Welcome to the SUNY Cortland Master's Theses @ Digital Commons. You will find here electronic versions of Master's Theses from the Departments of English, History, Kinesiology, Physical Education, Recreation, Parks and Leisure Studies and Sport Management.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2014
The queer and the bodily: explorations of power in women's visionary writing in the Book of Margery Kempe 2014, Jayne Emerson Stacconi
Zora Neale Hurston's and Richard Wright's feminist empowerment in constructions of southern African-American femininity 2014., James F. Reardon
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
African American domestic crisis in the early twentieth century: the aftermath of the clash between ideals and realities of The Great Migration 2013, Sofia N. Rittenhouse
Along the verge : the issue of essentialism versus social constructionism within the domain of contemporary masculinity studies 2013, Charles Hollenbeck
An investigation of preferred versus imposed exercise, personality traits, and motivation on an exercise dependent college aged sample 2013, Chelsea M. Norton
Musical theatre performers, absorption, and personality 2013, Nancy Kane, Ph.D.
Organized camp and character development 2013, Veronica Ripp
Resistance training behaviors in college-aged women 2013, Melanie Kornblatt
The effect of skeletal muscle mass on basal metabolic rate in college-age males 2013, Chase Vaughn
The influence of respiratory muscle training on exercise endurance 2013, Justin Vanderbeck
The role of appearance in perceptions of personal trainers 2013., Patrick R. Boerner
"'Things out o' nature': discovering the narrator in George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss" 2013, Nancy Dunbar
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Amateur female vs. male bodybuilders' self-concept: a qualitative study 2012, Teresa Celeste Mancabelli
Comparison of anti-intellectual attitudes of undergraduate students and student-athletes 2012., David Haas
Effectiveness of eccentric, concentric, and combined resistance training programs on development of functional strength in college age females 2012, Timothy A. Lamey
Influence of knowledge of functional assessment results on self-efficacy for exercise and physical activity behaviors among older adults 2012, Anne M. Reilley
Investigating the validity of the MVPA feature on the New Lifestyles 1000 pedometer in children with visual impairments 2012, Killeen Pritchard
Metabolic equivalents of selected dance styles on trained female dancers 2012, Jenna Brook Domin
"Terrible sonnets" and performative bodies: approaching the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins 2012, Adam A. Ferguson
The effect of an acute bout of cardiovascular exercise on strength in female athletes 2012, Christopher Warner
Youth leadership program : the longitudinal benefits on classroom performance for urban youth after a challenge course program 2012, Nicolas J. Salibrici
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Career experiences of female certified athletic trainers at NCAA Division III institutions 2011., Catherine Conroy
Circle round the bell : therapeutic recreation mindfulness programming with youth in a residential treatment facility 2011, Brandon Anthony Cruz