- How does religion influence the social, cultural, and political aspects of The Islamic World, African Societies and Kingdoms?
How You Will Be Assessed: Successful assignments will be assessed on whether or not the presentations meet the following criteria:
- The presentation will be the equivalent of a five minute presentation delivered before an audience.
- A minimum of THREE academic sources (see Research Materials section below) to inform your research.
- A minimum of eight slides that include the following
- Introduction of topic and region.
- Discussion of the topic: at least six slides.
- One slide explaining why or why not the study of history is important to becoming informed citizens.
- One slide explaining how understanding the motivations behind past cultures help us understand world events today.
- Your bibliography must be included.
Tasks: Create a Power Point presentation. Best practice for PPT presentations include: (1) a visually appealing slide background to be used throughout the presentation (2) slides ought to contain small bits of text or bullet points (3) an image or graphic illustration and lastly, (4) a notes or audio commentary that elaborates on the text of each slide.
Skills: You will use your research skills developed through the course to find strong academic sources to complete the project – history.com, wikipedia.com, khanacademy.com, or worldhistory.org are NOT strong academic sources. They are fine to use as a place to “look up stuff,” but they are neither academic nor scholarly. You will use multimedia skills to put together a strong presentation. You will use self-assessment skills to examine how you performed in the course. You can use general websites for general information – such as those listed above – but you must include at least THREE (3) scholarly works of history which included books or journal articles