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 1974
Integration of Communications Center/Message Center Functions within United States Army Tactical Command Signal Units, Joseph George Mikula
The Theme of Deliverance in the Poetry of James Dickey, John Atys Mills
Prey-Scented Water Reinforcement in the King Snake (Lampropeltis getulus floridana), Thomas Van Morgan
Comparative Histology and Histochemistry of the Male Genital Accessory Glands of Dermacentor variabilis (Say and Argas radiatus (Railliet), Richard W. Murphy
The 1907 Georgia Prohibition Act, Max O'Neal
A Developing Self as Revealed through the Royalty Imagery in the Poems and Letters of Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Bailey Shurbutt
Comparative Cost Analysis of Implementing Computer Assisted Instruction on General Purpose Computers, Minicomputers, or Time-Shared Systems, William Henderson Trueheart Junior
A Comparison of Black First Graders' Listening Comprehension of a Peer-Prepared Story Told in Black English or Standard English, Arthur J. Weaver Jr.
Eye Safety in Educational Institutions in the State of Georgia, Scott H. Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 1973
The Awakening to Reality in British War Poetry, 1789-1945, Dennis Aughtry
Two Objective Techniques for Measuring Characteristics of an Instructor's Grading Practices, Roger Allan Bell
The Demoralization of an Army: The Vietnam Experience, Raymond E. Bess
A Validation of the 600, 900 and 1200 Yard Run-Walk Tests, Judson Leo Biasiotto
Recall as a Function of Interpolated Task Difficulty, Robert Frederick Carlson
Comparisons of Fitness Levels and Personality Traits of College Freshman Experiencing Varying Degrees of High School Physical Education and Sport Participation, Geoffrey C. B. Elder
The Satiric Techniques of George Orwell, Teresa Anne Elder
Flannery O'Connor's Humor: A Study of Background and Approach, Stanley O. Hamby
Test-Retest and Inter-Analyst Reliability of the Automated Readability Index (ARI), Flesch Shading Ease Score, and the Fog Count, Robert Derald Hartley
The John Birch Society: An American Enigma, Sherry D. Hearn
The United States Army Southeastern Signal School Data Communications Terminal Specialist Course Prerequisite Criterion, Reese Preston Herron Jr.
Modification of the Behavior of an Autistic Child, Thomas Harold Hodgson
A Study Designed to Identify Attitudes toward an All-Volunteer Army, Gerald J. Lazzaro
Invisible No More: Black American Scientists and Inventors, John L. Mason
Effect of Four Fatigue Levels on Performance and Learning of a Novel Dynamic Balance Skill, Dennis Michael Pack
Proboscipedia, A Homeotic Mutant in Aedes aegypti (L.) (Diptera: Culicidae), John Roach Roberts Jr.
Black Midas: Arthur George Gaston, Patricia Thompson Stelts
Theses/Dissertations from 1972
Validation of Automated Readability Index for Use with Peer-Prepared Adult Reading Materials, Patricia Tanner Anderson
Richardson's Use of Clothing in Pamela as a Symbol Relative to Virtue, John Robert Brewer
John C. Calhoun, Secretary of War, 1817-1825, Arthur L. Freeland
The Jordan Canonical Form, Richard A. Freeman
Thematic Patterns in the Seasonal Poetry of Emily Dickinson: A Study of Explicit and Implicit Motifs in Selected Poems, Jacqueline Fellows Frier
Vision versus Touch in a Study of Size Discrimination, Using Magnification and Sex as Variables, Joseph Thomas Greene Jr.
The Perception of Depth as a Function of Four Conditions of Outline and Four Conditions of Texture, Edwin L. Haire
Release from Proactive Inhibition as a Function of SAT Verbal Level, Gerald Howard
Effects of Audience and Anxiety Level on Performance and Learning of a Complex, Gross Motor Skill by College Women, Vann Quincey Hutchinson
The Jews of Savannah 1733-1860, Esther Raines Mallard
Reinforcer Effects in Multiple Fixed Interval Behavior, Gerald A. Mayes
Response Rate Controlled by Two Liquid Reinforcers in a Multiple Schedule, Randall Lee Morton
Dogmatism and Sensory Discrimination: An Empirical Investigation, Keith Pase Jr.
Validation of Ten Methods for Determining a Representative Reaction Time Score, John Kenneth Purcell
Group Shaping of a Coloring Response in Retardates, Cynthia Corr Smith
The Effects of a Slide Presentation of Georgia Southern College and Its Recreation Curriculum on Selected High School Students for Future Recruitment Purposes, Linda Beth Tucker
The Refractory Response of the White Swiss Strain of Mus musculus to Infection with Taenia taeniaeformis, Hugh Michael Turner
Theses/Dissertations from 1971
A Comparison of Auto-Shaping with Operant Shaping in the Acquisition of a Bar Press Response, Charles Buren Altman
Release from Proactive Inhibition as a Function of Pleasantness and Unpleasantness of Encoded Verbal Materials, Fulton Cooper
Validation of the Automated Readability Index for Use with Technical Materials, Leroy John Delionbach
A Comparison of a Programmed and a Non-Programmed Text on Evolution for the Fifth Grade, Robert Purdy Fishburne Jr.
