HI THERE WAS NO WAY TO LIST 10 SLIDES WITHOUT THE WORD COUNT BEING EXTREMELY OUT OF PORPOTION, to the cost… Please read requirements
I obviously do not nee 550 words per slide.. The presentation needs to be 7 minutes long
which equates to typically 10 detailed slides… Please read the assignment thouroughly .
GLOBAL STUDEIS : LATIN AMERICA
I AM OPEN TO A GREAT TOPIC WAS THINKING SOMETHING IN COSTA RICA IF YOU CAN FIND WHAT IS NEEDED PLEASE. IF NOT , YOUR NEXT SUGGESTION IS FINE!
This
assignment asks you to prepare a presentation on a specific topic about
contact zones and/or colonial legacies in the Latin American regions or nations
covered in class. You are free to pick your own topic and should select
something that interests you. Select a specific historical moment, figure, or
phenomenon specific to one of the Latin American regions (or countries) we have
studied, or to relations between them. Your goal should be to explain
why your topic is critical to understanding contact zones and/or colonial
legacies in Latin America, i.e. how contact zones and colonial conditions
(whether internal or external) that have persisted even after Independence affect
a specific Latin American region or country, perhaps even to this day. You
should not pick a topic that we have already discussed at length in class, but
you are encouraged to draw connections between your topic and material from the
course.
The
first challenge will be finding something specific enough on which to focus. A
more focused and detailed project will be stronger and easier to execute. You
are going to have to spend some time brainstorming – try to find a topic that
interests you and that is appropriate for a 7-minute presentation. You could
think about culture, law, politics, government, medicine, economics, gender,
tradition, popular music, movies, television, entertainment, international
relations, the military, industry, or youth, to name but a few ideas. You do
not have to cover the entire period from Independence to the present. Rather,
you should limit your scope to a specific time. A lot of your energy on this
project should be spent actually selecting a topic. I would suggest doing to
some searching on library databases (see suggestions below) as you are
narrowing down your topic. You don’t want to pick a topic and then discover
that it is incredibly hard to locate good information on that subject.
When you have selected a topic, please send it to
me for approval—no later than midnight, SUNDAY July 14 . If you’re struggling to settle on a
topic, please contact me before JULY 11 so we can do some brainstorming
together. Please note: You must have approval of your
topic in order to have your
final project accepted for a final grade (and, needless to say, your final
project must be on the topic that you had approved).
Remember,
your goal is to carefully analyze the impact of an event, person, or phenomenon
related to neo-colonialism, imperialism, colonial legacies and/or contact
zones, transculturation, hegemony. You should not just summarize an
event. Instead, you need to think critically about your topic, explain its
relevance to our understanding of Latin America, and make larger connections
with the class. In order to do this, you should utilize our library website
databases (Lexis Nexis, JStor, Ebscohost, Google Scholar, etc.) that will
provide you with quality sources on your subject. DO
NOT JUST USE GOOGLE and/or internet “.com” sites. You should have, at
minimum, THREE academic sources—and they should be substantially used and
cited in your presentation (and be listed in a “Works Cited” at the end of your
presentation). Three academic sources are required, but you need
FIVE sources in total to have the opportunity to receive a maximum score for
the “Evidence” criterion in the grading rubric (please make sure to look at the
rubric!).
After
you have done your research, you will construct a powerpoint. Be sure to spend
some time designing your powerpoint: Do not simply fill your powerpoint with
text. Instead, try to find a balance between images and text. You will lose
points if your powerpoint is paragraph after paragraph of text or if you read
directly from the powerpoint. Also, be sure to cite your sources within
the powerpoint as you go along (e.g. “According to _________, Mexico was
_______”; or, “Reflecting on the Cuban Revolution, renowned historian,
_________, has argued ‘ ________.’”
Finally, once you have constructed
your powerpoint you will need to record yourself over your slides. This can be
done directly in powerpoint. I can refer you to my colleague and fellow
historian Dr. Zachary Scarlett has created a short videoLinks to an external site. showing
you how this is done. The other option is to use Canvas Studio, which students
have found very accessible and easy to use. I will be posting some information
about how to use Canvas Studio.
I
highly recommend that you write some kind of script for yourself instead of
just improvising. The clearer you are the better. Please also provide a work
cited at the end of your powerpoint that lists the work you consulted.
Presentations
should be no longer than 7 minutes. Contrary to the instructions in Dr.
Scarlett’s video, your presentations—either a powerpoint file, or your Canvas
Studio presentation—should be uploaded to Canvas.
Some of
the topincs discussed in summer GHS :
Mary Louise Pratt, ““Introduction:
Criticism in the Contact Zone,
” in Imperial
Eyes:
Travel Writing and Transculturation. Contact Zones
Worksheet
+ Contact Zones Forum
Stereotypes about Latin America in
Popular Culture and the News Links to an external site.
Indigenous Americas
Question: What was Latin America like before
conquest?
Read: Burkholder
& Johnson,
Check Out: Indigenous Societies before Contact 1
(Maya)
& 2 (Mexica/Aztec)
Ancient Maya MetropolisLinks to an external site. (on
Kanopy)
Mapping Indigenous Time and Place Forum
The project is due by midnight, July21 .
Presentation Rubric
(1)
Criteria
Ratings
Pts
Research
It was clear that the presenter(s) put significant time and
effort into researching the chosen topic.
/ 30 pts
Thesis and argument
The presenter(s) provided a clear thesis and the main
argument(s) were clear to the audience
/ 20 pts
Organization and
evidence:
The talk was clearly organized and evidence and examples
were provided to elucidate and support the argument
/ 30 pts
Presentation
style/performance/design
The slides reflected thoughtful effort put into design and
effectively communicating key points of the narrative through visuals and
text.
/ 10 pts
Connections with
course material and understandings of colonial legacies
The presenter(s) made clear the socio-cultural and/or
political significance of the topic, including one or more of the following:
showing the way the topic engages with colonial legacies; showing how it acts
as a cultural force shaping identities; highlighting how it supports dominant
ideas (about race, class gender, sexuality, etc.); showing how it works as
discriminating/segregating/oppressive force change; or, pointing to its power
as a force for positive change.
/ 10 pts
