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 you 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 2005
WebSAT: Web-based systems administration tool, Juyong Jeong
A web application for Medasolution Healthcare Company customer service system, Hao Jia
The utilization of parent-child visitations for reunification and stability among children and families, Susanne Allison Jimenez and Lori Hai Stooksbury
Thyroid hormone-regulated skeletal muscle Glut4 glucose transporter trafficking during fasting in diet-induced obesity and insulin resistance, Lucy Soo Yon Jun
Environmental education: The equalizer, Jolanda Tracie Karr
CARES - Computer Aided Rehabilitation Software, Kirti Katiyar
Educational curriculum for obesity in school aged youth, Carmen Vieyra Kemp and Melody Ann Mendiola
A bi-county examination of child welfare workers' levels of compassion fatigue and coping skills, Pamela Marie Keyes and Christina Leigh Smith
Hybrid identity and Arab/American feminism in Diana Abu-Jaber's Arabian Jazz, Nicole Michelle Khoury
Playful sciencing and the early childhood classroom, Barbara Mary Kirby
Goal orientation, ethnicity, and achievement of middle elementary students, Carl Phillip Koehnke
From Darwin to Dracula: A study of literary evolution, Erin Alice Lamborn
A curriculum guide for teaching business planning, Dennis Patrick Larney
Assisting students with concept acquisition in basic skills reading through the use of an interactive website, Michele Barbara Laveaux
The effect of perceived control on the decision to withdraw from an organization in an inequitable situation, Marilyn Susie Lawrence-Fuller
Concept attainment in mathematics within content-based instruction for secondary English as a second language, Kwang-Sug Lee
Vacation system, Min-Wei Lee
Mediational English-as-a-foreign-language teaching that supports independent reading, Lei Li
A skeptical feminist exploration of binary dystopias in Marion Zimmer Bradley's The mists of Avalon, Alexandra Elizabeth Anita Lindstrom
Senior health care system, Meng-Chun Ling
Superattraction: The superlearning phenomenon in interpersonal attraction, Ryan Edward Lipinski
Promoting metalinguistic awareness through peer response in writing in elementary English as a foreign language, Kuan-Ting Liu
A survey of social workers' cultural competency: An exploratory study, José Luis Lujano
A portable traveler's weblog, Feng-Chun Lung
Talking about drugs: Examining self-disclosure and trust in adult children from substance abusive families, Susan Renee Mattson
Instructor field manual for Camp Highland Outdoor Science School, Maleah Lynne McPherson
A comprehensive curriculum on how to teach the alphabet to bilingual kindergarteners, Raquel Mendoza Cabral
Environmental education at its best: helping at-risk Latino youth help themselves and our environment, Gregg Walter Mitchell
Significant life experiences of naturalists, Kathleen Marie Mitchell
Source evaluation and selection for interpretation in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, Lacey Elizabeth Moore
Translingual literature: The bone people and Borderlands, Jill Marie Murphy
Working with ethnic-minority families: Evaluating the need for cross-cultural training within Riverside County Child Protective Services, Kathleen Fromayan Nebo and Darlena Allen
Optimization of a sequential alignment verification and positioning system (SAVPS) for proton radiosurgery, Mahesh Raj Neupane
Faculty training manual-- academic component: International student volunteers, Jessica Sue Niven
The needs of informal grandparent caregivers and how they are met at the Kinship Family Center, Emily Jane Osborne-Lewis and Shanta LaShawn Clardy
Understanding why male juveniles perpetrate: An exploratory study, Debbie Lee O'Sullivan
A topological approach to nonlinear analysis, Wendy Ann Peske
Program manual for international business academies, Gina Lee Pierson
Emotional intelligence and its relationship with the goodness of fit hypothesis and perceived stress, Ryan Anthony Platt
Patriarchy and machismo: Political, economic and social effects on women, Luis Antonio Prado
Adolescent participation in pregnancy prevention interventions, Brooke Marie Prince-Slocum
The underwater life off the coast of Southern California, Kathie Lyn Purkey
Athena: An online proposal development system, Humaira Rahim
The effects of Mexican Americans, Chicanos parental involvement on schooling, Maria Guadalupe Ramirez
Acquiring an existing business, Teodocio Ramirez
Creative, imaginative English-as-a-foreign-language using storytelling and drama, Man-Lin Rau
Movie in search of America: The rhetoric of myth in Easy Rider, Hayley Susan Raynes
Successful strategies for expository writing, Bonnie Dee Reed
The effects of neonatal manganese exposure on impulsivity, unlearned motoric function, and reward, Carmela Marie Reichel
Online tutor training: An alternative to person-to-person training, David James Reyes
