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¿Smart Is The New Sexy? Reivindicación Del Nerd En La Televisión, Roberto Ruiz Ruiz, Tania Lucía Cobos, Atziri Abril Espinosa Cruz

Global Media Journal México

Este artículo presenta, bajo la perspectiva de los Estudios Culturales, un análisis de contenido realizado a la sitcom The Big Bang Theory en su primera temporada, con los objetivos de indagar si persiste o se presenta alguna variación en los estereotipos del nerd y de la ‘rubia tonta’, así como determinar qué rol juega el género en dicha tipificación, y qué papel tienen las marcas tecnológicas o product placement en la misma. Los resultados evidencian una ligera variación de los estereotipos citados, una corroboración a los roles tradicionalmente atribuidos a cada género y el papel de las marcas tecnológicas en …

Exhibición Y Programación Cinematográfica En Monterrey, México De 1922 A 1962: Un Estudio De Caso Desde La Perspectiva De La “Nueva Historia Del Cine”, José Carlos Lozano Rendón, Daniel Biltereyst, Lorena Frankenberg, Philippe Meers, Lucila Hinojosa

Global Media Journal México

El trabajo, inspirado en la perspectiva teórica sobre la Nueva Historia del Cine (New Cinema History), describe y discute la exhibición y programación de películas de 1922 a 1962 en la ciudad de Monterrey, México, la tercera en población en el país. Con el propósito de ofrecer un estudio de caso fuera de los Estados Unidos y Europa que permita contrastar y refinar las afirmaciones previas sobre los factores sociales, culturales y económicos que influyen en la oferta cinematográfica, el estudio describe la ubicación geográfica de las salas de cine de esta ciudad altamente industrializada y la evolución de su …

Ripples 2012, Bridgewater College

Ripples/College Yearbooks

Bridgewater College 2012 Yearbook. This volume appears as a service to the Bridgewater College community and Alumni. This is a derivative version of the original work where portions may be redacted according to institutional policy or practicality. Not all images include original captioning.

Addendum 2012-2014, Csusb

CSUSB Course Catalog

CONTENTS PAGE UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE PROGRAMS......................................................................................................... 4 GRADUATE DEGREE PROGRAMS..........................................................................................................41

PALM DESERT CAMPUS. .................................................................................. 56 APPENDIX - Nondiscrimination Policy. ............................................................... 59

Course Catalog 2012-2014, Csusb

CSUSB Course Catalog

ACADEMIC CALENDAR 4 THE CSU SYSTEM 6 THE UNIVERSITY 8 ACADEMIC PROGRAM 13 STUDENT LIFE 23 ADMISSION 36 FEE SCHEDULE 43 ACADEMIC REGULATIONS 46 MINORS 58 CERTIFICATE PROGRAMS 60 EXTENDED LEARNING 62 UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE PROGRAMS 64 Academic Support Programs General Education Program Undergraduate Degree Programs GRADUATE STUDY 365 Graduate Degree Programs FACULTY 554 APPENDIX 575 INDEX 583

California Institute Of Integral Studies -- Catalog 2012-2013, Ciis

CIIS Catalogs Archive

This is the 2012-2013 catalog of courses, staff and faculty for the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS)

The Icelandic Sagas As A Subject For Undergraduate Study, John P. Sexton

English Faculty Publications

While medieval studies has dramatically expanded its scope and the texts taught as part of its subject over the past few decades, the study of Icelandic saga literature is still a fringe discipline, particularly in North American academe. Rarer still is undergraduate exposure to the sagas, despite their appeal as texts and the rich possibilities they offer to students trained in Anglo-Saxon literature (or at least Beowulf) and familiar with Norse myth and legend through Tolkien or Marvel comics. The insular nature of the culture from which the literature springs is a contributing factor, of course—there is the undeniable …

A Dull Enigma: Historians' Analysis Of Gilbert And Sullivan's Impact On The Development Of The American Musical, Andrew Vorder Bruegge

College of Visual and Performing Arts Faculty Publications

Historians of musical theatre have been ambivalent when assessing the historical significance of Gilbert and Sullivan upon the development of the American musical. Historical narratives typically jump from The Black Crook to Friml, with only passing reference to G&S (and Offenbach, and Strauss). Gilbert and Sullivan (encouraged by D’Oyly Carte), however, anticipated not only most of the formal elements, but also many of the creative/production processes of the American musical genre. The shows that we associate with the “Golden Era” of the American musical theatre contain many components that G&S devised three score years earlier. Historians should acknowledge the importance …

