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 1968
Thesis: The Temperance Movement in Norfolk, Virginia, 1880-1916, David G. Stevens, Jr.
Thesis: Whitman's View of the Nature and Function of His Poetry, Claudia M. Storminger
Thesis: A Statistical Analysis of the Relationship Between Outline Form Perception and School Achievement at the First Grade Level, John Hooker Sutherland
Thesis: A Study of Selected Dropouts with Implications Toward Methods of Dropout Prevention, Elsie Lela Tereskerz
Thesis: A Follow-Up Study of the Graduates of a City High School in Norfolk, Virginia, William Harry Tugwell
Thesis: The Function of Some Comic Elements in the Wakefield Plays in the Towneley Cycle, Frances E. Whitehall
Thesis: Towards the Concept of the Long Run Average Cost Curve, David D. Whitehead
Thesis: The Relationship of Teacher-Evaluated Personality Variables to Reading Achievement and Intelligence in a Selected Fifth Grade, Carolyn Pate Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 1967
Thesis: The Bloomsbury Group: Agent of Evolution, Rashelle Altschul
Thesis: Falstaff, a Product of Historical and Moral Traditions, Emily Stacy Apelt
Thesis: Experiment in Municipal Reform: The Prohibition Party in Norfolk Politics 1892-1896, G. Clifford Boocks
Thesis: The Comparison of Certain Personnel Policies of Virginia Beach City Schools (Virginia) and Spartanburg City Schools (South Carolina), E. Carlton Bowyer
Thesis: A Study of Vocational Choice as it Affects a Selected Group of Seamen Apprentices in the United States Navy, Richard Burnside Buffington
Thesis: An Evaluation of Retired Military Personnel Employed as Teachers in Secondary Schools in Virginia, Thomas Harrington Cave
Thesis: Factors Related to Achievement in Modern Mathematical Concepts in the Elementary School, Maxine Hanna Cochran
Thesis: A Survey of Community Services Used by Students Enrolled in the Kirk-Cone Rehabilitation Center, 1965-1966, Audrey Hackett Crandall
Thesis: A Study of a Compulsory Reading Improvement Course for College Freshmen, Edward Lawrence Daughtrey
Thesis: Pope as a Maker of Ballads, Mary M. Dossin
Thesis: Robert Browning's Treatment of Nature in His Poetry, 1841-1855, Mary B. Gard
Thesis: Sandburg's Ambivalence Toward the City, Gloria Grant
Thesis: The Growth of Norfolk Naval Air Station and the Norfolk-Portsmouth Metropolitan Area Economy in the Twentieth Century, Ira R. Hanna
Thesis: The Academy Movement in Norfolk Virginia with Emphasis on Curriculum Development from 1750 to 1920, Constance Curtis Laws
Thesis: The Family Tree of Fanny Burney's Evelina, Frances McEntee Martin
Thesis: The Coming of the Mexican War: Joel Poinsett and Anthony Butler in Mexico, 1825-1836, Gallais E. Matheny
Thesis: The Eighteenth Century Background of Canto IV Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Dorothy Cox Moore
Thesis: Differential Gains Among Lower Decile Groups in a College Reading Improvement Program, Thomas Francis Reddy
Thesis: The Ironies in Billy Budd and Melville's Evaluation of Man, Lon Dean Vance
Theses/Dissertations from 1966
Thesis: The Evolution of the Virginia Antimiscegenation Laws, Frank F. Arness
Thesis: Slavery and the Presbyterian Church Before the Civil War, Bernie S. Bass
Thesis: A Study of Achievement and Intelligence Test Scores in John Tyler School Portsmouth, Virginia, Adelaide Carroll Crute
Thesis: The Political Thought of a Southern Negro Editor, 1921-1940: P. B. Young of the Norfolk Journal and Guide, Laurel K. Gutterman
Thesis: Thomas Shadwell: The Sentimental Characteristics of His Comedies, Ramona Hartley Hamby
Thesis: The Failure of Acculturation: The Sioux Indians and Wounded Knee, 1890-91, Michael Isenberg
Thesis: A Study of the Language-Experience Approach to the Teaching of the Language Arts in Selected Norfolk, City Schools, Carolyn Pratts
Thesis: The Strafford Incident: A Study in Historiography, Zelda B. Silverman
Thesis: The Hobbesian Villain in Dryden's Heroic Plays, Margaret Norman Simmons
Theses/Dissertations from 1965
Thesis: Norfolk and Anglo-American Relations, 1805-1815, William Frey Carson
Thesis: Norfolk and the K.K.K. in the Nineteen Twenties, Nancy B. Cuthbert
Thesis: 1 Tamburlaine: A Comedy, Caroline Heath Tunstall
Thesis: The Renaissance Epyllion: A Study of a Comic Genre, Juanita Josephine Whitaker