Senior Capstone Projects
Homecoming(s)
Homecoming. An exploration into the meaning of 'belonging' and examination of transnational adoption as a means of the neo-colonization of the female Chinese American adoptee body
Homosexual Subculture by Li Yinhe
Hooha are you? (hooha am I?)
Hooked
We use the word catchy to describe a song that gets stuck in our heads, but how do these songs get stuck in our heads in the first place? What actually makes music catchy? <em>Hooked </em>is a podcast that deconstructs...
Hookup Culture at Jewish Sleepaway Camp: A Subconscious Strategy for Jewish Continuity
Hot off the Press: 3D Bioprinted Human Tissue!
How About FAT: The Fat Body and its Intersections in Pop Culture & Media
How Analytics, Big Data, and Technology Have Impacted Basketball's Quest to Maximize Efficiency and Optimization
How communication evolved: reflections on the evolution process of an in silico embodied robotic system
How Do We Learn and Think about Sex? An exploration into the effects of popular media and media literacy on sex education
This project is an exploration of the ways popular media interacts with sex education and sex-positivity. This paper is a mixture of scholarly research and auto-ethnographic work. While data and critical analysis often feels reductive to lived experiences, I approach...
How Lonely the City Stands: Catholic Architecture, Religious Culture, and Suburbanization in Twentieth-Century Chicagoland
How much are secrets worth? An asset pricing study on trade secret risks
How The Interface of Music Production Software Influences Behavior
My thesis examines how musical tools (particularly digital ones, such as Digital Audio Workspaces (DAWs), Virtual Studio Technology (VSTs), virtual instruments, and plug-ins) affect music production (the producers themselves and the sounds produced) through the tools’ variances in user interface...
How to change Michael Pollan's mind: a critical analysis of 'addiction', spirituality, and psychedelics
How to Make it Rain: A Practical Analysis of Storytelling Forms
The following is an experiment in practical analysis of storytelling media. The project seeks to explore what insights can be gained about media specificity and adaptation theory
through the process of constructing a story and adapting it into background notes...