This collection includes 396 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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Increasing Environmental Education Accessibility Through New Media
Farrah Masoumi
This portfolio shows projects that aim to create a larger outreach for environmental education through digital education content and expand already existing programs to enhance the learning and teaching experience. All of these components highlight the integration between environmental education and new media. By being ... Read More
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Group Development in Natural Resource Collaboration in the Crown of the Continent: Forming, Storming, Norming & Performing
Meghan Rene Neville
This portfolio brings together three experiences of natural resource collaborative groups each in a different stage of development. Researcher, Bruce Tuckman, theorized that collaborative groups go through different stages in order to grow, face new challenges, tackle problems, deliver results, and become an effective team ... Read More
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Conservation Education: Using Birds to Connect Communities to their Natural Environment
Kathryn A. Olson
The theme of my portfolio is conservation education, using birds as an example of how to connect people of all ages to their natural environment. Birds were chosen as an example because of a personal curiosity for the animal, and because they are an accessible ... Read More
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Encouraging Discourse in High School Mathematics
Sarah Piper
The Common Core State Standards in Mathematics increased the emphasis on the skills of reasoning, justifying, and critiquing. Mathematics educators have struggled to meet this requirement, as it requires a distinct shift in classroom culture that both students and teachers find challenging. Visibly random groupings ... Read More
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Grasping Wild: A Documentary Film on the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness
Mikensi R. Romersa
The Absaroka- Beartooth Wilderness stretches nearly 1 million acres from south central Montana to northern Wyoming, and shares a southern border with Yellowstone National Park. In 2018, the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness celebrated its 40th anniversary, as well as the designation of East Rosebud Creek as a ... Read More
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Governor Steve Bullock's "Great Equalizers": How the Narrative Paradigm Translates Progressive Initiatives to Conservative Audiences
Kelsie Lynn Severson
Montana Democratic Governor Steve Bullock won his re-election in 2016 despite a national conservative groundswell, in a state where Donald Trump also won by twenty points. Bullock would be labeled a very moderate Governor. However, he has accomplished several progressive steps forward for policy decisions ... Read More
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Second Wind
Anne A. Yoncha
Second Wind is a kinetic, responsive art installation which examines invisible processes taking place in and around a Ponderosa pine tree. Wind speed data, measured at 20', 25', 30', 35', and 40' in the canopy of a Ponderosa on the University of Montana campus, is ... Read More
