English 569:
Visual Rhetoric and Documentary Form

Documentary Project Topics

If you're having trouble coming up with a topic, here are some to choose from:

  • in-home health care
  • cost of prescription medications
  • airport security
  • wireless telephones
  • precision bombing
  • human memory
  • child care for working mothers
  • flexible scheduling
  • health issues like breast cancer, heart disease
  • emergency contraception (Plan B)
  • child care for working fathers
  • health issues like prostate and colon cancer
  • occupational choice
  • steroid use
  • domestic partnerships
  • the fattening of America
  • discrimination based on sexual orientation
  • voting machines and hanging chads
  • a human sense - hearing, sight, touch, taste, smell
  • why music makes us feel happy or sad
  • why skin wrinkles — on people and apple
  • how children learn language
  • slave labor
  • pandemics
  • the color blue
  • the environment (global or local)
  • national holidays
  • religious dress (France)
  • bi-lingual education
  • access to services and participatory democracy for immigrants
  • health issues like hypertension and sickle-cell anemia or Tay-Sacks disease
  • reparations for slavery, internment
  • affirmative action
  • overt discrimination in education, the workplace
  • mental health care
  • independent living opportunities for the disabled
  • discrimination against the disabled
  • how digital watches work
  • health services for the poor
  • public transportation
  • vocational education and training
  • lead poisoning

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