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Co-Occurring Curriculum in the Criminal Justice System
- Kevin McGeochSocial WorkGraduate Student
The curriculum will be developed for current inmates at the local county jail experiencing co-occurring disorders. Culminating healthier approaches to communication and stress management as well as developing systems of support in regards to personal relationships may provide foundations for increasing overall functioning and wellbeing. The curriculum will be guided by the empowerment process, based on an individual’s right to self-determination; valuing personal perspective, acknowledging difficulties and encouraging self-regulated personal growth. The project will attempt to address current problematic and maladaptive thinking and behavior for current inmates with co-occurring disorders.
Cohort Effectiveness Amongst Criminology and Sociology Freshman
- Samantha SilverSociologyGraduate Student
Research presenting the effectiveness of cohorts as a means for improving freshman retention and academic performance amongst Sociology and Criminology courses.
Collections Room Project using Past Perfect 5.0
- Samantha MurphyAnthropologyUndergraduate Student
- Cori BrennanAnthropologyUndergraduate Student
The Collections Room Project is dedicated to digitizing and organizing the information for the various artifact collections housed in BSS 139. The parameters include using the Past Perfect 5.0 software in order to catalog the data for each individual artifact and create a database in which all the information can be housed and viewed. The final product will include information such as measurements, potential use, and physical characteristics for each artifact; attributes which may be searched, using the query field. The primary use for the compiled database is to allow for a convenient search of artifacts within the collection in order to aid in student and faculty research and study.
College Corps: Big Brothers Big Sisters College CORP Experience
Ivory Browning, Religious Studies Undergraduate Student
College of Arts, Humanities & Social SciencesAn in depth description of what it means to be a Big for Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS), a local youth mentoring non profit. Connected to BBBS by the College CORP program, Fellows Ivory Rose, Kai Jones, and Emily Martin share their experiences. They each explain how their relationships with their Littles' have impacted their lives.
College Corps: Senior Voices
Katie-Hope Hennessy, Other Undergraduate Student
College of Arts, Humanities & Social SciencesSenior Voices is a book project where the residents of SilverCrest, Eureka share their life stories in a book. You’re invited to learn more about how this project unfolded.
College Corps: The Importance of Community Service
Luis Reyes, Other Undergraduate Student
College of Arts, Humanities & Social SciencesThis creative project is a reflection of my year of service through College Corps and my placement at the veterans hall in Arcata. The project contains some descriptions and pictures of events that my site has been a part of over the year, those events include North Coast Stand Down, Veterans Day at McKay, and Sunday brunch. Throughout this project I reflect on my time at the veterans hall and my experience with College Corps, as well as describing the importance and benefits of providing community service. I end with a conclusion of how a program like College Corps is beneficial towards community outreach and how the program has benefited me.
Combining Environmental Education with Music at Sunnybrae Middle School
- Amber RauschEnvironmental StudiesUndergraduate Student
My service learning project is with Sunnybrae Middle School at the after school program. I have spent the duration of the semester tutoring children in grades 6-8 and planning my activity. I am combining environmental education with music by obtaining a group of children in order to a discuss environmental topics and creating musical lyrics using that dialogue and an arrangement of instruments. The goal of this project is the inform the next generation about the importance of planetary health as well as human relationships to nature by touching on subjects such as pollution, oppression and ways in which one can make differences that will contribute to the creation of a more just world.
Commander-in-Clown: An Analysis of Political Rhetoric in Relation to Saturday Night Live
- Gary Dean EngleEnglishUndergraduate Student
Saturday Night Live is a major cultural touchstone and a reactive satire which parodies the same politics it influences. Though whether this influence is descriptive or prescriptive remains to be seen. During the 2016 election, the show changed its portrayal of Donald Trump when Alec Baldwin took over the role. Trump was portrayed as ultimately stupid and unlikely to win. The show helped to normalize his campaign, repudiating Trump’s mannerisms but not his policies. By lavishing so much faith on Clinton and treating Trump like a throwaway joke, Saturday Night Live may have inadvertently helped him win the election.
Community Connection: Becoming a CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocate) and the Relation to Political Science
- Bailey BoydPolitical ScienceUndergraduate Student
This project highlights my experience volunteering with CASA of Humboldt and how it relates to a political science degree. Often CASA is marketed to the child development and social work majors; however, I will demonstrate how it is equally connected to political science majors. An internship with CASA applies several aspects of political science including: social advocacy and understanding the judicial system. CASA’s gain extensive legal experience through writing court reports, collaborating with attorneys, learning child welfare laws, and advocating in court. My ultimate hope is that my project will spark your interest in becoming an advocate, so you can make a difference for a child!
Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) and their Consequential Effects on the Biotic Community
- Elizabeth RussellEnvironmental StudiesUndergraduate Student
Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) are not only an environmental hazard, they are hazardous to the animals confined in them and neighboring communities. In this project, I researched the consequential effects of CAFOs on the entire biotic community. The main effects discussed include but are not limited to: waste concentration, water quality, air quality, and public health. The interdisciplinarity of the issue at hand is brought to light by analyzing these detrimental effects through an Environmental Justice and Ecofeminist lens. Proposed areas of further research and community inclusion/empowerment are provided upon conclusion.