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Vassar Scholarship, the institutional repository formerly known as Digital Window, reflects the research and scholarly output of the Vassar College community.  It provides access to a variety of collections, including senior theses and projects across a wide range of disciplines.

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An Assessment of the Vassar-Poughkeepsie Town-and-Gown Divide: Strategies for a Sustainable and Collaborative Future

Publication Date
2023-April-24
Authors
Blessing, Gaia
Department or Program
American Studies Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Vassar Only
Abstract

This paper explores the town-and-gown divide between the college and local communities in order to investigate how institutions of higher education can foster mutually beneficial relationships with their neighbors. The project culminates in a guidebook of proposals for the college...

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Designing interactive digital installation for human-human interaction in live music events

Publication Date
2016-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Park, So Sun
Department or Program
Media Studies Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Abstract

In the 21st century, there is a strong trend of the audience's personal technology-dependent behavior in live music events, specifically music concerts and music festivals. This project, <em>Interplaying, </em>investigates the way technology is used to encourage the audience's human-human interaction...

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Histories of Color in Critical Pedagogy: The Collective Re-Memory of Trauma and Resistance

Publication Date
2014-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Poole, Thomas
Department or Program
Sociology Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Archive Only
Abstract

In this paper I analyze learning communities of color of the past and present and how they resist the dominant White narratives of racial progress and consensus in their social studies teaching, both in curricula and in praxis/structure. I will...

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