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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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. All such requests will be honored, but must come from the author of the work.
Because post-2014 theses/projects in Creative Writing were not posted in ScholarWorks, the digitization project will not post older Creative Writing theses without the author’s express permission. Metadata-only records are provided for these items.
If you have any questions, please contact project coordinator Stacy Magedanz, magedanz@csusb.edu or (909) 537-5103.
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Independent living program participants' perceptions of permanency and their services needs, Kimberly Margaret Stark
An open source graphics engine for three-dimensional video games, David Lee Gardner Stover
Online collaborative whiteboard, Niranjana Kumari Subramanian
Rewriting Christians: A rhetoric analysis of emergent church texts, Frances Marie Suderman
Substance abuse: A chronic care perspective, Michael James Sweitzer
The effectiveness of altering value structure to enhance creativity, Christa LaRai Taylor
The effect of music instruction on math and language arts scores in elementary school, Mirastasha Ashley-Briann Thomas
Developing students' reading comprehesion through whole language, Zelda Marie Thomas
The efffects of ethnic identity and perceived racial discrimination on psychological distress in a sample of Latinos, Joseph Anthony Toruno
Practitioners' views on access to therapeutic services for juvenile sex offenders, Dorothy Lizabeth Traudt
Evaluation of a health environment training for childcare providers, Brianna Nicole Uhlhorn
Peers as a social-contextual factor on adolescents' academic and career motivation, Danyel Arlyssa Vargas
The artistry of teaching: Commedia Dell'arte's improvisational strategies and its implications for classroom participation, Jean Artemis Vezzalini
The benefits of resistance training for children, Colleen Michaela Vranich Kiemele
The college of extended learning online registration system, Ching-yi Wang
The relationship between self-monitoring, self-promotion, and agentic traits in leadership, Sabrina Regina Wilhelm
Eleven case studies of parents' experiences when accessing services for an Autistic Spectrum Disorder child, Michelle Barbara Wood
Reordered subsets reconstruction of proton computed tomography, Wenzhe Xue
The effect of ethnic-identity salience and negative performance feedback on African Americans' explicit and implicit self-evaluations, Delisa Nicole Young
A practitioner perspective on working with drug-exposed infants, Hindi Rebecca Zeidman
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Elements and skills of cooperative learning for student learning in physical education, Enrique Aguilera
Attitudes regarding gang affiliation of select adolescent boys residing in group homes, Gina Michelle Aguirre
Sibilities: A proposed program for siblings of children with chronic illness or disability, Alisha Nicole Alanis-Ayala
Barriers that affect the under utilization of mental health services among foster children, Haneen Sabah Alghita and Denise Nunez
Modulation of memory formation following violations of conditioned expectations, Dennis Antonio Amodeo
The composition of split inversions on the hyperbolic plane, Robert James Amundson
Veteran baby boomer retirement planning, Kahalia Tunisha Anderson
Shaping our children's future: Perceived self-efficacy in a Montessori environment, Candace Joan Andrews
The utilization of temporary emergency protective custody orders for at risk elder and dependent adults: An exploratory study, Mary Avitia-Torres
The development of racial identity among multiracial adults, Andrea Louran Bales
Classroom self-regulation and variations in cardiovascular activity predict reading achievement, Derek Raymond Becker
In situ bioremediation of perchlorate in soil and groundwater, David Christopher Bertolacci
Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN) Data Repository, Laurence Jonathan Bouts Bohannan
Detection of deception in criminal defendents: Treatment or trial?, Loran Noelle Bounds
Co-sleeping deaths in Riverside County, Christine Leigh Brown
The effect of disability type and severity on personal identity and acceptance of a cure, Carley Inez Butler
Identification of effective outreach methods for mental health services to the Hispanic population, Nidia Yamileth Canello
Teacher perceptions of environmental education: An exploratory assessment, Joye Charlotte Marika Cantrell
The effectiveness of mental health services among individuals with hoarding syndrome, Yadira Cardenas and Girlyanne Batac. Lacson
The effects of Creatine supplementation on exercise performance, Nellie Carrillo
Private foster family agencies' certified foster parents' perceptions of county social workers and services, Maria Gabriela Casillas
Spirituality among health-challenged individuals, Intisar Kabrou Chamoun
Environmental attitudes and knowledge in urban, Latino youth, Jeffery Brian Chapman
Role of dorsostriatal D1 and D2 receptors in modulating the kappa opioid-mediated locomotor activity of preweanling rats: Importance of synergistic activation, Sergios Charntikov
Factors influencing middle school students' non-participation in physical education, Pasqual Raul Chavez
Integration of mapping web services and scalable vector graphics, Suneetha Chinamuthevi
"Putting it together": The process of producing, musically directing and starring in a musical, Shane Maitland Churchill and Brown
