Departmental Honors is a distinction conferred at the student's graduation for the successful completion of an approved academic project in the major discipline. To be eligible, a student must have at least a 3.2 cumulative GPA and at least a 3.5 in the major, and the project proposal must be approved by the Departmental Honors (DHON) Committee before the student begins work on the project. After approval by the DHON Committee, the student works under the supervision of a favorite professor for two semesters. At completion, the project must be defended before an examining committee. For more details on the regulations and procedures, see the topics below:
Handbook for Departmental Honors
Quick Links to Departmental Honors Forms:
Completed Departmental Honors Projects
All completed DHON projects are housed in the Special Collections of UTC's Lupton Library. A sampling of projects for 2000-2006 are available in pdf format from the links below. (You must have Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0 or later to open these files.)
Art; Biology and Environmental Science; Business Administration;
Chemistry; Communication; Economics; Education,
Engineering & Computer Science; English; Foreign Language; History;
Humanities; Music; Nursing; Philosophy & Religion; Physical Therapy;
Political Science; Psychology; Sociology, Anthropology & Geography; Theatre
- 2005, Tapp, Liz, Infused with Wearer
- 2003, Grigsby, Sarah, Socially Responsible Design: A Visual Health Campaign Promoting Awareness of the Type 2 Diabetes Epidemic Threatening Children and Adolescents in the United States
- 2003, Lamb, Amanda, Pop Will Eat Itself: Culture Jamming and the Battle Over Corporate Media Control
Biology and Environmental Science
- 2006, Mayne, Ian, Examination of the ACE and ACTN3 Genes in UTC Varsity Athletes and Sedentary Students
- 2005, Davis, Tangee, Mutational Analysis of a Candidate Gene Mapped to the Genetic Locus for Hereditary Neuralgic Amyotrophy
- 2003, Chapman, Elise, Simazine Mineralization in Wetland Soils of Williams Island
- 2003, King, Amanda Erin, The Vascular Plant Flora of the Tennessee River Gardens Area
- 2002, Davis, Rachael, Construction and Characterization of hypC Mutants in Helicobacter pylori
- 2002, Ford, Jessica, The Effects of Human Impact, Macrophytic Algea and Toxic Dinoflagellants on teh Coral Reef Ecosystem on the Big Island of Hawaii
- 2002, Sanders, Whitney, Assessing the Efficacy of the Pediatric Growth Curve: An Analysis of One Children's Hospital's Procedure
- 2001, Burt, Rebecca, The Role of Photosynthesis in Ultraviolet Responses: Are UV Responses Different in Maize Albino Mutants That Have No Chloroplast?
- 2001, Hwang, Pearl, Conversion of Virulent Cryphonectria Parasitica from the Lula Lake Land Trust to Hypovirulent Strains
- 2000, Regan, Kevin, Effects of Disturbance and Microhabitat on the Growth and Invasive Potential of Matricaria Perforata in a Subalpine Meadow
- 2005, Rawlston, Melissa, The Influence of Team Cohesiveness on new Product Performance
- 2003, Moore, Amy, Emotional Intelligence and Moral Development
- 2002, Kuban, Scott, A Practical Study of the Micro-Business
- 2006, Brooks, Timothy, Answers in Ashes: Elemental Analysis of Cremains by ICP-OES
- 2005, Dickerson, Jane, Biomonitoring: An Analysis of Plants for Metals Using ICP-AES
- 2005, Gant, Randi, Degradation of Pyrimidines by Pseudomonas Syringae
- 2005, Ziegler, Katherine, Predicting Molecular Interactions with Nonporous and Nanoporous Carbon Using Computational Chemistry
