Throughout this entire blog, I will be focusing around my journey through creating and developing ideas for my senior thesis class this semester, Advanced Professional Speaking. For my senior thesis, I plan on observing the different Title IX training's that colleges and universities produce to their students and athletes. I will be doing a rhetorical analysis where I examine the impact that those training's have made on college and university campuses and see what has been working over the years and what hasn't. In every training session, students will take away certain bits and pieces and take it outside of the training session. It's important for students to realize the college violence that happens on their campuses without them knowing and know what to do when those situations arise. This is especially done for athletes and students who are in leadership positions on their campus.
My idea is to go deeper into the process of Title IX training's all over the United States and find patterns of what is being presented on and what is changing in each presentation or session. With this data, I would like to also come up with a new idea that could be put into those training's to make sure that students and athletes are taking away what they need to. One of the ways that I want to gather this information is by doing a focus group with people and showing them the different Title IX presentations and seeing which ones make the bigger impact and encourage them to use the information outside of the training sessions.
Although I haven't thought of a new idea for these training's yet, I think that this will be very useful for the future of Title IX training presentations because it will give people the chance to fully understand what these presentations do for college campuses and how they can potentially improve college violence on campus.
