Honors Research is a hallmark of an IWU liberal arts education. Eligible students are invited to embark upon a year-long research or creative arts project with a faculty mentor and a committee of faculty from within and outside of their major department.
Any entry that does not have a pdf attached has been withheld from the repository at the author’s request. Bona fide researchers may be consult these works by contacting Tate Archives and Special Collections.
Submissions from 1974
Preparation of Childbirth as a Behavior Modifier in Relation to the Viewing of a Film of Natural Childbirth, Susan B. McCullough
Patterens of Urbanization in a Midwestern Community: Bloomington, Illinois, 1850-1870, James A. Parrot
Submissions from 1973
The Dynamics of Social Systems, Susan Jane Albery '73
Communication Theory and Interpreters Theatre: Toward a Model for the Form, Gail Dixon '73
A Study of Selected Vocabulary and Phonetic Speech Patterns of College Students in Illinois, James R. Osborn '73
Pre-Operative Teaching: Does it Make a Difference?, Susan Jane Wykle
Submissions from 1971
The Application of Principles of Behavior Modification and Control by the School Social Worker, Jill Cannon '71
Mediocrity and Roll-Calls: The Identification of Marginal Congressmen and Some Study of Their Voting Behavior, Richard K. Wray
Submissions from 1970
Students . . . and Marijuana, Linda J. Behrins
The Psychological of the Draft on Male College Students, Charles A. Bonney '70
A Study of Departmentalization on the Elementary Level, Carolyn Bowersock '70
Drugs: An Educational Challenge, Linda S. Culver
The Struggle for Standing to Secure Judical Review of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, Donald E. Garrison
One Measure of Success: A Study of the Lamaze Technique of Preparation for Childbirth, Cynthia L. Ketchum
The nurse-midwife in the midwest: A study of factors that affect her utilization, Gwen Marie Ohlendorf
The Mousterian: A Study of a Paleolithic Tool Industry, Loenoard A. Zalucha
Submissions from 1969
History and Growth of Congregationalism in Rockford, Illinois, Linda J. Anderson '69
Complexes of Phosphine Ligands with the Main Transition Elements, Richard R. Clikeman '69
An application of crisis theory: The suicide prevention center, Karen Drummet
Dictionary of Artists' Oil Pigments: Their Chemical and Physical Properties, R. Bruce Handlong '69
A Study of the Degree of Health Awareness Among Members of the Class of 1972 at Illinois Wesleyan University, Ruth A. Mohr
The Educational Radio Media, James L. Tungate '69
Effects of Hospitalization Upon the Child, Susan Vanek
Aerospace Nursing: Implications for Baccalaureate Nursing Education, Diane Wentworth
Submissions from 1968
Analysis of Social Involvement at Wesley Methodist Church, Terry L. Clark
The Alliance for Progress, Barbara J. Ford
On the threshold of community mental health, Elizabeth Ann Glosser
Radical Moral Theology: Existentialists and Analysts Negate Christendom, Steven Hughes '68
A study of teacher aides, Janis Kolb
An Interpreter's Guide to Rainer Maria Rilke, Joseph A. Leese '68
A Study of Team Teaching as Implemented in the Elementary School, Mary E. Myers '68
Submissions from 1967
Preparing the Chicago City Budget: Influences, Statistics, Allocations and Trends, Terry Black '67
Teaching Methods for the Art of Japanese Painting, Gay Bumgardner
Report on the United States Small Business Administration, David C. Case '67
Early Kierkegaard and the Zen Koan: A Study in Religous Experience, Gregory R. Dell '67
Prophecy from the Apostles to the Second Century Church: A Paradigmatic Expression of Historical Inquiry, Gwendolyn L. Gebhard '67
The Politics of the 1965 Gold Reserve Law, Robert E. Hendrick
Manipulation of Abusive Behavior with Time-Out and Shock, Sharon Lane '67
The Evolution of Sacred Dance in the Judeo-Christian Tradition, Jade Luerssen '67
LSD: An Analysis of the Literature Concerning its Use in the Therapy of Alcoholism, Patti Lyddon
The Concept of Resurrection with Special Emphasis on the Views of Rudolf Bultmann, Carol J. Miller '67
The Study of Two Related Polarities in Thomas Mann's Der Tog In Venedig, Kenneth R. Olson '67
Submissions from 1966
The Colored Farmers' Alliance and Negro Disfranchisement in the South, Sandranel Bahan '66
A Historical Study of the Growth of Psychiatric Facilities in the State of Georgia from 1959-1965, Carla Bays
Child Aggression as a Function of Task Inteference, Judith A. Elbert '66
A look at the Protestant Church in the city, David J. Hauman
A Chance to Survive: Neonatal Narcoric Addiction, Brenda Morgan
Public Relations and Political Power: A Case Study of the Caterpillar Tractor Co., Frank Simpson
The Artist, the Psychologist and Creativity, Shirley Swayne '66
An Examination of the Phenomenon of Preference for Bar Pressong over Freeloading, Phyllis Thomson
Animal Sociology, Joan Shambrook Weer
The Ubermensch-Artist of Friedrich Nietsche and Thomas Mann, Dale Whitney
Submissions from 1965
The Soul of a Church, David Cavallini
Submissions from 1964
Deflection of an Electron Beam by Photons, Danning W. Bloom '64
Schedules of Reinforcement With Intracranial Simulation, Randall K. Flory '64
Tragic Vision in the Age of Shakespeare, Mr. Fredman, Patricia Rioux, Sharon Martin, Charlotte Mach, Larry Knilands, Sherron McFalls, and Marilyn Nickerson
Papal infallibility, Judith A. Giffrow
Epistemology in western thought, Richard Harold Higgs
Nucleic acids and protein synthesis, Sheldon Nicol
Submissions from 1963
From Pioneer Preaching Point to Urban Parishes, Stephen Foster '63
One Among Many: The Story of Cavey Lambert Methodist Circuit Rider, Lana D. Lambert '63
Submissions from 1962
Advisors of the age of reason: The periodical essays of Steele, Addison, Johnson, and Goldsmith, Carol Meyers
Can We Communicate Ultimate Reality?, David M. Newcomer
The Atonement in Modern Thought, Martha Ellen Perry
Submissions from 1961
Basic Issues of the Illinois Territory (1809-1818), Jack F. Kinton '61
Submissions from 1960
An Analysis of the History of Indian-White Relations in the United States, Nancy A. Breville '60
Groups Working to Releive Tension Between Minority and Dominant Groups, Arline Cary '60
A study of religious education: its nature, its aims, its manifestations, Barbara King
The Greek Language: An Historical Study, Richard C. Leonard '60
Church Trials in a Changing Society, Robert H. Williams