ORAL PRESENTATION
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Choose a topic for your oral presentation in class, which consists of a 15-20 minutes talk (not reading!) You may use your notes, of course. You are also welcome to use any technology: power point, overhead projector, illustrations, etc. (You have to inform me about your technology needs a week before the class in question.) At the end the you will direct some questions to the class, thus opening a space for discussion which you will lead. You notice that your presentations take place one week AFTER the topic is discussed in class.
Tópico
Fecha
Presenta Aristóteles (poética, catharsis)
9/6 Alejandra Bakhtin: Dialogismo, heteroglosia 9/13 Safia Jakobson: poética, modelo de comunicación 9/13 Lévi-Strauss: Estructuralismo 9/20 Eco: Semiótica: 9/27 Genette: Narratología 10/4 Donte Modernindad: definiciones 10/18 Barbara Postmodernidad: Foucault: "power/knowledge" 10/18 Maria G., Jennifer K. Aproximación psicoanalítica: Lacan: The "mirror phase" 11/1 Azeane Feminismo literario: Écriture féminine 11/1 Jennifer G. Deconstrucción: Derrida: "différance" 11/10 Maria C. Marxismo: Lukács. 11/10 Teorías de recepción: Jauss: Horizonte de expectativas
11/15 Nuevo historicismo 11/22 Katie Post-colonialismo (definición) 11/29 Maureen Orientalismo (Edward Said) 11/29 Viviana
Yes, you will be getting up in front and running the class for at least 15 minutes. This will mean
- researching your topic;
- writing a well structured outline introducing it,
- sending me your outline at least 3 days before the class when you present it
- sending it out to the class through e-mail at least one day before your presentation;
- coming up with interesting and challenging and enjoyable techniques for presenting your topic in class (power point is encouraged!
- keep in mind that for your presentation you need to use the sources properly (quote them).
DON'T WAIT TILL THE LAST MINUTE
TO GET STARTED ON YOUR RESEARCH!
Try to get started at least TWO weeks before your presentation. Remember, you need to have your outline ready at least THREE DAYS before the presentation. Get a good early start. First of all: Decide on a bibliography (you may get ideas from the Bibliography or the links on this page). Figure out a theme for your presentation related to your topic.
Go to the library. Run searches, on both our library catalog, the MLA and the FirstSearch database, on your particular topic. Get reference librarians to help you. Collect articles (photocopy them) and books (check them out, order them on interlibrary loan - do it with time, it takes 2-3 weeks) on your subject. Talk to people, to fellow students, faculty, family, friends. Get ideas (especially wacko ones), suggestions, feedback on your ideas or drafts, or plain old moral support.
Talk to me. (E-mail is best.) Run ideas by me, ask me to help you unravel difficult sentences, or generally ask for advice. You certainly don't have to wait until you're desperate, drowning, at your wits' end before you come talk to me. I like to help. Really.
Article Presentation (informal or written)
Read the articles carefully. Read them over and over. Most of them aren't easy, and it may take two or three readings to start making sense. What are the articles basically about? What unifies them thematically? You are not just telling the class about some things you read; you're teaching them a coherent subject. Pay attention to what that subject is. Try to get the main points across: 1, 2 3.... If you don't understand a detail, an expression, look for it on the Internet or in the library. You have to understand the entire article in order to present it properly.
Same as above, send me an email or talk to me.
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