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Honors Convocation, 2022
Get PDFHonors Convocation Program held in 2022.https://digitalcommons.cortland.edu/honorsconvocation/1013/thumbnail.jp
Spanish Language Development and Perceptions of Undergraduate Students During Short-Term Study Abroad
Get PDFThe purpose of this evaluative case study is to determine how students from a 4-year medium-sized college in the northeast US who participated in a short-term study abroad program in Cuernavaca, Mexico perceived their experience as worthwhile in their education. This research seeks to answer the following questions: 1) How does short-term study abroad impact students’ perceived level of Spanish language proficiency?; 2) What are students’ thoughts about short-term study abroad with respect to their learning beyond their Spanish language development (e.g., financial investment, cultural appreciation, etc.)?; and 3) What are students’ overall perceptions of the short-term study abroad program? This research uses semi-structured interviews as well as demographic surveys as data points to inform the creation of participant profiles as well as thematic analysis. The themes that will be discussed include motivation, support, and critiques of the program.https://digitalcommons.cortland.edu/slides/1018/thumbnail.jp
Gender Discrimination and its Impact on Female Sport Management Students
Get PDFGender discrimination within the sport management industry is a prominent complication that has been around for seemingly forever. Whether it’s being ashamed of their femininity by a male dominated society (Hoeber and Shaw, 2003), undergoing gender stereotyping (Bower, Hums, and Grappendorf, 2015) or experiencing sexism (Hardin, Smith, Taylor and Welch, 2018), it’s clear that women have been pushed to the bottom of the sporting industry. This has an overall effect on female sport management students and their experiences throughout their time in the undergraduate program. It’s been concluded that female students are left questioning whether sport management is right for them, knowing that they’re the minority and are undermined for their credibility and knowledge (DeLuca, Mudrick and Sauder, 2018). For those who continue to persevere, it’s likely for them to adopt strategies in an attempt to overcome these barriers that are being thrown at them (Mahoney, Morris, Vooris, 2019). The purpose of this study is to dive deeper into how the awareness of gender discrimination is affecting female students’ learning experiences and their perceptions regarding their futures.https://digitalcommons.cortland.edu/slides/1020/thumbnail.jp
Comparison of Resting Heart Rates: Three Devices and Three Alter(ed) Pressures
Get PDFAccurate heart rate (HR) measurements are key to exercise prescription. Many portable HR devices are available including the Apple watch. Resting HR from Apple series 3 watch were compared to measurements using a clinal grade Suntech Tango M2 (ST) and Vitalstream Caretaker (VS) pulse monitors. College-aged participants (N = 5) stood in the Alter G treadmill under positive pressures of 70%, 35%, and 90% body weight (BWset), respectively. Heart rates using each device were recorded at min 1, 3, and 5 for each condition. There were no significant differences in resting heart rates measured with the three devices. Average heart rates (±SD) at 70% BWset were 83±10, 82±12, 82±12; at 35% BWset were 79±8, 79±10, 81±11; and at 90% BWset were 88±11, 88±12, 89±10 for Apple, ST, and VS, respectively. All three devices measured a significant change in heart rate as a function of change in BWset (p\u3c0.001).https://digitalcommons.cortland.edu/slides/1024/thumbnail.jp
Trusting your bearings: outdoor navigation and the link between perceived competence, actual skill, and flow state in the Adirondack region of New York
Get PDFThe purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between perceived competence and flow theory in the activity of outdoor navigation. This relationship was examined at beginner, intermediate, advanced, and expert skill levels of navigation, targeting a population in the Adirondack Region due to its challenging, thickly forested terrain. The study used a multi-method approach encompassing both quantitative and qualitative data. Surveys were administered to examine beginner, intermediate, and advanced navigators following a formal navigation course at SUNY Cortland’s Outdoor Education Practicum at Raquette Lake or an Advanced Map and Compass Bushwhack Course or Map and Compass Fundamentals Course at the Adirondack Mountain Club in Lake Placid. Surveys were adapted from a study by Iso-Ahola, La Verde, and Graefe (1989) to measure specific (day of) and general (long term) perceived competence in the activity of navigation. The Flow State Scale by Jackson and Marsh (1996) measured nine critical dimensions of flow state, including (1) challenge-skill balance; (2) action and awareness merging; (3) clear goals; (4) unambiguous feedback; (5) total concentration; (6) sense or paradox of control; (7) loss of self-consciousness; (8) time transformation; and (9) autotelic experience. These nine dimensions were used to conduct semi-structured interviews with the expert skill level of navigators to understand the complexity of backcountry experiences. A total of 50 participants completed the survey, and 11 experts completed interviews. It was concluded from the quantitative data that there is a simple positive correlational relationship between perceived competence and flow state. Specific perceived competence has a stronger correlation to flow state than general perceived competence for each skill level. Interview data with experts also demonstrated this relationship but also showed a fluctuating involvement in a flow state during navigation rather than a continuous one
Subverting Patriarchal Interpretation of the Ramayan through a Feminist Lens: A Critical Study of Sita\u27s Ramayana
