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MAIS Abstracts 2005-06
Every year, students graduating with a Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies give thesis presentations. Part of the thesis is the abstract which extracts key points from the work, highlighting the purpose, methods, major findings or ideas, and substantive conclusions.
In June 2006 the following theses were presented.
Thesis Abstracts
Gerontology Concentration
- Caring for Caregivers: Where is Respite When You Need It?
- Life-Long Adult Learning - A Transformational Process for Creative Aging
- The Meaning of Old Age from Native American Haudenasaunee (Iroquois) Women's Perspective: Then and Now
Liberal Arts Concentration
- A Constructive Postmodern Critique of Modern Development: Agrarian Reform in Latin America
- Battered Women's Movements: Past, Present and Future
- Creating and Receiving Quilts as an Extension of Healing Art Therapy
- Exploitation of Black Male Student Athletes
- Humankind’s Interconnectedness with Nature
- Kollel Women’s Voices: An Exploration of Work/Family Balance within the Ultra-Orthodox Learning Community
- Symbolic Investiture in Moby Dick: The Finitude of Metaphor
- We’re Number One!: Exceptionalism and American Millenarian Religious Movements
- The Women at the Well: A Reflection of Early Hebrew Women and Culture Through the Stories of Rebekah, Rachel and Zipporah
Organizational Communication Concentration
- Combining Forces: Addressing the Challenges of Building a Global Virtual Team from the United States and India
- Enhancing Organizational Development Practice and Learning Through Critical Reflection
- Facilitated Participation of Decision-Making in Collaborative and Learning Organizations
- In Support of Soul in an Organization: The Use of Storytelling
- Nursery Employers and the Hispanic Labor Force: Interdependence, Responsibility and Opportunity
Spiritual Traditions Concentration
- The Existential Search for Meaningfulness and Sense of Self: Embracing Experience and Relatedness in Tillich’s Philosophical Theology and Hesse’s Siddhartha
- Prejudice and Justice in Valuing Life
- The Prophetic Voice of Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal: Breaking the Seal, Breaking the Silence
- Transformation Through the Dark Nights of Death, Loss and Grief