1. Sign up for your topic as soon as possible. This is a required course assignment..
   
   
2. Your presentation should not exceed 15 minutes.
   
   
3. With regard to content, your presentation should:
   
   • lprovide a brief initial identification of your topic and then proceed to a detailed description of the subject
   • explain the significance of the subject to the history of that period and the history covered in ths course
   • assess the historical importance of your topic/subject.
   • conclude by answering questions from the audience
     
     
4. With regard to format, your presentation, which can be done either Powerpoint or Prezis or as a web pagem hould include:
   
   • a media component (such as video, web, audio, slide show) or a hands-on activity (That can be a handout distributed to the class)
   • visual aids count, but they do not have to be fancy. If you choose to user Powerpoint, do not read the material on your slides. The material on the slides should be simply a quick summary of the more-detailed information that you are going to explain to the class. I will stop you if you read from your Powerpoint slides. Please have a look at some great tips on designing Powerpoint presentations
   • You can also just put some things on the web or even on a word document; it does not have to be Powerpoint presentation.
   • You should have a bibliography of sources used to prepare the presentation including at least two different books and three websites--only one of which can be a *.com and only one of which can be wikipedia. (Your bibliography should also include short annotated descriptions of each of your sources.) Remember more sources are better than fewer sources
   
   
5. Before you organize your ideas, first brainstorm for ways to approach your presentation.
   
   
6. Proof, critique and revise your presentation. Do not wait until the last minute to work on this.
   
   
7. Some points to consider:
   • You are the expert on your topic, not the audience. Do not fear the audience!
   • Make eye contact with the audience
   • No colloquial language (no expletives)
   • Enjoy yourself!
   
   
8. You should have two essay questions for the class to answrr about your topc. These questions wil become part of the pool of possible questions for the final exam.

Possible topics for HIS 101

Possible topics for HIS 102 (week due in parenthesis):

• Isaac Newton (3)
• Gottfriedn Leibniz (3)
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau (3)
• John Locke (3)
• Denis Diderot
• Voltaire (3)
• Immanuel Kant
• Frederick the Great (3)
• Catherine the Great (3)
• Maximilien Robespierre (3)
• Saint Just (3)
• Tsar Alexander I (4)
• James Watt (5)
• Mary Shelley (6)
• Fourier
• Karl Marx
• Friedrich Engels
• Metternich
• Pushkin
• Keats (6)
• Byron (6)
• Shelley (6)
• Novalis (6)
• Beethoven (6)
• Otto von Bismarck
• Camilo Benso, count di Cavour
• Bakunin
• Florence Nightingale
• Garibaldi
• Friedrich Nietzsche
• Fedor Dostoevskii
• Rudyard Kipling (9)
• Alfred Dreyfus
• Chinua Achebe
• Erich Maria Remarque (10)
• Marshal Pétain (10)
• Lenin
• Trotsky (11)
• Marc Chagall
• Erich Maria Remarque
• Stalin (11)
• Mussolini (12)
• Albert Speer
• Pablo Picasso (12)
• Winston Churchill (13)
• Winter War (13)
• Nikita Khrushchev (14)
• Ho Chi Minh (14)
• Mohandas Gandhi
• Mauritius history (14)
• Nelson Mandela
• You may suggest your own topic for instructor approval.