Project Title: An Ungraduated Graduate Experience
Project Summary: A collection of papers, newsreports, articles, and drawings that Glenda Claborne produced as a graduate student at the University of Arizona from August 1997 to May 1999. The collection is set within that timeframe and within the structural elements of the university.
Project Contents:
Go to: [Jour 205 ] [Jour 539] [Comm 509] [Comm 620] [Comm 515 ] [Comm 610 ] [Comm 660 ] [Comm 576 ] [Soc 500b ] [Art 205]
- Introduction
- Fall 1997
- Jour 205 - Reporting the News
- Professor: Jim Patten
- Grade: C
- Sample news reports:
- Jour 539 - Ethics and the News Media
- Professor: Jacqueline Sharkey
- Grade: A
- Paper:
- Coverage on Coverage: Journalists Debate Their Role in Public Life (pdf file, 44.6 KB)
- Spring 1998
- Comm 509 - Theories of Mass Communication
- Professor: John Sherry, Ph.D.
- Grade: A
- Papers:
- Media Violence: A Summary of Research on Selected Areas (pdf file, 99.0 KB)
- Media Violence Research: Should we continue or should we abandon it? (A response paper)
- Media Violence and Moral Development (pdf file, 53.5 KB)
- Comm 620 - Communication Theory II
- Professor: Michael Burgoon, Ph.D.
- Grade: C
- Papers:
- From the Outside Looking In: Seeing Persuasion Research Problems Through the Tension Between Modernism and Postmodernism (pdf file, 46 KB)
- Paper 1:Controversial Findings/Perspectives in Social Influence Research
- Paper 2:Argument for persuasion research: Reconsidering fixed/traditional structures in individuals and societies in understanding social and behavioral processes.
- Paper 3:Persuasion Research and Alcohol Public Policy.
- Paper 4:Applying persuasion research on social problems. (Rather, reflecting on health and faith billboard messages and how these can be used for alcohol prevention ad campaigns.)
- Fall 1998
- Comm 515 - Nonverbal Communication
- Professor: Chris Segrin, Ph.D.
- Grade: B
- Paper:
- Comm 610 - Communication Theory I
- Professor: Judee K. Burgoon, Ph.D.
- Grade: B
- Paper:
- Comm 660 - Research Methodologies I
- Professor: Michael Burgoon, Ph.D.
- Grade: C
- Paper:
- Commm/Soc 576 - Field and Observational Methods
- Professors: Calvin Morrill, Ph.D. & David Snow, Ph.D.
- Grade: A
- Papers:
- Stint as a columnist for The Arizona Daily Wildcat
- Editor: Mary Fan
- Articles:[links to old archives of the Daily Wildcat]
- Remembering Mangelsdorf
- Looking out for the little guy
- The legal and decent thing to do
- Independence and a colonial legacy
- Why not a national mastubation?
- The road nearly not taken
- Parking choices and chances
- Dare the road to discovery
- Dealing with race
- Following up on race
- Peace agreements promise hope
- Why cockfighters are crying fowl
- No sense in attacking the city
- Keep up the pressure on Nike
- Spring 1999
- Soc 500b - Sociological Theory
- Professor: Albert J. Bergesen, Ph.D.
- Grade: B
- Papers:
- On Erving Goffman's "Asylum"
- On George H. Mead's "Mind, Self, and Society" (Part 1)
- On George H. Mead's "Mind, Self, and Society" (Part 2)
- On George H. Mead's "Mind, Self, and Society" (Part 3)
- On Hans Joas' Theory of the Creativity of Action
- On Steven Pinker's Language Instinct
- On Derek Bickerton's Language and Species
- On Noam Chomsky, Steven Pinker, and Derek Bickerton on Self and Self-Reflexivity
- On Ferdinand de Saussure's Course in General Linguistics
- On J.M. Blaut's Take on Geographical Diffusion and Eurocentric History
- On A.G. Frank's Reorient: Global Economy in the Asian Age
- On Weber's and Marx's relevance in light of what we know today
- On parts to wholes or wholes to parts in theorizing about the social order
- A theological reconsideration of the deep ecology model of social order
- Art 205 - Figure Drawing I
- Professor: Alfred Quiroz
- Grade: A
- Artwork