Child welfare professionals' knowledge of identifying factors for alcohol and other drug issues, Josefina Reyes Sauri and Michael Leslie Lau
A web design shop for local business owners, Mary Colleen Rice
Numbers of generators of ideals in local rings and a generalized Pascal's Triangle, Lucia Riderer
Tell me a story about feathers: Teaching discipline through literature, Carol Tripoli Rondeau
Evaluating WebQuests and the needs of a WebQuest rubric, Kimberly Marie Rountree
The pros and cons of using technology in primary education, Astrid Ryterband
The split dark rider: An examination of labor conflict and John Steinbeck's Of mice and men, Richard Stephen Sabolick
Review of the cross-sectional field of outdoor camps, resiliency, and juvenile delinquncy, Omar Taha Safie
Prevalence of type 2 diabetes among minority groups, Patricia Elizabeth Sanchez
Planting the seeds of environmental sensitivity using children's literature, Kristin Alayne Sanderson
A study of the effects of short-term respite care on caregivers and the relationship between respite satisfaction and social support, Lisa San Filippo Di Matteo
Female sports endorsement and attitudes toward brands and advertisements, Natsuda Saritmuthakul
Predictors of attitudes and turnover intentions in people with disabilities: The importance of means-efficacy, Naomi Charity Schmierer
The effects of childhood obesity on elementary school absenteeism, Sarah Diane Schoonover and Wyona Marie Lagomarsino
Using music to create effective curriculum for English language development, Steven John Schulz
The relationship between epistemological beliefs and academic achievement goals in middle school children, Sara Elizabeth Schuyten Pierce
Web-based independent study program, Darryl Dwaine Scroggins
Creating a student-centered learning community in the college reading classroom by incorporating web-based technology, Michael James Shefchik
A study of the interlanguage of apology by Taiwanese English-Language learners, Ching-Yi Shih
Korean Americans and barriers to the use of mental health services, Kimberly Joy Steiner
Witnessing violence: The link to reactive aggression, Nicole Marie Stevens
The most effective way to teach spelling, Mandy Lea Strange
Socially situated English-as-a-foreign-language instruction to achieve emergent biliteracy in Taiwan, Tzu-Chen Su
The connectors of two worlds: Chano Pozo, Dizzy Gillespie, and the continuity of myth through Afro-Cuban jazz, Dwight Paul Sweeney
Symmetric generation of finite groups, María de la Luz Torres Bisquertt
Factors influencing purchasing decision process of low-carbohydrate products, Warintra Triyangkulsri
A descriptive study of Orange County Latinas' breast cancer knowledge levels, Venus Zamarripa Valencia
The effect of early psychostimulant treatment on abuse liability and dopamine receptors, Steven Wayne Villafranca
Analysis of molecular variation in the federally endangered Astragalus jaegerianus (Fabaceae, Papilionoideae): A species with a restricted geographic range, George Floyd Walker
PDF shopping system with the lightweight currency protocol, Yingzhuo Wang
Bicultural identity and emergent/developmental reading strategies in English as a foreign language in Taiwan, Yuqing Wang
Survival analysis, Mohammad Alif Wardak
Trafficking in women: International sex services, Joseph Morgan Wilcox
A qualitative study of spiritual and alternative practices in social work, Alissa Carrie Wilson
First impressions through the constructs of impression management, Amber Joy Wilson
Analyzing three quality management systems in relation to the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, Jeremiah Worthington
Compliance with dialysis regimens: The effects of coping and social support, Toyoko Yagi
Online multimedia communication system, Yin-Wei Yang
The intelligences of creative English-as-a-foreign-language learning, Alvin Charles Yen
Actions of a partial D2-like agonist during low or high dopaminergic tone: A neurochemical study using preweanling rats, Shelly Taeko Yoshida
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
Cognitive-affective outcomes of classroom writing activities in Korean English as a foreign language, Soonja Ahn
Youths' perceptions of an independent living program, Valorie Albertina Alba and Gloriana Parral
A heuristic on the rearrangeability of shuffle-exchange networks, Katherine Yvette Alston
Visual literacy in kindergarten: How can visual literacy be used as a tool to promote student learning in the kindergarten classroom?, Arcelia Anguiano
Free Spirit Children's Nature Center, Sylvia Eugenia Arce
The policy implications of the No Child Left Behind Act for English language learners, Jacqueline Elena Arroyo de Romano
How much should the off-duty employment of police officers be regulated?, Angela Rena Aulis
Latino emancipated foster youth perceptions, Minerva Barcenas
Computerized reading assessment using the star reading software, Brian Michael Bartlett
Zapatistas: The shifting rhetoric of a modern revolution, Ofelia Morales Bejar
