Term Project

Instructions:

As previously discussed in class, you are to create a PowerPoint presentation that contains at least 10 content slides regarding a specific aspect of the economic geography of the country that you have chosen to study this semester. As explained in class, your presentation should focus around a specific topic or concept from this course that you believe is particularly significant for this country. Through your content slides, you must provide examples of how this not only illustrates important aspects of certain economic concepts, but how it also illustrates geographic concepts.

Each slide must contain at least 50 words of discussion and a supporting image (map, picture, graph, etc.). Please be sure that your supporting images are specific to the place of study, and your discussion comments should connect with the image. You must conclude your presentation with at least one additional slide that contains your learning reflections (at least 250 words) on your key “take aways” regarding the economic geography of this place through the assignments, as well as any other material you were exposed to through this course.

For students who are Education majors taking this course (or for anyone else who might be interested), another approach would be to choose one of the DESE competencies associated with this course (as indicated on the syllabus), and then construct your content slides around how you might teach that topic (i.e., essentially propose a lesson plan). Of course, if you choose an economic focused competency, you will need to be sure to clearly indicate how you will also connect those concepts to geographic perspectives, and vice versa.

Although this isn’t a formal research paper, you should still cite the source (or sources) of your content on each slide, and you must include a works cited slide. There is not a specific number of sources that you must use, however, for a presentation of this length, you should really have an absolute minimum of at least 3 different sources. Remember that I do not care what citation method you use (APA, MLA, Chicago, etc.) as long as you use the same method consistently throughout your entire project. If you use online sources, use credible source materials (for example, Wikipedia is a good place to get images and useful links to source cites, but it is NOT an adequate source of information). Also, don’t forget that any sentences you choose to directly copy from any source, MUST be put in quotation marks and directly cited. Failing to do this even just one time is considered plagiarism.

You will be required to share your presentation in class during our scheduled Final Exam Period, which is on Tuesday, May 3, from 10:15-12:15. 15% of your score for this project will be based simply on whether or not you present your project to our class during this period. You should upload your presentation in Canvas BEFORE our final exam period.