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Editor's Introduction
No full textThe Honors College at Rutgers University-Camden is delighted to introduce its inaugural edition of The Undergraduate Review, an academic journal by the students, for the students
Opinion Piece on China’s Belt Road Initiative
No full text“What the Chinese Communist Party has been doing to undermine democracy and intervene in foreign states is simply the party's way of interacting with the world,”1 said Peter Mattis, a research fellow in China Studies at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation in the United States. Since the era of Mao, Mainland China has sought to challenge what it believed to be the illegitimate international order led by the West. But during the 1950s, China was still an infant marxist-leninist state that lacked the resources to do so. It was not until China experienced tenfold GDP growth from 1978 as a result of trillion-dollar injections from foreign investment, that it began its campaign to compete against the liberal democracies around the world. In the efforts of establishing prominent influence by undermining the state of democracy, China pushed for the One Belt, One Road, or Belt Road Initiative (BRI) as a neo-colonialistic model that grants monetary support to economically deprived nations for political influence in return
Portals to Learning: Threshold Concepts in Art History Teaching and Learning
No full textThreshold concepts are conceived of as portals to learning that open previously inaccessible ways of thinking. They encompass specific ideas within a discipline that must be mastered before the learner can progress. The process of identifying threshold concepts can reveal hidden or unacknowledged fundamental disciplinary beliefs and epistemology. Integrating a threshold concepts framework into the scholarship of teaching and learning in art history (SoTL-AH) can help faculty diagnose and anticipate when students are likely to encounter troublesome knowledge within an art history course. Distinguishing these thresholds can aid instructors in designing courses that prepare for specific stages that present conceptual or affective difficulty and turn those into transformative experiences that promote reconstituted and integrated knowledge. Threshold concepts can also be applied more broadly to benefit curriculum design, assessment, and the profession. This paper explains threshold concepts and bottlenecks, describes the benefits of using threshold concepts, identifies potential limitations in utilizing them in the design of teaching strategies, and proposes some preliminary threshold concepts in art history
#Instagay: The Uses and Gratifications of Photo-Based Social Networking for Gay Men
No full textThrough an inductive content analysis of 300 top photos posted to Instagram using the popular hashtag “Instagay,” this research uncovers patterns about what type of content prevails in this online community. Findings indicate strong preferences toward covert communications of desire and men with lighter skin tones. Men with darker skin tones were found to have severely limited potential for appearances and expressions of sexuality. By establishing set norms of gay male representation online, this community achieves gratification through collective definition and validation. These findings build on a growing body of literature on Instagram studies and the “queer publics” found within bycharacterizing the exchanges and values found on the publicly available interface (Duguay, 2016). This study provides a framework that can be used to analyze other hashtag-based online communities and proves valuable in exploring the visual measures that Instagram users find worthy of interaction and approval
Chancellor's Introduction
No full textIntroduction by Phoebe A. Haddon, J.D., LL.M. Chancellor, Rutgers University-Camde
Effects of Prescribed Burns on Litter Decomposition and Microarthropod Communities in New Jersey Pinelands
No full textIn the Northeastern United States, climate change, shifts in forest disturbance regimes, and associated shifts in forest processes are expected to continue to impact forest structure, composition, and diversity (Clark, Skowronski, and Gallagher 2015); however, changes in soil community dynamics and processes, especially those in the soil are not yet fully understood. Restoration of fire dependent ecosystems has been proposed as one solution for mitigating the negative impacts of these changes while reducing the wildfire risk, particularly in Northeastern forests where fire has been largely excluded for much of the past century (Forman and Boerner 1981, Fahey and Reiners 1981, Marschall et al. 2016). However, there is limited information on how such efforts may impact soils and their communities. In pine ecosystems, prescribed burning and wildfire management has provided strong evidence for restoring structure following long-term fire suppression that reduces forest health and resilience (Forman and Boerner 1981, Lee et al. 2019, Van Lear et al. 2005). Yet there is a lack of fundamental research to understand how fire may impact communities of micro- organisms, such as microarthropods, in forest soil and detritus layers that are critical for the forest nutrient cycles
Agency and the Successful Fabliau
No full textThe order of the stories in The Canterbury Tales can seem arbitrary at first glance. The tales appear together in only two manuscripts, while the rest of the extant texts appear in fragments of two or three tales grouped together. Even Chaucer's manner of writing seems to offer no clue as to the “intended” order of the tales, since the initial order of telling laid out by the Host is overturned after only one story. However, the fragments are quite consistent in the tales that they group together. This, in combination with the structure of the tales themselves, as opposed to the frame narrative, allows us to be fairly sure that certain tales belong together. With this accepted, it becomes clear that Chaucer has a mischievous love of the incongruous and the ridiculous. Satire is the bedrock of the Tales