2012 Capstone Projects

In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Liberal Arts, candidates will present their Capstone Projects on November 30 and December 7, 2012.  Please email jdolfi@unca.edu for more information.

Alaina Barnard (content advisor: Meg Moss, Education): Earth odyssey: Interdisciplinary education in a cross-curricular English-Earth Science freshman academy course design

Elizabeth Becker (content advisor: Heidi Kelley, Sociology): The political economy of fair trade certification and labeling: Implications for cocoa farmers

Maryedith Burrell (content advisor: Katherine Min, Language and Literature): Garlic Girl (chapters from a novel in progress)

Katie Descieux (content advisor: Gerard Voos, MLA): Fresh from here: A report card for local food system projects in Western North Carolina

Christy Lennox (content advisor: Chris Oakley, New Media): From Daffy to Donald: Animated propaganda employed by the U.S. during World War II

Paul Lillebo (content advisor: Holly Iglesias, MLA, and Sarah Judson, History): Being a free white person: Naturalization law in the early U.S. republic

Marcelle Martin (content advisor: Bill Spellman, History): Post World War II emigration from Belgium to Canada

Andrea McClure (content advisor: Volker Frank, Sociology): The funeral industry and its impact on mourning and the environment

Mark Merrick (content advisor: Merritt Moseley, Language and Literature): AA virtues: American literature and virtues for the good life

Jessica Pepper (content advisor: Brent Skidmore, Art): The art of risk: sculptures and videos of performance art

Whitney Setser (content advisor: Tommy Hays, MLA): Real Appalachian women: Fiction that challenges deep-rooted stereotypes (three short stories)

Sara Whaley (content advisor: Don Diefenbach, Mass Communication): Sex objects and teen moms: The stereotyping of women on youth-focused reality television

Katy Wyatt (content advisors Alycia Fogle, Management and Accounting, and Brent Skidmore, Art): Consuming the American dream: Advertising imagery of the 1950s, 1980s and today