• Spirituality and German Romanticism: the influence of Jakob Böhme on Novalis and Caspar David Friedrich 

  Busch, Mikhail (2020-05-21)

  This Master’s thesis shall attempt to reconcile the notion of the spiritual with that of the aesthetic by focusing on the influence of 16th century German mystic Jakob Böhme, with the 19th century cultural movement of ...
• The development and empirical substantiation of Japanese pedagogical materials based on kabuki 

  Katsumata, Yuriko (2020-05-21)

  Many researchers (e.g., Nation, 2001, 2015; Schmitt, 2000) have recognized the importance of vocabulary learning in second language (L2) or additional language (AL) acquisition. The strong effects of lexical and background ...
• A human history of Tl’chés, 1860-1973 

  Forest-Hammond, Elise Gabrielle (2020-05-04)

  This thesis represents a human history of Tl’chés (Discovery and Chatham Islands) roughly between the mid-19th and mid-20th centuries. It presents Songhees and Settler life on the archipelago, as well as the dispossession ...
• « La violence des hommes me fait horreur » : la représentation de la tuerie de l’École polytechnique dans le théâtre canadien 

  Fraser, Pamela (2020-05-04)

  This thesis examines the representation of the Polytechnique massacre in Canadian theatre. Utilizing a corpus of four Canadian plays, this study analyzes how trauma, feminism and commemoration intertwine in theatrical ...
• Dreaming of empire: German imperialism, the use of othering and the evolution of the Nazis’ ideological imperialism from Bismarck to Hitler 

  Dumont, Robert (2020-04-17)

  Between 1933 and 1945, Nazi Germany engaged in an extremely aggressive form of ideologically based conquest throughout Central and Eastern Europe. Based on the imperial doctrine established in Mein Kampf, this ‘ideological ...
• Stopping the “world’s greatest threat”: Canadian policy and rhetoric towards the Iranian nuclear program during Stephen Harper’s Conservative government, 2006-2015 

  Ballin, Jonathan (2020-03-09)

  Canada has long stood firm against the proliferation of nuclear weapons. When the Conservative government of Stephen Harper was elected in 2006, Canada departed significantly from many traditional aspects of its foreign ...
• Books by women, for women, about women: an oral history of everywomans books in Victoria, B.C., 1975-1997 

  Antoniazzi, Taylor (2020-02-03)

  Everywomans Books was a non-profit feminist bookstore established in Victoria, B.C. in 1975. The store closed in 1997 due to financial problems, but it was the last remaining non-profit feminist bookstore run by an ...
• A study in Epicurean poetics: Virgil's eclogues 

  Douglas, David (2020-01-28)

  In this thesis I propose a reading of Virgil’s Eclogues which draws heavily on the author’s background in Epicurean philosophy. My aims are twofold: firstly to illuminate the literary complexities of Virgil’s bucolic poetry, ...
• Valuing linguistic diversity: grammatical features of First Nations school-aged children's spoken and written language 

  Hart Blundon, Patricia (2019-12-24)

  Students who speak local varieties (i.e., dialects) of English that differ from the codified variety promoted in school are at a disadvantage. Research illustrates that differences in sound systems, grammar, vocabulary, ...
• Reconciling indigenous exceptionality: thinking beyond Canada's petro-state of exception 

  Burgess, Olivia (2019-12-23)

  This thesis is concerned with the Canadian state’s rhetoric of reconciliation, the logic of exceptionality that supports it, and the ways this logic helps soften Indigenous communities for resource development. In formulating ...
• Condition Verified: On Photography, Trans Visibility, and Legacies of the Clinic 

  Joynt, Chase; Drager, Emmett Harsin (Arts, 2019)

  We approach this paper with a shared investment in historical and contemporary representations of trans and gender non-conforming people, and our individual research in the archives of early US Gender Clinics. Together, ...
• ¿Baño ritual o baptismo? Un análisis textual de la descripción del baño ritual en el Códice florentino 

  Panter, Tobi Jane (2019-12-18)

  This thesis consists of a close textual reading of the three chapters of Book VI of the Florentine Codex in which the ritual bathing of the Nahua infant is described. Bernardino de Sahagún’s Spanish translation is compared, ...
• When if is when and when is then: The particle nı̨dè in Tłı̨chǫ 

  Anisman, Adar (2019-12-11)

  The purpose of this dissertation is to account for the syntactic and semantic traits of Tłı̨chǫ modal clauses within a cross-linguistic typology of conditional clauses. This dissertation provides a comprehensive ...
• Gendering the nation: nationalism and gender in theatrical and para-theatrical practices by Canadian women artists, 1880-1930 

  Bock, Christian (2019-11-13)

  This dissertation examines the intersection of nationalism and gender in theatrical and para-theatrical practices by Canadian women artists between 1880-1930, including the works of Madge Macbeth, Mazo de la Roche, Sarah ...
• LING 380: Acoustic Phonetics Lab Manual 

  Bird, Sonya; Wang, Qian; Onosson, Sky; Benner, Allison (2019-10-24)

  This lab manual is designed to be used in the context of an introductory course in Acoustic Phonetics. It is based on the software Praat, created by Paul Boersma and David Weenink (www.praat.org), and covers measurement ...
• A history of wildlife management practices in British Columbia to 1918 

  Ball, Georgiana Genevieve (2019-10-18)

  This thesis traces the evolution of wildlife manage­ment practices in British Columbia from pre-contact times to 1918. The aboriginal people employed certain measures to restrict the killing of their most valuable species, ...
• A promise kept: the mystical reach through loss 

  Collins, Jody (2019-10-04)

  The meaning of loss is love. I know this through attention to experience. Whether loss or love is experienced in abundance or in absence, the meaning is mystical with an opening of body, mind, heart and soul to spirit. And ...
• A bridge to nowhere: British Columbia’s capitalist nature and the Carmanah Walbran War in the Woods (1988-1994) 

  Davey, James (2019-10-03)

  From 1988 to 1994, the Carmanah and Walbran valleys on southern Vancouver Island emerged from obscurity to inspire international newspaper headlines, ecotage, and election platforms, and figure in British Columbia’s ...
• An investigation of pedagogical approaches and methods used in a French university French-as-a-foreign-language program: teacher and student perspectives 

  Blackstone, Pam (2019-10-01)

  This qualitative study has investigated a month-long French-as-a-foreign-language summer program. Its goal was to compare teacher (n=4) and student (n=6) perspectives regarding learning objectives, challenges, and preferred ...
• Les usages et leurs propriétés distinctives de whatever comme marqueur d’approximation en chiac 

  Jackman, Francesca (2019-09-27)

  This study examines the functions of the borrowed discourse marker (DM) whatever in Chiac, an Acadian French dialect spoken in the southeastern region of New Brunswick (Canada). Analyzing data from two relatively homogenous ...

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