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 2006
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
Prevalence of depression among adolescent males in residential treatment, Keri Nicole Chavez and Alexa Joy Perez
Cultural impact on customer perception of service quality in the hotel industry: A comparative study of Eastern and Western respondents, Jing Fen Chiang
Geodesic on surfaces of constant Gaussian curvature, Veasna Chiek
The effects of (RS)-MCPG on amphetamine-induced sensitization in neonatal rats, Fiona Yeuk-Lun Choi
Traditional Chinese medicine on-line diagnosis system, Chuan-Ting Chou
Co-teaching and reciprocal teaching for English-as-a-foreign-language reading, Pei-Ying Chou
Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl novels: Contemporary subversive tales, Amy Ruth Wilson Clark
Analysis of PSP-like processes for software engineering, Paul Jefferson Conrad
Writing and metacognition: Empowering young authors in the writing workshop, Suzanne Gagne Cooke
Views from the center: Middle-class white men and perspectives on social privilege, Sandra Jane Cross
Developing a business plan for Media Benefits Corporation: First Entertainment Credit Union's credit union service organization, Anthony Christopher Cuevas
Institutional structures for equitable and sustainable water resource management in the Middle East, Michael Raphael Davidson
Minimal congestion trees, Shelly Jean Dawson
ReMoTe: A complete tool to support software process management, Darrion Todd DeMelo
Situating the cetacean: Science and storytelling in Witi Ihimaera's The whale rider, Lee Elton Dionne
Evaluating Microsoft .NET technology: Implementation online store, Jie Dou
Boys and literacy: Disengaging from reading, Barbara Ann Ell
The writing center as a Burkean parlor: The influence of gender and the dual engines of power: collaboration and conflict, Clara Louise Enoch
Improvement and deployment of the web-based database management system for computer science graduate program, Li-Chuan Fang
Re-engineering the solicitation management system, Yao-Long Fan
Adolescent obesity: A study of the effects of parent attitudes on physical activity, John Arthur Fieldhouse
Effects of using educational robotics at the elementary school level, Vega Rishelline Anne Flores
The effectiveness of direct vocabulary instruction strategies to increase the comprehension of fifth grade students during social studies lessons, Octavio Rodolfo Gamez
An examination of the direct versus indirect effects of parenting behavior on academic achievement: The potential role of perceived competence and motivational orientation, Ana Veronica Garcia
Symmetric representation of elements of finite groups, Timothy Edward George
Parental attachment as a predictor of sexual, physical, and emotional abuse revictimization, Kimberly Lynn Glass
Process evaluation of treatment with adolescents in residential treatment foster care, Courtney Anne Glazer and Adrianne Marie Vance
Educational interpretive programs for ecotourism destinations, Rachael Anne Hamilton
Addressing second and third grade California science and social science content standards through environmental literature, Denise Truex Hatfield
Making sense of nonsense, Violeta Erendira Hernández
The elements of filmmaking, James Patrick Hilliard
The advantages and obstacles of having been raised by a gay or lesbian parent, Jennifer Falconi Hilt
Design factors for the communication architecture of distributed discrete event simulation systems, Catharine McIntire Hoaglund
Evolving outcomes of the outcomes statement, Judith Miriam Holiday
The San Gorgonio Wilderness: A history of human presence and implications for management, Cynthia Jeanne Holman
Natural history of Hesperoyucca whipplei, Lizabeth Ann Hope-King
Life experiences that influence language acquisition in generation 1.5 students, Ellen Sook Hyang Howell
A comparative study of editorials in Chinese and English, MeiYen Huang
Integrated Apartment Management System, Feng-Ming Hu
Strategic spelling instruction, Casie Dawn James
A model for incrementally transforming the science classroom from traditional instruction to inquiry, Tana Michelle Jerome
The effects of gender on preservice teachers' motivation on teaching physical education, Kentaro Kajiyama
Nutrition on wheels business plan: A strategic analysis, Seena Gill Kakar
Narratives in a drug court setting, Anna Catherina Maria Keller
Biconditional discrimination learning in rats with 192 IgG-saporin lesions of the nucleus basalis magnocellularis, Michael Ryan Kitto
Art as business: Creating marketing strategies for artists, Rachel Elizabeth Kokosenski
Stimulating intrinsic motivation: Brain-based pedagogy for the second-language writing classroom, Kristin Marie Kucia-Stauder
Insulating effects of early childhood education, William Anthony Kull
Increasing emergent literacy skills in children with autism, Julie Lynnette LaFleur
Black and white and read all over: An analysis of narratives in the O.J. Simpson murder trial, Martin Larry Lastrapes
Parallel programming on General Block Min Max Criterion, ChuanChe Lee
Software-based gradient nonlinearity distortion correction, Thomas Seward Lee
Modeling queueing systems, Angela Zoi Leontas
A teacher's handbook Post-traumatic Vision Syndrome: Awareness, assessments, accommodations, Elaine Ruth Lewis
Restaurant recommendation system (RRS), Tai-jung Lin
Solicitation Management System, Yu-Luen Lin
Free roaming: A system for ubiquitous computing, Huanjin Liu
Activity theory as a basis for negotiation training in adult English-as-a-foreign-language instruction, Cheng-Wei Lu
Early detection of autism is key in socializing children before entering the school setting, Martha Elsa Lyon
Moving traditional teaching methods of advanced placement biology toward improving opportunity for students to develop understanding of scientific principles, Mabell Jeannette Martinez
The effect of the exposure to domestic violence on psychological well-being among American Muslim women, Soulafa Shakhshir Massoud and Vanessa Francis Romo
An elementary habitat curriculum for the Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve, Linda Jan Matthews
Psychological quality of life in the nursing home environment, Gabriel Mejia
Perceptions of a culturally sensitive HIV/AIDS curriculum, Yolanda Vivian Mouton
Real-time finance management system, Abdul Muqtadir
The effects of participative safety and support for innovation on group creativity, Toshio Murase
Writer's workshop: Teaching students to own their work, Amanda Kaye Naimy
An exploratory study of barriers to psychotropic adherence from the client's perspective, Nicole Nanchy and Michelle Sereese Green
Rendering whiteness visible in the Filipino culture through skin-whitening cosmetic advertisements, Beverly Romero Natividad
Consumer concerns towards privacy: An empirical study, Maria Nicolaou
The effects of music on communication and behavior in children with autism, Cheryl Ann Nicolosi
The effects of procedural justice and work overload on job performance, Seana Maria Nuñez
Overrepresentation of African Americans in the child welfare system: Differential treatment in risk assessment by public child welfare workers, Rebecca Sheree Owens and Courtney Marques Roushion
A new model of evolution education for middle school science, Walter Lee Owen
Irony, rhetoric, and the portrayal of "no place": Construing the elaborate discourse of Thomas More's Utopia, Davina Sun Padgett
The structure of semisimple Artinian rings, Ravi Samuel Pandian
Family medicine physician residents' perspectives on domestic violence, Christina Marie Peña
Wildlife all around us: A second grade guide to city wildlife education, Melanie Anne Pendegraft
