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Item The mediated gaze(2011-05) Abercrombie, Catherine Mary; Canright, Sarah; Sutherland, DanielThis report is a compilation of the influences that shape my current work. In this written representation of my process I mimic how ideas overlap and collide, rather than taking a chronological approach to my development over the past three years. The role of ornament to engage contemporary viewing is a dominant theme, in both my work and the report. I approach painting as an attempt to understand contemporary visual culture and how we look at objects today. My paintings rely on ornament as an entrance into exploring aesthetics and my personal history.Item Minding the skies(2011-05) Johnson, Bethany Jo; Canright, Sarah; Miller, MelissaThis report outlines the conceptual, procedural and material evolution of my artistic practice over the course of the past three years. Throughout all of the changes my artwork has undergone during this time, my work has always dealt with the combination of (and sometimes conflict between) a scientific, logical, utilitarian truth, and a more poetic, emotive and oblique conception of knowledge. This preoccupation reflects my own impulse to both understand my environment in the most conventionally factual way, while simultaneously acknowledging its hopeless (but profound and poetic) complexity, subjectivity and obscurity. As a manifestation of these concerns, my artistic output includes diagrammatic compositions, philosophical illustrations, drawings of scientific imagery, portfolios of cartographic documents and methodical replications of scientific experiments. In this report I outline the various, complimentary ways in which I consider the notion of epistemological collapse.Item Perceptions of self-disclosing stuttering: the impact of self-disclosure on school-age listeners who stutter(2014-05) Klemm, Genessee Rebecca; Byrd, Courtney T.Previous research has indicated that the use of self-disclosure statements may be beneficial in improving listener’s perceptions of a speaker who stutters. While some research to this point is available concerning the perceptions of adults, this theory has not been studied in school-age populations. In addition, information about the perceptions of listeners who are also stutterers is unexplored. This study seeks to address these voids in the literature and also to explore the impact of gender bias in the context of self-disclosure. This study seeks to bolster the evidence-based practice for the technique of self-disclosure and to better understand the perceptions of school-age listeners. Such information could improve treatment delivery and outcomes as part of a comprehensive intervention program for individuals who stutter. Research objectives were explored by exposing participants to two of four possible videos of a speaker who stutters (a male who self-discloses, male who does not self-disclose, female who self-discloses, and a female who does not self-disclosure). Directly after viewing the videos the participant completed a survey probing for perceptions of the speaker, information about their experience with and knowledge of stuttering, and allowing for additional comments to be reported. Results indicated a preference for the speaker who self-disclosed. However, some differences were noted between then listener groups (stutterers versus. non-stutterers). The participants who stuttered tended to be less impacted by the presence or absence of a self-disclosure; they more often reported perceiving “no difference” between the speakers across a variety of traits in comparison to the participants who do not stutter. These results indicate that individuals who stutter and individuals who do not stutter may perceive the use of self-disclose differently. Results, in regards to gender bias, were inconclusive. In summary, results from the current study add to the body of research supporting the use of self-disclosure statements and suggest that individuals who stutter may perceive their use differently than individuals who do not stutter.Item Poetic sequences in Theodore Roethke's The far field(Texas Tech University, 1968-08) Howell, John RobertNot availableItem The effect of string instruction method books on left hand shape of beginning violinists and violists(2012-08) Kupresanin, Danielle; Wood, Bruce; Killian, Janice; Dye, KeithThis thesis is designed to research left hand shape in beginning string players. It is the author’s hope that this will help provide insight to string teachers regarding specific advantages or disadvantages of two beginning string method books, in order to promote effectiveness in instruction. There has been much pedagogical speculation that starting a student with all fingers of the left hand placed on the instrument will help form better left hand shape initially, verses methods which add fingers one at a time or in a different sequence. In this case, students from two groups were examined- one group of students who have been learning from the Essential Elements 2000 Book for Strings, and another group of students who have been learning from Orchestra Expressions. These two method books each utilize their own strategy for left hand development. This research will help to provide both quantitative data to measure left hand shape, as well as qualitative data from students regarding their ability and ease of learning appropriate technique.Item Whose house(2011-05) Eastwood, Scott Robert; Smith, Michael, 1951 March 8-; Charles, Michael R.; Miller, Melissa W.; Jordan, Richard M.This report outlines the overriding themes, concepts, processes, and influences in my work over the last three years. Although my work has progressed much during that time, I still have a fundamental interest in using a reactive and intuitive process to elicit ideas. This process undermines legibility through layering and then imposes a frame to contain each piece to let specific images emerge. Much of my work relates to the human form either formally or through its uncanny relation to the viewers own body. Through these methods I make images and objects that project my personal psychological cycle of fascination, repression, terror and humor.