Collection preserves theses and dissertations approved by the Jack N. Averitt College of Graduate Studies (COGS) in partial fulfillment of requirements for the award of masters and doctoral degrees at Georgia Southern University. Theses and dissertations approved prior to 2007 are available here as well as through the Legacy Theses and Dissertations (1964-2006) collection.
Student resources for submitting theses and dissertations for approval are available here. Theses and dissertations may not be modified or removed from this collection without approval of COGS.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2002
Student Perceptions and Use of Electronic Financial Aid Service Delivery, Kerri L. Chapman
An Investigation of Athletic Identity Among Interscholastic and Collegiate Athletes, Jamie L. Childs
Fitzgerald Revisited: A Feminist Reexamination of Tender is the Night, Lydia Moore Chipman
Good Angel of the Boys in Blue: Eleanor Kinzie Gordon's Wartime Summer, 1898, Jacqueline E. Clancy
The Relationship between Principals' Knowledge of Disability Laws and Their Disciplinary Practices in Georgia Elementary Schools, Cynthia Way Claxton
Implementation of the Georgia Mentor Teacher Program: Perceptions of Principals and Teacher Support Specialist Mentors, Janice Dohn Clay
An Investigation of the Effects of Mental Imagery on Self-Efficacy among Golfers Performing a Putting Task, Danny O. Daigle
Effects of Grazing by Feral Horses on Dune and Salt Marsh Vegetation at Cumberland Island, Georgia, Peter Andrews Dolan
The Relationship between the Levels of Character Education Implementation, the Principals' Personal Characteristics, and the Principals' Perceptions of Character Education in Georgia Middle Schools, Mary Frances Oglesby Ellison
Athletic Training Students' Perceptions and Use of Sport Psychology Services, Andrea C. Fulgham
Listening to Recent High School Dropouts and the Need to Reconceptualize School Violence Prevention, Beatrice A. Geddie
Trade Winds: A Critical Narrative of 'Black' Caribbean Immigrant Women Teachers, Lorraine S. Gilpin
Beginning Principals' Self Perceptions of Administrative Task Proficiencies in Georgia Elementary Schools, Mildred C. Henderson
Organizing Learning and Practice to Enhance the Acquisition of Psychomotor Skills in Athletic Training, Ansley Y. Hendrick
Effects of Plant Damage, Herbivore-Associated Cues, and Learning on Foraging Behavior of a Parasitoid Wasp, Tiffany A. Hodges
Perceptions of Isolation among Georgia High School Principals, Molly Parish Howard
A Power Scheduling Software Package for Planetary Habitats, Gary W. Huband
A Narrative Inquiry of One Homeschooling Family in Rural Georgia, Mary S. Hurst
Educational Administrators' Perceptions of the use of School Performance Profiles to Improve Student Performances, Eleanor Jean Janufka
Black Students on a White Campus: The Relationship between Student Group Involvement and Feelings of Isolation, Jasmine Domonique Johnson
Language Barriers: An Examination of Brian Friel's Use of Language in Faith Healer and Translations, June B. Joyner
The Level of Involvement of Georgia's Principals in Providing Inclusive Special Education Services, Marie Penkunas Klofenstine
The Simple Parallel Machine Spam, Wesley Milan Nathaniel Lee
A Web Based Remote Doctor's Office System, Hongtao Liao
Reasons for Collaboration Among European and African American Greek Councils, James David Louk
The Effects of Sex, Race, and Family Structure on Perceptions of Children, Coretta Lauran Lucas
Policy Implications Concerning Distance Education as Perceived by Faculty at Public Two-Year Colleges in Georgia, Julia McDonald Lucas
Behavioral and Reproductive Aspects of Captive Maxwell's Duiker (Cephalophus mawellii) Husbandry, Janet McNeill MacKinnon
A Comparison of College Students Decisions to Join New Colonies of Fraternities, Opposed to Established Chapters, Sara Christine Mayer
