and Feelings of Understanding
Jude Tindall—Persuasive Tactics of Rich Dad Poor Dad: An Analysis of How Ethos, Pathos, and Logos are Used to Persuade People to Take Substantial Financial Risks
1pm-3pm
Mark Truchan—An Examination of American Teachers’ Immediacy
Behaviors in Japan
Jenny Anderson—Turning Points and Dialectical Contradictions: Effects on Communication between Engaged Partners
Jenny Mans—Romantic Relationships Among College Students: How a New Identity is Created
Ryan Wieters—Parental Behavior in Children’s Sports: Emotional Sports Effects on Family
Rob McCain—Communication and Slang in American Speech: A Study of Youth Speech
Amanda Sauer—A Greater Taste of Life: Constructing
Relationships in and through Food
Friday, December 12th
12:15-2:15
Jake Jahimiak—A Comparative Analysis between Jaws and Moby Dick
Faith Pfundtner—Reality Television: Why do We Watch?
Robin Brown—The Relationship of Attachment Theory to Affinity-Seeking Strategies in Sex & the City
Magen Duffy—Don’t Stop Touching me: An Examination of the Relationship between Touch and Relationship Satisfaction
Rachel Peterson—Similarities in Political Ideology between Parent and Child as a Result of Family Communication Patterns
Natalie
Stoffel—Prayer in Christian Romantic Relationships: A Qualitative Study
Friday, December 12th
2:30-4:30
Karyn Kling—Sign Language and Hearing Children: Does the Deaf
Culture Agree?
Phil Jahnke—Deconstructing The Wall: A Humanistic Film Criticism
Erika Drake—Analyzing Patterns of Conversation in John Edward’s Readings
Tiffany Prescher
Evan Draeger—Intimacy through Nonverbal Immediacy Cues: How Does Intimacy through Nonverbal Communication Affect the Level of Satisfaction in Romantic Relationships?
Shana
Defnet—How Sibling Communication Changes After a Sibling Attends
College; A Rules Perspective
Saturday, December 13th
10am-noon
Kim
Schmaltz—Predicting Verbal Aggression in Sibling Relationships
Becky Pilsbury—The Next Bib Thing: Using a Press Kit to Gain a Music Journalist’s Attention
Sarah Hausmann—Live Concerts as a Multi-Sensory Experience: Examining the Impact of Visual, Auditory, and Situational Factors on Audience Reactions to the Event
Leah Elskamp—An Analysis of the Adaptation of Communication between Children and Their Parents with Dementia
Rachel Dischinger—The
Social Construction of Local News Stories in America’s Culture of Fear
12:30-2:30pm
Maggie Rice—The Influence of a Study Abroad Experience: Midwestern
Students’ Communication of Ethnocentrism
Janice Ruger—Sarcasm: How does Cultural Background Affect Interpretation?
Stephanie Connolly—A Response to Contradictory Expectations in Hillary Clinton’s Women’s Rights are Human Rights and Carrie Caff’s Speech to Congress: A Feminist Criticism
Maggie Peters—An Ethnographic Investigations of Teenagers’ Web Logs
Maria Maier—The Women Behind the Killers
Colleen Bradek—Political Participation of College Students: A Study Describing how Party Identification and Sources of Influence Impact Students Decisions to Take Part in the Political Process
Monday, December 15th
12:30-2:30pm
Ben
Olds—Gaining Friends at Work: An Examination of Affinity-Seeking
Strategies
Julie Kesterke—How Fans Create and Maintain Their Realities from Concerts They Attend Using the Social Construction Theory
Adam Wallschlaeger—An Analysis of Relationship Development in Committed Christians’ Romantic Relationships
Brooke Peters—Verbal Aggressiveness of an Athletic Coach and Motivation of the Athlete
Megan Anderson—An Examination of Self-Disclosure and Communication Styles in The Bachelor
Adam Dvork—A Cultural Analysis of Skateboarding in La Crosse
CST 300 Poster Sessions
If you come, it is very informal--students will be scattered throughout the third floor of CFA from 2:15-3:40 (although more likely 2:30 once we get started) on each of the following dates--Tues, 12/02; Wed, 12/03; Thurs, 12/04; Monday, 12/08; Tuesday, 12/09; and Wed, 12/10. Come to one, come to several! Simply browse and/or ask the students some questions. They are interested in your feedback.
We invited the Dean's office, and have heard that Charles and John are coming to some sessions--pretty exciting!