Substance abuse among the aging population: A needs assessment, Stephen Michael Clark
The impact of attachment security on multiple role strain in female students with children, Cassandra Lynn Clough
Exploring ethnicity and dynamic risk factors when assessing treatment needs for sex offenders, Sherrill Lynn Cranston and Cheryl Nadine Willis
Docent knowledge and attitudes following an environmental education workshop on a local endangered species, Keri Frances Dearborn
One Stop Information Site, Poongkuzhali Dhanasekaran
Hispanics' experience with hospice care, Maria Rosario Diaz
The impact of California's service delivery system on developmentally disabled youth emancipating from the child welfare system, Carey Ann Doetschman
An extendable general platform for cluster analysis and validation, Brandon Troy Edwards
Technology use in Coachella Valley: A report on development of a community through technology use, Shohreh Esfandiari
The relationship between kinship support services and placement outcomes, Maria De Jesus Flores and Jennifer Lau
Perceptions about the effectiveness of play therapy among parents, Maria Nina Joy Malasig Flores
The effects of negative childhood experiences on the severity of mental and substance abuse disorders and recidivism, Christie Lynn Gabriel
Predicting a relationship between childhood abuse and adult post traumatic stress disorder: The role of dissociation, Cassandra Joy Garkow
Seniors' perceptions and experiences of autonomy in a health care setting, Dianne Rae Goldberg
Meeting future challenges of water and energy demand using watershed management strategies in the Inland Empire, Abigail Zepeda Gomez
Attitudes toward borderline personality among mental health professionals, Roseanne Bean Gonzalez
Moral and familial automatisms: Religious and cultural myth as fuels for domestic violence, Amber Deneén Gray
Former foster care youth perceptions on the effectiveness of Independent Living Program service, Sandra Lorena Guerrero and Amy Jean Mierzwik
Teaching Spanish to native speakers, Silvia Guzman
Investigation of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions generated through the production of Portland cement and a comparison of mitigation strategies, Sheri Marie Haggard
A social worker's perspective: Self-care outside of the work environment, Christina Louise Henderson
Construction of homomorphic images, Stephanie Ann Hilber
From the viewpoint of social workers: An exploratory study of the Indian child welfare act, Kimberle Michal Hill and Sherry Ann Cortez-Farris
A play on touching, Lindsay Marie Hobbs-Rodriguez
Trends and effects of third-party logisitics in global logistics operations, Kai-Yu Ho
Elder depression among nursing home residents, Alejandro Paul Holguin
Effects of early amphetamine exposure on memory, Wendy Ann Holmquist
Disciplinary patterns and complaint system of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Scott Eric Hutter
Group therapist's perceptions of group treatment of intra-familial child sexual abuse offenders, Elena Diana Inzunza
Fable: Finite automata based learning engine, Ryan Michael Jackson
Seriously mentally ill clients' perspectives on substance use and treatment, Ann LaVerne Jankowski
Means efficacy: The proposed role of external resources on motivation, Marissa Marie Jones
Establishing adult lifelong connections for emancipating foster youth, Tylia Lindsey Jones
The role of assertiveness and communication in adolescent females' decision to engage in risky, self-sacrificing sexual behavior, Joanne Bernadette Julien
A cross -cultural research about advertising practices for self-image projective products between the United States and Thailand, Pasinee Kaewmesri
Social workers' perceptions of barriers to father involvement in case planning in San Bernardino County Department of Children's Services, Deborah Ann Kay and Tina Marguerite Wright-Ervin
Informational social support and the stress involved in surviving a reduction-in-force, Woodstock Leben Koch-Wain
The experience of families of children diagnosed with autism, Rachel Ann Lakin
Attitudes and beliefs toward hoarding among adult protective services workers, Jade Yuko Lambert
Does sharing financial and creative resources with children function as extended phenotypes in female ratings of male attractiveness?, Margaret Anne Lanier
Satire's Club: Reality, reason, and knowledge in Joseph Andrews, Heather Anne Law Davis
The motivation to resolve discrepancies between implicit and explicit self-esteem, Valerie Leigh Laws
Nutrient analysis of the estuarine and river waters of the Santa Margarita River estuary, Barbara Elisabeth Long
Implementing Dijkstra's pathfind using quantum algorithms, Shing Yung Lo
Cyanide analysis in wastewater, Heather Marie Lutes
On a symmetric presentation of the double cover of M₂₂: 2, Gabriela Laura Maerean
Why can't kids be kids anymore: The impact of parental obsession in youth sport, Elissia Annette Magana
Effects of physical activity on physical self perception among middle school students, Leonard Richard Magdaleno
A critical analysis of L1 and L2 composition scholarship on instructor feedback, Danny Elbar Marenco
The application of choice theory: A social work perspective, Dolores Mast Martinez
Family-organization fit: An extension on person-organization fit, Rebekah Elaine Massmann
Efficient proton computed tomography image reconstruction using general purpose graphics processing units, Scott Alan McAllister