The Label "Gifted:" A Critical Analysis, Linda Ann Hollis McCall
A Jigsaw Life, Michael P. McDonald
No One Left Behind...For the Most Part: Developmental Education in the Academy and Society, Michael Thomas Mills
A Narrative Inquiry of the Accelerated Reader Program: Contributions, Concerns, and Future Directions, Carolyn Lefkoff Moore
Costs of Desire: How Sexual Labeling in School Influences Life Choices of Women, Regina Moore-Rahimi
14,000 and 18, Kathryn Amanda Morrison
Studies of Susceptibility of Broad-Headed Skinks (Eumeces laticeps) and Laboratory Mice (Mus musculus) to Strain MI-2 of Borrelia burgdorferi and Vector Competence of the Tick Ixodes scapularis, Brian Patrick Murrell
Issues in the Captive Management of Hartebeest (Alcelaphus buselaphus), Tiffany Lynn Neu
Creating Space for the Female Adolescent Voice: The Role of Gender on Mathematics Achievement and Career Choices, Elizabeth Oliver
An Experimental Investigation of Life History Variation in Native and Introduced Populations of Silene latifolia, Thomas D. Parrish
A Descriptive Analysis of Women Public School Superintendents in Georgia, Charlotte Holland Pipkin
The Challenges and Successes of African American Women Principals in Georgia: A Qualitative Profile of Lived Experiences, Sylathea Renea Prescott-Hutchins
Policy Implications of Intellectual Property at Public Institutions of Higher Education, Diana Williams Sanders
The Road Seldom Taken: Status of Women in Mathematics Departments in Colleges and Universities in Georgia, Donna Saye
More than "Once upon a Time:" Fiction as a Bridge to Knowing, Neal Saye
The Role of Mucus in the Ultraviolet Radiation Protection of Porites astreoides, Stephanie Ann Schopmeyer
Curriculum and Resistance: Exploring Possibilities for Transformative Teaching, Vicki L. Shaw Albritton
Foraging Habitat and Reproductive Success of Red-Cockaded Woodpecker (Picoides borealis) Groups in Southeastern Georgia, Eric William Spadgenske
Relationships Between Gender and Teachers' Perceptions of Principal Effectiveness in Georgia Schools, Renee Banks Stanley
Factor Levels Associated with Fear of Failure Among Age-Group Competitive Swimmers, Eric E. Stefanski
Struggling High School Readers' Responses to a Literature-Rich Curriculum, Fran Harrison Stephens
Principals' Preferences for Developmentally Appropriate and Traditional Practices in Georgia's Prekindergarten Program, Deanna K. Stoddard
Messages for Girls: Looking at the Representation of Women's Short Fiction in American Literature High School Anthologies, Aurelia Ramage Tippett
Tina McElroy Ansa's Exploration of Self, Gayle F. Tremble
Freire and First Grade: In Pursuit of Generative Themes, Susan Wyllys Wallace
The Motivational Stories of How Women become Scientists: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Inquiry, Sandra White Watson
The Effects of Human Capital, Social Capital, and the Ethnic Enclave Economy on the Earnings of Immigrants (The Case of the Mariel Cuban Émigrés), Todd MacEgan West
Perspectives on Black - White Interracial Relationships in the South, Celeste Andria Wheat
Superintendents' Perceptions Regarding the Impact of Class Size Reduction on School Facility Planning in Georgia, Andrea Jones Williams
The Selection of Private Schools in Georgia: Perceptions of Parents and Principals, Victor D. Wolfe
The Perception of CEOs and CIOs in Regard to Planning and Information Systems Success in Higher Education in the Southeastern United States, Howard Chambless Woodard
Mining Functional Dependencies with Degrees of Satisfaction in Databases, Fang Xie
Georgia High School Principals' Perceptions of Inclusion, James Timothy Yarborough
Theses/Dissertations from 2001
The Associations of Competitive Trait Anxiety and Personal Control with Burnout in Sport, Mark W. Aoyagi