Family Structure And Risk Factors: An Investigation Into Emotional And Behavioural Outcomes For Nine-Year-Olds., Zara Lafferty

Dissertations

This study examined the relationship between family structure and risk factors for children’s emotional and behavioural outcomes at 9 years of age. Family structure in this study is defined as; married, separated, divorced, widowed and never married families. Three risk factors were identified from the literature; economic deprivation, maternal depression and life events. This study is a cross sectional quantitative analysis of the ‘Growing Up in Ireland’s’ child cohort (9 year olds) dataset. This is nationally representative sample of 9 year old children living in Ireland; the sample was collected through a two-stage, stratified random sampling approach. Of the 8,568 …

2011-12 Annual Report, University Center For The Humanities

University Center for the Humanities Events

The mission of the Center is to recognize and support the humanities at Western Michigan University. As a gathering place for dialogue, the Center acts an incubator for the exchange of ideas among faculty, emeriti, alumni, undergraduate and graduate students, and people in the wider community. Through the understanding of diverse cultural, professional, political, and intellectual landscapes, we nurture engaged and vital academic life.

Syllabus For Rus494, Russia: From Empire To Nation,, Petko Ivanov

Slavic Studies Course Materials

No abstract provided.

Uri Diversity Awards Banquet Program

Programs and Events (Misc)

Program for the awards banquet in which the URI LBTQ Womens’ Group received their nomination award

Controlled Delivery Of Tgf-Ss1 From Plga Nanoparticles, Pratik K. Vaidya

ETD Archive

Abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) typically manifest as localized wall weakening and dilation of the infrarenal aorta, which grows gradually, and ultimately leads to fatal rupture. It is caused due to overexpression of proteolytic enzymes (matrix metalloproteases or MMPs) resulting into disruption of tissue structure, especially elastic matrix, which cannot be regenerated by adult vascular cells. On account of post-operative complications associated with their surgical repair, there is a critical need for developing non-surgical strategies for slowing and even regressing AAA growth. Recent studies in our laboratory have demonstrated that 1 ng/mL of transforming growth factor-β1 (TGF-β1) enhances regenerative repair by …

Cultural Competency: A Necessary Skill For The 21st Century Attorney, Travis Adams

Law Raza

No abstract provided.

Berita Autumn 2012, Derek Heng

Berita

Table of Contents

Chair’s Address...2

Editor’s Foreword...3

Members’ Updates...4

John A. Lent Prize...5

Breaking from the Past? The 2012 Hougang By-­‐Elections ...7

Book Review: Student Activism in Malaysia...12

Reframing the Singaporean Political Discourse...16

Limits of the Developmental State...20

The Storm After The Storm: A Comparative Framing Analysis Of Governmental And News Reporting On Hurricane Katrina, Evan T. Zuverink

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

Hurricane Katrina is widely regarded as the greatest natural disaster to ever befall the United States. Following the storm’s devastation of the Gulf Coast region, a media firestorm unleashed, seeking to ascribe responsibility to governmental actors for the “failed” response effort. Through a comparative framing analysis, this study sought to investigate how major news outlets, the White House, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency framed the response efforts that followed Hurricane Katrina.

Containing The Beat: An Analysis Of The Press Coverage Of The Beat Generation During The 1950s, Anna Lou Jessmer

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

The early Cold War era was a period marked by a fear of Communist subversion and a distrust of the other. It was during this time that the Beat Generation emerged in literature and society as a minority opinion group—failing to conform to mainstream norms and living outside the margins of acceptable American culture. In response to the Beat Generation and their dissenting viewpoints, the media framed the Beats in a mostly negative manner. This negative framing was fueled by a desire to delegitimize the Beats as well as any other dissenting groups that posed a threat to American ideology. …

Conservative Media And Political Socialization: Immigration, Gay Marriage, And Abortion As Presented By Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, And Cnn, Jeff Mckay

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

This study addresses the political socialization of politically conservative individuals and how political ideologies seem to coalesce among individuals from various socioeconomic backgrounds. The main issue that this study aims to tackle is the impact of conservative media on the political socialization of conservative individuals and how media as an agent of socialization might influence them to support ideas that are not to their benefit economically. For instance, conservative individuals from various backgrounds wholeheartedly support the same free market principles. However, the negative effect that capitalism has had on the liberty of middle and lower class citizens of the United …

Reintegration Of Child Soldiers In Burundi: A Tracer Study, Mark J.D. Jordans, Ivan H. Komproe, Wietse A. Tol, Aline Ndayisaba, Theodora Nisabwe, Brandon A. Kohrt

Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Insurrectionary Womanliness: Gender And The (Boxing) Ring, Melanie J. Mcnaughton

Communication Studies Faculty Publications

Integrating sociological theory on sport with Judith Butler’s concept of insurrectionary speech, the author explores why and how womanliness is produced and problematized. In particular, this article investigates how participating in combat sport violates conventional womanliness by foregrounding physical capability and aggression. Using her identity as a female fighter as a starting point to engage the cultural construction of womanliness, the author connects a critical/cultural look at gender and sport with autoethnography.

