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
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
Electronic dictionaries in the ESL composition class, Rebecca Lynn Rudd
Facilitating an online community among community college peer tutor trainees, Matthew Robert Ruzicka
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
Evaluation of the family nurturing program: The family education component of the Riverside County Dependency Recovery Drug Court Program, Lila Massoumi Samady
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
Tibetan Buddhism and the environment: A case study of environmental sensitivity among Tibetan environmental professionals in Dharamsala, India, Megan Marie Shearer
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
Development of a web site for Korean returning students and their parents to help their process of re-adaptation, Hamila Song
Korean Americans and barriers to the use of mental health services, Kimberly Joy Steiner
An outcomes based study of the adolescent specialized unit, Deborah Maria Sterling
Witnessing violence: The link to reactive aggression, Nicole Marie Stevens
Digital Collage-Access to inspiration: The use of multimedia as a catalyst for creative thought, Frederick George Still
The most effective way to teach spelling, Mandy Lea Strange
International students' reliance on home-country related internet use, Songkwun Sukontapatipak
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
Managerial reforms within the United States government, Jacqueline Michelle Townsend
Using web based resources to bridge the communication gap between parents and teachers, Antonette Cong Tran
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
Social support and mental health outcomes in battered women, Alicia Kay Vallellanes and Kelley Ferris
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
Spirituality and aging, Henry Waller
Online solicitation management system for the Office of Technology Transfer and Commercialization, Chia-Chi Wang
A comparison of cosmetic advertising between the United States and Taiwan: A content analysis, Wenlin Wang
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
An improved software process management tool: ReMoTe (recursively estimating multi-threaded observation tool enterprise), Shujiang Xia
Compliance with dialysis regimens: The effects of coping and social support, Toyoko Yagi
Wiki message linking, Hongping Yang
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
Social workers' perceptions of the utilization of Spanish-speaking interpreters in child welfare services, Veronica Huizar Beltran
Maternal parentification of siblings in families with or without a child with a developmental disability, Christine Paras Benitez
The effects of electronic performance monitoring on performance, Laila June Bidaki
The use of divergent series in history, Alina Birca
Applying technology to meet correctional educator needs, Susan Marie Bley
Using research based teaching strategies with bilingual students, Miriam Perez Blum
Development of a website to improve communication and learning, Rebecca Sue Bonheim
What is selective mutism?, Angela Briz-Garcia
Night of the twisters: A comprehensive unit, Shawn Davis Brown
A contrastive approach to the thematic analysis of text and genre: An examination of lead news articles in Le Monde, Al-Ittihad, and The New York Times, Christine Marie Burlaga
A comparison of the consumer decision-making behavior of married and cohabiting couples, Karen Prodigalidad Calpo
Peninsular bighorn sheep of Coachella Valley, Frances Jolene Cassano
Designing an online support community for novice computer users, Thomas Hubbard Caswell
Professional writing: How California State University, San Bernardino's Master of Arts in English Composition can prepare graduates for careers in the public sector, Margaret Celia Cecil
JAVA synchronized collaborative multimedia toolkit: A collaborative communication tool, Rohit Chavan
Registers of supplication and demand in English-as-a-foreign-language technical writing, Kuang-Je Chen
Designing secure, JAVA based online registration systems to meet peak load performance targets, Tang-Li Chen
A corpus-based investigation of collocational errors in EFL Taiwanese high school students' compositions, Yi-Chin Chen
Smart Sequence Similarity Search (S⁴) system, Zhuo Chen
Helpdesk Support Alert System, Vorapong Chinpanich
Movie theater ticket order system: (MTTOS), Chun-Kai Chiu
MOrder Server food service, Chieh-Chou Chou
Perceptions of satisfaction in the delivery of services to kinship and non-kinship care providers, Nancy Elizabeth Clark
How do child welfare workers attitudes affect utilization of gays and lesbians as adoptive parents, Constance Cameron Clifford and Victoria Ann Kohfeld
Spatial analysis of the effects of revitalization on crime in the Jeffrey-Lynne community in Anaheim, California, Jamie Erin Conley
Teaching strategies for foster care students with behavior problems, Nikki Ann Console
Acculturation among a Hispanic population in San Bernardino County, Jennifer Marie Costa and Maria Lorena Ochoa
Effects of environmental factors present during the administration of the California High School Exit Exam on students' outcome scores, Kelly Lynn Coumbe
The role of imaginative literature in First Year Composition, Randee Teresa Cowles
Implementing the teaching strategy: "Identifying Similarities and Differences", Karilyn Dangleis
A Java image editor and enhancer, Lalitha Darbhamulla
Training manual for new presidents at Corinthian Colleges, Inc., Ruth Claire Darton
The perceived influence of spirituality in adolescent residential group homes, Karima Aisha Deadrick-Boone
Child welfare professionals' perceptions of drug treatment for foster youth: a needs assessment, Edward Basil Dehar
