Editors
Warren C. Schultz, Adam Schreiber, Laura Kina, Steve Harp
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Description
Dear reader,
I am delighted to introduce this eighth volume of Creating Knowledge: The LAS Journal of Undergraduate Scholarship. This volume features 19 essays and 14 art works, representing advanced coursework produced in twenty different departments and programs during the 2014-2015 academic year. Several of the essays have been honored with department awards and several draw on research supported by undergraduate research grants. Many were originally written in senior capstone seminars, research-intensive seminars, and independent studies, and many were presented in some form at one of the numerous conferences and showcases sponsored by departments and programs throughout the year. All have been selected by department-based faculty committees as the best of the year’s student research writing and all have been revised for submission under the supervision of faculty. (The first footnote to each essay provides information about the class in which it was written and the processes of selection and revision.) Together they represent the rich variety of research questions, methods and materials used in the arts, humanities, social sciences and interdisciplinary studies.
The readers of this volume are also many and various. They include the faculty who taught the classes in which this work was produced and encouraged their students to submit it for publication, the faculty who reviewed and selected the work and those who assisted with the editing, the proud parents, siblings, and classmates, and, of course, the featured students themselves. The volume’s readers also include alumni and supporters of the college and, perhaps most important of all, future student scholars—prospective students and recently admitted students who are curious about what advanced work in this or that field looks like: What does a sociology, Latino and Latin American studies, or philosophy major do? What are the key research questions and ways of thinking or writing or knowing in history of art and architecture or Italian or women’s and gender studies? For these students, this volume provides a vivid and inspiring illustration of what they have to look forward to as they embark upon their chosen courses of study.
Many thanks and hearty congratulations are due to the student scholars for their contributions to this volume and also to the more than 60 faculty who supported, reviewed, selected, and helped to edit these students’ work. Thanks are also due to the three Department of Art, Media and Design faculty who served as jurors of the art work and the three masters in writing and publication students who proofread the volume. Most of all, thanks are due to Warren Schultz, associate dean of undergraduate studies in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, who serves as editor of the volume, putting out the call for submissions, supporting the faculty work of reviewing, selecting, and editing the student essays, and coordinating the production of the print and digital editions. To all, congratulations! And to you, dear reader, enjoy.
Lucy Rinehart, PhD
Interim Dean
Publication Date
2015
Publisher
DePaul University College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
City
Chicago
Disciplines
African American Studies | African Languages and Societies | Art and Design | Arts and Humanities | Asian American Studies | Chicana/o Studies | Ethnic Studies | European History | Film and Media Studies | French and Francophone Language and Literature | Gender and Sexuality | History | History of Religion | International and Area Studies | Islamic World and Near East History | Latina/o Studies | Medicine and Health Sciences | Political Science | Politics and Social Change | Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration | Race and Ethnicity | Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies | Social and Behavioral Sciences | Social Control, Law, Crime, and Deviance | Social Justice | Sociology
Recommended Citation
"Creating Knowledge, volume 8, 2015" (2015). Creating Knowledge. 10.
https://via.library.depaul.edu/ckgallery/10
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