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2011-2012 - Undergraduate Curriculum Council Annual Report, Undergraduate Curriculum Council, East Tennessee State University

Undergraduate Curriculum Council Minutes

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Teacher Support As A Moderator Of Behavioral Outcomes For Youth Exposed To Stressful Life Events, Rebekah S. Huber, Sarah K. Sifers, Daniel Houlihan, Rachel Youngblom

Psychology Department Publications

The present study examined the relationship between teacher support, life stress, and behavioral outcomes in 103 youth. Participants completed questionnaires regarding life events, social support, personality, and behavior. Moderated regression analyses were conducted using youth perceptions of teacher support and negative life events to predict externalizing and internalizing problems. Results revealed a significant interaction between teacher support and life stress, indicating teacher support successfully moderated the effect of stress on externalizing problems. Main effects for life stress were consistent with previous literature suggesting that higher amounts of stress predict greater externalizing and internalizing problems. Implications for teacher support are discussed.

The Cultural Context Of Nephite Apostasy, Mark Alan Wright, Brant A. Gardner

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

Nephite apostates turned away from true worship in consistent and predictable ways throughout the Book of Mormon. T heir beliefs and practices may have been the result of influence from the larger socioreligious context in which the Nephites lived. A Mesoamerican setting provides a plausible cultural background that explains why Nephite apostasy took the par ticular form it did and may help us gain a deeper understanding of some specific references that Nephite prophets used when com bating that apostasy. We propose that apostate Nephite religion resulted from the syncretization of certain beliefs and practices from normative Nephite religion with …

The Stromata Vol. 53, No. 2, Calvin Theological Seminary

Stromata (1956-2020)

Inside This Issue

4- Editorial by John C. Medendorp

5- Richard Bauckham, Jesus and the Eyewitnesses by John C. Medendorp

8- John Dickson, The Best Kept Secret of Christian Mission by Katherine Garvelink Hirschberg

12- Diarmaid MacCullouch, Christianity by Adrian de Lange

14- Richard J. Mouw, Abraham Kuyper by Mark VanderWerf

17- Christian Smith, The Bible Made Impossible by Joshua C. Smith

19- Walter Wangerin, Jr., The Book of the Dun Cow by Peter Rockhold

21- Seeing as God Sees by Kyle Dieleman

28- The Hidden Treasure and the Pearl by Darren M. Pollock

36- “The Inner Human Logic of …

The Stromata Vol. 53, No. 1, Calvin Theological Seminary

Stromata (1956-2020)

Inside This Issue

5- Here I Am by Scott De Young

7- A Brief Breviary of Sin by Dylan O’Brien Pahman

15- The Prohibition of Sorcery in Ancient Near Eastern and Biblical Law by Daniel J. Vos

43- Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John in a ‘Sea of Gospels’: An Apologetic for the Four Canonical Gospels by Mark VanderWerf

57- John Calvin and the Authority of the Fathers: An Interaction with A. N. S. Lane’s Ancillary View by Joshua C. Smith

77- The Hardening of the Heart in the Conquest Narrative: Reconsidering the Identity of הצרעה in Joshua 24:12 by Samyung …

Developing Justice-Oriented Teachers: Reciprocal Mentoring In Marginalized Communities, Joan Armon, Elizabeth Grassi

Jesuit Higher Education: A Journal

Community contexts stimulate pre-service teachers’ cultural and environmental awareness of local injustices while building their knowledge and skills as future teachers of diverse students. In Study “Abroad” in the Neighborhood, pre-service teachers visit local families who teach our students the Spanish language and culture. A second initiative is Environmental Regeneration through Permaculture Food Gardens focused on pre-service teachers’ and children’s construction of school gardens linked to curriculum, food cultures, and health. Pre-service teachers who understand why and how to appropriate a justice-orientation to education may become teacher-activists who honor perspectives and assets of diverse people in classrooms, schoolyards, and communities.

Review Of Anthony B. Bradley's 'The Political Economy Of Liberation: Thomas Sowell And James Cone On The Black Experience.', John Bolt

CTS Faculty Publications and Creative Activity

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Past Sense History In The Realm Of The Senses, Andrew Hess

Theses & ETDs

This thesis assesses a growing trend in the writing of history, which attends to the various roles and conceptions of the senses throughout history. Proceeding from a discussion of the sometimes unique and sometimes standard methodologies of the habit of "sensory history," the various implications and problems of such an approach are suggested and explored using a once widely accepted historical framework known as the "great divide." Imbuing this once black and white binary with the lost textures and experiences of sensory detail and evidence, a similar treatment of the life and work of social theorist Karl Marx is attempted. …

