ODU theses and dissertations since 1965 are available in this collection.
Theses and dissertations completed at Eastern Virginia Medical School prior to integration with ODU on July 1, 2024 are not included in Digital Commons unless they were completed as part of a cross-institutional program with ODU. Works completed after July 1, 2024 are being added but are incomplete.
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Theses/Dissertations from 1970
Thesis: An Investigation of Selected Current Practices in the Recruitment of Industrial Arts Education Majors in the State of Virginia, David Ernest Sawyer
Thesis: The Elasticity of Investment Demand: An Empirical Survey, Donald E. Schatz
Thesis: Parent Counseling for Parents of Mentally Retarded Children by a Local Association for Retarded Children, Luther J. Shipman
Thesis: An Investigation Into the Incidence of Psychogenic Factors Underlying the Temporomandibular Joint Pain/Dysfunction Syndrome, Ernest William Small
Thesis: The Form of Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son: A Study in Mixed Modes, David Lee Smith
Thesis: The Uses of Processions in Shakespeare's Plays, William F. Sodini
Thesis: Occult Symbolism in W. B. Yeats's The Herne's Egg, Sandra Ford Swift
Thesis: Advance Organizers and Study Guides: Techniques Designed to Increase the Effectiveness of Science Motion Pictures as Instructional Tools Within the Curriculum Sequence, John Holston Tashner
Thesis: A Study of Elasto-Viscous Material Under Moving Rigid Wheel, Sou-nan Wang
Thesis: The Conflict of Purposes in Bernard Shaw's "Mrs. Warren's Profession", Marlie Parker Wasserman
Thesis: Factors Which Influenced Pre-Service Teacher Education Students in Two Virginia Colleges, Marjorie Johnson White
Thesis: The Need for Assistant Elementary School Principals in the Public Schools of Norfolk, Virginia, Joseph Lee Wiggins
Theses/Dissertations from 1969
Thesis: The Impact of the Immigration Act of 1924 on American-Japanese Relations, Mazika E. Anthony
Thesis: An Experimental Study of a Type of Vortex Sink Rate Sensors, Rao V. Arimilli
Thesis: William Blake and Isaac Watts, Lois Ballard
Thesis: The Elementary Principalship in the City Schools of Virginia Beach, Lois H. Barbour
Thesis: Selected Aspects of the Demand for Money Function, Geraldine Bocchieri
Thesis: Simulation and Analysis of a Second-Order System with an Added Finite Pole and/or Zero, William Robert Bodwell
Thesis: Ambassador Harry Frank Guggenheim in Cuba: 1929-1933, Donald Ross Brimmer
Thesis: The Relationship of the Education of Parents to Achievement of Pupils in a Selected Fourth Grade, Virginia R. Brinkley
Thesis: A Fluorescent Tracer Study at a Tidal Inlet (Rudee Inlet, Virginia), James W. Bunch
Thesis: Unit Approach vs. Subject Matter Approach in Meeting Educational Goals for EMRs, Nora Eley Cartledge
Thesis: A Study of the Professional Preparation and Growth of Elementary School Teachers in a Suburban School System in Tidewater Virginia, Mabel Brumley Church
Thesis: Some Summary Theories of Inflation Causation, Carl M. Colonna
Thesis: A Statistical Analysis of Dependency Tendencies in Visually Impaired Caucasian Adolescents in a Residential School Placement, John White Cornett
Thesis: A Marriage of Convenience, Norfolk and the Navy, 1917-1967, Theodore A. Curtin
Thesis: A Survey and Appraisal of the Nongraded Approach to Education in the Elementary School, James Roszel Darden
Thesis: A Comparison of the Organizational Climate Description Questionnaire and Assumed Similarity of Opposites Scales as Measurement of Elementary School Organizational Climate, Robert Matthew Devine
Thesis: A Study of Attitudes Values and Religious Practices of Catholic Secondary Students from Parochial and Public Schools, John Joseph Dorgan
Thesis: Compensatory Education for Students at Jacox Junior High School, John Henry Edwards III
Thesis: A Survey of Secondary School Principals in Virginia, Daniel Peter Elliott
Thesis: A Survey of Pupil Personnel Services in Selected Primary Schools in Virginia, Phyllis Wiggens Fary
