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Recreation: Work That Makes A Difference, Logan Cornwell
Recreation: Work That Makes A Difference, Logan Cornwell
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
The recreation industry is a growing field and this project was aimed at highlighting possible career opportunities for students. This project culminated in a map showing 656 past internship sites from the Recreation Management and Leadership (RML) program here at Western Washington University. Fifteen years of internship feedback has been compiled into this map, and viewers can easily sort by year to find places of interest. This was created as a tool for future students to learn from previous internship experiences, and recognize the wide range of impactful careers you can find in the recreation field.
Gifted Genes: An Investigation Of College Student Perceptions Of Direct-To-Consumer Genetic Kits, Kate Amos
Gifted Genes: An Investigation Of College Student Perceptions Of Direct-To-Consumer Genetic Kits, Kate Amos
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
This study is based on a classroom-use only pilot survey of college student perceptions of direct-to-consumer genetic tests. These tests can provide information about an individual’s genealogy and ancestry, as well as their medical genetic profile and genetic risk factors. The survey was designed for ease-of-use using Qualtrics (Qualtrics 2022) and distributed using anonymous links and a QR code. A total of forty complete responses were recorded during the twenty-two days the survey remained open, which were analyzed using descriptive statistics. Respondents were mainly in their late teens to early twenties, just over half identified as female, and almost three-quarters …
Reducing Stress For Student Journalists, Melody Kazel
Reducing Stress For Student Journalists, Melody Kazel
Scholars Week
As a student in JOUR 214 and 414, I noticed that stress levels in the class were high. I asked students, currently in the class or who’d taken it one quarter previously, to fill out a survey about their stress levels and causes of stress. In order to prevent unconscious negative bias because of the nature of a survey about stress, I included questions about student satisfaction levels and causes of satisfaction. The majority of students rated stress at an eight or ten out of ten. Satisfaction levels were more varied; most students rated their satisfaction at a four, five, …