A Blaze In The Northern Sky - A Symbolic Analysis Of Ethnicity In The Early Norwegian Black Metal Scene 1986-1997, Eric Van De Castle

Theses & ETDs

This thesis investigates the complex social phenomenon of ethnicity manifesting in the artwork of Norwegian black metal albums. Black metal is a genre of heavy metal that developed during the 1980's. After 1990, the development of black metal began to make great strides in Norway, birthing the genre of "Norwegian black metal" and its resultant scene. This small scene quickly became infamous for the violent acts, including arson and murder, that were carried out by some of its members. To analyze this phenomenon, I identified symbols using the album artwork, which generated six major themes (and one miscellaneous theme) that …

May All Its Days Be Circus Days An Enthnographic Exploration Of Circus In Sarasota, Fl, Chrystal E.I. Kersey

Theses & ETDs

Circus has had an enormous economic and cultural influence on Sarasota since the Ringling Brothers and Barnum&Bailey Circus winter quarters were established in Sarasota in 1927. This thesis attempts to elucidate how the role of circus has changed in the community from 1927 to April 2012 within the framework of Sarasota heritage. I also tried to address the prospects for the continuation of the area's circus legacy by briefly examining the state of the circus industry in and out of Sarasota. My insights are derived from interviews with people involved in the Sarasota circus community, ethnographic notes and historical readings.

Stuff Happens Colonialism, Archaeology, And National Identity Formation, Faith Lobdell

Theses & ETDs

When the United States and its allies invaded Iraq in 2003, there was a great deal of looting and damage to Iraq's cultural heritage. This caused a great deal of controversy and international condemnation of the failure of pre-war planning agencies and committees to take the possibility of such negative consequences into account. My thesis explores some of the history of the use of archaeology for political purposes, both colonial and national, in attempting to answer the dual questions of why the preservation of cultural heritage is an important issue and for whom.

Creating An Interactive Past Digital Technologies For Public Representation Of Archaeological Sites And Artifacts, Alexis Santos

Theses & ETDs

Archaeological sites are met with a wide array of constraints ranging from limiting budgets to a lack of standing structures that pose unique challenges when creating representations of the sites and artifacts for the public. This thesis notes that archaeologists have not widely embraced digital technologies for the representation of archaeological sites and artifacts, posits that digital technologies enable archaeologists to excel within financial and material constraints, and argues for an expanded use of digital technologies in archaeological representations. Specifically, this thesis focuses on how three digital technologies � augmented reality, video mapping and online repositories � can enable the …

Constantly Varied/Highly Functional An Exploration Of Ethnographic Filmmaking In The Digital Age, Nicholas Manting Brewer

Theses & ETDs

Digital video has the potential to democratize the field of visual anthropology. The digital medium allows filmmakers to create and transmit their work at an substantial rate. I explore and defend visual anthropology as a subfield, looking to previous literature to examine some concerns that have plagued the field. I reflect on fieldwork at CrossFit Sarasota, a local gym in Sarasota, FL, between September and December 2011 that resulted in my short ethnographic film, Constantly Varied/Functional. I separate my method into the three sections of video production: pre-production, production and postproduction. In addition, I describe details that my film was …

Existence And Resistance A Heideggerian Reading Of Foucault's "Ethical Turn", Bill Yanelli

Theses & ETDs

Discussing Michel Foucault's research of the history of ethical systems, this thesis argues for the viability of a properly Foucauldian political ethics�one informed by, but distinct from, the historical examples he studied. Such an ethics would stand in opposition to what Foucault called "domination" (not to be confused with "power"). Domination is an emergent structure of human relations that fortifies itself against any significant change, by: a) inducing participants in the structure to experience it as immutable (what Foucault called "subjectivation"); and b) creating spectacles that direct participants' conduct (what Foucault called "veridiction"). But to formulate an ethical procedure that …

Contra Dance An Example Of Fully Participatory Dance Performance In The United States, Julie Allison Lado

Theses & ETDs

This thesis is an ethnography of practice on concentrating on contra, a contemporary American folk dance. Contra is also a style of music; both are inspired by European dance traditions and oldtime American music traditions. Present-day contra is unique because it is a collectively embodied performance art that does not assume an audience, and is therefore fully participatory in its approximation of social equality. Aside from using participant observation at the 2012 Snow Ball in Gulfport, Florida to approximate the experience of contra, this thesis is an account of change in the tradition from past to present, while attempting to …

Silver And Gold Victorian Masculinities Of The Nineteenth-Century American West, Elizabeth T. Bennett

