The honors thesis is a time-honored tradition in the Lee Honors College. It is an opportunity for students to demonstrate to themselves and others the knowledge and skills they have developed during their undergraduate studies and honors experience. The general purpose of the thesis is to create a capstone work that reflects the expertise they have developed in their major field of study or interest.
Honors theses completed at Western Michigan University are entered into ScholarWorks. Some may be embargoed or restricted by the authors or we have been unable to reach the authors, so the theses may be only available from on-campus computers. If you are an author of an honors thesis and would like to make it available off campus or if you have any questions, please contact wmu-scholarworks@wmich.edu.
Theses from 1971
A Survey of the Attitudes and Practices of the Top One Hundred Corporate Food Retailers Toward Employee Pilferage and Customer Shoplifting, Richard J. Lorenzetti and Gregg Turley
Student Reaction to a More Personal Approach to Speech in a High School Speech Course, Linda M. Miller
The Role of D-Gluconic Acid in the Regulation of the Synthesis of the Enzymes of the Entner-Doudoroff Pathway in Pseudomonas Fluorescens, Steven C. Quay
Suggestions for an Interpretation of Death In Venice: A Novella by Thomas Mann, Rosemarie Schuler
Social Participation and Alienation: A Study of Mass Society, Susan Wismer
Theses from 1970
The Electoral College: Retention, Reform, or Abolition?, Gary E. Brown
Fourteenth Century Normans in West Africa, Kaye Louise Centers
Investigation of the Mechanism of Silver Sensitized Photopolymerization of Styrene, Mary Karen Gleason
Louis MacNeice: Reputation and Achievement, Carol Haight
Approximate Solutions to First-Order Ordinary Differential Equations, Scott Marovich
The Concept of Alienation: A Philosophical Reexamination, Michael Oesterle
The Occult in Kalamazoo, John M. Prange
Ricochets From Off the Utter Nether Wall, Gregory Smith
Railways and the Economic Development of India, Vinod Thomas
The Image of Woman in Literature: Accurate or Inaccurate?, Barbara Winfrey
Programs of Teacher Education for Those Preparing to Teach the Educationally and Culturally Disadvantaged, Marilyn J. Zenti
Theses from 1969
The 1943 and 1967 Detroit Race Riots: A Study in Perspective, John A. Buelke Jr.
Concise Abstraction: J.D. Salinger, Michael J. Durkin
A Study of Congressional Action Relating to the Federal Peoples Republic of Yugoslavia 1962-1963: With Specific Attention to the Effects of that Action upon United States-Yugoslav Relations, Michael R. Fitzgerald
Branching Ratio of π⁻ + He⁴ → t + n, Chun-Ming Leung
The Canadian Conscription Crisis of 1917, Earl L. Peterson
Study of Race Awareness of Children of the Campus School: Summer Session 1968, Marilyn L. Schuldt
New Thoughts on the Nature of Tragedy, Julianne Elizabeth Smith
Theses from 1968
Henry Miller: The Artist as Clown, Ann Delavergne
A Brief Introduction to Boolean Algebra and its Application in Switching Circuits, Elaine Hoelzle
Polarization of Compton-Scattered Gamma Rays, James G. Hudson
Blood Brothers: The Translation of a Vietnamese Novel with Annotations, Monica Nahm
The Influences of Japanese Painting in the Works of Abanindranath Tagore, Michael J. Perrone
Mulk Rag Anand: Indian Writer and Social Thinker, Timm R. Rinehart
Topological Groups and Infinite Dimensional Galois Theory, Theodore A. Sundstrom
Theses from 1967
The Devil in Othello, Don Clark
Historiography in India: A Study of the Muslims as the First Historiographers in India, Judith L. Clawson
Catholicism and Protestantism in a Highland Guatemalan Community, Kathleen M. Cutler
Programed Woodcarving, Linda E. Daniels
A Case Study in Mass Transportation: Kalamazoo--A Solution?, Richard L. DeClair
An Electromyographic Study of the Activity of the Upper and Lower Segments of the Right Rectus Abdominis During Exercise, Patricia E. Gary
The Poetry of Robert Lowell, Phyllis Gregory
Ostuncalco: A Study of Class Differentiations and Interaction in a Guatemalan Community, Sharon Hunt
The Selected Poems of E.E. Cummings, James C. King
The Amish - School Conflict, Dolores Loegel
The Alliance for Progress: Policy Continuation or Actual Reform?, Mario Mion
Marriage and the Master Speed: An Interpretation of Robert Frost's "West-Running Brook", Terry R. Nienhuis
The Evolution of Patterns of Seasonal Migration from San Juan Ostuncalco, William Parsons
Role Playing vs. Responsibility in Kingsley Amis' Novels, Kathleen Quinn
The Debate Over Planning, Socialism, Capitalism, and Competition, Alan Stafford
A Survey of the World Food Problem: Economic, Nutritional, and Cultural Considerations, Joyce Vermeersch
Passageways: Excerpt from Summer Journal of Europe, Jacqueline Vilmar
Freedom as Conditioned Freedom, Ernest D-N. Wamba
Pierre and The Marble Faun Illuminated by Darkness, Marian Wiseman
Theses from 1966
The Growth of John Blaydon's Self-Confidence, Rosalie Amman
Common Sense and Ordinary Language in G.E. Moore, Terry Hall
Electroencephalographic Analysis of Avoidance Conditioning, Approach-Avoidance Conflict, and Conditioned Emotional Response in the Rat, Stephen Haynes
The Mormon Refuge in Mexico and its American Antecedents, Peter Roberts
Updike, Roethke, and Ferlinghetti: Three Contemporary Views on the Human Condition, Julia A. Watson
Theses from 1965
Solvent and Substituent Effects on the Lossen Rearrangement of Benzoyl Arylhydroxamates, Wade J. Adams
Familial Love in Yiddish Literature, Wanda Chatman
Alan Stewart Paton: An Annotated Bibliography, Rosemary Christensen
The Problem of Relations: A Rejoinder to Bradley, Tom Curran
Planning and Democracy in France, Larry G. Massanari
Theses from 1964
Combinatorial Topology: A Theorem, Charles Nagy
Theses from 1963
A Comparison of Religion and Religious Influences of Pre-Communist China and the United States, Wanda Chatman
Guilt and Judgment in Albert Camus' The Stranger, The Plague, and The Fall, Suzy Dick
A Study of Religious Tradition, East & West, Kendall W. Folkert
Early Confucianism, J. Michael Seuss