Electronic thesis
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Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 885 Collections and/or Records:
Sweetener, 2020
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Identifier: sw_2020spring_thomas_brianna.pdf
Overview
"SWEETENER is an hour-long limited series that focuses on themes of self-awareness, familial bonds, and corruption. This story blends the darkness of its deadly subject matter with humor to create an irreverent and cheeky take on the popular crime-solving genre. Taking inspiration from many of today's procedural dramas, legal thrillers, and women-led comedies, this script combines elements from all of those genres and wraps them into a comedic murder-mystery." -- Abstract
Dates:
2020
Swimming with Stones, 2022
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Identifier: vm_2022spring_yang_amber.pdf
Overview
"Swimming with Stones is a narrative short film about the subject of grief. The story follows a woman's journey going through grief and reliving the memories on the anniversary of her daughter's death. She comes to a realization that unloading the weight doesn't mean leaving the memories behind. This film will have a heavy emphasis on cinematography. Through that, the goal of this film is to reach anyone who has or is currently experiencing the process of grief. It is to offer some insight...
Dates:
2022
Swipe right : a woman's field guide to dating apps, 2018
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Identifier: cw_2018spring_youssouf_carly.pdf
Overview
"A companion guide for people who are curious about the vast and complex environment of dating apps. The text introduces daters to common app language, formats, users, and other cultural constructs in the style of a biological field guide. It mixes field research with memoir to present an educational yet intimate inspection of this environment. The purpose of the text is not to argue whether this atmosphere is good or bad, but to make sure potential users are aware of the unique intricacies...
Dates:
2018
T-Shirt in Winter, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023fall_cushing_christie.pdf
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"T-Shirt in Winter, a mystery and suspense novel written in screenplay format, tells the story of a stranger who enters a small southern town centered around a cemetery. A literary blend of southern gothic and film noir, the book examines identity, individuality, authority, and oppression, while probing society’s propensity for snap judgements and stereotyping." -- Abstract
Dates:
2023
TaiL, 2023
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Identifier: vm_2023spring_lee_yichien.pdf
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"TaiL is an 18 mins body horror-comedy about a wacky woman's journey to self-discovery with a penis stuck inside her vagina." -- Abstract
Dates:
2023
Take as needed and other stories, 2016
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Identifier: cw_2016spring_sears_hannah.pdf
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"A collection of linked short stories that centers on the lives of a cast of characters in small-town Texas."--Abstract.
Dates:
2016
"Take Your Hoodie Off, We Can't See Who You Are": Reflections on a Social Justice-Themed Playmaking Project with Eighth Grade Students, 2022
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Identifier: te_2022spring_vaughn_megan.pdf
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"Since 2020, when COVID-19 began sweeping through the country, students have had a lot of changes surrounding their education and curriculum. They've had to navigate different forms of instruction, ever-changing mask mandates, and pooled testing. Due to these circumstances, lots of decisions regarding their education were made for them. For my Thesis Project, I facilitated a gentle Playmaking process with an underserved, urban, eight-grade classroom, to explore how creating a play based...
Dates:
2022
Taking Back Magic, 2021
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Identifier: sf_2021spring_heatherington_patricia.pdf
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"'Taking Back Magic' is a supernatural drama that uses corrupted witch hunters to examine how far both jealousy and hatred of the misunderstood can go, and that by partnering with the "other" can work through these issues. After learning about a group of witch hunters taking witches' magic for their own personal use, one witch hunter seeks out a witch to help stop them. Magic provides a visual way to tell this story and brings back a reminder of past witch hunts, that have come to mean an...
Dates:
2021
Tales from the Junk Drawer, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_twombly_brandon.pdf
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"From the height of absurdity to the starkest reality, these stories probe the stranger sides of the human experience. The first three stories are a satirical connected triptych, examining white privilege, cultural appropriation, and the search for higher meaning. The last three stories are a miscellany linked spiritually and thematically in which family and friendship are put to the test in the face of obsession, stagnation, change, and loss. We travel through the stories of a Megachurch...
Dates:
2021
Talk of The Town "Pilot" and First Gens "Pilot", 2021
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Identifier: sf_2021spring_assaf_bianca.pdf
Overview
"For my MFA Thesis project, I have submitted two pilots. Talk of the Town is a 60-minute dramedy set in the fictional town Hillborn in 1840's Hampshire, England. Adeline Thompson is a thief and con artist posing as the long-lost relative of a great lord. However, the arrival of an old friend risks her exposure. However, Oliver Wright, an unsophisticated young man on the verges of society who aspires to be a serious journalist, may just shift her fortune. Together they will pen an anonymous...
Dates:
2021
Talking to strangers, 2018
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Identifier: cw_2018spring_sims_anna.pdf
Overview
"Connect to the world around you and realize the enormous potential in talking to strangers Everyday, random encounters really can change lives, when you make them happen the right way and leverage the connection at the other end. Talk to Strangers explains how to stand out and tap the potential of others by taking notice of who is standing alongside you on the bank line, the latte pickup point, or the ticket counter at the airport. David Topus' life-changing message is that we should...
