At Minnesota State University, Mankato, every graduate student completes a capstone for their program. Most programs include a thesis/dissertation or alternative plan paper (APP) option, but many programs provide other capstone opportunities.
Beginning in 2009, graduate students at Minnesota State University, Mankato could elect to have their alternative plan paper, thesis, dissertation or other capstone project made available online through a digital collection platform provided by Library Services. In 2014, these electronic submissions or ETDs were transferred into the Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects collection in Cornerstone, the University's new institutional repository.
The development of this collection is ongoing as graduate students continue to elect to provide digital copies of their graduate theses, dissertations or other capstone projects to Cornerstone. If you are a former Minnesota State University, Mankato graduate student and wish to include your work in Cornerstone, please contact us .
Documents From 2012
The Effects of Task Ambiguity and Individual Differences on Personal Internet Use at Work, Hitoshi Nishina
Needs Assessment of Emergency Department Social Workers in Southwestern Minnesota in Relation to Emergency Department Expansion, Gina Marie Njugunah
Comparing AI Archetypes and Hybrids Using Blackjack, Robert Edward Noonan
Teaching Children How to Like Balanced Meals, Harumi Norasakkunkit
"I Could Kill You Quite Easily, Bella, Simply by Accident": Violence and Romance in Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight" Saga, Samantha Amber Oakley
The Hyperactive Fan: Characteristics of Online Fantasy Football Players, Christopher Patera
Older, Wiser, Novice: An Autoethnographic Study of Nontraditional Students' Participation in Collegiate Forensics, Laura Kathleen Pelletier
Struggling While Managing Chronic Illness, Amy M. Perkins
Study Skills, Organizational Skills, Self-Awareness and Understanding Self Skills: A Development of Skills Curriculum for Middle School Students, Aliina Vivant Peterson
Principal Perceptions of the Relevancy of the K-12 Minnesota Principal Competencies, Paul Peterson
Theatre of the Oppressed: Transitioning Feminist Pedagogy from Theory to Praxis, Megan Mary Rae
Trap Efficiency of a Silted Prairie Reservoir: Rapidan Reservoir, Blue Earth County, Minnesota, Katherine Brosch Rassmussen
Tying It All Together: An Autoethnographic Exploration of LGBTQ Forensic Competitors, Alyssa Barrie Reid
Policies in Hospital Social Work, Jolene L. Reisdorfer
Grave Exclamations: An Analysis of Tombstones and Their Use as Narrative of Self, Lacey Jae Ritter
Comparison of Minnesota's Community-Based Jail Reentry Programs, Lori A. Sanborn
The Family Experience of Participating in an ICU Support Group: A Pilot Study, Rebecca Marie Scharpe
A Review of Developmentally Appropriate Evidence-Based Effective Parenting and Resources for Parents, Kari Schwecke
Perceptions of Risk Associated with Unintended Pregnancy and Sexually Transmitted Infections among University Women attending Minnesota State University, Mankato, Jessica Maria Seide
The Health Impacts of Nursing Shift Work, Amanda Maria Cason Shandor
Deviant Desires: Gender Resistance in Romantic Friendships Between Women during the Late-Eighteenth and Early-Nineteenth Centuries in Britain, Sophie Jade Slater
Needs Assessment to Explore Support for Spouses Affected by Military Life, Erika Sletten
I Had an Abortion: Midwest Women, Stigma and Disclosure, Katie Stack
Interning as an Outpatient Therapist: Developing a Comprehensive Training Manual Grounded in the Professional Knowledge Base, Katie Stadheim
Nurses' Knowledge of Heart Failure Education Topics at a Regional Midwestern Hospital, Catherine Joy Standfuss
The Effect of Exercise on Endothelin and Endothelin Receptor Levels in SHR and WKY Male and Female Rats, Lacey Stiller
College Age Female Smokers and the Efficacy of Smoking Cessation on College Campuses, Gretchen Suzanne Strobel
Bridging Tactics: Parental Support Systems: A Proposal for a Psycho-Educational Parent Group, Emily F. Thompson
La mentira como una estrategia de cortesía verbal: estudio pragmalinguístico de la telenovela La Saga, Maria Carolina Torres
A Feminist Content Analysis of Seventeen Magazine, Brittany Marie Trimble
Mental Illness and Stigmatization, Struther Louise Van Horn
Forensics and the Basic Communication Course: A New Path to Satisfying Learning Outcomes, Benjamin Walker
"I Now Pronounce You...Uhh": A Qualitative Autoethnographic Exploration of Women's and Men's Marital Surname-Choice Experiences, Julie Louceil Germain Walker
"Not Our Population to Serve": An Examination of Resources for Women with Physical Disabilities Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence, Kristen Lea Walters
Influences of Adjacent Land-Use on Avian Community Structure in Sub-Boreal Peatlands of the Midwest, Lucas J. Wandrie
Mental Health Inpatient Hospitalization and Smoking Cessation, Susan Warring
Access and Barriers to Diabetic Self Care Education and Support Groups in a Rural Southern Minnesota Community, Elizabeth Waters
The Roles of Self-Efficacy and Self-Deception in Cheating on Unproctored Internet Testing, Christopher Adam Wedge
Evaluation of the BEST Program, Rana Wehner
Refugee and Immigrant Services: An Investigation of Social Service Organization's Mission and Intercultural Interactions, Bethany J. Wenell
Negotiating the Ideological Boundaries of "The Four Freedoms": An Analysis of African American Rhetoric from World War II, Jansen Blake Werner
