The John M. Pfau Library is at work on a project to digitize its collection of CSUSB Master's Theses, Master's Projects, and Doctoral Dissertations. Prior to 2014, the theses were available only in hard copy. Starting in 2014, all theses, projects, and dissertations were produced in digital versions only. View theses 2014-present here.
Funding for the digitization project is provided by a grant from CSUSB's Vital and Expanded Technologies Initiative, which allocates designated funds from the Student Success Initiative fee. We thank the VETI committee for supporting this project to showcase the intellectual endeavors of CSUSB graduates.
Beginning January 2017, digitized theses will be posted here as they become available. We will digitize the oldest theses first. The files will be scanned with OCR to make the text accessible to users with visual disabilities and will receive basic structural markup to make them friendly to screen-readers. For privacy, advisors’ signatures will be redacted before the files are posted.
In keeping with ScholarWorks' mission as an open access repository, all files will be freely available. Based on our interpretation of the HathiTrust and Google Books copyright cases, the library considers that digitizing and indexing texts for accessibility constitutes a fair use, and for that reason we will not be seeking copyright permission from each individual author.
Opting Out or Requesting Quick Digitization
If you are the author of a CSUSB thesis and do not want the full text of you work posted in ScholarWork, please notify us via the Digitization Project Request Form. Alternatively, if you would like your thesis digitized as soon as possible, please use the request form to let us know that too! All such requests will be honored, but must come from the author of the work.
Because current theses/projects in Creative Writing are not posted in ScholarWorks, the digitization project will not post past Creative Writing theses without the author’s express permission.
If you have any questions, please contact project coordinator Stacy Magedanz, magedanz@csusb.edu or (909) 537-5103.
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Educational experiences of pregnant and parenting adolescents in pregnant minor education program, Tabitha Ndinda Muteti
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Effects of mathematics professional development on growth in teacher mathematical content knowledge, Carol Elizabeth Cronk
Graduate social work students' attitudes about the use of social networking sites in social work and the possible ethical implications of such use, Christina Irene Dillon
Applications of the well-educated mind 2003 concept by Susan Bauer in the Southern California history classrooms, Tomasz Bogdan Stanek
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Controlling gang crime: The Santa Nita gang injunction, Bryan William Devor
Face-to-face communication versus memo communication to announce mergers and acquisitions the importance of media richness, Janell Marie Hopeck
Chemical characterization of Lake Gregory, Eric Steven Torres
Ore's theorem, Jarom Viehweg
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Autobiography as self-defense in the works of Agnes Newton-Keith and Michelle Kennedy, Robin Heim
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Frank Zappa and Mikhail Bakhtin: Rabelais's carnival made contemporary, Sarah Hill Antinora
Web templates: Unifying the Web presence of California State University San Bernardino, Angela Marie Gillespie
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Web-based library for student projects/theses and faculty research papers, Rudy Senjaya
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
A comparative study of book reviews in Thai and English, Prach Aowsakorn
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
Why are those computers sitting over there gathering dust, Bradford Ralph Austin
Enunciative identity in elementary English as a foreign language, Hsiao-Juo Huang
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
Taran: An individuated hero for the collective unconscious, Edward Tucker Raetz
A book management system eLibrary, Shanpeng Song
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
Entertainics, Jesus Mario Torres Garza
The role of motivation within an activity system for adults learning English as a second language, Priscilla Beth Jenison
Hyperbolic transformations on cubics in H², Frank S. Marfai
Almeria-Mars: A web based robotic simulation, John Travis Ian Wood
Theses/Dissertations from 2001
Social cognition-based content instruction for communicative competence in Japanese middle school English, Wakana Kitamura
Theses/Dissertations from 1999
Social work practice with a veterans home population: A description of a protocol for the treatment of dementia patients in a skilled nursing facility, Arturo Espinoza
Theses/Dissertations from 1997
The development of a curriculum for a course in basic firefighting technology, Gregory Vincent Doyle
A biosystematic survey of Sierra Lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta var. murrayana [Critchfield]) populations in the transverse and peninsular ranges of Southern California, Richard Gobin Everett
Tertiary wastewater treatment using riparian wetlands: A curriculum guide for high school students, Robert Lee Norwood
The relationship between childhood sibling attachment and sibling social support during young and middle adulthood, Abby Ann Welander
Theses/Dissertations from 1996
An application of Grice's cooperative principle to the analysis of coherence in basic writing, Linda Indahwati Abidin
Unspeakable thoughts unspoken: Black feminism in Toni Morrison's Beloved, Erica Angle
Integration of the American English lexicon: A study of borrowing in contemporary spoken Japanese, Bradford Michael Frischkorn
Technology in schools for the twenty-first century: Bringing one school closer to the future, Christopher John Hauk, Scott Michael Houston, and Carri Jean Walker
Developing career awareness for upper elementary grade and special education students, Shirley Huang
A study of finite and linear elasticity, Fen Rui Johnson
Spelling instruction for beginning writers in whole language classrooms, Gabriele Lenz
Authentic feminine rhetoric: A study of Leslie Silko's Laguna Indian prose and poetry, Kimberly Manning
Epistemic rhetoric: Its history and influences, R. Bradley McClanahan
The new Title I: A handbook for reading instruction in a year-round middle school, Wendel Roy Morden
Amazopoly a game of survival in a tropical rain forest, Michael William Morris