Theses & ETDs

In addition to precipitating the rapid expansion and early settlement of a large new territory, the California gold rush facilitated an introduction of complex mandates for proper gendered behavior to the American West. Theories of masculinity within the social sciences have only been developed in recent decades. In specific regards to anthropology, a reexamination of the male role slowly began in the 1980s, as a result of feminist scholarship a decade earlier. Within historical archaeology, the affect of "separate spheres" and cults of domesticity upon nineteenth-century women have been well-documented � meanwhile, the comparative freedom of men's public identity has …

Embodying The Holy Spirit A Phenomenology Of Tongues, Jake Elrod

Theses & ETDs

In this ethnography, I explore the relationship between forms of transcendental experience and the conceptual construction of reality within a Pentecostal congregation in Greene, Ohio. My research focuses on Baptism of the Holy Spirit, an embodied union with God's animate force (often accompanied by glossolalia, divine communication, and spiritual healing) as an intensely life-changing experience played out in public rituals, personal testimonies, and Pentecostal theology. I will attempt to describe these forms of transcendental experience, their emergence in practice and discourse, and how these functioned to maintain a unified spiritual orientation. I will trace the role of transcendental experiences in …

The Shaft Caches Of Structure 4 At Blue Creek, Belize An Analysis Of The Archaeological Evidence And Symbolism Of The Feature And Its Presumed Interment Ceremony, Lyssabeth C. Pedersen

Theses & ETDs

The interment of artifacts in caches among the ancient Maya have proven to be an important feature of the worldviews and cultural facets of functioning urban centers. The "shaft caches" recovered from Structure 4 at the site of Blue Creek, Belize reveal information that aids our understanding of the Maya. The caches reflect the wealth of Blue Creek at the time of their interment during the Early Classic Period and before the progression ending in the city's abandonment during the Terminal Classic Period. This study will entail comparing the recovered data from the "shaft caches" found at Blue Creek with …

A Semiotic Analysis Of Ritual, Place, & Costume In The Performance Art Of Nate Hill, Juliana Hardesty

Theses & ETDs

Combining semiotic analysis with theater anthropology and performance theory, I seek to unpack the work of contemporary American performance artist Nate Hill. His character-based acts "Death Bear" and "Punch Me Panda" attempt to render service unto the people of New York City, both on its streets and in their homes. This creates an interesting dialectical relationship in his work to space and place--a relationship I explore in order to argue for the efficacy of his services in producing spontaneous cathartic moments for the public. I also attempt to update/modify typologies regarding ritual process and liminal space as established by Richard …

Organizational Culture, Emotional Labor, And The Work Role Of Mental Health Case Managers In A Managed Care Company, Justin Mihalick

Theses & ETDs

The purpose of the managed behavioral health care industry is to implement processes and standards for ensuring cost savings in the provision of psychiatric and substance abuse treatment to individuals enrolled in insurance plans. These for-profit companies employ licensed psychotherapists, social workers, and psychiatric nurses in call-center workplaces to carry out specific administrative roles. This study focuses on an organizational unit of mental health clinicians whose work involves an area of growing emphasis in commercial managed care, the coordination of patient care through telephonic case management. Using ethnographic interviews, I explore normative workplace rules and beliefs governing how case managers …

The Ethical And Practical Limitations Of The Use Of Anthropology In The Military, Morgan Dolan

Theses & ETDs

The development of the Human Terrain System was a unique step in the United States military's counterinsurgency efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan because it sought to combine social scientists and anthropological expertise in order to provide the military with a better understanding the cultural environments in which it was operating. This led to a debate in the anthropological community over the ethical soundness of the Human Terrain System and on a larger scale, over the engagement of anthropologists and the United States military. In order to better understand the context of this debate, this thesis examined the historical intersection of …

The Local Consumed Recreating Native-Place On China's Hilltop Herb Farm, Rebecca Catherine Christoforo

Theses & ETDs

In China today, the ease of movement through sociogeographic space has led to an estranged relationship between individuals and their ancestral homelands, and thus a sense of alienation for many urban Chinese. In part to amend this problem, millions of domestic urban tourists seek rural recreation every year. This thesis, using one eco-agritourism venue in Anhui as a case study, examines the changing conditions of 'native-place' as it becomes a commodity, and asks: what are the authentic qualities of the 'local' in a globalizing China?

