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Final Project

Presentation: The Impact of a Disease on History

Goal: Students will brainstorm, research and integrate original topic sentences and meaningful images in a PowerPoint presentation.

Assignment: Consider a specific disease or disorder and how it had a significant impact on history. Use the databases in our Lib Guide for the course to learn about the disease and its effect on history. Report your information in the form of brief topic sentences and images on each slide. Slide shows should be devoted to the disease itself and then its story in history.

References:

Quotes do not need to be integrated into the slides, but a reference page listing major sources of information should be the last slide in your presentation.  References should be in MLA 7 format. Use Easy Bib or the properly formatted citation entry some database articles provide. A list of website is unacceptable.

Length:

Slide shows should be a minimum of eight slides: Title slide, disease overview, symptoms, treatment, a minimum of three history slides and a reference slide. Presentations should not exceed 14 slides.

Oral Presentation:

 Slide presentations will be shared in class on the last day of the course and will be accompanied by your oral presentation. Be prepared to summarize your slide information and describe the meaning of images. Do not plan on reading the slides. Your presentation must be between 5 and 9 minutes.

Getting Started:

Consider some of the diseases we have learned about in class: Cervical cancer, post-traumatic stress disorder, typhoid fever, the Black Death, hemophilia, puerperal fever.

Consider others: Influenza, small pox, syphilis, scarlet fever, potato blight, mad cow disease, bipolar disorder. If there is another disease that interests you, we could figure out if it has a role in history. Otherwise, begin with a web search and get some general information so you conduct a more narrow search on one of the NSCC Library databases.

Drafting:

Do not quote directly or cut and paste phrases/sentences. Rather, draft your own simple and concise topic sentences.

Design:

Use any feature you wish in PowerPoint—backgrounds, unique fonts, transitions, even audio if you want. Definitely use images and be brief in your bullet points; these make for a better PPT show.