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This collection includes Senior Integrated Projects (SIP's, formerly known as Senior Individualized Projects) completed in the English Department. Abstracts are generally available to the public, but PDF files are available only to current Kalamazoo College students, faculty, and staff. If you are not a current K College student, faculty, or staff member, email us at dspace@kzoo.edu to request access to this material.
All materials in the Kalamazoo College Digital Archive are subject to Title 17 of the U.S. Code. All rights reserved. Unless otherwise stated, authors retain the copyright for all content posted to the Kalamazoo College Digital Archive.
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Sacrament : Seeking the Sacred : A Collection of Short Stories of Semi-Girlhood
(2021-11-01)A collection of original short stories. -
“A Garden Made of Stones” : Where do you go when there’s nowhere else to live?
(2022-06-01)An original novella. -
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Ill-Fire
(2022-03-01)The author introduces an original collection of poems by reflecting on the K experience and influential poems, and writes ”My SIP in its current state is a different creature than what I imagined and envisioned it would ... -
Is Public Education Worth Saving?
(2022-03-01)The author writes about the teachers that inspired her, including her parents, reviews the birth of public education in America, the state of public education today, and how it has been affected by political reforms, the ... -
“Coils, Garden Guerrillas, and Purple Space Suits” : Recentering Black Stories and Knowledge Through Community Gardening for the Future of Humanity
(2022-03-01)The author uses essays, short stories, and poetry to reflect on food justice, black communities, and the future. Section one is anchored to the science fiction essay: “Community Gardens meet ZORA zr7.” The poems and short ... -
Art as We Know It
(2022-03-01)In an original video documentary, three student artists share their creative process and reflect on the art school experience during the Covid-19 Pandemic. Kalamazoo College performance artist Rebecca Chan, Western Michigan ... -
The Very Hairs on My Head Are Numbered
(2022-03-01)There is no writer who could possibly have had a bigger impact on me than my mother, Rev. Alice Fleming Townley. It was through a series of eulogies Mom gave this summer, I realized the central theme of my essays: love. ... -
Blurring the Divide : The Role the Internet and the Surge of Online Magazines Have Played in Conflating Matters of Academia and Popular Culture
(2022-03-01)The central focus of my SIP—the blurring of the divide between academia and pop culture—was largely influenced by my own scholarly interests and internship experiences. Since a sole focus on pop culture would not adequately ... -
The Field : Sublime Objects
(2022-01-01)An original collection of poems on the theme of personal identity and persistence of the self through time. -
Diversity in Love: Defining Love and Sharing the Medlies of Love
(2022)Even though love is a universal idea, the world sees it through a prominent view, the western view. The western view romanticizes love. Other cultures around the world rely on marriage or love for stability, safety, ... -
See You, See Me: a set of stories
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Glass Slippers and the Power of Transformative Storytelling
(2022-03-01)I set out to write a poetry chapbook that perhaps included an essay or two tying the poems together in a way that only prose can. I wanted to explore sex: the lessons we learn about it, the euphemisms we use for it, the ... -
This Composting Body
(2021-06-01)The author introduces an original collection of poems by reflecting on the process: "The most visible choice I have made in this collection comes in the form of the poems themselves where I have often written in free verse ... -
“A Time to be Silent, and a Time to Speak” : Finding my Voice in the Volatile World of my Religious Childhood
(2021-06-01)The author presents an original piece of creative nonfiction in six chapters that revisits her childhood in the Christian Reformed Church and Christian schools. “In telling my story, it is my goal to explore both the ... -
Tones of Gray : A Collection of Short Stories
(2021-06-01)The author writes about her collection of six original short stories: “the variety of these stories is purposeful, to a certain extent, because I wanted my SIP to reflect the range of writing I have absorbed in my time at ... -
Babysitting Myself : a Short Story Collection
(2021-06-01)The author presents a collection of six original short stories inspired by classic Hollywood movies. -
Growth
(2022-02-01)The author’s collection of creative nonfiction combines her love of writing and biology. She writes “I decided to attempt this idea that had been just an idea for a very long time. I called what I was going to write ‘a ...
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