Prior to 2014, CSUSB Master's Theses, Master's Projects, and Doctoral Dissertations 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 project to digitize older theses was provided by a grant from CSUSB's Vital and Expanded Technologies Initiative, which allocates designated funds from the Student Success Initiative fee. The library thanks the VETI committee for supporting this project to showcase the intellectual endeavors of CSUSB graduates.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2000
Challenging the boundaries of academic discourse, Charles Henry Williams
Culture teaching in EFL through computer/critical thinking, Jung-Im Woo
Desert Solitaire: Using literature to develop a sense of place and stewardship of wilderness in high school students, Cindy Lee Falsken Zacks
Theses/Dissertations from 1999
Integrating the new California State Science Standards with successful middle school curriculum methodologies, Mary Catherine Ahearn, Kathleen Ryan Been, and Paula Reynolds
Teaching basic writing in the midst of the great literacy debate, Robin Archibald
Psychological well-being and spirituality: Constituents of successful aging, Dorothy Sheilah Armstrong
The development of a curriculum for an advanced officer course in instructor development, Colleen Patricia Baker
Adult Hispanic females: Resiliency and support systems, Rosalina Becerra and Rosalie Arlene Rangel
The importance of art in a multicultural curriculum, Shelly Sheree Beck
Ethnicity, ethnic identity and emotional dependence on men as predictors of silencing the self, Marla Diane Berry
The use of a computer assisted learning program for teaching and reinforcing the basic mathematical skills, Benny Edward Boswell and Henrietta Gale Boswell
School-to-career curriculum, Stacy Lyn Brenana and Deborah Gayle McTee
Construction of a best practices instrument, Bridgette Anne Browning
Using poetry and metaphor to learn across the curriculum, Stanley Wayne Brown
An effective AutoCAD curriculum for the high school student, William Christopher Brown
Outside four walls: Implementing environmental education out-of-doors on school campuses, Diane Marie Bruns
The Sufi teaching story and contemporary approaches to composition, Linda Kathryn Burgess
Caregiving and carereceiving patterns among Arab-Americans living in California and Arabs living in Israel, Pauline Marie Calderone
An exploratory study of San Bernardino County employees' knowledge about the limitations and provisions of their managed health care plans, Faith Carter-Michaelson
Expressive writing and academic discourse: Bridging the gap for high school second language learners, Cynthia Katherine Case
Procedure for raising trout in the classroom as part of environmental education, Ronn Chapman
Promoting English reading comprehension in the Taiwanese English classroom, Wen-Lin Chien
Public expenditures and crime in a free society, Idam Oko Chukwu
Literacy through multicultural literature, Victoria Rae Cochrane
The effects of the kappa opioid agonist U-50,488 on locomotor activity of the preweanling rat following bilateral microinjection into the substantia nigra pars reticulata and striatum, Robert Linwood Collins
Is capital punishment a deterrent to crime?, Greg Warren Colyer
Developing understanding and fluency with numbers, Catherine Ann Corr
Medical compliance for Hispanic patients with end stage renal disease, Leo Joe Cruz
Treatment outcomes of the augmented board and care system for the mentally ill: Focus on post-placement and diagnosis, Brian Stewart Cunningham
Eating disorders and early attachment difficulties, Jennifer Ann Dinicola and Tamara Ann Pine
Army Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) handbook for high school students, Joe Manuel Dominguez
White adolescent racism: An integrative assessment including white racial identity theories, Dyann Maureen Driggers
Integrating literature and California history in fourth grade social studies, Kristen Gayle Duffett
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
An interpretive trail in Amazonian Ecuador, Bruce Evan Farnsworth
Exploring alternative methods for teaching English as a second language in Korea, Songhui Faulk
California State Government attempts managing for results: A critical assessment of recent developments, Barbara Gallert
School web sites: Are they effective at communicating to the public or just the newest trend?, Tamara Marie Gardner
Large-scale portfolio assessment: Pitfalls and pathways, Candace June Gilbert
Law enforcement organizational culture: A comprehensive study of sworn vs. non-sworn personnel in relation to attrition caused by non-sworn personnel career ceilings, Geraldine Anne Gour
Teen fatherhood: A preliminary study of young Latino men as fathers, Olga Elena Herrerra Granillo
Curriculum for an online course in technical communications using the I-CARE delivery system, Linda Diane Guillen
Anxiety and depression: An empirical investigation of the Diathesis-Stress Model of psychopathology, Deborah Jean Hartley
Hooking the big idea: Working titles in creative problem solving by young Latino adolescents, Juliann Hector
Reducing depression in homeless parents: The effectiveness of short-term shelters, Andrea DuRant Heitz
Relation of abuse and placement histories to pathology development in middle childhood males, Clare Louise Herder
