Sample Capstone Projects


These are the titles of the thesis papers presented by the recent MAIS graduates:

  • Signers Theatre: Building American Sign Language Fluency through Deaf Mentorship
  • African American Youth: What Motivates Them to Vote?
  • America's Depression: An Oral History
  • Toward New Approaches to Enhance Critical Thinking in the Teaching of Writing in High School
  • Seeking Ecological and Socio-Political Balance in Parks and Recreation Policy
  • Rhetoric, Religion, and the Supreme Court on Abortion
  • Use and/or Misuse of Credit Cards among Young Adults: Evaluation of Marketing Appeals
  • Eating Impulses as Understood by Bariatric Patients and Their Medical Providers
  • Veiling Skin: How the Veil Informs Personal, Social, and Biological Identity
  • The Impact of Deindustrialization on Appalachian Migrants to Ashtabula County
  • Gifts of Grace from Terminally-Ill Children: The Benefits of Children Writing Their Own Life Stories


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