Electronic Portfolios as Job Search Tools: Perspectives from Students, Career Counselors, and Human Resource Professionals, Emily Werschay
Deconstructing "Chappelle's Show": Race, Masculinity,and Comedy As Resistance, Lyndsey Lynn Wetterberg
The Effectiveness Of An Incentivized Program To Increase Daily Fruit And Vegetable Dietary Intake By Low Income, Middle-Aged Women, Rebecca White
Survey of Emergency Department Patients' Perceived Barriers to Accessing Services and Community Resource Utilization, Kelsey Ann Wilke
Dual Diagnosis Treatment Group Curriculum, Julie M. Wood
Effect of Process-Oriented Guided-Inquiry Learning on Non-Majors Biology Students' Understanding of Biological Classification, Breann Marie Wozniak
Documents From 2011
Assessing Transfer Student Performance, Hyderhusain Shakir Abadin
The Legitimacy of Children's and Young Adult Literature as Literature, Timothy Akers
Evaluation of a Health Newsletter Intended for SagePlus Participants, Karen Lynn Anderson
Evaluation of the SagePlus Steps Program to Promote Physical Activity and Decrease Cardiovascular Risk in Low-Income Women, Callie Anne Avis
Determining a Patient Recovery from a Total Knee Replacement Using Fuzzy Logic and Active Databases, Robert Azarbod
Effective Trauma Assessment Tools for Women with Severe Mental Illness, Heather A. Bangu
Nonmetric Trait Correlation: A Look at Environmental and Biological Influences on Third Trochanter Formation Among Pre-Contact Upper Midwest Populations, Sarah Jean Binkley
Should You Hire fluffybunny61@yahoo.com?: An Analysis of Job Applicants' Email Addresses and their Scores on Pre-Employment Assessments, Evan Blackhurst
An Exploration of Multi-agent Learning Within the Game of Sheephead, Brady Brau
Best Practices for Working with Undocumented Latino Youth, Elizabeth J. Braun
Defining Success: Examining What it Means to be Good in Forensics, David J. Brennan
Evaluating Changes in Families with Members on Military Deployment, Jill Brink
Evaluation of School Social Workers' Time Spent in Direct and Indirect Practices, Kris Brummund
Best Practices For Collaboration Between ESL And General Education Teachers, Mike Burgess
Developing Global Literacy: Best Practices for Teaching Technical Communication Internationally, Melanie I. Cashin
The World Englishes Paradigm and its Implications for International Students' Acquisition of Standard American English for University-Level Studies in the United States, Karen Applequist Clement
Floristic and Environmental Characteristics of Sub-boreal Peatlands of Minnesota and Western Wisconsin, Kevin Douglas Clement
Exploring CALL Options for Teaching EFL in Vietnam, Nhon Thanh Dang
Best Practices for Treating Co-Occuring Disorders in a Chemical Dependency Treatment Setting, Michelle Dick
A Multi-Method Approach to Risk Assessment among Women with Sexual Abuse Histories, Susan Elizabeth Drevo
Best Practice in Working with the Somali Population, Ilhan Duale
Assessing Students' Risk Factors for Type II Diabetes at a Midwest Public University, Nicole DeCourcy Ferrian
Evidence-based Strategies for Working with Veterans, Bethany Fopma
A Duality Theory for the Algebraic Invariants of Substitution Tiling Spaces, Jeffrey Myers Ford
An Evaluation of Writing Samples by English Learners in Special Education, Brett Patrick Frayseth
La búsqueda de identidad y toma de conciencia de los cuatro personajes principales en las obras Demasiados héroes y La multitud errante de Laura Restrepo, Mauricio Garcia Vargas
The Illusion of Transparency and Public Speaking: A Study of Social Anxiety, Chelsea Gloth
Assessing the Needs of Students Identified with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder at Minnesota State University, Mankato, Jenny A. Goff
Implementing Computer-Assisted Language Learning in the Teaching of Second Language Listening Skills, Jesse Gene Greenleaf
Determining Exurbia: Is It Really Its Own Entity or Merely An Extension of Americas Growing Suburbia, Thomas A. Green
Corporate Speech in the Wake of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, Eric Groonwald
Utilization And Maintaining The Spirit Of Motivational Interviewing In SagePlus Lifestyle Interventions, Joan Y. Grotewold
Student Examination Performance Predictors: The Cramming Study Strategy and Examination Format, Andrea Haberman
Somali Dialects in the United States: How Intelligible is Af-Maay to Speakers of Af-Maxaa?, Deqa Hassan
Evaluation of Health Newsletter Effectiveness on Dietary Habits in Low-Income Middle-Aged Women, Nichole Jennifer Hassebroek
Documenting the Oral Narratives of Transient Punks, Thomas Ross Heffernan
Gender Perceptions in Rheumatic Disease: A Secondary Analysis, Jean Heise
Community Down: The Loss of Sergeant Joe Bergeron, John Edward Helcl II
Incredible Years Dina Dinosaur Program Evaluation, Amanda Holzapfel
The Effects of Invasion by Reed Canarygrass (Phalaris arundinacea) on Avian Communities and Nesting Success in Minnesota Wetlands, Emily J. Hutchins
Utilizing Music in Speech and Language Therapy for Preschool Children and Children with Autism: A Systematic Review, Joelle Kay Johanson
Implementing a Sheltered Science Course in an Iowa High School, Erin Holt Johnson
Hegans: An Examination of the Emerging Male Vegan, Justine Ann Johnson
Comparison of a Ranking and Rating Format of the 5Plus5: A Personality Measure, Kristy Lynn Jungemann
Factors that Contribute to Patient Length of Stay at St. Peter Regional Treatment Center, Brenda Karch
Assessing the Effectiveness of the Community School Model in Closing the Achievement Gap for Low Income Students of Color: A Case Study, Suzanne Pauline Kelly
