Assignment Topic choice

ANT 464 Topics

1. Welfare-mothers

Think about would you train nutritionists to work with welfare-mothers. 2. Immigrant Community Perceptions on Healing

Think of one immigrant community in a specific area and develop a report on its perceptions on health and healing (focus on one ailment) for a local hospital. 3. English Learning/Literacy Program Perceptions

Examine the perceptions of students of a particular ethnic and/or racial group in an English learning program or a literacy program about their own and teachers’ identities and roles in the classroom to recommend pedagogical changes in the program.

4. Planters, Planting Techniques, and Government

Think about how you would mediate between planters, such as those practicing slash and burn agriculture, and government to introduce new planting techniques that do not spoil the land, nor clash with people’s ancestral ways of planting.

5. Eco-Friendly Car

Think about aiding one of the leading car companies in design an eco-friendly car that appeals to green consumers and their lifestyle choices without alienating other and/or previous customers. 6. Personalized Mobile Device

Think about how you would aid a hypothetical company in personalizing a mobile device for its consumers. Focus on a particular age group. 7. Folk Knowledge of Plants

Design a research project that argues for the use of folk knowledge of invasive plants to help authorities bring their management methods in line with that of the indigenous people.

8. Recycling Behavior

Conduct a study of on people’s recycling behavior in a facility or organization, such as an apartment complex or a college campus to understand if the types of containers, their placement, and the sexes and ages of the users influence their recycling behaviors.

9. Sustainable Seafood Marketing

Design a project for a seafood restaurant that wants to market its product as sustainable and nutritious as compared to corporate seafood products. 10. Eco-friendly Dentistry

Think about how you can aid a dentistry develop eco-friendly products and procedures to attract clients.

11. Income Projects for Women

Examine how you will mediate between women and local government to turn women’s house projects, such as textile work, honey bee farming, cattle-raising, cooked food, etc. into sustainable income for them.

12. Alternative Nutrition

Carve out a plan of action to fight hunger in your community through alternative nutrition-building knowledge and cultivation. 13. Marketing Organic Coffee

Think about ways in which you would aid a hypothetical coffee shop that wants to market organic, fair- trade coffee.

14. Urban Youth Health

Think about the steps you would take to create awareness against unhealthy eating habits in urban youth in a particular community, and offer alternative diets. 15. Myths about HIV/AIDS

Design a project to creates awareness about the myths and perceptions related to HIV/AIDS in a particular community with regard to cultural, ethnic, gender and/or sexual orientation issues. Also makes prevention recommendations. 16. ObamaCare

Examine the extent to which professional, cultural, ethnic, age, gender and/or sexual issues define support and opposition to ObamaCare. 17. Occupy Wall Street

Draft a plan of action to mobilize people and generate support for the Occupy Wall Street movement in a community over a span of 6 months. Relate it to economic, cultural, ethnic, and racial politics in the country and the demographics of the area.