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Graduate Liberal Studies
The capstone requirement of the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies degree in the Graduate Liberal Studies Program is the Master’s Project. Drawing on the skills and knowledge acquired from coursework, each student designs – in consultation with a supervising professor – an independent project that is personally and academically meaningful. The Master’s Project, which includes but is not limited to written analysis, may involve academic research, applied research or creative work. This collection was created in 2014, and capstone projects completed before that time are not hosted in DukeSpace.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
Recent Submissions
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An Interpretive History of the Lower Deep River Region, NC
(2022-04-15)How can interpreting the regional history of the lower Deep River region of North Carolina inform land conservation for future generational use, education, and recreation? I explore the Lower Deep River Region, NC, and its ... -
Volleyball, but Make it Sexy: Mediated Representations of Female Athletes
(2022-05-06)The female athlete experience is complicated and beautiful. Women were long excluded from the world of sport and looked at as “masculine” when they did compete. To combat this fear of seeing “less feminine” women, sport ... -
Co-location Opportunities for Dynamic Use of Existing and Proposed School Buildings
(2022-04-13)We have, on average, 1,098 to 2,168 annual school closures per year. That means thousands of school buildings need to be repurposed every year or they will stand vacant, become vandalized, and bring blight and a sense of ... -
Preparing for Widowhood - While Your Husband is Still Living
(2022-07-11)Research on widowhood challenges has suggested that married women, with unhealthy husbands, should consider preparing in advance for widowhood. However, many women might have an easier transition into widowhood ... -
Singularity, Solidarity, and Gender France 1945-1997
(2022-03)This paper examines how French Philosopher Mona Ozouf’s theory of French Singularity answers for the state of French feminism at the end of the 20th century. It also examines the historical and moral gaps in this ... -
I Knew Home When I Saw it: Mapping RaMell Ross’s Hale County This Morning, This Evening
(2022-05-06)This project consists of two parts: 1) an initial, written analysis of Hale County This Morning, This Evening, a 2018 documentary of my home county (Hale County, Alabama) by filmmaker (and former public school coach) RaMell ... -
Improving the Sales Training Program in the Mexican Notebook Company “Cuadernos Estrella”
(2022-01-07)The purpose of this research is to devise a new learning strategy to train the sales workforce of the Mexican notebook company “Cuadernos Estrella.” The goal of the Human Resources (HR) department of the company is to standardize ... -
The Effect of Social Isolation on Adolescents During COVID-19
(2021-04)My initial hypothesis was that adolescents may carry into adulthood the potential residual effects of social isolation on behavioral changes. To draw a holistic picture of the situation at hand, I went on a quest through ... -
Opportunity Zones: Potential Economic and Community Impacts in Durham and Johnston Counties, North Carolina
(2021-11-19)The 2017 Federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act included a provision for creating "Opportunity Zones" to spur investment in disadvantaged communities. The Act provided that funds invested in these zones (plus an additional amount ... -
Fatal Automobile Crashes in North Carolina: A Historical and Present-Day Portrait of Grief
(2021-07-26)Between 1899 and 2018, nearly 3.8 million people were killed in motor vehicle traffic crashes on roadways in the United States. An average of 100 people died in wrecks every day in the country in 2018. There are names and ... -
The World of Eurydice
(2021-03)As a creative project with an exhibition as its final presentation, my graduation project is a series of explorations of people trapped in private space, memory, and daily prayer psychology under the epidemic situation. ... -
Swaying between Grace and Pomposity: The Imagined Modernity of Soong Mayling
(2021-04)This paper is centrally concerned with the inconsistencies between the practices of the Orientalized modernity and the Chinese indigenous sociocultural situation in the Republic of China. I focus on Soong Mayling, the first ... -
Making and Unmaking of Guiyu: The Global Center of E-waste
(2021-06-01)As the industry of electronic devices rapidly develops, the disposal and recycling of e-waste become an issue at stake. Despite the constant effort of both governments and Non-Governmental Organization, exportation to developing ... -
The Emperor’s Two Bodies
(2021-04-28)In the early third century, the body of the emperor came to play an increasingly important role in the dynastic politics of the Roman empire. But the role or, better, the function of the emperor’s body became in the short ... -
Russian Literary Conflicts over the Antinihilist Novel, 1861-1881
(2021-04-05)This thesis examines the representation of nihilism in antinihilist and radical novels written in post-emancipation Tsarist Russia, between 1861 and 1881. During this period, nihilism emerged as a social and political phenomenon ... -
An Analysis of Shaping of Female Characters in Films Directed by Mainland Chinese, Taiwanese and Chinese Diasporic Female Directors
(2021-04)This thesis intends to examine the shaping of female characters in films directed by Chinese female directors. Six films are selected as examples: The Crossing (Guo chun tian, Bai Xue, 2019), Angels Wear White (Jia nian ... -
Pursuit of Faith: “Navigating Ethics and Self-Referential Documentary”
(2021-05-07)This Master’s Project sets out to explore the history of my Irish Catholic, French Canadian, family; using archive materials from my grandmother (super 8mm home films, scanned photographs) and more recent interviews between ... -
On the Stability of Moral Judgment Over Time
(2020-11)Stability over time is often seen as a signature feature of moral judgment. Yet to date, little focused empirical examination of this assumption exists. In this study, we compare the stability over time of moral judgments ... -
Durham, North Carolina: A 21st Century Case Study on Gentrification, Artists, and the Creative Economy
(2020-04)Artist communities both generate, and coalesce around, sites of cultural significance and aesthetic intrigue. In doing so, artists and artist-run spaces impact the cultural and socioeconomic value of place. The connection ... -
:: salt mark :: open studio :: qr.2.vv :: picando portales :: hilvanando terruño :: stitching unearthed moments into place ::
(2020-12-14)A virtual open studio, :: qr.2.vv ::: picando portales ::: hilvanando terruño :: presents a multi-faceted approach to marking moments of unexpected connection, of pinning down glimpses of unanticipated affinity that ...
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