Undergraduate Honors Theses
The Northwest University Honors Program began in Fall 2018. The first cohort graduated in Spring 2022. Honors Program students enroll in up to eight rigorous core courses and finish their undergraduate career by writing an honor thesis based on original research.
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Top Factors Contributing to Turnover Rates in the Pacific Northwest Youth Pastorates
Northwest University, May 3, 2022
25 pagesThis thesis deduces the top three factors affecting turnover rates in the Pacific Northwest. The role of the youth pastor has only come about within the last century. With this information, it is understandable why job ... -
True Crime Podcasts: Analyzing Ethical Principles, Advocacy, and Sensationalism
Northwest University, May 2022
29 pagesThe ethics of true crime podcasts are questionable. They appear to promote social justice but may utilize media tactics that could be exploitative and sensationalist. True crime podcasts bear ethical responsibility to ... -
Exploring Education-Based Minimum-Wage Incentives to Counter Seattle’s Rising Homelessness Rates
Northwest University, May 2022
28 pagesSeattle currently has the third highest rate of homeless of any city in the U.S., with homeless rates only rising. To assist struggling families, the United States government has issued a new federal minimum wage to lift ... -
Assessing the Validity of the Garmin Venu SQ for Estimating VO2max
Northwest University, May 1, 2022
15 pagesThis study assesses the accuracy and validity of the Garmin Venu SQ’s VO2max estimations. We asked 13 healthy college-aged students (ages 18-23) to complete three exercise trials while wearing the Garmin Venu SQ. Participants ... -
Getting Back on Script: An Investigation into the Use of Scripts to Reduce Police Violence
Northwest University, April 26, 2022
52 pagesThis study addresses the problem of violence in the United States perpetrated by police through the study of the communicative concept of “scripts.” It serves to examine the reasons why the United States has such a strong ... -
Identifying Correlations in Academic Anxiety to Coin the Term "Math-Related Testing Anxiety"
Northwest University, April 22, 2022
39 pagesMath anxiety was first defined by Richardson and Suinn (1972) as “feelings of tension or anxiety that interfere with the manipulation of numbers.” Testing anxiety has been proven to produce similar feelings of tension which ... -
A Silent Pandemic: A Proposal to End the Insulin Crisis
Northwest University, April 20, 2022
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A Neglected and Untreated Population: Addressing the Systemic Underdiagnosis of Females with ADHD
Northwest University, November 17, 2021
31 pagesADHD is a neurobehavioral disorder that has been historically associated with young boys, although recent research has focused on bolstering the scarce selection of research on females with the disorder. I evaluated a large ...
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