AY

Completed

Student Name

Culminating Projects:  Option A Thesis; Option B Comprehensive Exams; Option C Project (portfolio).

AY 2018-19

13 degrees

Diondra Gallegos

Carla Mateos

Penelope Mendez

Luis Mercado

Robert Rodriguez

COMPREHENSIVE EXAMS

SP19

Haruka Akai

PROJECT: Is Polyamory an Identity?: Question from a Queer Theoretical Perspective

SP19

Johanna Machado

PROJECT: Military-Connected Students at Cal State LA: Exploring the Experiences of Veterans, Dependents, National Guard, Reservists, and Active Duty

SP19

Kourosh Safari

PROJECT: Digital Nomads: Millennials Redefining Society in a Global Age

SP19

Melanie Borstad

THESIS: Effects of Technological Development upon Wage Inequality and Underemployment in the Service Sector

SP19

Antoine Roberts

THESIS: Types of Job Satisfaction: Does Union Membership Make a Difference?

SP19

Shou Schweitz

THESIS: Compassion toward the Homeless: Exploring Qualities of a Person That Are Linked to Compassionate Behavior toward the Homeless

F18

Marie Choi 

THESIS: The Korean and Korean American Social Attitudes and Stigma of Epilepsy

F18

Maria Betania Santos

THESIS: Community-Based Healing as Resistance

AY 2017-18

16 degrees

Henia Alvallero

Gabriela Flores

Stephanie Garcia

Stephanie Lopez

Danielle Roman

Alma Trejo

Luo Wei

COMPREHENSIVE EXAMS

SP18

Summer Brantner

PROJECT: How Can We Know Fundamentalism? Scriptural Literalism and Tolerance towards Religious Others

SP18

Adiba Fannana  

PROJECT: The Ongoing Human Rights Violation in Myanmar: Is It Really not Ethnic Cleansing?

SP18

Nicole Flores

PROJECT: Female Offenders: How Stigma of Former Incarceration Affects Their Mental Health

SP18

Ralph Pioquinto

PROJECT: On the Criminalization of Online Fantasy Behavior:  To Intent or Not Intent

SP18

Yvette Servin

PROJECT: No Refuge Found: Accounts of Migrant Abuse Along the Mexico-Guatemala Border, 2010-2015

SP18

Hugo Alex Aguas

THESIS: Hugo Alex Aguas  Incarceration Experience and Depression Among the Homeless in LA

SP18

Briauna Dotson

THESIS: How Do the Historical Legacies of Traumas in Systematic Anti-black Racism and Sexism Spaces Manifest in the Public University Learning Experience for African American Women? The Ways of the World for the Little Black Girl

SP18

Johnny Zambrano 

THESIS: Tattoo Culture

F17

Grzegorz Hryniszak

PROJECT: Digital Dependency Interrupted: Profiles of Withdrawal for Self-Described Internet Addicts

AY 2016-17

16 degrees

Soonthorn 

         Boonnoppornkul

Cindy Flores

Carmen Mendoza

Cindy Roa

COMPREHENSIVE EXAMS

SP17

Brenda Davidge

PROJECT: Self Perception of Gamers and the Social Stigma of Being a Gamer

SP17

Arwen Jordan-Zimmerman

PROJECT: Social Construction of Forensics in Popular Police Procedurals: Media and Misrepresentation

SP17

Aaron Ledesma 

PROJECT: Hispanic Women & Anal Sex: A Quantitative Study Testing Sexual Script Theory

SP17

Crystal Moody

PROJECT: Medically Assisted Suicide

SP17

Amy Piliposian 

PROJECT: How Religious Beliefs Are Shaping Attitudes Towards Same-Sex Marriage

SP17

Sasha Santhoff

PROJECT: Interfacing Conflict: Digital Life Issues Triggering Advice Columns

SP17

Lacey Sloan

PROJECT: Backstage as Online Main-stage:
Virtual Queer Community and Identity and Emotion Management

SP17

Rodolfo Campos

THESIS: Straight Outta The Factory: Sexuality, Masculinity, and the Homeboys

SP17

Alen Sardarian

THESIS: Responsibility and Capital Punishment

F16

Leonard Rios

PROJECT: Behind Bars: A Journey into the California Department of Corrections through the Eyes of Inmate T49722

F16

Aditi Sapra

PROJECT: UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – University Level Contributions

SU16

Nankia Brazier

THESIS: Socio-Political Dimensions of Informal Sector Participation: Sense Making of the Experiences of African Americans in the United States and Africans in Ghana

AY 2015-16

14 degrees

Fabian Alvizo

Manzur Arafat

Alejandro Flores

Isabel Gallegos

Ruzan Karatyan

Ismael Neri

COMPREHENSIVE EXAMS

SP16

Bianca Gomez

THESIS: Attitudes toward Female Aggression: A Bi-Dimensional Approach of Attachment Style and Coping Mechanisms

SP16

Eric Lopez

THESIS: Examining Elements of Propaganda in the Social Construction of the War on Terror:  A Content Analysis

SP16

Edgar Peralta

THESIS: Does Parental Alcoholism Impact an Adult Child’s Well-Being?

SP16

Uriel Serrano

THESIS: Minority-Serving Institutions: Campus Racial Climate and Black and Latino Men

SP16

Anna Torres

THESIS: Perceptions of Aging for Latinas: A Social Psychology Analysis

W16

Nancy Baclini

THESIS: Reactions to Dating Violence

W16

Daniel Okamura

THESIS: To Have But Not To Hold: Consumer Attitudes Towards Digital Music Piracy

F15

Chang Hong Yu

THESIS: The Invisible Impact of Informal Rules on the Performance of Data Warehouse

AY 2014-15

11 degrees

Nicole Bellasalma

Yolanda Delgado

Laura Gonzalez

Jose Martinez

Lars Svanljung

COMPREHENSIVE EXAMS

SP15

Berge Apardian

THESIS: Activism, Community and the Individual: Social Networking and the Internet

SP15

Adriana Avila

THESIS: LGB vs. Heterosexual Adults: Differences in Relationships with Parents and Psychological Well-Being

SP15

Erik Blanco

THESIS: It's Better to Give than Receive, Or Is It? Effects of Social Support on the Psychological Well-Being of Older Parents

W15

Sagrario Gutierrez

THESIS: Strawberry Fields: Fear, Anger and Hope in Collective Action Among Farmworkers

W15

Kristen Howa

THESIS: Lifting the White Sheet: A Sociological Perspective on Rural Women and a Feminist Approach to Health

F14

Eunah Joung

THESIS: "Give a Smile Away to Brighten Someone Else's Day!"--Exploring Social Integration Effects of Greetings Across Gender and Race

AY 2013-14

3 degrees

Liliana Gonzalez

COMPREHENSIVE EXAMS

SP14

Deborah Burns

THESIS: Presentation of Gender in Tattoo Magazines

F13

Nathan Martel

THESIS: The Art World of the Sample-Based Hip Hop Producer: Postmodern Aesthetics and Identity

AY 2012-13

5 degrees

Evelyn Espinoza

Spencer Goss

Athena Last

COMPREHENSIVE EXAMS

SP13

Marcus Marquardt

THESIS: Is there a Medical Cure for Deviance?: A Sociological Perspective on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Child and Adolescent Bi-Polar Disorder.

SP13

Michael Nitzani

THESIS: There is “Crying” in Baseball: A Rational Choice Analysis of Major League Baseball Managerial Ejections.