Recent Student Projects
Students who have completed the Asian & Asian American Studies Certificate have written their Senior Seminar Capstone Theses on various topics and issues. Each research paper encompasses their accumulated knowledge gained in Certificate courses, along with relating such academic material to their personal lives and everyday experiences. Below is a sample of some recently completed Certificate projects.
- "Do We Blame Religion or Politics? Examining Inequality and Corruption in Modern Asian Countries"
- "Domestic Violence Against Asian/ Asian American Women"
- "Asian/Asian-American Adoptee Identity and Development in the United States"
- "Asian Americans in the U.S. Labor Force: Successes and Challenges"
- "The History of Tibet and Contemporary Geo-Political Issues"
- "The Mask of Western Society: Cosmetic Surgery Among Asian American Women"
- "The Asian American Perspective on Child-Rearing"
- "The Aesthetics and Cultural Context of Asian Autmotive Design"
- "Korea's Globalization: History and Current Circumstances"
- "Representations and Cultural Implications of Portrayals of Asian American in History Textbooks"
- "Interracial Dating and Gender Relations Within the Asian American Community: White Men, Asian American Men, and the Ownership of Asian American Women"
- "Stereotyping the Asian American Male: Expectation, Limitation, and Repercussions"
- "Framing Vietnamese History: Effects on Prosocial Behavior Towards In- and Outgroup Members among Vietnamese Americans"
- "The Cultural Dynamics of Interracial/International Asian Adoption"
- "The Internal and External Potential for the Democratization of China"
- "Tibet: The Struggle for Freedom Misunderstood"
- "Defining 'Success' for Asian American Students and Their Parents"
- "Vietnamese Americans and Mental Illness in Springfield, Massachusetts"
- "Who Am I? Constructing a Vietnamese American Identity"
- "'ABCs' in Hong Kong: Chinese American Identity in a Hong Kong Cultural Context"
- "An Identity Crisis in Progress"
