- Sign up for your topic as soon as possible. In some rare cases, you may be able to work in pairs.
- This is a required course assignment.
- Your presentation may not exceed 12 minutes.
- Read my requirements for a timeline.
- With regard to format, your presentation can be done using Powerpoint, Slides, Prezi or as a web page, but it would be better if you use an online app such as those listed here. You should include:
- a media component (such as video, imagery, web, audio, slide show) or a hands-on activity, such as a handout distributed to the class
- at least one map
- visual aids count, but they do not have to be fancy.
- You should have a bibliography of sources used to prepare the timeline including at least ten different sources, and only one of which can be Wikipedia.
- Proof, critique and revise your timeline.
- You should email a rough draft of your timeline to me at least 24 hours before class so that I can provide some feedback to you.
- 10 to 12 events in your timeline.
- Some points to consider:
- You are the expert on your topic, not the audience. Do not fear the audience! They should fear you.
- Make eye contact with the audience.
- Be prepared to answer difficult questions from the audience.
- No colloquial language (no expletives)
- Again, you are the expert on your topic, and this is a college-level presentation.
- Enjoy yourself!
Possible topics for HIS 101 (week due is indicated in parenthesis); Bold indicates that the topic is no longer available.
- You may suggest your own topic for instructor approval.
- Ancient Egypt
- Ancient Mesopotamia
- Hebrews
- Classical Athens
- Sparta
- Classical Persia
- The Greek philosophers
- Campaigns of Alexander the Great
- Roman Republic
- The Roman Empire
- The spread of Christianity
- The spread of Islam
- The Dark Ages (400-800)
- Byzantine civilization
- Kievan Russia
- The Vikings
- Universities of the Middle Ages
- Important popes of the Middle Ages
- The Mongol invasions
- The 100 Years War
- The Black Death
- The Crusades
- The Russian Time of Troubles
- The Reformation and important reformers
- Renaissance artists
- Voyages of exploration
Possible topics for HIS 102 (week due is indicated in parenthesis):
- You may suggest your own topic for instructor approval.
- Isaac Newton (3)
- Gottfried Leibniz (3)
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (3)
- John Locke (3)
- Denis Diderot (3)
- Voltaire (3)
- Immanuel Kant (3)
- Frederick the Great (3)
- Catherine the Great (3)
- Maximilien Robespierre (3)
- Saint Just (3)
- Daniel Defoe (3)
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (3)
- James Watt (4)
- Henry Bessemer (4)
- George Stephenson (4)
- Thomas Newcomen (4)
- Gustave Courbet (4)
- Tsar Alexander I (5)
- Pavel Pestel (5)
- Mary Shelley (5)
- Charles Fourier (5)
- Friedrich Engels (5)
- Novalis (5)
- Ludwig van Beethoven (5)
- Otto von Bismarck (6)
- Camilo Benso, count di Cavour (6)
- Mikhail Bakunin (6)
- Fedor Dostoevskii (6)
- Modest Mussorgsky (6)
- Giuseppe Garibaldi (6)
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir (6)
- Rudyard Kipling (8)
- Friedrich Nietzsche (8)
- David Livingstone (8)
- Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener (8)
- Alfred Dreyfus (8)
- Mark Twain (8)
- Erich Maria Remarque (10)
- Marshal Pétain (10)
- Lenin (10)
- Trotskii (10)
- Marc Chagall (10)
- Vladimir Mayakovskii (10)
- Erich Maria Remarque (10)
- Franz Kafka (10)
- Benito Mussolini (12)
- Albert Speer (12)
- Pablo Picasso (12)
- Winston Churchill (12)
- Zhou Enlai (12)
- Jean-Paul Sartre (12)
- Jackson Pollock (12)
- Nikita Khrushchev (12)
- Ho Chi Minh (12)
- Chinua Achebe (14)
- Naguib Mahfouz (14)
- Mohandas Gandhi (14)
- Jomo Kenyatta (14)
- Ahmed Sékou Touré (14)
- Muhammad Ali Jinnah (14)
- Salman Rushdie (14)
- Franz Fanon (14)
- Nelson Mandela (14)
- J. K. Rowling (15)
- Steven Spielberg (15)
- Roy Lichtenstein (15)
- Banksy (15)
- Jeff Bezos (15)
- Larry Page (15)
- Michael Jordan (15)
- Steve Jobs (15)
- Kanye West (15)