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Graduate Catalogue 2024-2025, Seton Hall University

Graduate Catalogues

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Undergraduate Catalogue 2024-2025, Seton Hall University

Undergraduate Catalogues

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Wmu Board Of Trustees Formal Session January 25, 2024, Wmu Board Of Trustees

WMU Board of Trustees Meetings

• Acceptance of the Agenda
• Approval of the Minutes
  • November 30, 2023 – BOT Meeting
  • December 14, 2024 – BOT Special Meeting
• Remarks by the Chair
• Remarks by the President
• Updates by the Faculty Senate President
• Updates by the Western Student Association President
• Western Michigan University Employee Graduates
• Haenicke Institute for Global Education Presentation: Journey from Graduate Student to Assistant Professor
• Public Comments Regarding Action Items

Action Items

2024 Western Michigan University Board of Trustee Officer Election

Delegated Authority to Confer Degrees

Consent Items

Curriculum Proposals

Personnel Report

• General Public Comments

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Taking Risk As A Storyteller, Megan Liguori

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Crafting A Traveling Icon: The Role Of Mobile Carillons In Honoring Tradition, Emily S. Clouser

Honors Program Theses

The purpose of this thesis is to explore the role of mobile carillons in honoring the traditions of carillonneurs and universities alike. I will first discuss the history of carillons and the tradition of carillonneurs, as well as the possible impacts of exposing the technical skill required to play such a public instrument that yet uniquely isolates the performer. I will then explain the various roles that mobile carillons have served and their gradual development over the years. The purpose of mobile carillons fluctuated, first beginning as a sales tactic, then a concert instrument—which eventually became a science experiment—a home …

From Instagram To Infowar: The Weaponization Of Social Media And Its Consequences, Grayson Shade Walker

Emory International Law Review

No abstract provided.

To Take Up The Bodies: Staging Possible Worlds In Ana Caro’S The Courage To Right A Woman’S Wrongs, Lisa Jackson-Schebetta

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

Centrado en la producción de otoño de 2023 de Skidmore College de The Courage to Right a Woman’s Wrongs (Valor, agravio y mujer) de Ana Caro, este artículo examina la teoría y la práctica histórica de recuperación en relación con las vidas queer y la identidad racial. El artículo también examina los desafíos de poner en escena el acto central de perdonar de parte del personaje principal tanto como las uniones matrimoniales heterosexuales al final de la obra, dada la presencia del público de hoy además del elenco estudiantil.

Focused on Skidmore College’s Fall 2023 production of Ana Caro’s The …

La Verdadera Sara Montiel: Entrevista Con Israel Rolón-Barada, Bárbara Mujica

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

Sara Montiel fue la actriz española mejor pagada del siglo XX y tuvo una enorme influencia internacional. Aunque fue una estrella de cine consumada, gracias a sus relaciones con el dramaturgo Miguel Mihura (1905–1977) y el poeta León Felipe (1884–1968), tenía conocimientos profundos del arte dramático teatral y, según Felipe, debería haberse dedicado al teatro. Israel Rolón-Barrada, autor de Sara Montiel: La mujer y la estrella más allá del mito (Editorial Almuzara, 2023), una nueva biografía de la actriz nos habla de su formación personal y profesional, sus experiencias en España, México y Hollywood y su carrera bajo Francisco Franco …

Artistic Honesty: Interview With Theatre Director Santiago Sánchez, Denis Rafter

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

El director de escena Santiago Sánchez es fundador de la compañía de teatro L'Om Imprebís, la que desde 1983 ha representado los grandes clásicos, obras de creación humorística y piezas de dramaturgia contemporánea. ¿En que se distingue la obra de Sánchez entre la de otros muchos directores de escena? Por un lado, es un pionero en su método de utilizar el arte de la improvisación para crear una obra bien estructurada, claramente definible y entretenida. Por otro lado, lo que entrega es puro teatro sin ornamento superfluo ni elemento extravagante. Esta entrevista no pretende ser una exposición didáctica de la …

Intertheatrical Pursuits: Frecknall’S The House Of Bernarda Alba After Lorca, Adillo Rufo’S Cielo Calderón O “La Vida Es Sueño” Según Lorca, Calderón’S La Vida Es Sueño (Auto), Susan L. Fischer

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

El autor emprende una lectura interteatral de La casa de Bernarda Alba de Federico García Lorca a la luz de: (1) la producción radical de Rebecca Frecknall, en el Royal National Theatre de Gran Bretaña, de la adaptación expresionista de Alice Birch, compuesta para ser seguida rítmicamente; (2) la producción de Sergio Adillo Rufo, en España en 2022, de la producción de Lorca en 1932 de la segunda versión del auto de Calderón, La vida es sueño, reconstruido con escenas interpoladas en prosa que ponían de relieve la política del mundo lorquino y, por ende, el nuestro; (3) el …

Framing The Action: A Director Constructs The Opening Of García Lorca’S Bodas De Sangre, Isaac Benabu

