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Vassar Scholarship

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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Differentiating the Common Core: Establishing the importance of place, population, and politics in creating a relevant and valuable curriculum

Publication Date
2014-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Cara La'i Ana Chaudron
Department or Program
Education Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Abstract

This thesis explores the importance of incorporating students' surrounding place, population, and politics into a relevant and valuable curriculum. I frame this analysis with an overview of the benefits and detriments of the recent Educational reform initiative known as the...

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Inform or A to Z

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

Designed to call attention to itself and the network of ideologies that create it, INFORM is a typeface that intentionally disrupts the process of reading in order to display the ways in which gender norms and typefaces structure one another...

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Patchwork Green: Visualizing Landscape Evolutions at Vassar College

Publication Date
2020-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Carriere, Ann
Department or Program
Urban Studies Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Abstract

A visual exploration of Vassar's palimpsestic landscape history, focusing on the evolution of Noyes Circle, the Class Tree Ceremony, and circulation around Main Building.

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