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The Senior Thesis or Project is a graduation requirement for all Scholars' College degree programs.  
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Amy Pelt Alost, 1994  A Field of Cotton: Economic and Social Ties Between Labor and the Production of Cotton

Melissa Bahs, 1997. A Hispanic Hollywood:  Deconstructing the Paradigm

Marina Barakova, 2002.
The Ethical, Legal and Moral Aspects of Genetic Database Usage: Potential Abuse of Genetic Information by Insurers and Employers

Chrissy Bergeron, 2001.
Hyperconscious Minds: The Schizophrenic Tendencies in the Visual Art of European Modernism

Richard Paul Bergeron III, 1991 The Early History of Electricity and Magnetism:  A Marriage of Forces by Michael Faraday

Mary Frances Blanchard , 1992. The Effect of Stress on the Adolescent Population:  A Comparison Between Academically Accelerated Residential High School Students and Conventional High School Students

Madelyn Kay Boudreaux, 1993. The Effects of Presentation on Czech Folk Dance in Louisiana

Caleb Bozeman, 1994. The Epidemiology of HIV and the Formation of Models

Charles Benjamin Bradford, 1999. Words and Seeds:  Henry David Thoreau and the Language of Investigation.

Kenneth Wayne Brown, 1993. Determining First Amendment Protection of Commercial Speech

Maidie E. Ciminel, 1996. The Gothic Demise of the Fairchild Family Myth.

Wendy Colonna, 1999. "The Love Story of J. Alfred Prufrock":  An Expression of Young T. S. Eliot's Experiences, Observations, and Beliefs

Andrea Danielle Conque , 1999. The Moon Breakers:  A Theatrical Project from Conception to Completion

Christian O. Cotton, 1998. In the Garden:  An Examination of Gnosis and Consciousness in the Kabbalistic Tree of Life

Charles Cox, Jr., 1992. Two Men With Guns: A Film Production from Conception to Completion

Craig A. Crady, 1995. Analysis of Brainstem Metabolic Activity Associated with a Known Nutritive Cue

Amy Dafler, 1997. "How Very Strange to Be Seventy": Representations of the Elderly in Film

Amy Daldry, 1996. The Artistically Accurate: A Study of Biographical Theory and A Short Biography of Dr. Eleanor Mendell Worsley

Sarah Suzanne DeBroeck, 2001.
Sharing the Past: Reconciling Anthropological and Native American Views on the Excavation of Native American Burial Sites

John Kemp Dillon , 1997. The Death of Tragedy:  The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche's Ubermensch

Mimi Dionne , 1998. Le Voyage des Filles de la Pelican or Things to Do in Mobile When You're Lonely

Melissa Leigh Dugal, 2000.
Neural Pathways that Mediate Central Nervous System Responses to Nutrients in the Intestine

Lori K. Dunn, 1998. The Belle Who Left the Ball:  The Ideal of Southern Womanhood in Kate Chopin's The Awakening.

Chaneen Dunnamvet, 1995. "Vita Dolce's Dishin' with Vita":  An Interpretation of Television Sensationalism via Talk Shows

Richard C. Dupuy, Jr., 1998. I'm Gonna Live Forever:  Robert A.Heinlein's Explorations of Competence and Immortality through the Character of Lazarus Long

Shea Lynn Eaves, 1996. The Case Study of a Female Tursiops truncatus Rehabilitated at the Texas Marine Mammal Stranding Network

Melanie Ebeling, 1999. Wendy Wasserstein:  Choices For and About Women

Lee M. Erickson, 1993. Japan and the World Economy: Japanese Ideological Limitations from a Global Perspective

Ashley Ezernack, 1996. "I Had Not Known 'Politics' Had Undone So Many": Politics and Poetry in T. S. Eliot and Muriel Rukeyser

Rhonda S. Fair, 1997. An Anthropological Dictionary:  A New Approach

Rebecca Elizabeth Farabough, 1999. The Rhetoric of the Reader: Classical and Contemporary Approaches to Audience

Denise Lee Fontenot, 2000. From Invisibility to Ratification:  The path of the women’s rights movement to Kate Gordon’s states’ rights suffrage strategy in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Marcus Foote, 1992. Original Understanding:  The Usefulness of Robert Bork's Constitutional Interpretation

Derrek Warren Foster, 1999. "Rough Winds Do Shake the Darling Buds of May": Examining le dandy and la décadence in Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal.