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

El artículo comienza examinando las complejidades de la escritura teatral como trasfondo de los desafíos planteados a la hora de construir la puesta en escena de la obra de Federico García Lorca, Bodas de sangre. Primero, las obras se componen en clave teatral, haciendo uso de palabras que cumplen una función similar a la de la notación en un texto musical. En la partitura las notas de un compositor comunican los límites de la interpretación, tanto al músico como al director. En el caso de la palabra en un texto dramático el signo escrito tiene que cubrir más de …

Calderón’S El Médico De Su Honra: A Cubist Reading, Grace M. Burton

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

El médico de su honra de Calderón de la Barca es una obra fracturada que, en la famosa locución de Stanley Fish, siempre ha permanecido “recalcitrant to interpretation.” Mientras que Gutierre puede ser el protagonista torturado de un drama de honor que enfrenta su amor por su esposa contra las demandas de su honor, El médico no es la obra de Gutierre. El médico es la obra del rey. Este monarca, sin embargo, es en si un personaje fracturado, una figura dramática e histórica conocida como “Pedro el Cruel” y como “Pedro el Justiciero.” Pero el rey que vemos paseándose …

Theatre's Method From Early Modern To (Post) Modern: Reader, Director, Actor, Spectator/Critic, Susan L. Fischer, Grace M. Burton, Lisa Jackson-Schebetta, Esther Fernández, Bárbara Mujica, Denis Rafter, Isaac Benabu, Bruce R. Burningham

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

No abstract provided.

Casting Castaño: Sor Juana And Gender Performativity On Stage, Bruce R. Burningham

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

En diciembre de 2023, The Station Theatre en Urbana, Illinois montó una producción de Los empeños de una casa de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Dirigido por Christiana Molldrem Harkulich, este montaje utilizó la traducción al inglés de Catherine Boyle, titulada House of Desires. En el contexto de una comedia que ya explora la representación del género en la famosa escena de travestismo que hace Castaño al disfrazarse para personificar a Doña Leonor, el montaje de Harkulich destacó toda la gama de la identidad de género. De hecho, la decisión de Harkulich de elegir a Heraldo Hermosillo (quien …

Stage Clutter: An Interactive Journey Following A Theater’S Existential Ponderings, Taylor Tsiamas

Scripps Senior Theses

“Stage Clutter” is a devised, interactive theater piece that focuses on accessibility in theater, as well as questioning what theater is by deconstructing the divide between the “audience” and “performer”. The event consisted of audience participation and exploration, as well as solo performance and puppetry, along with other accessibility features. It aims to center community and joy and subvert Western theatrical “norms” in order to help decolonize theater spaces.

Reimagining The Costume: The Role Of Fashion In Adaptations Of Euripides’ "Bacchae", Clementine Farnum

Scripps Senior Theses

Euripides’ Bacchae and its reception embody the subversion of identity that codifies my 21st-century understanding of fashion. This project is interested in this subversion and examines how characters’ identities have been portrayed through the costume choices for Dionysus in ’69, The Bacchantes, and The Backanterna. Specifically, I scrutinize the transition of compliance as a physical representation of how this play is a constant struggle of excess vs. modesty, gender binaries vs. gender fluidity, and worship vs. condemnation.

My interpretations of the costumes for Dionysus, Pentheus, and the Maenads demonstrate the vital role costumes play. The costumes I …

She's More Than Just A Pretty Face: Redefining, Reimagining, And Retelling The Femme Fatale's Story In A Concert Dance Setting, Loren Mello

Scripps Senior Theses

The femme fatale remains a staple icon in the media zeitgeist – a power-hungry woman unafraid to wield her sexuality as a weapon against unsuspecting men. While this character has usually represented a socially unacceptable version of womanhood, this narrative feels particularly relevant within our current sociopolitical context – one in which repressive, “traditional” notions of womanhood and, more specifically, female sexuality are being promoted on the national stage. This thesis seeks to further develop the femme fatale character by offering insight into her personal experience of pursuing empowerment within a patriarchal structure that seeks to violently silence her, exposing …

Dance As A Collective Action: Creating Relationships, Communities, And Change, Parisha Rajbhandari

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

Dance is a place of belonging—to ourselves, to our homes, lands, peoples, cultures, music and so much more. Dance is in relation—embodying stories of communities and dreaming of shared future. Dance is an action—having the ability to enact change. In this thesis paper, I explore how our dancing bodies can create unique relationalities to each other and build sites of transformation. To situate dance as rooted in community, I propose four sites: the personal body, dance learning space, dance-making, and performance. Through these sites, I examine how dance creates belonging in our personal bodies, it adapts and shifts in response, …

Saxophone: A Deeper Understanding, Toree Fogle

Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects

The goal of this project is to provide a comprehensive background on the creation and evolution of the saxophone, as well as to examine the acoustic factors that contribute to its function. Beyond that, the project will assess differences within the saxophone family (including soprano, alto, tenor, and baritone saxophones) and between major brands (including Selmer, Yamaha, and Yanagisawa). The project will be largely constructed from previous research, in addition to personal experiences. The end result will consist of a written report that individuals-especially future saxophone students-will be able to use to expand their knowledge and understanding of the saxophone.

