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 1974
The European Wine Market, Edgar Arnold Kulakofsky
Elementary Movement Notation Class: Teaching Outline and Materials, Mary C. McGuinness
The Agricultural History of Berrien County, Michigan 1850-1900, Linda Moore
Stress-Related Enzymatic Catabolism of Corticosterone in Maternal and Fetal Mouse Tissues, John A. Mulder
The Characteristics and Uses of Performance Contracting: An Option for Classroom Teaching, Patricia A. Pokay
Anti-Catholicism in the 1920's and Al Smith, Michael Alfonso Reynolds
The Story of a Civil War Soldier: Sam Hodgman and the Seventh Michigan, Roger L. Rosentreter
The Division of Berlin, Brian L. Schmidt
Hirabayashi and Korematsu: The Stone Court's Double-Edged Sword, Thomas Seilheimer
The Schmidt Site: A Geologic Report, Julie Stein
An Approach to Opportunity Analysis for the Small Businessman, Frederick J. Thompson
The Nature of Embodiment, Steve Wagner
A History of the Battle Creek Symphony Orchestra's First Seventy-Five Years: 1899-1974, Julie A. Walton
Senior Recital, Julie Whelan
Preparing for Auditions, Jessica Wood
Socialism in Tanzania, Carl Young
The Juvenile Court, Gault and the Aftermath, Judith Younkman
The Limits of Criminal Liability, Mark L. Zalaoras
Theses from 1973
Business Education in Nigeria with an Eye to the Future: Its Demands and Possibilities, Raphael Olu Aina
The Paradox of American Political Parties, Robert B. Borsos
The Effects of a Token Reinforcement System for Academic Performance on the Attending Behavior of Junior High School Students, Barry Alan Bostrom
The Socialist Evolvement of The Cuban Revolution 1948-1960, Ross E. Chapman
The Reign of Henry II as Pertaining to the Development of a Centralized, Efficient State in England, Ronald K. Delph
Men Too Gentle..., Christine Francis
Psychic Wholeness in Blake and Jung, Walter B. Gallant
Imbedding Problems in Graph Theory, William Goodwin
The Missouri Plan for Michigan, Richard A. Griffin
Library Service for Blind and Visually Handicapped Children, Pamela J. Harris
Teacher Efficacy--A Multi-Factor Approach in Perceived Characteristics, Deborah S. Harwood
Legal Innovations During the Reign of Henry II of England (1154-1189) and their Effects, Charles O. Houston III
A Study of the Utility and Validity of Earnings Forecasts, Michael P. Howell
Juvenile Court Volunteers, Mary Ippel
William Jennings Bryan as Secretary of State, Ronald L. Jacobs
Philosophies & Projections of the Artist-Teacher, Deborah Lynn Kitchen
Conflict Theory: Concepts, Techniques, and Stages, Thomas Kramer
Textbooks...Of Yesterday and Today, Theresa Kula
The Future of Quality Education: The Radical Critics of Education, Howard B. Lyman
Cyclic Error-Detecting Codes, Vern Paulsen
The Positive Arguments for the Existence of Proto-Indo-Hittite, J. Frederick Penrose III
Assessment Procedures and Curriculum Design for Multiply Handicapped Preschool Children, Janice Lynn Peterson
The Supreme Court Extends Federalism, 1937-1969, Terry Schpok
Logic and Legal Reasoning, Robert A. Stariha
The Source of United States Policy Towards the Soviet Union in the Post World War Two Era, Eapen Thomas
Kalamazoo County Small Claims Court Survey, 1971-1972, Robert Dale Wyman
Theses from 1972
Jurgen Moltmann's 'Theology of Hope:' A Brief Purport, Rod Crowell
Induction of Entner-Doudoroff Enzymes in Pseudomonas Aeruginosa, Rodger Fagerburg
Bussing: Year One in Kalamazoo, Curtis Fonger
Transport Studies of Galactose in Acetobacter Aceti Var. Liquefaciens, James Henderson
Trends in Public Library Public Relations: A Senior Honors College Paper, Bev Hevel
The Ecological Effects of Oscillatoria Agardhii on Daphnia Magna, David Jahn
Mechanisms of Memory and Learning, Wayne Kinning
New Forms of Heterosexual Marriage and Mating, Robert Lundy
Senior Recital with Program Notes, Linda Lyster
A Comparative Consideration of Lipoprotein Distribution and Stress response in the Mallard Duck and Man, Janice Mackay
Laboratory Research Enterprises, Inc. -- Administrative Office Reorganization, Susan McClay
The Life of a Civil War Soldier from Kalamazoo: Independent Research in History 470, Bonnie Poindexter and Merry Cotton
Techniques for Developing Concepts, Carol A. Prince
Keats and the Existential Response, Allan Sealy
Elastic Scattering of Alpha Particles from Carbon-12, Jon F. Sleder
Small Claims Court Operations in Kalamazoo County, Alistair Smith
An Evaluation of Cooling Towers for Nuclear Power Plants, Donald G. Southwell
The Effects of Moist-Heat Treatments and Stratification on Germination of Prairie Plant Seeds, John E. Stuurwold
Vegetation of Yankee Springs Bog, Margaret Thompson
A Sensitizing and Synthesizing Theory of Power and Social Control, Joseph M. Woodworth
Theses from 1971
The Phenomenology of Sunspots, Kamal K. Arora
The Peaceful Warriors: United Nations Military Peacekeeping, Charles Binder
An Ecological Study of Coliform Bacteria Associated with Vaccinium Corymbosum, Harry C. Bittenbender
A Comparative Zeitgeist of 19th Century American and 19th Century French Painting Through Winslow Homer and Gustave Courbet, Caroline Ann Brown
A Computer Program for Statistical Curve Fitting, Paul W. Callahan
La Lutte Contre La Mort, Dan Dobberstein
The Effects of Long Term Exposure to a Mirror and a Reinforcement Schedule on the Aggressive Behavior of the Gamecock, Bernard Fabry
The Effects of Repetitive Stimulation on the Aggressive Behavior of the Fighting Cock: A Test for Habituation, Howard E. Farris and Thomas W. Cey
Stillness: A Song Cycle for Soprano and Piano, Nancy Groner
Fragments, Kurt David Kinde
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