- 2003, Boaz, Elizabeth, Reductive Catabolism of Pyrimidines by Psuedomas Lemonnieri
- 2003, Sewell, Sarah, A Mechanistic Study of Palladium Catalyzed Dehalogenation
- 2002, Fitch, Jamie, Application of Flourescence Spectroscopy to Environmental Studies
- 2002, Hooper, Dana, Predicting Second Gas-Solid Virial Coefficients
- 2001, Blake, Thomas, Porous
Silicon as an Analytical Tool: Investigating the Thin-film
Characteristics
of Porous Silicon
- 2000, Milburn, Mason, Heteregeneous Catalysis and Reaction Dynamics
- 2005, Perryman, Zsavonne, "Sorry You're Not What We're Looking For": The Segmentation of African American Models in U.S. Television Commercials
- 2002, Waddle, Tolsun Nur, Promoting a New Red Scare: Media Framing of the Czech Television Management Shift
- 2003, Blake, Patrick, The Effectiveness of Gun Control Laws: A Statistical Analysis
- 2004, Poff, Laura, Integrating Picture Story Books into the Algebra I and Geometry Classrooms
- 2003, Summey, Carmen, Examining the Effectiveness in Implementing Everyday Math
- 2002, Burris, Lindy, A
Correlational Study of Teacher Absences and Student Test Scores in
Urban and Suburban Enviroments
- 2002, Morgan, Rebecca, Censorship in American Public Schools;Two Examples: The Catcher in the Rye and Huckleberry Finn
- 2000, Thomas, Mary, Teaching Skills for Life: A Study in Transition Practices
Engineering & Computer Science
- 2006, Chilton, David, WingFind: A New Algorithm for Analyzing the Velocity Structure of Molecular Clouds
- 2006, Hixson, Jason, Application of Engineering Fundamentals in the Design and Testing of a Compressive Hip Construct
- 2006, Whitt, Justin, Computational Modeling of Steady, Compressible, Viscous Flow for the F-16XL Fighter Aircraft
- 2006, Wilson, Stephanie, A Study of the Effects of Various Flow Obstructions on Heterogeneous Micromixing in Biocatalytic Microchannels
- 2005, Kilby, John, The Effects of Game Awareness on the Decisions of Texas Hold'em Poker Agents
- 2003, Cofer, Adam, Mancala in Java: An Experiment in Artificial Intelligence and Game Playing
- 2003, Gunter, Aubrey, Dynamic Mathematical Model of a Distillation Column
- 2003, Patel, Alok, Dynamic Mathematical Model of a Heat Exchanger
- 2002, Ranasinghe, Mevan, Non-Classical Level Control of the UTC Distillation Column
- 2006, Fulkerson, Kelly Jo, The Absent Voice: The Politics of Representation in the Canon and Responsive Texts
- 2003, Elwood, Barbara, Seasons of Authority: An Account of the Development, Duration and Demise of the King James Version of the Bible
- 2003, Finney, James Alan, Concepts
of Despair in Walker Percy's The Moviegoer,
- 2003, Moore, Kelly, Self Portrait in a Two-Way Mirror
- 2003, Severson, M.J. III, Victims
of Circumstance: Determinism in the Novels of Cormac McCarthy
- 2002, Bilbrey, Mark, A New Village: Mark's Bad-Ass Poetry Project
- 2001, Mayes, Keri, Seamus Heaney: A Portrait of a Political Poet
- 2001, Trice, Natalie Collins, Concepts of History in William Faulkner's Absalom! Absalom! and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude
- 2006, Johnson, Jr., Donnie, In Other Words: On Translation and Translating Cicero's In Catilinam
- 2005, Griffin, Melanie, Translating the Language of Love in the Ex Epistolis Duorum Amantium
- 2005, Dolan, Autumn, The True Patron of Ireland: Saint Brigit and the Rise of Celtic Christianity
- 2004, Vu, Lisa, Controlling the Spread of AIDS in the South African Gold Mining Industry
