This collection includes 420 University of Montana graduate student portfolios, papers, and capstone projects, which some departments utilize as an alternative to the traditional thesis option. Use the following links to search discipline-specific portfolios:
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(DE)COMPOSITION: Earthen Storytelling for Collective Liberation
Priya Subberwal
This interdisciplinary portfolio is an investigation into ecological communication through pedagogical design, online collaborative learning spaces, digital and print media, and creative writing. Braiding lenses of queer ecology, decolonial studies, anarchism, and collaborative and creative practice, this work hopes to explore the field of environmental ... Read More
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Griz Give-and-Get: Understanding The Context, Philosophy, and Logistics behind a Project to Reduce Waste at The University of Montana
Sam Sullivan
Griz Give-and-Get is an online platform at the University of Montana that aims to reduce consumer waste. It attempts to do this by providing students and staff with a place to give away their used items. The first objective of this essay is to describe ... Read More
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'My Body Is Fertile Ground': Exploring Relational Agriculture Through Gender, Body, and Local Food Policy
Erin M. Tansimore
This master's portfolio, "'My Body Is Fertile Ground': Exploring Relational Agriculture Through Gender, Body, and Local Food Policy," explores the concept of relational agriculture through multiple forms of practice. It comprises three parts: a personal essay discussing the author's experiences with the land as a ... Read More
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Master of Social Work Portfolio
Amber Thornton
This reflection on my journey through the Master of Social Work (MSW) program highlights the transformative influence of critical self-reflection, research, policy analysis, and leadership in shaping my development as a social worker. The program has equipped me with key competencies to engage effectively with ... Read More
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MSW Portfolio
Melissa Sue Wells
This portfolio showcases examples of the work I have completed throughout my master's program.
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Keep Working Hands on Working Land
Elyse Caiazzo
Strategies for Effective Farmland Transitions, Succession Planning, and Landowner Education
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From Spirit toward Liberation: MSW Professional Portfolio
Claire CW Compton
Portfolio of work accomplished in Master of Social Work program. Includes the Five Elements of Advanced Integrated Practice (Finn & Molloy, 2021), 10 social work competencies, and four dimensions of practice.
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Approaches and Tools to Solving Complex Problems in Private Land Conservation
John T. Curnyn
The central theme throughout my four portfolio pieces is: approaches and tools that can be used to address complex problems involving private land conservation. I consider the broader human and environmental community health to be factors in successful private land conservation. The first portfolio piece ... Read More
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PROTECTING WESTERN WATERSHEDS: REGULATORY SCHEMES AND RESTORATION LIABILITY PROBLEMS
Gardner W. Dee
This M.S. Environmental Studies portfolio combines two academic and technical reports and one work product from a summer internship. The first piece discusses in detail the selenium pollution crisis in the Elk River watershed and the updated canadian coal mining effluent regulations proposed for the ... Read More
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Supporting Effective and Just Responses to Climate Change Through Policy Analysis, Cumulative Impact Assessments, and a Conservation Initiative Assessment
Rashail DeMinck
The first element of my portfolio discusses vulnerable populations in China who are facing climate change and highlights the need to change top-down systems, so impacted populations will be treated fairly when severe circumstances affect their lifeways. It is critically important to identify cases and ... Read More
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Environmental Education In Informal Learning Spaces: Integration, Design, and Access
Maya S. Gutierrez
In this portfolio, I will focus on using learning spaces to facilitate environmental education and promote environmental literacy. I will discuss the incorporation of the framework of environmental education into an experiential and informal learning environment; the creation of a curriculum that fuses formal and ... Read More
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Strategies for Combatting the Climate Crisis: Policy, Organizing, and Community Resilience
Shannon F. James
This portfolio synthesizes work I have done throughout graduate school through research and experience. I have had the opportunity to focus the majority of my work on the climate crisis and be involved in work to address this wicked problem. Though detrimental impacts are already ... Read More
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Co-op to Cafeteria: Building a Food Value Chain for Farm to School
Blake D. Lineweaver
The central theme of this M.S. Environmental Studies portfolio considers farm-to-school as a medium for food system transformation within an innovative regional partnership of producer-owned food hubs and a state education agency. The portfolio consists of three main elements.
The first element is a literature ... Read More
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LIVING AMONG WILDLIFE: ELEVATING HUMAN-WILDLIFE INTERACTIONS AND COEXISTENCE
Bridget Rebecca Murphy
After a semester of learning, both in class and in nature, my writing honed in further on this human-nature divide. To me, I see humans as part of nature – as we are mammals, animals, part of the food chain, biological beings no higher than ... Read More
