In a third-year medieval literature course focused on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, I wrote a research paper interrogating Chaucer's use of the colour red in "The Wife of Bath's Tale." By exposing a vein of repeated red imagery that isn't evident in his other depictions of Cantebury pilgrims, I used detailed close reading to build a case for an interpretation of Chaucer's "Wife" as a story of feminist subversion and liberation.
Applications of theories and research in developmental psychology to contemporary social issues; topics may include daycare, child abuse, divorce and remarriage, substance abuse, sexuality.
The format of the assignment was a brochure with key evidence from research in cognitive, developmental, and social psychology.
As a part of my assignment to reduce world hunger, I participated in a 30-day waste reduction plan as a part of the Zero Hunger Challenge (UN, 2012). More specifically, I reduced waste through composting, recycling, and reusing products. Through this challenge, I hope to be able to adopt a sustainable habit through this 30-day challenge and make conscious efforts to prevent waste creation.
This project involved designing and conducting an original research project using archival data. Our objective was to identify a psychological phenomenon related to social media, and identify a gap in prior knowledge, then develop a hypothesis and a study that uses archival methods to test it. Archives include publicly-available posts to Twitter, Facebook, and other platforms.