2012 Writing Contest Winners, State University Of New York At Cortland

Transformations

The Writing Contest is sponsored by the College Writing Committee and is presented during Transformations conference (formally titled Scholar's Day) at SUNY Cortland.

From Israelite To Jew: Anti-Semitism In Vichy France & Its Impact On French-Jewish Identity After Wwii, Rukmani Bhatia

Honors Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

Merce Cunningham: The Accidental Icon, Jennifer Harris

Honors Thesis Collection

In the summer of 1953, one could hardly call Merce Cunningham’s group of dancers “a company” in the formal sense of the term. At the time it was only one of many protean artistic experiments taking shape at Black Mountain College, a hotbed of intellectual activity where artists’ ideas circulated freely across the disciplines of music, dance, and the visual arts. Black Mountain fostered a collaborative setting for some of the most important creative minds of the second half of the twentieth century, yet during that summer their place in the American artistic pantheon was far from guaranteed. My thesis …

The Queer Sounds Of Justice: Contemporary Queer Musicking And Transformative Justice In The United States, S. M. Gray

Honors Thesis Collection

This paper explores connections between social justice and music through the work of LGBT and queer musicians. Using a combination of personal interviews and research, each chapter highlights contemporary queer musicians and links their musicking with past music scenes, sociohistorical moments, and musicians. Beginning with the growing visibility of the LGBT population in the 1960s, I gradually move forward chronologically through the twentieth century to present-day, grounding the music scene of the era within the context of coinciding LGBT and queer politics, gender and sexuality academia, and feminist and queer theory. I simultaneously link each music scene to the present-day, …

Performing Diasporic Subjectivities: Gendered Narratives Of Cultural Reproduction In A Community Of Tibetan Exiles, Shannon M. Ward

Honors Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

Picturing The Wake: Arcimboldo, Joyce And His ‘Monster,’, Václav Paris

Publications and Research

This essay considers Finnegans Wake through the lens of Arcimboldo's art. Drawing on surrealism, French theory, and close readings of parts of Joyce's most difficult book, it shows the work to be visually richer and stranger than we imagined.

Meeting In The Middle: Making Use Of Popular Culture In The Classroom, Michelle Ronayne, Joanne Shayne, Johnny Nguyen

Pedagogy and the Human Sciences

The purpose of this paper is to explore the current landscape of the 21st century Introductory Psychology classroom. The authors—graduate students and current teachers of psychology—are well aware of the need to move away from traditional, top-down approaches to teaching. Personal experience has convinced them that the standard lecture format does not engage all 21st century students. A belief in the need to actively engage students in introductory psychology courses is the basis for the present paper. Through the use of technology and active-learning classroom activities, teachers might succeed in meeting students of psychology “where they are,” thus improving the …

Virginia Commonwealth University Graduate And Professional Programs Bulletin Courses [2012], Virginia Commonwealth University

VCU Bulletins

Listing of professional and graduate courses for 2012-2013

Time In Television Narrative: Exploring Temporality In 21st Century Programming, Melissa R. Ames

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

This collection analyzes twenty-first-century American television programs that rely upon temporal and narrative experimentation. These shows play with time, slowing it down to unfold the narrative through time retardation and compression. They disrupt the chronological flow of time itself, using flashbacks and insisting that viewers be able to situate themselves in both the present and the past narrative threads. Although temporal play has existed on the small screen prior to the new millennium, never before has narrative time been so freely adapted in mainstream television. The essayists offer explanations for not only the frequency of time play in contemporary programming, …

Whither The "Year Of China"?, Denise Ho, Jared Flanery

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

To conclude my Chinese history lecture course at the University of Kentucky, I introduce my undergraduates to the concept of “soft power” and suggest that Confucius Institutes are emblematic of China’s cultural diplomacy, which aims to project a peaceful image abroad. Confucius Institutes are centers for teaching Chinese language and culture overseas; they are organized by an office known as Hanban in the Ministry of Education, though their funding comes directly from the Chinese government’s treasury. There are now over 350 Confucius Institutes in the world, and two of these are in the state of Kentucky.