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  • Steps and Strikes

    Creator:
    Scopatz, Shane
    Abstract:
    Steps and Stikes is an Environmental Arts and Humanities capstone thesis project taking the shape of an art film. The video layers contemporary dance with natural and industrial imagery on a foundation of personal narrative. It engages with contemporary environmental discourse as a choreographed essay, questioning why the environmental movement...
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    Capstone Project

  • Steps and Strikes

    Creator:
    Scopatz, Shane
    Abstract:
    Steps and Stikes is an Environmental Arts and Humanities capstone thesis project taking the shape of an art film. The video layers contemporary dance with natural and industrial imagery on a foundation of personal narrative. It engages with contemporary environmental discourse as a choreographed essay, questioning why the environmental movement...
    Resource Type:
    Video and Capstone Project

  • Translating the Animal

    Creator:
    Owen, Melody
    Abstract:
    My thesis in Environmental Arts and Humanities concerned the idea of animal language, as well as other posthuman ideas around animality and indistinction. I also explored virtual space as it relates to human identity, our notions of reality and perception, and the way contemporary digital artists approach animal subjectivity in...
    Resource Type:
    Capstone Project

  • Meeting the Night : The Science and Mystery of an Endangered Habitat

    Creator:
    Sisson, Jill
    Abstract:
    Night is an extraordinary resource. Unlike air, water, or soil, nighttime is a spatio-temporal phenomenon, which leads to many crucial roles. It provides refuge to wildlife species, triggers hormonal and behavioral responses among a wide variety of organisms, and serves as an essential migratory backdrop for species that navigate by...
    Resource Type:
    Capstone Project
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  • Virtual Reality Art As a Pathway to Social Justice and Humanity

    Creator:
    Egan, Haley
    Abstract:
    This paper contains a review of the literature that inspired and informed my final Master’s art project for Applied Ethics, as well as an explanation and analysis of the art project itself. The review of literature begins with a lens into modern development, and how a history of colonization and...
    Resource Type:
    Capstone Project

  • Reflections on a Poetry Workshop with First-Year Latin@ Students at Oregon State University

    Creator:
    Cole, Matthew Colin
    Abstract:
    This paper explores the benefits of a poetry workshop with first-year Latin@ students at Oregon State University. Over the course of nine weeks, participants met once a week for fifty minutes to analyze and discuss culturally relevant poetry as well as compose and revise their own work. Drawing from critical...
    Resource Type:
    Capstone Project

  • The path of a pathfinder : Walker's route to California in 1833

    Creator:
    Zernel, John Joseph
    Abstract:
    Joseph Reddeford Walker conducted a party of men across the Sierra Nevada to the Pacific coast of California in 1833. Previous interpretations of the portion of the route from Humboldt Sink, Nevada, to the San Joaquin River, California, are not satisfactory. A body of descriptions of the terrain traversed exists...
    Resource Type:
    Capstone Project

  • The marine biogeography of Ragay Gulf and Burias Pass, Philippines

    Creator:
    Jamir, Tomas Vergel C.
    Abstract:
    Ragay Gulf and Burias Pass are among the traditional fishing grounds of the country being considered by the government for an integrated approach to fishery management (Smith, et al., 1980; Samson, et al., 1977, World Bank, 1976). The Department of Marine Fisheries, College of Fisheries, University of the Philippines in...
    Resource Type:
    Capstone Project

  • The electrification of Mexico

    Creator:
    Gill, Andrew Douglas
    Abstract:
    This research paper is an analysis of the electric energy industry in Mexico since its inception in 1879. The research is based entirely on library sources plus documents secured from the Federal Electricity Commission of Mexico. Only minimal documentary evidence is available in English, consequently the Oregon State University library...
    Resource Type:
    Capstone Project

  • A study of socioeconomic factors which influence recycling participation in two Oregon communities : Beaverton and Corvallis

    Creator:
    Gustafson, Gary G.
    Abstract:
    Seven socioeconomic factors common to two Oregon communities, Beaverton and Corvallis, were examined and compared for the influences they might have on participation in recycling programs. Sampling technique involved the use of a prepared survey questionnaire through which the data necessary for the appropriate statistical methodology used in the study...
    Resource Type:
    Capstone Project