The Dodge Commission and the Root Reforms, Jamie R. Hendrix
The Identification and Analysis of Sources which Influenced Georgia Southern College Students Enrolled as Recreation Majors to Select This Field of Study, Phillip Madison Hodges
The Short Stories of Robert Penn Warren: A Critical Analysis, Nancy Humma
The Effect of a Remotivation Technique on Nine Selected Nursing Home Patients Diagnosed as Confused, Claudia Tucker McNair
Keep 'Bama White, Ann Mitchell
The Effects of Constant versus Variable Delay of Reinforcement on Running Speed during Non-Reinforced Trials, Alynn Jay Plaisted
A Demonstration of Auto Shaping in Institutionalized Retarded Children, Paul Douglas Watson
Theses/Dissertations from 1970
Studies in the Wood Anatomy of Elliottia racemosa Muhl., and Three Closely Related Genera, Kalyan P. Basu
Internal Improvements in Georgia in the Pre-Railroad Era, 1817-1833, Hoyt Paul Canady
Intestinal Helminthisasis of Sigmodon hispidus as Related to Season and Host Age, Sex and Reproductive Status, Herbert McCammon Henry
Population Studies of Ectoparasites of the Cotton Rat, Sigmodon hispidus, Louise Greene Henry
Auto-Shaping in the Albino Rat, Stephen Wooten Hollomon
T. S. Eliot: Symbolist and Synthesist, Wendell L. Johnston
A Study of the Life and Works of Harry Stillwell Edwards, Doris Lanier
Occurance of Polyploidy in the Intestine of the Mosquito, Aedes triseriatus (Say), Richard Lee Osburn
Verticality as the Cue for "Bigger" in Haptic and Visual Tasks, Shirley Wood Osgood
Ralph McGill and Negro Rights The Evolution of a Man and a Movement, Richard Alan Pfund
E. A. Robinson as a Critic of Society: A Study of the Letters and Shorter Poems, George W. Strange
The Effect of Social Reinforcement on a Material Reward in Culturally-Deprived Kindergarten Children, Michelle Theriault
The Effects of Early Handling on Behavior in the Albino Rat, William Reed Tucker
Neville Chamberlain and the Anglo-Italian Agreement, Florence R. Wallace
Theses/Dissertations from 1969
The Political Influence of the Whig Party in Georgia, 1834-1848, John Richard Boje
A Floristic and Edaphic Study of Charles C. Harrold Preserve, William H. Bridges Jr.
Walter Barnard Hill: Constructive Southern American, Mary Kathryn Mathis
German Liberalism and the Revolution of 1848, Stephen Samuel Peisher
Georgia Baptists Organization and Division: 1772-1840, Emerson Proctor
Biotelemetry of the Heart Rate of the California Ground Squirrel, Citellus beecheyi, Lorane Atwell Williams Jr.
Theses/Dissertations from 1968
Georgians and the War of 1812, Billy Lee Akins
The War Department's Role in the Army Reorganization of 1920, Frederick W. Brogdon
A Study in the Background of the Fisher-King Myth and Its Application by T. S. Eliot in The Waste Land, F. Tye Engram
Claude H. Van Tyne and the National Security League 1914-1920, James David Wilkes
Theses/Dissertations from 1967
The Disrepair of Genius: A Study of the 1866 Democratic National Convention, James Emmette Bagwell
Effect of Intrauterine and Intracervical Sutures on Deciduomata Formation in the Rat, Sara Neville Bennett
Survey of the Venezuelan Species of Ficus, David Walter Hall
The 1946 Gubernatorial Election in Georgia, Harold Paulk Henderson
Platyhelminthes in the Salientia of Bulloch County, Georgia, Wayne Allan Krissinger
The Massacre at Sand Creek: A Study in Indian Policy, Gary Leland Roberts
Effect of Uterocervical Ligation on Implantation in the Rat, Stuart Rudikoff
Theses/Dissertations from 1966
The Jay Treaty and the Federalist Approach to Anglo-American Relations, Allan William Pollard
A Critical Study of the Nature Imagery of Sidney Lanier's Poetry, J. Sabord Woods
Theses/Dissertations from 1965
The Political Influence of the Ku Klux Klan in Georgia 1915-1925, Clement Charlton Moseley