Thesis: Correlation Between Creativity as Measured by Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking Figural Forms A and B and Intelligence as Measured by the Lorge-Thorndike Intelligence Test of Fifty Sixth Grade Students, Thomas A. Felton
Thesis: An Evaluation of Kindergarten Children's Reactions to a Selected Group of Story Books, Bonnie Jean Folkerts
Thesis: The Relationship of Three Selected Admission Variables to Student Achievement in a Diploma School of Nursing, Elsie M. Futrell
Thesis: A Replication of Gouldner's Latent Role Identifications of Cosmopolitan and Local in a Public High School, Ronald S. Godwin
Thesis: A Survey of the Attitudes and Opinions of Ninth and Twelfth Grade Males Toward Apprenticeship Training, Shirley Nichols Gray
Thesis: An Evaluation of a Counseling Program by the Students Graduates and Faculty of a Diploma School of Nursing, Sister Geraldine Gresser
Thesis: The Poetry of Hart Crane: An Analysis of the Concept of Regeneration, Shirley S. Hafezi
Thesis: Parent Counseling for Parents of Special Education Students in the Public Schools, Janyce Halprin
Thesis: The Fragmented Individual in the Poetry of John Crowe Ransom, Jahaila Morris Harper
Thesis: An Analysis in Terms of Trade, Nobuhiro Hayashi
Thesis: The Rives Affair: The Study of a Southeast Virginia Railroad Controversy, 1830-1846, William F. Heyer
Thesis: A Study of Career Choice of Secondary Students in a Military Academy, Wilton Holmgren
Thesis: Current Practices in the Use and Handling of Confidential Information in Student Cumulative Folders, Phyllis Webster Jamison
Thesis: A Survey of the Guidance Practices and Needs of Williams Intermediate School as Viewed by Faculty and Students, Mary Louise Jensen
Thesis: Joseph Priestley: An Eighteenth Century Unitarian, Carol Lynn Knight
Thesis: A Study of Thin-Film Superconducting Junctions, William P. Korink
Thesis: A Survey of Parents' Knowledge of College Selection and Application Procedures, Susan Stevenson Landis
Thesis: The Stage Yankee in the Plays of Eugene O'Neill, Sue Farquharson Law
Thesis: A Study of Selected Groups of Old Dominion College Freshmen Women, Dorothy F. Lippincott
Thesis: The Correlation Between Reading Readiness Scores and Achievement of Fifty Second Grade Parochial School Students, Ruth Hearn Marchand
Thesis: Child Labor Reform Movement in Virginia: 1890-1938, Yukiko Maritani
Thesis: A Comparison of the Budget Formulation Procedures Used in the Six Cities of the Hampton Roads Complex, William George Matton Jr.
Thesis: An Analysis of Factors Involved in Coordinating Vocational Services Between Counselors of the Public High Schools and Counselors of the Public Employment Service in Norfolk, Virginia, James Verne McGowan
Thesis: The Progress of the Japanese-American Commodity Trade and the Commercial Policy Since 1945, Akio Mitake
Thesis: An Empirical Examination of Selected Aspects of the Coffee Market, John Michael Morgan
Thesis: A Study of the Relationship Between One's Religious Belief and One's Philosophy of Human Nature, Sister Mary Richard Norris
Thesis: A Study of Evil in Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener Benito Cereno and Billy Budd, Kwitoslawa Pascnyn
Thesis: A Re-evaluation of Marlowe's Use of the Classics in Hero and Leander, Naomi M. Patz
Thesis: Patrick Hurley and China Policy, Bruce W. Platz
Thesis: John Skelton's Satire of the Burial Rites of the Roman Church in "Philip Sparrow", Jean M. Regone
Thesis: An Investigation into the Knowledge of Literary Allusion of Selected High School and College Students, Lawrence D. Roberts
Thesis: Origin Implementation and Evaluation of the Occupational Work-Study Program in the City Schools of Portsmouth, Virginia, James Columbus Robinson
Thesis: Oil and Planning in the Economic Development of Iran, Jahangier Saleh
Thesis: The Bad Neighbor Policy: James Rockwell Sheffield and United States-Mexican Relations 1924-1927, Herbert L. Salyer
Thesis: Narrow Band Modification for Speech Testing of the Cochlear Reserve by Threshold Shift, Michael F. Seidemann
