An independent project on a topic of the student's choice. The project might entail a position paper, empirical research designed to test a hypothesis or describe some phenomena, a theoretical piece dealing with an important sociological problem, or a combination of the above.

Prerequisite: Sociology 301 or Sociology 302; any one 300-level sociology elective.

1 to 2 units

Offerings

Term	Block	Title	Instructor	Location	Student Limit/Available	Updated
Fall 2024	Block 2	Senior Thesis	Vanessa Munoz	TBA	1 / 0	05/20/2025
Fall 2024	Block 2	Senior Thesis: Between Family and Aspiration: Emotional Burdens and the Pursuit of Upward Mobility	Paulina Inara Rodis	TBA	1 / 0	05/20/2025
Fall 2024	Block 2	Senior Thesis: Transit-Oriented or Capital-Oriented: Denver and Transit Related Gentrification	Cayce Hughes	TBA	1 / 0	05/20/2025
Fall 2024	Block 2	Senior Thesis: “I’m Under no Illusions That Our Water is Pure”: Work Identity and Ontological Secur	Chantal Figueroa	TBA	1 / 0	05/20/2025
Fall 2024	Block 2	Senior Thesis: “Am I Going To Be Here My Whole Life?”: Testimonies And Consequences Of Asylum Bans	Eric Popkin	TBA	1 / 0	05/20/2025
Fall 2024	Block 2	Senior Thesis: Identifying the Comm in Communicable: A Critical Discourse Analysis into Local	Chantal Figueroa	TBA	1 / 0	05/20/2025
Fall 2024	Block 3	Senior Thesis Who Should Be Protected From Whom?: How A National Security Framework Shaped Asylum	Eric Popkin	TBA	1 / 0	05/20/2025
Fall 2024	Block 3	Senior Thesis: Liberal Discourse in Decline and the Rise in Trump-Style Fascism	Cayce Hughes	TBA	1 / 0	05/20/2025
Fall 2024	Block 3	Senior Thesis: Disability, Mental Illness, and Debilitation: A Critical, Theoretical Exploration	Paulina Inara Rodis	TBA	1 / 0	05/20/2025
Fall 2024	Block 3	Senior Thesis	Vanessa Munoz	TBA	1 / 0	05/20/2025
Fall 2024	Block 3	Senior Thesis: Growing Up and Hooking Up: The Impact of Social Class, Parenting Practices, and Sex	Gail Murphy-Geiss	TBA	1 / 0	05/20/2025
Fall 2024	Block 3	Sr Thesis: Attitudes Towards Free Speech: A Cross-Cultural Study Between France & the United States	Gail Murphy-Geiss	TBA	1 / 0	05/20/2025
Fall 2024	Block 3	Senior Thesis: Judicial Decision Making in Supreme Court Opinions	Vanessa Munoz	TBA	1 / 0	05/20/2025
Fall 2024	Block 3	Senior Thesis: 'Wealth, Whiteness, And Wilderness: Minoritzed Students’ Experiences With Exclusion	Cayce Hughes	TBA	1 / 0	05/20/2025
Fall 2024	Block 4	Senior Thesis: Class Traitors: Inheritance, Responsibility And Framing	Paulina Inara Rodis	TBA	1 / 0	05/20/2025
Fall 2024	Block 4	Senior Thesis: Community-based Service for All: A Qualitative Analysis of Cherry Creek School dist	Sandi Wong	TBA	1 / 0	05/20/2025
Fall 2024	Block 4	Senior Thesis: Lost in Care: The Disjunction Between Political Discourse and Ideals of Language Acc	Chantal Figueroa	TBA	1 / 0	05/20/2025
Fall 2024	Block 4	Senior Thesis: Paths to Recovery: How Drug Treatment Courts Facilitate and Limit Identity Transform	Gail Murphy-Geiss	TBA	1 / 0	05/20/2025
Fall 2024	Block 4	Senior Thesis: Disparities of Global Change: Theories of Environmental Impact on Vulnerability	Eric Popkin	TBA	1 / 0	05/20/2025
Spring 2025	Block 5	Senior Thesis: Community-based Service for All: A Qualitative Analysis of Cherry Creek School dist	Sandi Wong	TBA	1 / 0	05/20/2025
Spring 2025	Block 5	Senior Thesis: Passing to Proving: Digital Mixed-Race Subjecthood on TikTok	Sandi Wong	TBA	1 / 0	05/20/2025
Spring 2025	Block 5	Senior Thesis: “‘My Education Wouldn’t Be Complete Without It:’ Student Perceptions on the Impact of	Vanessa Munoz	TBA	1 / 0	05/20/2025
Spring 2025	Block 5	Senior Thesis: TO FEEL ALIVE: Femmes of Color, the Erotic, and Self-Expression as Spiritual Practice	Paulina Inara Rodis	TBA	1 / 0	05/20/2025
Spring 2025	Block 5	Senior Thesis: The Power of the Uniform: Navigation of Police Labor Under the Contradictory Nature	Sandi Wong	TBA	1 / 0	05/20/2025
Spring 2025	Block 5	Senior Thesis: Bridging the Gap or Widening It?: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Asian American Pol	Chantal Figueroa	TBA	1 / 0	05/20/2025
Spring 2025	Block 5	Senior Thesis: Paths to Recovery: How Drug Treatment Courts Facilitate and Limit Identity Transform	Gail Murphy-Geiss	TBA	1 / 0	05/20/2025
Spring 2025	Block 5	Senior Thesis: Identifying the Comm in Communicable: A Critical Discourse Analysis into Local	Chantal Figueroa	TBA	1 / 0	05/20/2025
Spring 2025	Block 6	Senior Thesis: Lost in Care: The Disjunction Between Political Discourse and Ideals of Language Acc	Chantal Figueroa	TBA	1 / 0	05/20/2025
Spring 2025	Block 6	Senior Thesis: Class Traitors: Inheritance, Responsibility And Framing	Paulina Inara Rodis	TBA	1 / 0	05/20/2025
Spring 2025	Block 6	Senior Thesis: Who Should Be Protected From Whom?: How A National Security Framework Shaped Asylum	Eric Popkin	TBA	1 / 0	05/20/2025
Spring 2025	Block 6	Senior Thesis: Between Family and Aspiration: Emotional Burdens and the Pursuit of Upward Mobility	Paulina Inara Rodis	TBA	1 / 0	05/20/2025
Spring 2025	Block 6	Senior Thesis	Vanessa Munoz	TBA	1 / 0	05/20/2025
Spring 2025	Block 6	Senior Thesis: Disparities of Global Change: Theories of Environmental Impact on Vulnerability	Eric Popkin	TBA	1 / 0	05/20/2025
Spring 2025	Block 7	Senior Thesis: Liberal Discourse in Decline and the Rise in Trump-Style Fascism	Cayce Hughes	TBA	1 / 0	05/20/2025