University Professors Program Theses

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This is a collection of undergraduates honors theses written for the University Professors Program (UNI). UNI was a program within Boston University that granted degrees in fields that combined, bridged, or fell between established intellectual disciplines. Consulting closely with faculty, students designed their own cross-disciplinary programs of study that often transcended those of any School or College at Boston University. The program was phased out in May 2011 and was superseded by a university-wide honors program.

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Consciousness is therapy: ways of viewing schizophrenia and their effects on prognosis
(Boston University, 2002) Zaki, Jamil
Mundane yet miraculous: cultural elements in the rise of modern economy (an analysis of the protectionist/free trade controversy in the United States)
(Boston University, 1997) Tamm, Peter L.
Controlled freedom: perspectives on the impact of governmental censorship and regulation on the television medium in the United States and Chile
(Boston University, 1996) Ramirez, Kelly
Emerging network structures: applications of network theory to social movements and their opponents
(Boston University, 2004) O'Neil-Ortiz, Daniel J.
Putting the social back in socialism: developing a welfare system in modern China
(Boston University, 2005) Matherne, Lauren
Sociology in America: why and how five sociologists became sociologists
(Boston University, 2005) Leach, Katrina
An analytical bridge: illustrating cultural divide and universal nature through a comparative study of Jungian psychology and Patanjali yoga
(Boston University, 1997) Karpovsky, Alexander
Hieronimo in The Waste Land
(Boston University, 2005) Irish, Bradley J.
Between summer vacations
(Boston University, 2002) Hyman, Rachel
The hope and lifetime learning credits: the political sociology of federal financial aid for undergraduate education
(Boston University, 2000) Gormbley, Edward Z.
Hematological malignancies: the possible role of BCL11A
(Boston University, 2004) Gorkin, David Uscher
Quintilian on the emotions
(Boston University, 2005) Gitner, Adam
Cultural transmission in Tibetan refugee schools in Nepal
(Boston University, 2004) Getson, Stephanie
The economic orientation of Islam
(Boston University, 2005) Gallagher, Brendan J.
Blacks, Jews, and Jewish identity
(Boston University, 1996) Fried, Talia
Throughout the twentieth century in the US, Jews have been disproportionately involved in promoting the welfare of Black people. Though this involvement can be largely explained by the historical progressiveness of Jews, the moral precepts of Judaism, and demographic factors pertaining to Jews, it should also be seen as a function of contemporary Jewish American assimilation issues. Many Jews who were active in the civil rights movement expressed dismay and confusion about their Jewish identity, and fulfilled their desire for a spiritually and ideologically meaningful community by fighting for the rights of another ethnic group--African Americans. Following the rift between Blacks and Jews at the end of the 1960s, many Jewish civil rights activist were forced to restructure their feelings about Black equality and Jewish identity. The ways in which activists did so reaffirms the thesis that pro-Black activism is of emotional--not purely political-- relevance to Jews, and is deeply intertwined with issues of Jewish identity.
Dance and dynamism: reflections on a summer with the Martin Dancers
(Boston University, 1999) Foster, Jennifer Frances
Les Franco-Americains de la nouvelle Angleterre: a new Yankee culture
(Boston University, 1996) Fortin, Jeffrey
A sociological study of the formation of the Romantic identity in France
(Boston University, 2005) Costello, Lauren Michelle
From malinche to maquilas: women's changing place in the imaginary of the Mexican nation
(Boston University, 2004) Chapman, Dasha Ariel
Holden Caulfield's crisis during individuation: a psychological examination of J.D. Salinger's The Catcher In The Rye
(Boston University, 2005) Barke, Jessica Amber