The creative work project requires students to file both a written manuscript and a recording of the performance or training workshop.
Creative work projects provide students an embodied way (e.g., a public performance, a training workshop) of investigating and analyzing a topic in communication studies. Topics are chosen by the student according to interests and academic experience and career goals. Following the approval of a written proposal (including literature review, proposed creative work, rationale), the student works to create a tangible project with the consultation and guidance of the chair of the creative work project, and sometimes other committee members.
| Name | Title | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Chacon, Joven | Graphic Fiction as Communication Studies Method | 2013 |
| Conkle, Allen | My Life as a Bunny: Disidentification, Interpellation, and Survival | 2013 |
| Olzman, Miranda | Becoming Publicly Fat and Femme: How Fat Bodies Queer Femininity in Performance | 2013 |
| Burns, Marlon | Zombie Intervention | 2012 |
| Christianson, Erik | Labor Unions: Power and the People | 2012 |
| Cis, Sylvia | Couples living with ALS: Managing challenges and maintaining relationship | 2012 |
| Flores, Esmeralda Xochitl | A CMM Performance of Chicana Women Who Choose Not to Have Children: “Niños? No gracias/Kids? No thanks.” | 2012 |
| Boyd, James | Pieces of 8: Exploring the Intersubjective Autoethnographic Narrative Performance | 2011 |
| Davila, Ana | Stories of Interracial/Interethnic Romantic Relationships | 2011 |
| Seeche, Tivela | Lyme Disease: Patients’ Empowerment and Social Justice Activism through the Internet | 2011 |
| Willoughly, Katelyn | Community Capacity Building through Social Media: A Case Study | 2011 |
| Lim, Julie | Moving, Death, Divorce | 2010 |
| Pullen, Suzanne | Giving Birth to Death: An Ethnographic Performance Exploring Stillbirth Memorable Messages | 2010 |
| Chandler, Vincent | Complicate(d) and trouble(d) | 2009 |
| Fine, Hunter | Spatial Movement — A Psychogeographical Exploration of Everyday Spatial Constraints | 2008 |
| Hawkins, Robert | Indie Rock, Whiteness and The Mixed Experience | 2008 |
| Litzky, Alexis | Mourning Activism: Vanguard Politics After All the Words Have Been Said | 2008 |
| Steele, Nathan | Traversing the Taboo: Crossing Bridges and/or Making Connections | 2008 |
| Brassey, Dom | Sisters Rise | 2007 |
| Kooken, Marianne | Hand-Me-Downs: A Study On Gender Identity Across Generations | 2007 |
| Pippins, Eileen | “Mama Use to Say ...” Explicit and Implicit Messages of Empowerment and Achievement from African-American Mothers to Their Daughters | 2007 |
| Moran, Rebeca | A Workshop for Faculty: Mentoring Under-represented (Or is it Unrecognized?) Students in Higher Education | 2006 |
| Phalen, Shannon | Training Our Future Leaders: A Leadership Workshop for Female Adolescents | 2006 |
| Warda, Christine | Now You See Me, Now You Don’t | 2005 |
| Cheng, Ka Yun | Introducing Solution Focused Therapy nto Community Board’s Model of Mediation | 2005 |
| Cressler, Mary | Addressing Relational Aggression in Young Girls: A Workshop for Adult Educators | 2005 |
| Ottoboni-Stahl, Gina | The Animals Can Talk: Media Mis/Representations and Lived Experiences of the ‘Criminal Other’ | 2005 |
| Warda, Christina | Now You See Me, Now You Don’t: A Critical Performance Ethnography Exploring Performances of Homelessness | 2005 |
| Whitechurch, Marina | Nothin’ In My Closet But Clothes: An Examination of Femme Lesbian Identity Through Performance | 2005 |
| Cheng, Ka Yun | Introducing Solution Focused Therapy into Community Boards’s Model of Mediation | 2005 |
| Gray, Miriam F. | Outreach for Survival: A Training Manual | 2004 |
| Paolini, Gary | Capturing the Fine Weave: A Visual Exploration of Social Capital at Work | 2004 |
| Roquemore, Demetrius | Diversity Sensitivity Training for College Athletics Coaches | 2004 |
| Wynkoop, Ruth | Women Who Run with Words Handbook: A Creative Writing Group Approach to Dialogue | 2004 |
| Turner Jones, Justine | Quite the Perfect Blend: A Resource Guide Affirming the Multiracial Experience | 2003 |
| Araki, Haruna | A Workshop to Reduce Sexual Harassment in the Japanese Workplace | 2003 |
| Lie, Helen | Balancing Theory and Practice in Voice Training | 2000 |
| Blackstone, Debra | A Department Spins Its Own Website | 2000 |
| Arenivar, Sam | Improving Speaking Confidence Workshop | 2000 |
| Rope, Charles | Gays in the Workplace: A Workshop on Responding to a Coming Out Disclosure at Work | 1997 |
| Isarasakdi, Kulakanya | Negotiation During Conflict Training Program for the United Nations Personnel Staff | 1996 |
| Roe, Gallo | “Normal vs. Natural”: An Intensive Workshop on Optimal Health | 1996 |
| Freitas, Albert | Sexual Diversity Communication Training for Parents of Teens | 1996 |
| Borg, Sonia | Identifying the Needs/Concerns of Graduate Teaching Associates | 1996 |
| Shapiro, Brian | Americans on Line: Voices of Computerized Age | 1995 |
| MacKinney, Ross | Using Creation Stories to Explore World View: A Critical Thinking Teaching Module | 1995 |
| Cardella, Sara Rosaria | Sexual Harassment: Live on Tape! | 1995 |
| Bray, William | Police Conflict Intervention: A Training Program | 1994 |
| Haskvitz, Sylvia | People Skills, Creative Conflict, Compassionate Resolutions: Learn Conflict Resolution Skills | 1993 |
| Kinsella, Susan | Recycled Paper: Communicating an Innovation Requiring Social Change | 1990 |
| Moura, Neil | Old Friends: An Examination of Disconfirmation in Intergenerational Communication Through Fictional Literature | 1988 |
| Fernandes, Charles | Situational Leadership: An Approach for the Air Force Officer | 1985 |
| Malone, Eileen | The Employee Magazine as a Channel of Communication in a Corporate Structure | 1983 |
| Lee, Ida | Born to Live: A Teledrama Adaptation, A TV Production, TV Acting and a Process Critique | 1982 |
| Emunah, Renee | The Use of Improvisational Performance in Psychiatric Facilities | 1979 |