Dates:
2018
Talking To The Wind, 2019
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Identifier: vm_2019spring_sawant_akshaya.pdf
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"Talking To The Wind is a feature length documentary about the aftermath of a three year long man-made drought in Maharashtra, India that resulted in mass suicides - numbers reaching 1100 per year. Using a poetic, essayistic and observational approach, the film unfolds the reasons behind these farmer suicides - decades of exploitation of groundwater for short term gains and societal pressures of marrying off their daughters with huge amounts of dowry. Intimate and eyeopening, Talking To The...
Dates:
2019
Taming Flesh, 2020
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Identifier: pf_2020fall_hamilton_michael.pdf
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"This thesis project is an excerpt from the novel in progress "Taming Flesh". With a blend of horror, paranormal, and fantasy genres, the goal of this novel is to provide an entertaining commentary on gender roles and toxic masculinity. In an alternate 1920s America, beef has been banned and is considered holy. It's also believed to be the source of monstrous transfigurations only experienced by men. Despite abstinence from beef, Hedon has developed a set of horns and his skin has turned...
Dates:
2020
Tapped Out, 2022
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Identifier: sw_2022spring_herr_melody.pdf
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"Inspired by real-life events, TAPPED OUT, is a drama series designed for cable or streaming platforms. About navigating the seasons of our lives with grace and humor, it explores themes common to my body of work, including family, mental illness, and suicide. With a diverse cast, it dives into the often-overlooked effects on family members after a loved one's suicide attempt, and illuminates the chaos that ensues. TAPPED OUT is a human perspective about living with and navigating mental...
Dates:
2022
Tara, 2023
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Identifier: sf_2023spring_silver_julia.pdf
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"TARA is a feature-length film designed for streaming platforms that tells the story of a young woman who will do anything to get back into the limelight. Set in the year 2010, this Coming-of-Age Comedy follows self-centered Tara, who has recently been kicked off a reality television show after committing a horrendous act. Forced to move back home with her sympathetic but overbearing stepmother, Tara sets her sights on making over a lonely, unwitting teenager in the hopes of becoming the...
Dates:
2023
Tara, 2019
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Identifier: cw_2019fall_somani_prerna dilip.pdf
Overview
"Badrang is creative reinterpretation of the legend of Panchkanya, as mentioned in a Sanskrit shloka of obscure origins. This is how it goes: ahalyā draupadī kunti tārā mandodarī tathā । pañcakanyāḥ smarennityaṃ mahāpātakanāśinīḥ ॥ (Ahalya, Draupadi, Kunti, Tara and Mandodari One should forever remember the Panchakanya who are the destroyers of great sins)
Three of these women, Ahalya, Tara, and Mandodari are mentioned in the Ramayana, while Kunti and Draupadi are heroines in the epic of...
Dates:
2019
Teaching the Stanislavski system of acting to young people : a course design, 2015
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Identifier: te_2015fall_wright_adam.pdf
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"A course designed to teach the Stanislavski System of acting to young actors with little or no training. The course is structured as a first year 15 week college course with a lesson plan for each week. Lesson are designed to for both first year college students and high school students." --Abstract.
Dates:
2015
Teaching visual scene displays (VSDs) to enhance storytelling by an adult with severe nonfluent aphasia, 2017
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Identifier: cd_2017summer_sorice_brittany.pdf
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"Visual scene displays (VSDs) incorporate personally relevant photographs arranged on a communication device to support conversation by people with chronic aphasia. This study employed a multiple baseline design to explore the effects of teaching a VSD on storytelling by a person with moderate aphasia (PWA) with concomitant impairments." --Abstract.
Dates:
2017
Teen Nun and Shady Heights, 2021
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Identifier: sf_2021spring_ortiz_edlin.pdf
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"Thirteen-year-old Betty Garcia has just moved to Anaheim, CA. It's Betty's first day at the local Catholic school, to Betty's chagrin -- she's Agnostic. Betty is determined to dislike everything about school, but when she meets and quickly develops a crush on ultra-cool Roxana, things start looking up. After Roxana almost catches Betty staring at her, Betty hides behind her textbook and reads about Sor Juana De La Cruz, a 17th century nun who defied the church clergy in her teens. Soon...
Dates:
2021
Tell Me a Story: Using Story Circles and Applied Theatre to Foster Community, Connection, Empathy and Self-Expression, 2021
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Identifier: te_2021fall_bergstrom_melissa.pdf
Overview
""You can see in people's bodies their...resistance at the beginning of a story circle. By the end, their bodies have released something." -Robbie McCauley "In times of crisis, "educators are 'second responders'—helping make sense of things as we go along and after." -Bob Colby This project explores how story circles and applied theatre exercises can be used to foster connection and community between a group of participants previously unknown to one another, and offer opportunities for...
Dates:
2021