卒論タイトル一覧 / Graduation Thesis Titles

近年アメリカ科に提出された卒業論文のタイトルです。当コースでは、卒論は英語で執筆することと定められています。

2024年3月卒業生

  • “Election Monitors’ Bias: When and Why Are American Monitors Lenient?”
  • “Hugh Borton and the Making of the US Policy on the Occupation of Japan: His Role and Contribution”
  • “The ‘Americanization’ of Japanese Immigrants: Perspectives of Japanese Immigrant Women in Southern California”
  • “Engaging with the Past: Improvision in Invisible Man and The Abolitionist“
  • “J.J. Singh’s Impact on the Asian Indian Community in the U.S.: The Passage of the Luce-Cellar Act”
  • “Nikkeis’ Resilience and Americanization in the Inter-War Period: What Americanization Meant for the Nikkei Community”
  • “Bilingual Education in California Since the Late 20th Century: Reconsidering the Impact of National Standard Testing in the 1990s”
  • “Media Redemption over Romantic Love: How Can Film Describe the Back Side of This Ideology?”

2023年3月卒業生

  • “A Look into the Mind of the ‘Pro-life’: Phyllis Schlafly and the Anti-abortion Movement”
  • “Re-examining the Fall of the Automobile Industry in Detroit: Deindustrialization and Influx of Japanese Automobiles”
  • “Representations of Female Characters in Charlie’s Angels: Female Detectives with Activeness and Bonds”

2022年3月卒業生

  • “Re-examining the Legacies of Jane Jacobs: The Possibilities and Limitations of Jacobs’s Perspectives on Gentrification and Neighborhoods”
  • “Demystifying Rosie the Riveter: Race, Gender, and Women Workers during World War II”
  • “American Self-Image in Back to Bataan: The OWI, Hollywood, and the Representation of the Philippines during World War II”
  • “The African Newcomers and Changing American Identity: A Brief History of Somali Refugees in the United States”

2021年3月卒業生

  • “Mexican Immigrants in Late Twentieth-Century Chicago”
  • “Billy Graham and the Emergence of the Religious Right”
  • “War and Humanitarianism”
  • “Elia Kazan and McCarthyism”
  • “How Libertarianism Influences American Politics: The Cato Institute as a Libertarian Think Tank”
  • “Political Satire on American Television”

2020年3月卒業生

  • “Alexander Hamilton and His Vision for an American Republic”
  • “A Woman of ‘Courage’?: Representation of Rosa Parks in Children’s Education”
  • “A Transpacific Analysis into the Worldview of California Cuisine”

2019年3月卒業生

  • “Jimmy Carter and Human Rights Diplomacy: A Reevaluation”
  • “The Changing Role of Newspapers in Revolutionary America: The Evolution of Printing, Editing, and Publishing in the Eighteenth Century”
  • “The Erie Canal and the Civil War: The Impact of the Civil War on Transportation through the Erie Canal”
  • “The Hollywood Film Industry and the Hays Code: The History of Censorship and its Influence on Films”
  • “Soul and Nature: Isadora Duncan and New Dance”
  • “Investment Banking Reconsidered: The Controversy over the Establishment of Monopolies and Trusts, 1890–1915”

2018年3月卒業生

  • “Achievement Gaps and Education Reform: The Case of New York and a Study of Effective Policies of Closing Achievement Gaps after 2000”
  • “The Impact of ‘Revisionism’ on US-Japan Relations: Economic Frictions and Mutual Misunderstanding, 1980–1989”
  • “The Issue of Identity in The Great Gatsby: Three “Borders” within Narration, Plot, and Colors”
  • “Limits of Multiculturalism: Critical Examination of Discourses on Multiculturalism and Discourses on Asian International Students in Australia”
  • “Entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley: Role of University in Creating Community Closeness”
  • “Jackie Robinson and Integration in America: A Black Pioneer’s Struggle and Philosophy”
  • “American Counter Culture: A Comparative Study between Hippie Movement and Transcendentalism”

2017年3月卒業生

  • “The Heritage Movement and the Significance of Nostalgic Images in Disneyland”
  • “U.S. Film Schools and the Film School Generation”
  • “The Iran-Iraq War and U.S. Foreign Policy: The Carter Administration’s Attitude toward the Conflict between Iran and Iraq”

2016年3月卒業生

  • “Affirmative Action in Higher Education in the United States: Compensation for Past Discrimination or Securing Diversity?”
  • “Imperfect Justice: Jury Selection and the Rodney King Trial”
  • “The All-American ‘Other’: Presenting Rita Hayworth’s Racial Identity during World War II”
  • “The ‘Amateur’ Myth in American College Sports: From the Birth of College Sports to the O’Bannon Trial”
  • “’The Minds of the Japanese’: Demilitarization and Democratization through Radio Broadcasting during the U.S. Occupation of Japan”
  • “A Servant of God or Citizen of Nation? Christian Attitudes toward Modern Warfare and Atomic Weapons”
  • “Misunderstanding, Miscalculation, and Mistrust: The Dissolution of Partnership between J. William Fulbright and Lyndon B. Johnson during the Vietnam War, 1963–1968”