Get PDF“Re-vision – the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction – is for us more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival”, writes Adrienne Rich in her seminal essay, “When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-vision”. Rich firmly advocates that women authors should create spaces for subversion of patriarchal values and ideals through their literary works. Revisionist mythmaking, from a feminist literary perspective, evolves through challenging a preceding text which predominantly manifests androcentric ideas. The present paper aims to examine a female reinterpretation of Ramayan, Sita\u27s Ramayana by Samhita Arni, as a revisionist text. Sita\u27s Ramayana is a graphic narrative in which Arni\u27s retelling is complemented by patachitra or scroll painting by Moyna Chitrakar, a female patachitra artist from West Bengal, India. Sita\u27s character is one of the major literary tools through which women writers often attempt to re-view the Ramayan and subvert the male-centric reading of the epic. This paper seeks to understand the elements of revisionism in Sita\u27s Ramayana in the context of a sixteenth century retelling of Ramayan, Chandrabati\u27s Ramayan, a verse narrative composed by Chandrabati, the first women poet of Bengal. Chandrabati\u27s Ramayan, a fierce Sita tale, has been the primary influence on Arni in subverting the patriarchal, popular representation of Sita\u27s character. This paper attempts to interpret how Arni has altered the patriarchal understanding of the epic by foregrounding the tale through Sita\u27s viewpoint. It also aims to analyse how these female authors, Arni and Chandrabati have assigned Sita\u27s character an agency to challenge the androcentric notions that dominate the interpretation of Ramayan. Further, the paper seeks to interpret how the folk-art form of patachitra contributes to the meaning-making of a contemporary subversive retelling of the grand epic
Double Bind of Muslim Women\u27s Activism in Pakistan: Case of Malala Yousafzai and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
Get PDFA majority of Western2 feminist studies has dealt with women from the third world as a homogenous entity of poor and passive victims without agency, who need saving and thus need to be spoken for. Chandra Talpade Mohanty and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak have both underscored the urgency of seeing and dealing with third world feminism in terms of a genre that is different in socio-cultural background from Western dynamics, and they emphasize the importance of being wary of the ways in which Western feminism creates the \u27discursive homogenization and systematization of the oppression of women in the Third World\u27 (Mohanty, 1991). In this paper, I am going to investigate Pakistani Muslim women activism and the ways in which these women emerge from being a benign presence in a masculinist culture to occupying spaces of resistance, challenging patriarchal notions and stereotypical images of women, and thus becoming a guiding force for other women. I argue that even when Muslim women activists struggle in their respective domains to bring the voices of women into light, they are kept imprisoned in the double bind where they are judged by patriarchy at home and are perceived as victims who need saving in the western hegemonic discourses. Malala Yousafzai and Sharmeen Obaid Chinnoy are globally celebrated yet are extremely controversial in their home country. Both are accused by their fellow Pakistanis of being complicit with the Western agenda of maligning Pakistan and defaming their country. This reaction points to the double bind (Spivak) that this paper aims at highlighting, namely the ways in which women\u27s resistance to patriarchy at home is then taken up by Western media and public as a justification for imperialist surveillance and stereotypical images of these women as victims and objects to be \u27saved\u27
Productivity to Precarity on Instagram: Digital Feminism in India during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Get PDFThis paper examines how digital feminism deconstructed neoliberal ideals of technological productivity in India during the Covid-19 pandemic. By creating a productivity scale, I delineate new social disparities and risk factors brought on by the unprecedented shift to a work-from-home digital economy. Through theories of biopower, I argue that technology is not neutral, apolitical, or unequivocally in favour of equal access and human rights. The creation of a new social group termed the \u27technoprecariat\u27 during lockdown is discussed using a \u27cripqueer\u27 approach to digital feminism. I extend Judith Butler\u27s early work on gender performativity to the neo-liberal ideal of gender productivity, where the onus of appearing perpetually \u27productive\u27 in lockdown was mainly on women. By analyzing how women debunked productivity on social media platforms like Twitter and Instagram, I examine queer influencers whose profiles demonstrated the cost of social non-conformism. I reveal how three feminist activists Priyanka Paul, Durga Gawde, and Roshni Kumar subverted gender productivity during lockdown through their distinct aesthetic and political standpoints
Transition and Involvement on Campus
Get PDFThis PowerPoint goes over a presentation I gave to first-year students on how to get involved on campus and how to effectively transition into college.https://digitalcommons.cortland.edu/corslides/1001/thumbnail.jp
Student Health and Wellness
Get PDFIn my first semester here at SUNY Cortland the biggest challenge I faced was staying healthy. The transition to college can be challenging in all aspects of our individual health and I felt I was most passionate about this subject. For my presentation, I focused on ways to maintain physical health, socio emotional health, mitigate stress, boost mental health, and cultivate spiritual health. For one of my classes, I also organized a tour of the student life center facilities for my students which beautifully tied into the lesson on maintaining physical health in college. I also focused on strategies to mitigate anxiety and angst in college where the environment is new and family is far. Maintaining our health is pivotal to academic success and happiness.https://digitalcommons.cortland.edu/corslides/1011/thumbnail.jp