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.
Initial funding for the digitization project was 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 your work posted in ScholarWorks, 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 2016
Moments, Matthew Benjamin McMilon
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Women and homelessness in San Bernardino County: Causes, demographics, services, and hope, Queenesther Marie Anderson
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
The effects of school-wide positive behavior interventions and supports on student achievement and other outcomes, Gail Pamela Angus
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
Performance differences in diverse contexts: The role of personality, Daniel Karl Cashmore
Autobiography as self-defense in the works of Agnes Newton-Keith and Michelle Kennedy, Robin Heim
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Elements and skills of cooperative learning for student learning in physical education, Enrique Aguilera
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
The Use of Violence as Feminist Rhetoric: Third-Wave Feminism in Tarantino's Kill Bill Films, Leah Andrea Katona
Motivational factors enhancing student involvement in physical education, Ruth Anne Wiley
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Characteristics of independent living program participants and non-independent living program participants, Raymond Acevedo
The plenary address: A rhetorical analysis, William James Amrine
Overcoming the failure phenomena: Recouping high school credit through an online language arts course, Wesley Vern Andrews
Levels of subjective quality of life among adults with psychotic disorders formerly in foster care: Compared to a matched sample, Rosa Arias and Flora Irene Dharmaraj
The determining factors of high school dropouts, Tracy Allen Babers Sr.
Web based entry level mathematics test, Okbun Baek
Perceptions of mental health services among marines, Leslie Marie Belt and Leslie Paul Schellbach
The difference between bystander normative judgments and intentions to intervene in male on female physical violence, Gustavo Leoplodo Bento
Transitional difficulties among foster youth: A look at social support and attachment, Ashley Megan Brady and Kyra Kristine Dotter
Service utilization among the mentally ill homeless, Amanda Nicole Card and Heather Nicole Sylvester
Assessing online assessments: A comparison study of math assessment tools for third-grade students, Tina Kim Chan
Minimal surfaces, Maria Guadalupe Chaparro
Ebay learning center system, Jessica Chen
Environmental education curriculum for the California Conservation Corps, Barbara Katherine Cook
Internal psychological states in a diverse work environment, Vincent Valdez Cordero
Multiple forms of maltreatment and the effects on mental health in Hispanic and Caucasian women, Marci Mae Danielson
Parallelizing a nondeterministic optimization algorithm, Sammy Raymond D'Souza
Broadcast news production in the classroom as a student mediation for bilingual and cross-cultural education, Kristina Fabricius
The correlation between family cohesion and success in autistic treatment, Mindy Lee Gerbitz
Using children's environmental literature and journaling to help students develop a sense of place in nature, Marcie Lynn Horsky
Crime and the Sorcerer's Stone: Using Harry Potter to teach theories of crime, Julie Elizabeth Humphrey
Multi-user game development, Cheng-Yu Hung
A needs assessment of the integration of domestic violence and substance abuse services for women, Tammy Lynn Hunt
Coworker justice perceptions toward workplace accommodations and what justice criteria are used to make these justice perceptions, Audrey Marie Hunzeker
Factors participants value in breast cancer support groups, Renee Lauren Jarvis
An assessment of the gambling behavior of older adults in a senior center setting, Debra Fay Johnson
Sequence Similarity Search portal, Arokiya Louis Monica Joseph
Mordell-Weil theorem and the rank of elliptical curves, Hazem Khalfallah
Promoting responsible environmental behavior in second grade students, Mary Annette Kirchhoff
Parenting the second time around: Voices from the Hispanic community on raising their grandchilden, Kellene Marie Lambert and Deborah Ann Price
Utilization of community-based services among families with children with a mental disorder, Dymika Machelle Lane
Domestic violence in a faith-based setting, Elisa Petra Lee
Family and media influence on perceived body image, Andrea Roxanne Martin
Exploring Sara Paretsky's detective fiction from the perspective of ecofeminism, Maureen Frances McCarthy