- 2002, Fritz, Allison, Terrorists or Freedom Fighting: An Analysis of the Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland with Respect to the Idea of a Just War
- 2002, McKee, Laura, Even to Roaring: An Exploration of Character and Language in Shakespeare's The Tempest and a Creative Experiment in Poetic and Dramatic Forms
- 2001, Berry, Caroline, Unutterable Reasons
- 2003, Craig, Heather, Belting and Bel Canto: An Aesthetic and Physiological Comparison and Their Use in Music Education
- 2003, Hamrick, Michael, James Houlick's Development of Classical Tenor Saxophone Repertoire
- 2002, Huff, Julie, The Legacy of Tradition: A Study of Historically Significant Violin Repertoire
- 2005, Frassrand, Sarah, A Comparative Analysis of Stress Levels in Undergraduate University Students
- 2001, Foster, Leah, The Effects of Aromatherapy on Anxiety in Nursing Students
- 1999, Anne Mentro, Medically Fragile Children in the Home: An Application of Orem's Self-Care Framework
- 2006, Saylors, Darris, The Virgin Mary: A Paradoxical Model of Christian Womanhood/Feminine Religiosity for Roman Catholic Immigrant Women of the Nineteenth Century
- 2005, Ley, Patrick, Everybody Loves a Parade: Indian Religious Processions
- 2003, Hamrick, Michael, Solipsistic Sin
- 2003, Loy, Taylor, Ineffability: The Significance of the Presence of an Absence
- 2002, Westmoreland, John Peter, A Treatment of Nihilism
- 2001, Brasher, Stephen, The Unassimilated Other: A Levinasian Critique of Phenomenological Ontology
- 2006, Thomas, Stefani, Modulation of Pain through Thermotherapy: An Appraisal of Current Theories
- 2005, Wightman, Shannon, Lumbrosacral Injuries in Classical Ballet Dancers: A Review of the Literature
- 2003, Gannaway, Johnathan, Treatment and Prevention of Overuse Hand Injuries Related to Rock Climbing in Chattanooga and its Surrounding Areas
- 2003, Taylor, Alden, Low Level
Laser Therapy and its Potential Wide Use in Sports Medicine
- 2002, Steinmann, Jennifer, The Relationship Between Personality Differences, Motivation and Behavior: A Study of Collegiate Varsity Rowers
- 2000, Prall, Erin, The Long-Term Effects of Running on the Development of Osteoarthritis
- 2003, Smith, Tiffany, Japan's Liberal Democrats: Maintaining Political Dominance from 1955-1993
- 2002, Boyer, Lindsay, Is the Lottery Right for Tennessee?
- 2002, Fleming, Laura, The Balance Between American Civil Liberties and Security Objectives
- 2001, Crilly, Andrea, Title IX
and Intercollegiate Athletics: An Analysis of Title IX Policy
Implementation
- 2001, Hines, Meagan, The Impact of Women in the 103rd Congress
- 2003, Denver, Jenny, Age and
Cohort Differences In Flashbulb Memory
- 2003, Hamrick, Michael, Mesmer's Triumph Over Gassner: Matter Over Mind
- 2003, Silverstein, Tiffany, Disordered Prosody in the Speech of Autistic Individuals
- 2002, Dyson, Angie, A Comparison of Theories for Treatment of Autism
- 2001, Cooper, Kathryn, The Effects of Responsibility on Memory
Sociology, Anthropology and Geography
- 2006, Williams, Rachel, Emic Perspectives of Bodily Pain
- 2005, Vitek, Corrine, A Comparison in Osteological Measurements of Two Populations from East Tennessee
- 2002, Mendenhall, Nicolette, Rape Myths among a Sample of UTC Students
- 2001, Long, Lacy, Gender Labeling of Infants and Sex Stereotyping, Is it Still a Pink and Blue World?
- 2001, VanWinkle, Toni, Development and Validity of Pubic Symphyseal Aging Techniques
- 2003, Williams, Ben, Hadivadlo in Chattanooga: A Critical Assessment of the Process of Producing School for Fools
Questions or comments to: Melissa-Burchfield@utc.edu