A high school curriculum for a course in environmental engineering, David Raymond Hunt
The development of a baccalaureate degree program in medical imaging technology, Morris Hunter
Exploratory vocational course for special needs students, William Lee Huyssoon
Indigenously authored and illustrated literature: An answer to esoteric notions of literacy among the Numanggang adults of Papua New Guinea, Barbara J. Hynum
Codification of the so-called "Political" warrant for traffic signal installations in the city of Cathedral City, Jerry Van Jack
Decision making and identifying services: Differences among elderly women, Kris Kaufmann Johnson and Melissa Noelle Moelter
Learning about computers, Daniel Clayton Jones
Strategic reading for English as a foreign language, Phill Jo
The relationship between fit and job performance and job satisfaction among engineers at Telekom Malaysia, Bashirah Kamaludin
Communicative competence through music in EFL for Japanese middle school students, Yuko Koike
Teaching collaborative writing to meet the needs of the job market: A model, Denise Kruizenga-Muro
Hitchcock's "Rebecca": A rhetorical study of female stereotyping, Elizabeth Irene Langenfeld
Working alliance and its effects on treatment outcome, Andre Langlois
A comparison study of food facility inspection scores and consumer complaints, Debora Kim Leuer
WebSearch: A configurable parallel multi-search web browser, Jason Lin
The retention of social work practitioners at Child Protective Services in San Bernardino County, Peggy Sue Little
Inhibition of return in a space-based and object-based attention task, Torran Lee Loring-Meier
An Aristotelian study of positive mental attitude literature, Michael Loring
A quantitative study of parental drug use and its effects on attachment, Kathern Ruth Lowe
Increasing reading comprehension through mediated joint activity, Stephanie Suzanne Lucero
An exploratory study of child protective services social worker knowledge of the culture of the deaf, Judith Ellen Lux
A performance in musical theatre: Singular sensations in Shakespeare and song, Lisa Lynn Lyons
Building spelling concepts through word study, Lisa Kathryn Denham MacDougall
Memory magic for the multiplication monsters, Rebecca Ruth Mach
A writer's workshop approach to teaching the California English-language arts standards in writing, Katherine Anne Maloney
Sex and Big-5 Personality Factors as predictors of subjective distress to violations-of-trust, Barbara Manning-Ryan
Teaching about conflict and values through children's literature, Annette Christine Manno
The relationship of locus of control and acceptance of disability, Erin Cumming Martz
Effects of neurofeedback training on objective and subjective measures of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children, Carolyn Mary Nott McCollum
The development of a curriculum for a college course in fabrication for welders, Roderick Sean McDonald
The move to community oriented policing and problem solving: The community as partners for progress, Wayne Everett Miles
The human service scale: A better measure of success, Ina Joyce Miller
Morphological constraints on life history evolution in Poecilia reticulata (Cyprinodontiformes: poeciliinae), Edmund Richard Miranda
A multimedia paradigm of engaged learning: An intergenerational approach, Kymberli Fahlbeck Mulford
The effects of a token economy on group attendance in a locked psychiatric facility, Kathleen Joanne Murphy
A lower bound for the cyclic cutwidth of the n-cube, James Shigeo Namekata
Cognitively impaired elderly individuals and durable powers of attorney for healthcare, Nicole Rae Newman
A correlational study of reading comprehension in Spanish and English, Kristine Dianne Nicholls
Incorporating crosscultural learning strategies to reduce English language learning stresses on Hong Kong's secondary students, Samuel Sungchoon Pak
The Cantor set, Sam Alfred Pearsall
The importance of multicultural education, Ann Marie Pearson
Neural computation of all eigenpairs of a matrix with real eigenvalues, Serafim Theodore Perlepes
Resource guide for guided reading, Christy Smith Peters
California women's history: A teacher resource book for the elementary social studies classroom, Susan Renee Posiviata
Knot theory and wild knots, Cherie Annette Reardon
The baby think it over doll: Does it affect adolescents' future oriented thinking?, Angela Patricia Ricketts and Laura Kay Elgin
Untangling contradictions: The uses of you in composition, Nicole Marie Rosenbaum
Fakability of a bio-data questionnaire and general intelligence, Doren Lee Schott
A longitudinal analysis of the predictors of life satisfaction for men in the transition from late middle age to early old age, Christopher John Tatarka
A study of social worker risk assessment practices conducted by day and alternate hours workers, Shelley Thomas-Robinson
Writing in business classrooms and the workplace, Sheryl Tschetter
EthnoQuest: An interactive multimedia simulation for cultural anthropology fieldwork, Carey Brunner Van Loon, Frances Berdan, and Edward A. Stark
The influence of gender pairing of perpetrator and victim on perceptions of sexual harassment, Michelle Janet Vasiga
The use of technology in meeting science reform criteria: Can web-based instruction promote scientific literacy?, Karen Fay Vogt