Gregory Gelpi, 2002.
A Critical Analysis of the Reporter’s Privilege and the Louisiana Shield Law

Oscar R. George Jr., 1993.  The Affirmative Action Controversy within the African American Community:
An Examination of the Views Presented by the Late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and Author Shelby Steele

Angela Marie Grafton, 1992. A Personal or Disciplinary Challenge: Freeman vs. Mead

James Grant, 1995. NORLAFOR: A Computer Model of Forest Succession in Northern Louisiana

Melinda Gray, 1999. The Social, Cultural, and Political Impact of the Modern Powwow on Native American Identity

Melisa Harrington, 1990. Inequalities in Health:  The Long Term Crisis Facing Britain's National Health Service

Robin Gayle Hemperly, 1994 What Killed Napoleon: Pigments, Paint, and Painting

David Herrell , 1994. Gender, Sexuality, and Ceremony:  The Construction of a Pan-tribal Berdache Identity among Native North Americans

Kenneth L. Homann, 2001.
Calculation of Photons Incident on a Charged Coupled Device (CCD) Camera From Beta Persei and the Sun

Heather H. Honore, 1997. Effects of Duodenal Infusions of the Non-Nutritive Sweetner, Sodium Saccharin, on the Feeding Behavior of Fifteen-Day-Old Rat Pups

Michael Todd Huddleston, 1991. Russell's Paradox:  The Third Crisis in Mathematics

Kristi Lynn Jackson, 1994. Antisocial Personality Disorders:  Understanding the Disorder and Helping Those Who Have It

Elizabeth-Lee Joffrion, 1999. The Arts and Crafts Movement:  An Analysis of the Evolution of Craft Organizations

Amy L. E. Jones , 1997. Making History:  A Study of the Cultural Moment in the Historical Films Lady Jane and Nine Days a Queen

Katherine Jones, 2002.
Stories of a Prodigal Son: Exile and Other Biblical Themes in the Novels of Pat Conroy

Nicole King, 1994. The Effects of Literacy Upon Acadian French

Andrew Colin Kolb, 1999. The First Amendment and College Media:  Past, Present, and Future

Jennifer Lefeaux, 1994. Convolution Squares of Multiplicative Number-Theoretic Functions

Jennifer Leah Losabia, 1996. Sun Tzu and the Art of Game Theory:  Analyzing Game Theory in Business Practices in Terms of Sun Tzu's The Art of War

John Marsh, 1998. The Influence of Keiko Abe on the World of the Marimba

Earl Leroy Martin Jr., 1994. The Effects of Government Reregulation on the Cable Television Industry

Elizabeth Ann May, 1998. Good Boy, Bad Boy:  Ethical Perspectives of Adolescents' Response to Sport Endorser Advertising

Rhonda McCalip, 1996. The Timeless, Placeless, Rootless World of Max Jacob:A Study of His Prose Poetry and the Aesthetics of Cubism

Noelle McMullen, 1999. Existentialism in Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

D. Jason Meche, 1996. "Cajun Economics:"  A Culture's Move into American Capitalism

Courtney Elizabeth Meyer , 1997. Joined Hands Pointed Heavenward:  Women's Power through Prayer in Christine de
Pizan's Devotional Literature

Bonnie Mikovich, 1999.
A Comparison of How Well the Progressive Income Tax System amd Selected Forms of the Flat Tax System Satisfy the Criterion of Fairness in Judging an Effective Tax System

Dawn Andrea Miller, 1996. To Be a Jew in the Twentieth Century South:  Connecting Past and Present

Lisa Moore, 2002.
A Comparative Analysis of the Existential Conception of Freedom and the View 
of Freedom Embodied in American Political History and Practice

Jerry Mullins, 1995. "Little, Yellow, Different!"

Brian Nash, 1998. A Biomechanical Analysis of the Place-Kick in American Football

John Neil, 1992. The Development of Roman Law, Including Its Laws of Succession and Aspects of its Influence Upon the United States Constitution

Louis J. Nelson , 2000. The Year 2000 Computer Bug and the Portrayal of Its Social Impact in American Popular and Scholarly Media

Tammie Nolen, 1991.
Women's Prison Subcultures: A Study of the St. Gabriel Facility

Brian Parcel, 1997. The Central City United Methodist Church's Family Empowerment Response to Community Redevelopment

Fredrick J. Perkins, Jr., 1991.

