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Tailoring the Learning Environment: Generation Z
- Kai CooperInternational StudiesUndergraduate Student
By addressing the needs of Generation Z students in the classroom, we are able to tailor the learning environment to the generation. The ineffectiveness of the traditional teaching pedagogy shows the need to adapt the classroom. As a classroom assistant in a service-learning class, I was able to see how communication in the classroom plus reflection creates community, and awareness of community. By proposing a dynamic learning environment such as one with service-learning, one is able to shape the way the classroom interacts and engages with its students to address their changing learning style. We need to ask the question of how can we engage students in an adapting and changing world.
Talking to Yourself: Let's Talk About Intrapersonal Communication!
- Kasandra Marguerite ColwellCommunicationUndergraduate Student
Intrapersonal communication consists of the internal communication that occurs within each of us, where we send and receive messages within ourselves. Intrapersonal communication highly impacts the more well-known concept of interpersonal communication, which occurs between two or more people. Yet, intrapersonal communication isn't listed as an interest group under the National Communication Association! Consequently, student exposure to this concept is often limited to a small section in introduction to communication courses. In this presentation, I argue that California Polytechnic Humboldt should offer a course in intrapersonal communication and I share a potential syllabus I've created.
Taphonomic Bone Shrinkage: A Study on the Effects of Wet and Dry Climates on Postmortem Bone Shrinkage
- Ryan MartisAnthropologyUndergraduate Student
- Robert LovatoAnthropologyUndergraduate Student
- Nelsie RamirezAnthropologyUndergraduate Student
- Thomas MathewsAnthropologyUndergraduate Student
In forensics, stature estimation is a key component of the assessment of skeletal remains. Estimating stature involves extrapolation from the length of long bones. Previous research has indicated environment can result in postmortem shrinkage of bone, and therefore affect stature estimates. This research project examines the extent of bone shrinkage that occurs when bones are exposed to the elements, dried out in a fume hood and submerged underwater. Measurements of bone length were taken at regular intervals. Preliminary analysis indicates a relationship between precipitation and postmortem shrinkage. This study has the potential to aid in assessing the accuracy of stature calculations.
Tattoos as Rhetoric
- Helen M BerryEnglishUndergraduate Student
American tattoos are no longer considered counter-culture. Dominant ideologies that once reserved tattoos for bikers, criminals, and sailors now consider tattoos as highly popularized and commonplace. This prospectus will not look at the history of tattooing so much as it will explore the acts of getting, maintaining, and displaying tattoos as rhetoric. I explore the relationship between modern body art and rhetoric and argue that tattoos are persuasive and contextually meaningful. Tattoos function as a personal narrative and a social artifact fixed in time.
TCLT Internship Accomplishments
- Tatiana GillickEnvironmental StudiesUndergraduate Student
Trinidad Coastal Land Trust is the organization I am connected with for my service learning project. I am tasked with many responsibilities to complete while in the office. To list a few of the tasks that I have been assigned while interning with Trinidad Coastal Land Trust. Some of the tasks are website review and making sure google maps has the properties under the Trust correctly marked. Being an Environmental Studies major I can use my view in certain situations that come up during meetings to broaden the viewpoints and get to an understanding. I am in contact with multiple people with their own goals in mind and we make collaborative decisions to make TCLT better for the future.
Ten Tribes Partnership and the Colorado River Basin
- Zachary McClellananthropologyUndergraduate Student
My project will discuss the role and influence the Ten tribes Partnership plays in the Colorado River Basin's water management and policy and how it affects the communities of it's member tribes as well as their surrounding non-native communities.
Text, Comment, Message: An Analysis of Support
- Makayla WhitneyAnthropologyUndergraduate Student
- Benjamin MacedaAnthropologyUndergraduate Student
While previous research has focused upon how anonymity provides space for aggressive gestures like "trolling," less work has been done on supportive social gestures characteristic of anonymity. From public restrooms to websites devoted to anonymous confession, anonymity can and does enable gestures of support. This research develops analysis of messaging from social media platforms, including Whisper and 4Chan, public commentary, and physical space graffiti to explore anonymous gestures of support. Our research aimed to contribute to work on authenticity, self-presentation, and social interaction by exploring ways in which "support" is offered and taken up within anonymous communities.
Textbook Production
- Kelley EllionEnglishUndergraduate Student
- Bri LuceroEnglishUndergraduate Student
Kelley and Bri are helping professor Janelle Asdit with her textbook: "Critical Creative Writing: An Anthology of Craft-Criticism" published by Bloomsbury publications. They are in charge of writing chapter summaries.
The Actors' Experience at 2020 KCACTF
- Rosemary Allison-Brown, Ashley Cable, Wendy Carranza, Jaiden Clark, Gwynn Cristobal, A.J. Hempstead, Kiara Hudlin, Maude Jaeb, Katie Lem, Holly Robertson, Micah Scheff, Zack Tucker, Garrett Vallejo, and Liz Whittemore. (Susan Abbey, faculty advisor)TFDUndergraduate Student
February 17-21, 2020, students from the theatre department attended the 2020 KCACTF (regional theatre festival) in Ft. Collins, Co. The students participated in a variety of workshops, competitions, and summer job searches for Acting, Musical Theatre, and Technical Theatre. Their experience is shared through a video presentation, filmed and edited by those who attended.
The Alien Movie Project: studying the narrative, affective, and production politics of alien cinema via podcast
- Dr. Aaron DonaldsonCommunicationFaculty
The Alien Movie Project is a 91-part podcast series about alienhood rhetoric in cinema. Dr. Donaldson will overview and summarize podcasting as a form of education as well as the lessons learned from critically interrogating nearly 100 alien movies from throughout history and across the globe.