UNST 137A: Globalization, Global People Prof, Rodney Koeneke GROUP PRESENTATION: GLOBAL PEOPLE **Teams of 3-4 to create 20-minute presentation for our Main Session meetings on WEDNESDAY, 3/2, MONDAY, 3/7 & WEDNESDAY, 3/9** DUE DATES: MONDAY, 2/22: Present Group Presentation topics in Mentor Session; submit Descriptive Bibliography in Main Session WED. 3/2, MON. 3/7 & MON., 3/9: Deliver Presentations in Session PURPOSE This term, we've been considering a range of global people—figures whose lives or work bear the marks of globalization. For the Group Presentation, you'll be introducing us to your own global person. ‘You'll be asked to become an analyst of a person whose experiences reflect the impact of globalization. Your global person should be a window onto the themes and issues we've talked about this quarter and last. Your mission is to research, analyze, and create a 20-minute presentation on a current-day global person that most interests you, making meaningful comparisons with other concepts, thinkers, and figures from our course. The Group Presentation is an opportunity to “read” a global person of your choice. Who vould have been @ good addition to the syllabus, if you'd written it? How does this, fe or work addit to our growing stock of knowledge about globalization and its The assignment is also designed to give you experience with public speaking, presentation skills, research, and communication in line with our four FRINQ goals, **NOTE: You must be present on the date your group presents to receive full credit for the assignment. MARK YOUR CALENDARS NOW!** ASSIGNMENT Please research & carefully analyze ONE global person. Use this place to show us the impacts and outcomes—both positive and negative— of globalization as we've ‘come to understand it so far in this course.Hendricks, our Library Liaison for the course (hendricksa@pdx.edu) is a great resource to start with for research (PPLY THE THE READINGS FROM SYLLABUS ‘Now that you've learned more about the global life you're presenting on, you'll want to choose which lens through which to interpret it, Of the writers we've read, who do you think would have the most relevance to your subject? What key questions do you think they’d ask about it? What coneepts/special voeabulary would they bring to bear in finding meaning in this phenomenon? How can we use your thinker to elose-read this slobal phenomenon? IN SHORT: What do see about globalization in your global person’s life that we ‘wouldn’t have noticed without the other texts and films we've discussed in the course? ‘STEP 4: PREPARE YOUR PRESENTATION Your Group Presentation should contain the following elements: 4 Background Give us some sense of the research you've done on your topic. Why did you choose this person? What aspects of globalization has most effected your subjects life ? Most importantly, what sort of larger discussion or controversy does your subject's experience spark about globalization? What impact does your global person have on our growing understanding of globalization? + Documentation How do you plan to document this topie for the class? What PowerPoint slides, film clips, graphs, statistics, or other visual aids will most bring the topic alive for your audience? (You'll have the use of the classroom computer and projector). How ‘would you want to present this topic to someone who might be learning about it for the first time? [PLEASE NOTE: Please confine film/YouTube clips to no more than 4 minutes of the presentation time. We want to hear from you, not the Internet!] + ** Analysis/Close Reading** The real heart of the presentation should be the critical questions you ask of your global person. This is where your writers from the syllabus comes in. Which text or film from our course most helped you to analyze globalization in this particular life? Be sure to let your audience know why you ehose the person you did—what is it about their experience that exemplifies some of the issues and questions around globalization? What do you see as the key questions your subject's life or work raises about globalization? What does it add to our understanding of the definition and impact of globalization?