Thesis: Love Scenes in Benjamin Disraeli's Novels, Norman Steven Smith
Thesis: A Study of the Differences of Opinions and Attitudes of Secondary School Counselors and Supervisors on the Job: As Related to Satisfaction to be Derived from Work Experience, Harold Francis Sorensen
Thesis: A Study of Construction Inspectors in a Selected Environment to Determine the Relationship Between Specific Factors and Technical Training Deficiencies, Harry Anthony Stolmeier
Thesis: The Total State: A Study of Totalitarianism Based on Selected European Novels of the Twentieth Century, Catherine Arveson Thoma
Thesis: The Effects of Individual Diagnostic Prescriptive Teaching on a Second Retarded Child, Sara H. Tonelson
Thesis: The Relationship Between Physical Fitness and Intelligence Quotient in Boys Enrolled at Rosemont Junior High School, James Jack Vanacore
Thesis: The Role of the American Woman in Contemporary Society as Perceived by Fifteen and Eighteen Year Old Girls in an Urban High School, Jo Anne S. Vance
Thesis: Stephen Crane's Use of Figurative Language, Carol Jackson Verser
Thesis: Concepts of Suffering in King Lear, Emma Jean Westcot
Thesis: Selected Theories of the Consumption Function, Thomas Cameron Whiteman
Thesis: A Comparison of the Fourth and Fifth Grade Achievement of Younger and Older School Starters Who Have an Above Average Intelligence Quotient, Mary Ann Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 1968
Thesis: Survey of Guidance Services in Accomack and Northampton Counties, Berkley E. Ashby
Thesis: Eros Philia and Agape in Herman Melville, Mary Barnes
Thesis: Population Excitation Mechanism of the First Negative System of Nitrogen, Robert Lynn Bridigum
Thesis: An Assessment of the Prognostic Value of the Lowenfeld Mosaic Test as it Relates to the Learning Readiness of Selected First Grade Pupils, Nina W. Brown
Thesis: The Crystal Prison of Elinor Wylie: The Conflicts of Her Life in Her Poetry, Frances F. Carney
Thesis: A Comparative Investigation of the Knowledge of Mental Retardation Held by Regular Class Teachers Versus Special Class Teachers, Arlethia Hassell Elliot
Thesis: Universality Through Particularity: Theme and Technique in the Short Poems of William Carlos Williams, Barbara J. Finfrock
Thesis: The Role and Influence of Executive Agents on Woodrow Wilson's Mexican Policy, 1913-1915, Robert J. Fischer
Thesis: The Changing Attitudes Towards the Jews of England 1066-1660, Bernard Glassman
Thesis: An Analysis of the Perceptions of Junior High School Teachers Concerning Selected Guidance Practices, Janice Lee Harris
Thesis: A Descriptive Study of Religious Attitudes Between Catholic Students in a Catholic School and Catholic Students in a Public School, Antionette Vinci Haynes
Thesis: Some Selected Characteristics of a Dental Assistant Education Program Based on Certain Needs of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Gene W. Hirschfeld
Thesis: A History of the Hampton Roads Longshoreman's Association, Esther Levinson
Thesis: A Comparative Analysis of Comprehension Abilities Presented in the Middle Grade Teachers' Manuals or Four Selected Reading Series, Jacquelin D. Marshall
Thesis: A Comparison of Selected Indian Educational Aims of 1947-1953 with Current Practice with Reference to the State of Mysore, Andrew McDearmid
Thesis: A Comparison of the Biology Curricula in Virginia Colleges, Carol Ann McDearmid
Thesis: A Survey of Modern Foreign Language Programs in Selected Cities of Tidewater Virginia, Rhonwen Leonard Newton
Thesis: An Examination of Sir Edwin Arnold's The Light of Asia and The Light of the World, J. Karl Nicholas
Thesis: A Survey of Religious Activities in the Junior High Schools of Virginia, Franklin Bruce Owen
Thesis: Admiral Mark L. Bristol and American Naval Involvement in Turkey, 1919-1923, Donald Walter Patterson
Thesis: History and Evolution of Counseling in Maury High School, David Frederick Shirk
Thesis: Anatomy of a Failure: Structure Theme and Point of View in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Beautiful and Damned, Felice Abram Stern