Objective: The purpose of this study is to explore to what extent do people, who have received courses in Spirituality, feel their perceptions of death and dying have been affected? Hypothesis: If certain people took these courses, then they would far . . .

Religious freedom is necessarily a broad concept since it must apply to a wide range of religions. Yet, religious freedom in the United States is rooted in the First Amendment, which was created for a limited set of religions (i.e., Protestant Christi . . .

The stories we tell ourselves about the world are very powerful things. Although these narratives are often invisible to us, cultural and personal worldviews influence perception and shape everything that people think, say, and do. Recognizing the tra . . .

Christianity emerged from the desert periphery of the Roman Empire. The Roman Empire's growth necessitated centuries of imperial conquests, stratification, and extensive resource extraction. The result was widespread state oppression, social injustice . . .

The present thesis explores the phenomenon of global migration as related to displacement from geographical locale of birth and upbringing, particularly focusing on the affect of such separation on senses of identity and belonging. Contemporary matter . . .

This project will look at how Chicanas/Xicanas, located within the Greater Eastside of Los Angeles, have used social media websites as a tool of activism to reconnect communities to the mind, body, and spirit through Indigenous Epistemology. The focus . . .

The album Odalisque by the indie rock band Sanglorians is the culmination of many years of deep personal, artistic, and technical work. Many aspects of the composition, arrangement, performance, and recording of the project album were widely influence . . .

I plan to research the history of Danza Azteca in Los Angeles County. Besides using scholarly work, I plan to interview Danzantes who learned from Florencio Yescas. Yescas was the first Danzante teacher to travel from Mexico to the U.S to teach the ce . . .

The purpose of this thesis is to explore new methods of geographic visualization and to prototype a method to capture images of geographic landscapes, including both physical and human geographic landscapes, and then display them in immersive visualiz . . .

This research explores the narratives of bereaved family members in attempts to better understand the contemporary way of dying. I asked three research questions about the end-of-life process. First, how is dying of a relative or partner/spouse experi . . .