Past What You Can See: Innocence, Experience, And Realization In Stephen Sondheim’S Into The Woods, Brock Adam Terry

Theses and Dissertations--Music

A deeper appreciation of Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods may be achieved by examining the work under a new magnifying glass. After a synopsis of background information of the musical itself, the assertion is made that Into the Woods shows three basic stages of life that occur in a cycle: innocence, experience, and realization. This is supported by the proposition that the idea of innocence is represented by a recurring five-note motive (commonly referred to as the “bean theme”), and that the ideas of experience and realization are revealed through particular musical numbers. The overarching entity that binds the work …

Mediating Authenticity: An Ethnographic Portrait Of Experience At U.S. Popular Music Festivals, Elizabeth Navarra Varnado

Theses and Dissertations--Music

This ethnographic study of U.S. popular music festivals subverts the impression of festivals as strictly ‘presentational’ live music events by utilizing a nuanced approach that is grounded in ethnographic fieldwork, historical analysis, and participant interviews.

Interlocutors, drawn from the author’s personal network of festival attendees, musicians, and promoters, reflect on “particularly positive festival moments,” the social and emotional benefits of festivals, and the corporeality of festival aesthetics. Discourse and published media play a vital role in festival participants’ perception of the festival field and their place within it; therefore, this study draws inspiration from the tripartite focus of iconic festival …

Editorial, Manhar Bansal

Socio-Legal Review

No abstract provided.

Full Issue, Socio-Legal Review

Socio-Legal Review

No abstract provided.

Postscript, Kalyani Ramnath

Socio-Legal Review

As the earliest Editor’s Notes for the Socio-Legal Review (‘SLR’ or ‘Review’) recorded, SLR was established in 2005 with the help of a publication grant from the UK-based Modern Law Review (‘MLR’), and the support of Professors Tim Murphy and later Martin Loughlin of the London School of Economics. A chance encounter that some students had with Professor Tim Murphy, at the time the General Editor for MLR and founding Editorial Board member for the UK-based journal Law and Critique, at an academic conference at the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru (‘NLSIU’) led to active discussions around what …

Gender Wobbles But It Don’T Fall Down: Feste And The Instability Of Gender In Twelfth Night, Evangeline Thurston Wilder

International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities

Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night appears to some readers as a conservative story of gender-bending, in which all is made “right” in the end. The central character, Viola, disguises herself as Cesario in order to survive. In the final scenes of the play, this character reveals herself to have been a woman all along, and immediately enters a cis-heterosexual marriage with the Duke Orsino. To other readers, the play appears to be an early depiction of what we might now call transmasculinity. In this view, the central character is not just dressing up as a man to survive; he really is Cesario. …

Pacific Islands And The U.S. Military: The Legal Borderlands Of The Environmental Movement, Sonia Lei

Seattle University Law Review

Climate change remains an urgent, ongoing global issue that requires critical examination of institutional polluters. This includes the world’s largest institutional consumer of petroleum: the United States military. The Department of Defense (DoD) is a massive institution with little oversight, a carbon footprint spanning the globe, a budget greater than the next ten largest nations combined, and overly generous exemptions to environmental regulations and carbon reduction targets. This Comment examines how this lack of accountability and oversight plays out in the context of three Pacific islands that have hosted U.S. military bases for decades. By considering the environmental impact of …

Determining Why Before How: Crafting Mission, Vision, And Values Statements To Facilitate Undergraduate Music Theory Curriculum Reimagining, Paula Maust, Vid Smooke

Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy

The Department of Music Theory at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University recently joined many other institutions across North America in reimagining our undergraduate curriculum. Following practices more commonly found in the nonprofit sector, we began this undertaking by crafting mission, vision, and values statements. These newly articulated ideals for our department then served as a polestar, effectively guiding the rest of the curriculum review and revision. The process we effected created an environment that facilitated creative thinking while simultaneously engendering clear consensus among our colleagues.

In this paper, we—as co-chairs of the committee charged with reviewing the …

Volume 38, Various Authors

Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy

No abstract provided.

Effects Of Instructional Model Based On Coordinated Management Of Meaning And Reader’S Theatre On Japanese Oral Communication Ability, Kavita Fongsataporn, Ruedeerath Chusanachoti, Voravudhi Chirasombutti

PASAA

Language reflects how people think and behave in their culture. To have successful conversations, both language use and cultural awareness should be taken into consideration. Undeniably, Japanese grammar is different from Thai making it even harder for Thai learners to have fluent and appropriate conversations in the Japanese language. In the classroom, typically teachers often focus on grammar, leaving less time for students to practice conversation. Consequently, beginner learners often miss cultural details in conversations and are unable to communicate effectively. Thus, it is important for teachers to immerse students in the Japanese culture to improve their speaking skills and …

Bfa Art History, 2024-25, Arkansas State University - Jonesboro

Bachelor of Arts and others

No abstract provided.