An optimistic concurrency control mechanism based on clock synchronization, Myoung Jin Park
Applications of hyperbolic geometry in physics, Scott Randall Rippy
Supporting the emergent writer in grade 1, Donna Wakeland Stark
An analysis of the motivational characteristics of higher education students in pursuing distance learning courses at California State University, San Bernardino, Patricia Arlene Turner
More than trees: An interdisciplinary, literature-based unit, emphasizing drama and hands-on activities, Tracee Joanne Vickery
Convex functions, Susanna Maria Zagar
Theses/Dissertations from 1995
Creating and sustaining a multiage vision, Bonnie S. Adama
Convergence properties of perceptrons, Ratnasri Krishna Adharapurapu
Investigating the aptitude treatment interaction: Age, gender, computer self-efficacy and computer training, Alexandra Anggraini Adhyatman
Exercise and dietary habits of high school, health science students, Lorri Castro Aguilera
Rehabilitation in the state sector: Do job descriptions accurately reflect expected duties?, Douglas Edward Allen
Myth, metaphor, and meaning: The Los Angeles Times' reportage of the 1991 Persian Gulf War, Doris Anita Anderson
Skilled nursing facility based rehabilitation outcomes of the geriatric stroke patient, Sheila Bernadette Andrews
An exploratory study of student attitudes toward statistics and their retention of statistical concepts, Linda Araki
Myth-making and motivation to write, William Charles Archibald
The development of an instrument to aid in focusing on modern physics in the high school physics classroom, John De Jong Arner
Rhetorical tropes from the black English oral tradition in the works of Toni Morrison, Yvonne Kay Atkinson
The effects of the kappa agonist U-50,488 on morphine-induced place preference conditioning and Fos immunoreactivity in the preweanling and periadolescent rat, Carlos Alberto Balaños Guzman
Helping classroom volunteers have a positive impact on literacy acquisition, Sheril Lee Bethurum
Curriculum for a major in early childhood education at the community college level, Mattie Anderson Boatright
A study to define secondary computer literacy programs: Implications for restructuring vocational education policy directions, Tracy Schneider Borchers
Write it right: Learning how to write an essay about literature through technology, David Harvey Braxton
Author studies: Connecting children with the world of books, Kelly Sue Brown
The effective use of journal writing in a fourth grade classroom, an inservice for elementary school teachers, Susan Ann Brown
Relationship between early entrance age and "at-risk" students in later years, Victoria Ann Sanabria Budinko
Integrating a science/language arts curriculum through the use of theme cycles in a first and third grade classroom, Mary Carrillo and Lorena Montoya
Battering and the client: Implications for the rehabilitation counselor, Paul Castillo
Developing a teacher directed inservice plan for technology, Robert Norman Charpentier
Hardware implementation of the complex Hopfield neural network, Chih Kang Cheng
An analysis of the impact of cultural differences upon management styles of selected Taiwanese managers within business/industry organizations of Southern California, Hunglin Maggie Chen
Oppression through obsession: A feminist theoretical critique of eating disorders, Jesse Carin Christopulos
Thyroid hormone influence on oxygen consumption rates, body mass, and lipid metabolism in mice with noninsulin dependent diabetes mellitus, Catherine Renee Clark
The influence of activation on recall and perception of a negative performance appraisal, Cassandre M. Clarke
The effect of an activity based integrated science curriculum on secondary student attitudes, Norma M. Clauson
The implementation of the constructivist needs research paradigm in inner city community needs assessment: A case report, Edward B. Cooney and Steven M. Steinberg
The impact of father-child relationships and interparental conflict on the intimacy levels of adult children from divorced and intact homes, Sheri Lynne Coulson
Ethos and electronics: A rhetorical study of televised presidential debates, Gail Houston Cramer
A constructivist study of the family preservation program in Riverside County, California, Jaime Antonio Crisanto and Russ Eldrige
A biopsychosocial perspective on alcohol use and abuse on the college campus, Carol Ann Davis
Impact of minimum hiring requirements (AB 1725) on the recruitment and employment of community college vocational and technical teachers in California, Victor Corey Davis
Curriculum design in creative writing, Lola De Julio De Maci
Writing workshop in a whole language classroom: Effects on reading comprehension, written language, and writing skills, Kathleen Muriel Dodd
Socioeconomic status and sex role values as determinants of divorce among women, Mary A. Dolan
Attitudes toward hiring and working with homosexuals in Southern California law enforcement agencies, James Frederick Doyle
Classroom as text: A study of the integration of multiculturalism, Penny Marie Drake
Skill analysis of throwing to improve feedback, Monette Lacaze Dyar
Consumers' attitudes toward advertising and purchase intentions regarding direct response advertisements in a multicultural market, Steven Marc Edwards
Multiple intelligences and self-esteem in three high school populations, William T. Fagan
Coordinating teacher and parent support for beginning readers, Shelly L. Ferguson
The effects of feedback and strategy on self-efficacy and computer task performance, Richard John Fogg
The effects of parent volunteers on a child's literacy growth, Francesca Marie Formolo
An analysis of effective instructional techniques used by automotive technology instructors, Frederick Ernest Franke
A correlation study between adult women substance abusers and a history of childhood incest, Paula Rutten Freeland
Teacher resouce guides for the San Bernardino County Museum, Cindy Louise Fullwiler
An examination of the newspaper newsroom staff as a discourse community, Phyllis Winder Gilbert
Affirmative action, quotas and hiring in San Bernardino County school districts, Margaret Elizabeth Goss
A role analysis of opinion leaders, adopters, and communicative adopters with a dynamically continuous innovation, Stephen W. Graham
Linking children's literature with multiculturalism and nutrition, Maureen Theresa Gummow
Public policy responses and displaced workers in the U.S. auto industry, Robert Edwin Gwizdala
Matchmaker plus: Information management tool at a classroom level, Barry J. Hadley