The Linguistic Construction Of Ethnic Identity In A Greek-American Community, Natalie Boyd

Theses & ETDs

In Tarpon Springs, a historically Greek-American city in southwest Florida, the community and its use of the Greek language is changing. Competence in the Greek language has declined with successive generations as the children and grandchildren of immigrants adopt English as their primary language. Those who do speak Greek are increasingly rejecting the regional dialects spoken by previous generations in favor of Standard Modern Greek. Many informants attributed these changes to the increased influence of modernity and globalization, which they viewed both positively and negatively. This thesis examines how language ideologies and language use contribute to the construction of ethnic …

A Giant's Strength A Multisited Spatial Biography In 19th Century Florida, Elizabeth Ann Usherwood

Theses & ETDs

This thesis argues for a new methodological approach in historical archaeology: a multisited spatial biography of an individual which traces the life of an individual through time and space. Through the case study of Luis Fatio Pacheco, a 19th century African American man, this thesis illustrates how methodology can contribute to a vindicationist approach of African Diaspora archaeology through an individual's life. By looking at Luis Fatio Pacheco's homespaces, or the places he would have considered home, additionally complexity is illuminated in the historical record. This methodology helps connect his life experiences to the larger collective memory of "African America." …

Dissynthegrations Modernist Canons, Technopoetics, And The Recovery Of Abraham Lincoln Gillespie, Steven Rizzo

Theses & ETDs

Since his death in 1950, the experimental poet Abraham Lincoln Gillespie has largely been left out of literary-critical histories of modernism. Along with artists like Gertrude Stein and James Joyce, Gillespie was intimately connected to the artists, publications, and innovative aesthetic of the Parisian expatriate scene of the late 1920s and early '30s. Yet his work stands out among even the more experimental products of the expatriate communities in the interwar years: his heavy use of neologisms, idiosyncratic punctuation, peculiar graphic elements, and non-normative syntax make assimilation of his work into the received pictures of modernism difficult and problematic. But …

Parallel Kinship In Nihon Buyo, Dominique Ghirardi

Theses & ETDs

Nihon Buyou, like many other Japanese traditional arts, uses the iemoto system, which creates a family (ryuu) based in the art form from a surname exclusively associated with that art form. When a deshi reaches a certain level of mastery in the dance, he or she is given a name by the sensei to accompany that surname, initiating him or her into the kinship unit officially. Thus, the deshi holds the sensei in a parental role during dance contexts while simultaneously using his or her legal name and identity outside of this context. Drawing from ethnographic data gathered in Toyama …

Rewilding Towards A Neo-Shamanic Phenomenological Consciousness, Bradley Bryant

Theses & ETDs

Thesis analyzes the connections between domestication and its consequences in regards to the health of the human species. Rewilding, as I observe, is a neo-shamanic holistic health practice which has been adopted, consciously as well as unconsciously, by anarcho-primitivist intentional communities; more consciously as a strategy geared towards developing individual and communal autonomy via the dissolution of power relations, therefore as a philosophy of political resistance; more unconsciously as the experiential/phenomenal recovery of ancient shamanic preventative/curative healing methods, which are 'holistic' in the sense that treatment is aimed at the "whole" human � mind, body, and spirit, rather than a …

Talking Back Effects Of Training Session Occurrence On Captive Dolphin Vocal Behavior, Jennie Caskey

Theses & ETDs

In 1961, John Lilly's claim that dolphins were "kind, cooperative, intelligent�" beings that were likely candidates for inter-species communication was met with incredulity in the scientific and popular communities of the time. However, in the decades since, both inter-species communication and dolphin cognitive and behavioral research have progressed significantly, and evidence suggests that dolphins do, in fact, possess the traits and mechanisms that have so far been shown to correlate with the most successful inter-species communication. Dolphins, as a family, are highly gregarious, and utilize contextually flexible vocal behaviors to coordinate, communicate, and perceive their environment. Historically, they have had …

Learning To Live And To Lead How Post-Secondary Religious Education Helps Women To Shape Modern Orthodox Judaism In Israel, Rachel Atwood

Theses & ETDs

This thesis explores effects of midrashot, post-secondary Jewish education programs for women, on women's roles and identities in Israel's religious-Zionist community. In order to approach this topic, I explore the difficulties of studying Orthodoxy from a liberal Jewish feminist perspective, mitigating personal biases and evaluating scholarly sources through a process of self-reflection. The thesis goes on to find that women have integrated study into their private identities as Jewish women in ways that are different from current male notions of study and from those of their mothers. Then, I look at the religious leadership positions that have opened to women …

"We Tell Ourselves Stories In Order To Live" Joan Didion, Feminisms, And The Women's Liberation Movement, Gracelena Sylvana Ignacio

Theses & ETDs

This thesis explores the relationship between several works by novelist, essayist, journalist, screenwriter, and memoirist Joan Didion and some prominent feminist literature. I argue that even though Didion would most likely not consider herself a feminist, and at times condemns aspects of the Women's Liberation Movement of the 1970s, her works of fiction and nonfiction resonate with feminist discourse of her time. Didion most notably highlights problems of gender roles and power in her third novel, A Book of Common Prayer (1977), and engages issues foregrounded in the work of Adrienne Rich. I examine how several of Didion's woman-centered essays, …