The Effects of Glucose on Feeding Behavior in the Slug (Limax flavus)

Kristy Lea Pesnell, 2000.
Winston Churchill: The Effect of His Oratory During World War II

Joe Pitz, 2001
A Comparison of the Expectations of E-commerce Businesses and Information Systems Curricula

Anna Marie Pizza, 1997. The Adoption Experience of Birth Mothers With a Focus on Post-Placement Adjustment, Counseling and Services

Jennifer D. Poe, 1993. Golgotha Moves Vesuvius:  Protestantism in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson

Kanat Ransibrahmanakul, 1992.
Reaction of 2-chloro-4-methyl-6-nitroquinoline with Amines

John Kindley Ray, 1999.  Incidence and Impact of Axial Tail Deformities in Bullfrog Tadpoles (Rana catesbeiana) Inhabiting a Site Contaminated with Coal Combustion Wastes

Anna Victoria Reves, 2001.
The Wanderer and the Search for Truth:  Slavophilism and Westernization in the Works of Tolstoy and Solzhenitsyn

Kathryn Richards , 2001.
The Evolution of Electronic Signature Legislation


Jason Truitt Richter, 1997. Digitally Rethinking Technology:  The Effects of the Computer Medium on Heidegger's Idea of "The Turning"

Rhiannon Roberts, 2000. Pragmatic Education:  The Relevance of the First Sophistic Movement of Ancient Greece to the Educational Philosophy of John Dewey

Melanie Claire Romero, 1998. Microbial Contamination of Drinking Water:  A Study of Louisiana's Tap Water

David Rose, 1994. Effects of the Metabolic Inhibitors, 2,5-Anhydro-D-Mannitol and L-Ethionine, on Ingestion by Rat Pups.

Jennifer Rowland , 1995. Mom, Dad, and Mickey Mouse:  Family Forms in Selected Disney Films, 1950-1967

Sloan Snow , 1997. Deindustrialization in Birmingham, Alabama:  The Disintegration of the African-American Community

Kelly Songy, 1999. Gene Kelly: A Look at a Legend.

Marny Stein, 1993. Equality and Difference in Feminist Theory

Ian W. Sutherland, 1999. Translation and Investigation of Head and Facial Trauma in Book One of
Glossulae Quatuor Magistrorum Super Chirurgium Rogerii et Rolandi
 
Andrew Sylvester, 1998. Meaning and Method in the Work of George Bernard Shaw:  Socialist Commentary in the Plays Unpleasant.

Craig A. Tappel, 1993. Asbestos Products Liability and the Goals of the U. S. Court System.

Angela Turner , 1999. Supranational Institutions and Ethnic Identity:  The European Union as a Potential Mechanism for the Pursuance of Ethnic Minority Rights

Cathy L. Tuschoff, 1991. A Study of Enzyme Activities During the Third Instar Development of Drosophila virilis

Allison Jenet Vaughn, 1995. The Commentary on Anenid 6 by Servius Grammaticus and Vergil's Philosophical Tendencies

Laurissa Evon Vines, 1992. John A. Murrell:  Legendary Land Pirate as Influenced by the Southern Tendency Towards Violence

Maryalyce Walsh, 1995. A Competitive Distance Runner's Anthology

Carrie G. Wallis, 1998.
Effects of Intestinal Nutrients on Midbrain Neural Activity in Adult Rats

Amanda Gaddis Watkins, 1994. The Function of Doubles in Two Nineteenth Century Novels:  Frankensteinby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Michael Dixon Williams, 1999. Synthesis of N-ethylamine-4-methyl-6-nitro-2-quinolinamine and Group VI B Metal Pentacarbonyl-N, 4-dimethyl-6-nitro-2-quinolinamine Complexes

William E. Winter III, 1992. Effects of Gastric Distension of Functional Neural Metabolism in the Central Nervous System of Infant Rats

Nathaniel David Wood, 1995. Political Thought and Performance:  The Presidential Speeches of Vaclav Havel and the Intellectual in Politics

Sam Woodroof, 1999. A Portrait of Misconceptions:  An Analysis of the Creation, Sale, and Distribution of Fakes and Forgeries

Thomas Zimmerman, 1992. Family Storytelling: The Invaluable Vehicle of Collective History

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