Cooperating Teachers' Perceptions of the Collaborative, Standards-Based Professional Block of the Secondary Education Program at Georgia Southern University, Mary Theresa Mallard Bennett
High School Athletes' Perceptions of Sport Psychology and Preference for Services, Lindsey C. Blom
East Meets West: Desperately Seeking David Dean O'Keefe from Savannah to Yap, Janet B. Butler
Prolactin Levels in Adult Rats Following Equivalent Exposure to Either the Open Field or Restraint and the Open Field, Keisha Delores Butler
A Comparative Study of Selected Georgia Elementary Principals' Perceptions of Environmental Knowledge, Joyce League Campbell
Georgia Middle School Principals' Awareness of Gang Activity in Their Schools, Sandra Lynne Deal Carraway
Policies and Procedures Used by Principals in Rural Southern Georgia in the Provision of Least Restrictive Environment for Students with Disabilities, Bette Callaway Clark
What Principals Do to Minimize the Negative Effects of the Incompetent Teacher, Georgia S. Collins
Superintendents' Perceptions of Educational Finance in Georgia, Samuel Warren Cruse
"Hired Guns:" The Tools and Techniques Used by Republican Political Consultants, Heather M. Cutchens
"Beat Your Plowshares into Swords" The Training of Confederate Soldiers in the State of Georgia, 1861-1862, Sonia Lynn Dickey
Women in Public Middle School Administration in Georgia: A Feminist Analysis of the Perceptions of Women in Power, Karen L. Doty
Reproductive Parameters of Nesting Caretta caretta on Georgia's Barrier Islands, K. Kristina Drake
Racial and Gender-Based Dynamics in Captivity Narratives and Slave Narratives by Women, Pamela A. Ferrara
Self-Enhancement Styles Sorting Out Conflicting Evidence on the Effects of Self-Enhancing, Jason D. Fors
Detection and Prevalence of Wolbachia within the Tick Ambyomma americanum and Fleas (Siphonaptera) in Southeast Georgia, Christopher H. Gorham
Chaos Theory and Its Application to Leisure Service Organizations, James M. Gould
Contributing Factors to the Attrition of Honors Eligible University Students: A Qualitative Research Study, Marilyn Shuff Hale
The Personal and Professional Backgrounds of Georgia's Female High School Principals, Marjorie H. Hamilton
Putting Critical Theory into Practice through Action Research, Josephine Bush Hanschke
An EJB-CORBA Parallel Image Processing System, Di He
The Relationship between Middle School Students' Level of Character Development and Their Behavior, Academic Achievement, and Attendance, Margaret A. Banks Hightower
The Reliability and Validity of the Pacer for 3rd and 4th Grade Males, Jennifer A. Hinely
Role Perceptions of Long-Term Georgia Curriculum Directors, Donovan Evans Hodges
Retracing the Savannah River Portion of John Muir's Thousand Mile Walk: An Interpretive Regional Study Suggesting Curriculum for Sustainability, Kathryn Ann Richardson Jones
The Spirit of Pittman: An Ethnography of the Laboratory School on the Site of Georgia Southern University, 1920s--1990s, Rhoda Beth Nicholson Joyner
It Is Not a Night to Die, Vlora Krasniqi
The Path to Equilibrium: Melville, Emerson, and Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, Ingrid D. Lelos
Computer Telephony Programming in Java, Changyan Liu
Eastern Mind/Western Eyes: An Asian Artist's Search for Personal Imagery While Living in a Western Culture, Yousha Liu
The Next Best Thing: Bottlefeeding Culture and the Ladies' Home Journal, Julie Garlen Maudlin
Georgia Elementary School Principals Perceptions of the Ideal and Actual Role of the Assistant Principal, Darrel Simon May
Stress Levels of Student Athletic Trainers Compared to Non-Athletic Training Students, Rebecca J. McVey
The Role of Pesticides in the Development of Childhood Leukemia, Lydia Leslie Mearse
The Prevalence of Human Granulocytic Ehrlichiae in Ixodes scapularis Ticks in Southeastern Georgia, Heather Anne Merten
