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Evaluating College Students’ Health Literacy And Its Effects On Their Perceptions Of Information Concerning Mask-Wearing In The Covid-19 Pandemic, Hannah Ketchum

Scholar Week 2016 - present

BACKGROUND: Mask-wearing was a controversial and polarizing phenomenon during the COVID-19 pandemic. Beliefs concerning mask-wearing differed, depending on sources of information concerning the pandemic, levels of health literacy, political leaning, demographics, or other factors. This project attempted to connect college students’ level of health literacy to their understanding of and adherence to mask-wearing in the COVID-19 pandemic. There is a gap in research connecting health literacy to understanding information concerning pandemics, and an even bigger lack of studies conducted that relate college students’ health literacy to their perception of illnesses or pandemics. It is important to understand the impact of …

Do Your Words Portray Or Betray Your Values? The Rhetorical Choices We Make Every Time We Speak, Beth Patrick-Trippel, Rachel Schramm, Jazmin Rangle, Becca Williams, Kaitlyn Altmann

Scholar Week 2016 - present

Dr. Beth Patrick-Trippel presents the theoretical constructs used by all four students as well as a brief explanation of the nature of the research being done.

Rachel Schramm: Picturing Race and Sports on the Big Screen. What can we learn from “Remember the Titans” and “Glory Road” using Richard Weaver’s Ideas of the Ideal?

Jazmin Rangle: Instagram, social media and the Rhetoric of Kim Kardashian-West. Can the rhetoric of Richard Weaver keep up with the Kardashians?

Becca Williams: What value messages cause us to laugh at Dwight’s awkwardness in “The Office?” Can we understand our own rhetorical …