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Senior Project Internship: Inside A Public Television Documentary, Nate Lepley
Senior Project Internship: Inside A Public Television Documentary, Nate Lepley
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
This paper, in conjunction with the internship experience it describes, comprises my senior project at Fairhaven College and for Western Washington University’s Honors Program. My self-designed degree, or “concentration, is Documentary Production. Capturing Moments, Constructing Narratives. My concentration studies taught me how to produce media at a basic level and gave me a theoretical understanding of how documentaries ideally should be produced, but I needed experience in the real world to discover how they actually are produced in a professional setting. An internship with independent producers of a public television documentary provided that opportunity. In this paper, 1 will …
School Reform And The Metaphor Of Redemption, Hollie R. Johnson
School Reform And The Metaphor Of Redemption, Hollie R. Johnson
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
The social construction of a redemptive culture of schooling
From Horace Mann’s crusade for the common school to the 1983 federally commissioned report, “A Nation at Risk,” to the contemporary assimilation of state standards into planning and assessment, the history of American education expresses the belief that schools are the primary vehicle for social change. Public consensus and commonsense agree that, once correctly identified, problems in the social, economic, political, or moral sphere can be effectively resolved through the schools. Lying barely submerged beneath the language of school reform is the metaphor of redemption. Education is the source of individual …
Creating A High School European History Class, Brien Mcguire
Creating A High School European History Class, Brien Mcguire
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
This class shall cover the course of European history from the rise of the Greek Empire up to the most recent clashes in the Balkans. In all, we will cover about 3000 years of history in 180 days. During the first quarter of the year, we will explore ancient Europe during the time of the Greeks and Romans. The second quarter will take us through the darkness of the Middle Ages. Semester number two begins with a study of early modem Europe, including the Renaissance and Reformation all the way up to the start of the French Revolution. Finally, during …
Life Through My Eyes, Heather Nicole Casler
Life Through My Eyes, Heather Nicole Casler
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
Life Through My Eyes, a collection of poetry.