LAHP Honors Projects

Each LAHP student produces an honors project before they graduate with LAHP honors. These projects are typically done within an independent study course from the student’s major during their senior year, and approval of the project is given by the student’s mentor, two other faculty committee members of the student’s choosing, and the LAHP director. Below is a list of past projects that have satisfied the respective student’s requirements for graduating with LAHP honors:

Ana Gaby Becerra. “Public Relations in the Arts: A Public Relations Campaign

Proposal for the Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts.” (Fall

2013).

Susana Diaz. “Examination of Undocumented College Students and the Strategies

Used to Obtain a College Education.” (Spring 2014).

Luisana Duarte. Captain R Children’s Book. (Spring 2014).

Hecko Flores. “Trek of Despair: The Flow of Unaccompanied Children Across

Borders and Through the Immigration System.” (Spring 2014).

Elizabeth Gandarilla. “Child Suggestibility and Child Forensic Interview

Techniques for Child Abuse Cases.” (Spring 2014).

Oscar Garza. “Miyazaki and Shinto: Japanese Spirituality in Hayao Miyazaki

Cinema.” (Fall 2013).

Ryan Lee. “In Defense of Self-Determination: Bioethical and Legal Considerations

of Physician-Assisted Suicide Under Economic Burden.” (Spring 2014).

Gabriella Marquez. “Exploring the Dynamics and Major Developments of U.S.

Immigration Detention: Regressing from Amnesty to Bed Mandates for

Undocumented Immigrants.” (Spring  2014).

Sharon Murillo. “What Rawlsian Theories of a Just Society Miss About Self

Respect.” (Spring 2014).

Itzel Rivera. “Intimate Partner Violence and Hispanic Families.” (Spring 2014).

Carolina Rodriguez. “Influence of Different Types of Information on Health

Related Decisions.”(Spring 2014).

Joshua Rodriguez. “An Interdisciplinary Analysis of High Stakes Testing.” (Spring

2014).

Jecoa Ross. “Guilty as Sin: Criminalizing Homosexuality in Texas.” (Fall 2013).

Ledy Snyder. “The Rubber Band Effect: The Expansion and Compression of the

United States Government Surveillance Capabilities.” (Spring 2014).

Isabel Tovar. “Social Networks and Hispanic Women’s Contraceptive Use.” (Fall

2013).

Benjamin Williams. “Memory: The Construction of Personal Identity in Saul

Bellow’s Herzog.” (Fall 2013).