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- Actigraphy, Sleep Diaries and Polysomnography in College Students with Insomnia
- Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing the use of actigraphy on college students to measure the number of awakenings, wake after sleep onset, total sleep time, and sleep efficiency.
- Assistive Technology Use by Students with Disabilities at UNT
- Honors thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing assertive technologies used by students with physical disabilities. Topics include frequently used devices, services of the Office of Disability Accommodation, and the quality of students' training with these devices.
- Attitudes and Internalized Stigma in Gay and Lesbian College Students
- Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing the influence and predictive qualities of homonegative attitudes on internalized homophobia among gay, lesbian, and bisexual college students, and the moderating effects of self esteem on these variables.
- Caring for Indigent Children in Denton County in Relation to Dallas and Tarrant Counties in Texas
- Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing health care of people without health insurance in Denton County, Texas.
- Characteristics of Musicians' Earplugs as a Function of Jaw Position
- Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing the effects of different earplugs on the jaw movements of musicians.
- Cultural Hybridity: Arab/Latino -- A Reflexive Approach
- Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing the experiences of being multi-ethnic and multicultural, focusing on people with a Latino and Arabic background.
- Developing a Central Intake for Collaborating Nonprofits
- Paper discusses the feasibility of a centralized intake process for Serve Denton, a nonprofit organization that seeks to co-locate several nonprofit service providers in Denton, Texas.
- Effects of Revitalizing the Trinity River on Social Environments: The Fluidity of Migrations in Dallas, Texas
- Paper explores the effects of the The Trinity River Corridor Project in Dallas on the Latino community in Oak Cliff.
- Environmental Awareness: A Survey of UNT Students’ Knowledge and Opinions
- Paper discusses study examining awareness and opinions of environmental issues among students at the University of North Texas.
- Environmental Inequality in Tarrant County: An Analysis of Public and Private Sector Waste
- Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing the distribution of environmental contamination generated by public and private sector activities as it relates to the social, demographic, and economic characteristics of the inhabitants of Tarrant County, Texas.
- Fiesta Math Night: The Parent Perspective
- Paper discusses Hispanic parental involvement in Fiesta Math Night (Noche de Matemáticas), a school event that takes place in Denton area schools each year in the fall.
- Food Insecurity and Related Health Problems Among Children in Denton, Texas
- Paper examines the geography and consequences of food insecurity in Denton, TX.
- Growing local foods movements: Farmers' markets as nodes for products and community in Dallas/Fort Worth
- Undergraduate thesis building on Feagan's (2007) analysis of ideas of community and place, and Kloppenburg et al.'s (1996) concept of foodsheds, and a modified form of drive-time polygons, termed 'marketsheds' that demarcate the consumer-draw area for farmers' markets. Specifically, the research analyzes the spatial distribution of local food communities in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex (DFW) in Texas and links the foodshed concept to elements of community and sense of place. Two questions guide this study: 1) What are the characteristics of the DFW local foods movement? 2) How do local food producers create and conceptualize community and place?
- Honey, Ain’t You Glad We’re Texan: The Mythic Narrative of Texas in the Texas Centennial
- Paper explores how the Texas Centennial Exposition in 1936 was used to build the mythology of a unified Texas identity and history.
- Introducing Change of Early Implementation of Learning Spanish as a Foreign Language in the Texas Education System
- Paper explores why the United States, and in particular Texas, does not begin requiring foreign language education until high school.
- Investigation of Mosquito Ecology and West Nile Vertical Transmission in Denton Texas
- Undergraduate thesis investigating the rate of vertical transmission that takes place in wild Culex quinquefasciatus populations by testing samples of emergent Culex quinquefasciatus adults to see what number of mosquitos test positive for West Nile Virus (WNv) throughout the summer and fall, and thus estimate the rate of vertical transmission of the virus in wild mosquitos.
- KNTU: A History
- Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing the history of radio station KNTU.
- Kodaly and Music in Elementary Schools
- Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing the way two Texas schools teach music to students between kindergarten and third grade based on the philosophy of Zoltan Kodaly.
- Language as a Barrier to Access to Healthcare among Vietnamese Immigrants
- Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing the challenges of being a non-English speaking Vietnamese person in an urban Texas county in regards to health care.
- Legacies of Power: The Cultural Heritage of Theological White Supremacy, A Case Study of Ku Klux Konfederatism in Denton County Texas, 1850-1930
- Undergraduate thesis exploring modern American racism as the result of the nation's legacy of theological white supremacy and its deep-rooted racial issues that remain unresolved because of the theo-mythologies embedded at the core of the nation's foundational fabric that have been and continue to be largely unaccounted for in corrective racial discourse through a case study of Denton, Texas. By employing localized interdisciplinary methodological approaches aimed at unveiling the theo-myth which underscores the modern American racial ontology, this study examines how theological white supremacy was homogenized into popular culture in Denton County Texas following the Civil War via neo-Confederate Ku Klux Klan movement, which the author calls Ku Klux Konfederatism, that continues its influence today through localized theo-political institutions, sociocultural systems and cultural 'norms.'
- Literary Illusion
- Thesis in short fiction written by a student in the UNT Honors College about a young writer living with a wealthy couple.
- Measuring Decentering and Attachment in a University Clinical Sample
- Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing the relationship between decenter and attachment among clients from the Psychology Clinic at the University of North Texas.
- On Your Knees or at the Bar: A Study on Religiosity and Alcohol Use at the University of North Texas
- Honors thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing the relationships between religiosity, spirituality, and alcohol use by 18-25 year old students at the University of North Texas.
- The Relationships of Insomnia and Mental Health in College Students
- Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing the relationship between insomnia and mental health among college students.
- Research Projects in ANTH 4010 “Language and Culture”: The Case for a Student Research Institutional Review Board Process
- Paper proposes changes to the IRB process at UNT to improve undergraduate research.
- Social Implications of Modeling
- Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing the interaction of humans with the environment, including issues with water, consumption, reproduction, and groundwater in Texas.
- Understanding the Health Care Needs of the Medically Indigent of Grayson County
- Honors thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing difficulties in obtaining medical care faced by uninsured residents of Grayson County, Texas.
- The Writing Portion of the TASP Test: Does Instruction Make a Difference?
- Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College examining whether the teaching of composition affects student performance on the writing portion of the Texas Academic Skills Program (TASP) test.