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

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