Potential Approaches

• Future of health care (national or global)
• America’s hunger/obesity dichotomy
• Medical ethics
• Parenting techniques
• Professional sports (injury, recovery, health issues, medical treatments, etc.)
• Michelle Obama’s new childhood obesity plan
• Food (slow food movement, organic eating, school lunch programs, food pantries, etc.)
• Biology subtheme (animal extinction, preservation, evolutions, etc.)
• Psychology subtheme (talk versus drug therapy)
• Sociology subtheme (class consciousness, etc.)
• Kinesiology subtheme (various healing techniques, etc.)

Websites

• CNN.com’s blog Eatocracy
• Huffington Post’s Gastrolab: The Latest in Food Science

Films / TV Series

• The Future of Food
• Food Inc.
• Super Size Me
• Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution
• Killer at Large: Why Obesity is America’s Greatest Threat
• What the #%$* do we know?
• Wordplay
• The Beautiful Truth
• Richard Linklater films:  Slacker; Waking Life
• Charlie Kauffman films:  Adaptation; Being John Malkovich; Synecdoche, New York
• The Botany of Desire

Newspapers / Magazines

• The Science Section of The New York Times

Articles / Essays

• “The Carnivore’s Dilemma,” Nicolette Hahn Niman
• “Animal, Vegetable, Miserable,” Gary Steiner
• “Attention Whole Foods Shoppers,” Robert Paarlberg. Foreign Policy magazine.
• “Vegans and the Quest for Purity,” Harold Fromm. The Chronicle of Higher Education.
• “Fear Factories: The case for compassionate conservatism-for animals,” Matthew Scully. The American Conservative.
• “A Healthy Constitution,” Alice Waters. The Nation.
• “Beyond Organic,” Eliot Coleman.
• “Suburban Foraging: Two Families Eat Only Local,” Renee Brooks Catacalos and Kristi Bahrenburg Janzen. Mother Earth News.
• “Organic Foods: Do Eco-Friendly Attitudes Predict Eco-Friendly Behaviors?” Molly J. Dahm, Aurelia V. Samonte, and Amy R. Shows (Academic Search Premier-library database)

Potential Approaches

• Cultural geography
• Southern food ways (barbeque, soul food, etc.)
• Southern folk ways
• Sports in the south
• Southern pop culture in the mass media (film or TV or music–one or all)
• Southern coastal economy (oil, fishing, tourism)
• Southern identity (through education, history, economy, sports, pop culture, etc.)
• Political history

Websites

• Southern Spaces: An Interdisciplinary about regions, places, and cultures of the American South and their global connections (essays, short films, photo essays about contemporary Southern issues)
• Tuscaloosa Area Virtual Museum (historic photos of Tuscaloosa, campus, etc.)

Films / TV Series

• America Beyond the Color Line
• Little Girls
• Kill a Mockingbird
• Mississippi Burning
• Prom Night in Mississippi
• Junebug
• A Streetcar Named Desire
• David Gordon Green films:  George Washington; Undertow; All the Real Girls

Newspapers / Magazines

• Oxford American magazine (physical copies available at Gorgas soon; no library database access)
• Birmingham News, weekly regional issue
• Southern Living magazine
• Garden & Gun: Soul of the New South magazine

Articles / Essays

• “Postmodern Southern Vacation: Vacation Advertising, Globalization, and Southern Living”, Amy Elias
• “The Secret South.” Rosecrans Baldwin, Nic Brown, Mike Grudowski, Elizabeth Hutchison and Hanna Raskin. Garden & Gun.
• “Cussing the Spill” Roy Blount, Jr. Garden & Gun.
• “‘You’re Dixie’s Football Pride’: American College Football and the Resurgence of Southern Identity”, Wes Borucki
• “Anthrology” by Andrea Lee (full text of article included in the online preview of New Stories from the South: the year’s best, 2002

Potential Approaches

• Globalization issues
• Entertainment industry
• Business ethics
• Dealing with international disasters (like BP, Dupont disaster in India, etc.)
• Economic policies
• The Business of Higher Education

Films / TV Series / Radio

• The Apprentice series
• Mad Men series
• Into the Wild
• NPR series:  Low-Wage America
• Inside Job
• Waiting for Superman

Newspapers / Magazines

• Harvard Business Review
• Business section of New York Times

Articles / Essays

• “Dehumanized: when math and science rule the school” by Mark Slouka

Potential Approaches

• Urban challenges (infrastructure, architecture, poverty)
• Improving cyberspace
• Digital/visual rhetoric
• Educational technologies
• Generational distinctions
• Future of communication (text, skype, blogs, technology)
• Future of advertisement
• Future of jobs/job security
• Effects of global economy
• Newspapers / Magazines
• Wired magazine (wired.com)
• New Yorker magazine

Articles / Essays

• From Diversity to Sustainability: How Campus Ideology Is Born,” Peter Wood
• Philip Hensher: Why handwriting matters

Potential Approaches

• Arguments for peace
• Urban challenges (recycling, green building, green space, traffic/pollution, noise pollution, etc.)
• Future of water
• Modes of transportation
• Arguments for green living/eating
• Green businesses

Films / TV Series

• Planet Earth documentary series
• Life documentary series
• The 11th Hour
• Food Inc.
• The Cove
• Water: The Great Mystery
• No Impact Man: The Documentary
• American Experience: Earth Days
• Ken Burns: The National Parks: America’s Best Idea
• The Yes Men Fix the World
• Winged Migration
• Blue Planet: Seas of Life
• Flow

Newspapers / Magazines

• Seed Magazine
• Mother Earth News

Articles / Essays

• “The Sustainability Imperative,” David A. Lubin and Daniel C. Esty, Harvard Business Review
• To Really Save the Planet, Stop Going Green,” Mike Tidwell. Washington Post op-ed.
• “Earth Without People.” Alan Wiesman. Discover Magazine.
• “The American Forests.” John Muir. The Atlantic Monthly Group.
• “Sounding the Alarm.” Bruce Watson. Biophile Magazine.
• “A Manifesto for the Planet: an Interview with Stewart Brand.” Maywa Montenegro. Seed Magazine.
• “Brown Pelican Long a Symbol of Survival.” Wayne Drash. CNN.com.
• “Climate and Energy Truths: Our Common Future.” Eco-America. Ecoamerica.net
• “The Great Turtle Rescue.” Monte Burke. Garden & Gun.
• “The Lost Gulf.”  Rick Bragg. Garden & Gun.
• “Meet the Radical Homemakers.” Shannon Hayes. Yes! magazine.
• “From Diversity to Sustainability: How Campus Ideology is Born.” Peter Wood. The Chronicle.