Final presentation

Each team will do a presentation on their term paper at the end of the quarter. It should be well-rehearsed and all team members must participate. You should use prepared slides for your presentation. Most students use PowerPoint, but any other tool will do. Either bring in your own laptop to class or use mine (send me a PDF version of your presentation in that case). Note that an effective presentation does not look like a sequence of bulleted lists. I will spend some time in class talking to you about giving talks.

In class presentations

You will be responsible for leading the discussion at the beginning of class once this quarter. Each lecture has a maximum of two presentors per lecture. You are free to divide up the work however you see fit and you will both get the same grade.

For the lecture that you present, you are responsible for selecting the optional readings for the topic, which must be posted to the reading list before the lecture that you lead.

Before your lecture, you are required to do a dry run of your talk for me in my office. This practice talk is a great opportunity for me to give you feedback on your presentation skills and to help make sure that your talk is polished for when you present it to the class.