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 2005
Lessons in Character Development, Virginia Lizette Escobar
The relationship between self-esteem and glycemic control in 13-17 year old adolescent girls with type 1 diabetes mellitus, Annabelle Lucia Sandoval Esparza
Career and technical education: General office occupations, Joyce Johnson Fairman
Symmetric generation of finite homomorphic images?, Lee Farber
An empirical study: Usage of the Unified Modeling Language in the Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degree programs at California State University, San Bernardino, Cynthia Patrice Farquhar
A developmental care program in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center, Shirley Marie Farr
Utility computing: Certification model, costing model, and related architecture development, Saif Ahmed Faruqui
"Is it really a natural fit?": The construction of "technology" in composition studies, Irina Fealy
Spirituality and compliance correlates of hemodialysis patients, Paula Luz Ferro and Gloria Del Fernandez
Environmental education and high school backpacking, David Russell Ficke
An effective science education program can be a deterrent to the drop out of Hispanic females, Sally Anne Field
Does California's scripted curriculum affect students' motivation to read, Francene Marie Fisher
A queer look at feminist science fiction: Examing Sally Miller Gearhart's The Kanshou, Jennifer Jodelle Floerke
Factors affecting coaches with stress and burnout, Kirk Jack Frazer
The usage of Internet technologies by high school students in the completion of educational tasks outside of the school setting, Seth Freehling
Recycling program for the Shalom Institute, Lisa Kritzer Friedman
Comparison of effectiveness between Merit Software and traditional grammar instruction for ninth grade students, Cynthia JoAnn Furr
Disintermediation in the United States air travel industry who hold the power of booking strength, Preenida Gajaseni
Cultural factors affecting Latino diabetics, Maud Danitza Garcia
Get the right price every day, Gerardo Javier Garcia Sotelo
Hazweb: An Internet approach to mapping hazardous locations, Kevin Gonzago
A culturally relevant approach: Introducing third graders to the injustices of migrant farm work, César Chávez, and social action, Beatriz Barajas González
Social support as an influential factor in treatment-seeking, Liana Christine Gonzalez
Moderating effects of tolerance for ambiguity on role ambiguity and stress: The impact on feedback seeking behavior, Lorissa Ann Grant
Kinship care placement: Do grandparents' relationships with birthparents affect placement outcomes?, Judith Mary Greenwood
Stepparents: Social support systems and factors that contribute to role fulfillment, Lydia Guerrero and Sonia Marlene Valadez
The role of corpus linguistics in a lexical approach to college level English-as-a-foreign-language pedagogy, Adamantia Hadjioannou
We should be like water: Choosing the lowest place which all others avoid: John Steinbeck as a modern messenger of Taoism, Andrea Marie Hammock
Proposed marketing and advertising campaign for the United Negro College Fund, Rashida Patrice Hamm
Translating Spanish language plays into English: A focus on the translation and production of Xavier Robles' Rojo amanecer, Monique Elizabeth Handall
Micro-payment exchange system, Yiyao Hao
Improving student achievement through parent involvement, Bridget Anderson Hardesty
Symmetric representation of elements of sporadic groups, Elena Yavorska Harris
The role of religious beliefs and practices in the lives of African American family caregivers, Lisa Renee Hebert
Root subgroups of the rank two unitary groups, Matthew Thomas Henes
An analysis of nitrate contaminated water in Cherry Valley, Adriana Hernandez-Romo
Parental perceptions of overweight and obese children among low-income Women, Infants, and Children participants, Thomas Hernandez
Risk factors associated with recurrent child maltreatment, Mary Beth Hickey and Karen Eva Smithson
Art as a mediated structure for English language learners, Lynnea Patricia Hiebert
Neurolinguistic programming as observational and mediational strategies in teaching primary-level English as a second language, Amber Lee Hishmeh
Negotiating "post" era writing pedagogies, Hannah Sloan Holbrook
Discovering the path to Indian uses of native California plants: A family activity guide for the native plant garden at the San Bernardino County Museum, Lauren Anne Trish Holman
Front-runners and newcomers: The dynamics of momentum in electoral politics as explained by cue competition, Jeremy Ashton Houska
Food Wholesale Ordering System, Dennis Meng Yann Hsieh
Enunciative identity in elementary English as a foreign language, Hsiao-Juo Huang
Foreign-language immerision as preferred bilingual/biliterate program model for elementary English education in Taiwan, Shih-Hao Huang
The role of the program administrator in instructed English as a foreign language, Yei Lun Hung
Levels of social intimacy among women in substance abuse treatment, Jean Emiko Ishihara
Embodied knowing and effective communication in the development of a choreography curriculum, Michele Lynn Jenkins
Adult learning outcomes based on course delivery methodology, Timothy Edward Jenkins
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
When English as a Second Language students meet text-responsible writing, Miso Jung
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
The Impact of race and ethnic identity on adolescents' use of coping skills, Victoria Estelle Keyser
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
Emerging stock markets in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, Man Ching Ko
Effect of preweanling methylphenidate exposure on the induction, extinction and reinstatement of morphine-Induced conditioned place preference in rats, Kellie Lynn Kucher
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
Promoting oral fluency for English learners using differentiated corrective feedback, Chien-Fang Lin
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
College-level reading and writing: Considering curriculum from a postmodern perspective, Brenda Jean Littleton
Promoting metalinguistic awareness through peer response in writing in elementary English as a foreign language, Kuan-Ting Liu
The online marketing plan for Indra Jewelry Company, Thailand, Vorapoj Liyawarakhun
Quarterly nutrition curriculum for California women, infants, and children participants, Martha Gloria Lopez
A survey of social workers' cultural competency: An exploratory study, José Luis Lujano
A portable traveler's weblog, Feng-Chun Lung
A metaphoric cluster analysis of the rhetoric of digital technology, Michael Eugene Marse and Nicholas Negroponte
Assumptive worlds of female childhood sexual abuse victims, Amy Matosian
Talking about drugs: Examining self-disclosure and trust in adult children from substance abusive families, Susan Renee Mattson
Math, music, and membranes: A historical survey of the question "can one hear the shape of a drum"?, Tricia Dawn McCorkle
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
Operation Iraqi freedom and mental health of Vietnam veterans, Janice Lynn Moody and Ron Robinson
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
Symmetrically generated groups, Benny Nguyen
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
Integrating computer software within the Houghton Mifflin Language Arts program, Leslie Serine Ouren
