Dr. Moore Quinn, Ph.D.
I have spent countless hours laboring in trying to find my “ideal” research topic. At the beginning of the semester I was so focused on trying to do my research on the Deaf and hearing impaired. However as time went on I became aware of how ignorant I was in the deaf culture and hearing [...]
Posted by Robyn
I am not sure yet whether my project is going to concentrate more on the facial expressions during storytelling or on what it is like growing up hearing in a deaf family. Here are some questions for both topics:
1. What was it like for you growing up hearing in a deaf family?
2. How [...]
Field-site Selection
I chose to do my research on Deaf culture, more specifically, storytelling in Deaf
culture. At first, I wanted to do research on something involving medicine like EMT or
nursing. However, as I thought about it more, I realized that it would be very difficult to
actually carry out any of the research. I would not have [...]
posted by Paul
Background
When you listen to music, especially jazz, you become emerged in a complex and layered communication. My primary focus is going to decipher the language of jazz. I may go about this in a few ways. First, I’m going to compare learning to play jazz to language acquisition. This involves [...]