Uncovering the methadone counseling process among recovering and non recovering chemical dependency counselors, Sara-Amanda McCarthy and Jennifer Ann Palmersheim
An argument for reparations for Native Americans and Black Americans, Yesenia Isela Mejia-Hudson
Effects of residential and school mobility on foster children's academic performance, Brigette Vanessa Miller and Mabel Salvatierra
An innovative approach to grammar instruction in the high school language arts classroom, Robert John Miller
High school Hispanic dropouts: Beliefs and attitudes among Hispanic parents, Karina Elizabeth Miranda and Vanessa R. Zambrano
Improving support services for kinship caregivers of dependent children in San Bernardino County, Georgia Lee Moore
An upperbound on the ropelength of arborescent links, Larry Andrew Mullins
Conics in the hyperbolic plane, Trent Phillip Naeve
An integrative and holistic approach to implementing curriculum for a school garden, Elizabeth Janette Newmeyer
Perceptions of social services among immigrants, Javier Martín Panameno and Carlos Morales
Tutte polynomial in knot theory, David Alan Petersen
Stone's representation theorem, Ion Radu
Job satisfaction of child welfare workers in San Bernardino County Department of Children's Services, Susana Ramirez and Mirella Ochoa
A vision of human solitude: Rhetoric of isolation and ephemerality in two novels by Virginia Woolf, Marsha Lee Schuh
The ENERGY club: A diabetes prevention project for Monterey Elementary School, Peggy Ann Scoggin
Web-based library for student projects/theses and faculty research papers, Rudy Senjaya
The potage of Chinese stocks: Strengths and weaknesses for United States investors, Shubhi Srivastava
The parolee experience: An analysis of pre-incarceration, incarceration, and post incarceration, Karen Ann Torres
Graffiti art and self-identity: Leaving their mark, Lorenzo Martin Aguilar Valdez
Impact of brand equity on the purchasing of consumer durables, David Michael Wells
Homeless children: A needs assessment, Constance Marie Whelan
Factors associated with job burnout among mental health workers, Tammy Marie Whitlow
Intimate partner violence among Latina women: In their own words, Sarah Anne Yeung and Yvonne Leticia Quesada
Multi-core processors and the future of parallelism in software, Ryan Christopher Youngman
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
Career development curriculum for welfare recipients, Eileen Jackson Alsina
The correlation between social support, socioeconomic status and psychological well-being among Hispanic adolescent females, Xochitl Margarita Alvarez and Marcela Mercado
Business case analysis: Learning to think like a physician, Zeda Glass Amaya
Emotional intelligence and leadership emergence, Gilma Yannet Anderson
A comparative study of book reviews in Thai and English, Prach Aowsakorn
How can a science educator incorporate field study into their advanced high school science courses?, Michael Alexis Apffel
Caregiver burden in the Latino family, Yvonne Arellanes-Amador
Using Project GLAD strategies in the teaching of literacy genres to second grade bilingual students, Socorro Arellano
Cultivating dissent: Queer zines and the active subject, Angela Connie Asbell
Role satisfaction: Grandparents raising grandchildren, Noreen Orman Ayres
Falling through the cracks: A look at factors contributing to non-participation in independent living program services, Cheryl Joy Babb and Holly Sue Ninneman
"What now?": Willa Cather's successful male professionals at middle age, Deena Michelle Baker
Development of a usable website for an electric motorboat drag racing physics project, Reno Don Barry
Increasing comprehension strategies through reciprocal teaching, Kathlyn Garcia Benosa
Population genetics and phylogeography of the pygmy nuthatch in Southern California, Thomas Alan Benson
Motivational levels and abstinence rates in substance abuse clients, Stephen Sean Borchers
Children's asthma: Relationship between parental education and frequency of emergency room visits, Victorine Natalie Brewer-Benjamin
Gauss-Bonnet formula, Heather Ann Broersma
Influences of maternal parenting behaviors: Maternal mental health, attachment history and eduction, Rebecca Socorro Carreon-Bailey
An evaluation of the impact of maternal substance abuse on infant and child attachment, Rachel Clare Caudillo
A web accessible clinical patient information networked system, Andrew Yee Chang
Top-down modulation by medial prefrontal cortex of basal forebrain activation of auditory cortex during learning, Candice Monique Chavez
Investigation of 4-cutwidth critical graphs, Dolores Chavez
