Assignment 2: PowerPoint Slideshow and PowerPoint Presentation Notes
Purpose: Students will produce and submit for assessment 8-10 PowerPoint slides which, using visual material – images, graphs, etc. - illuminate a contemporary social issue relating to inequality, explicate at least two key social science concepts and analyse the selected contemporary social issue using the key concepts explicated. Some suggestions of contemporary social issues you might consider are a recent debate or event related to:
Asylum seekers or refugees
Environmental issues
Same sex marriage
Youth unemployment
or make a case for selecting another recent debate related to social inequality
Process:
2a. Power Point presentation
In the slideshow, you need to include: A title page that informs the audience of the social issue you have selected to address, as well as your name, student number and the name of your teacher. Representation of the contemporary social issue (through pictures, graphs etc.) This will require you to research the social issue, identify some key arguments or points that need to be communicated and choose how best to communicate these key issues. Your written submission (below) will go into details about what your Power Point is visually showing, so your PowerPoint may not have a lot of words.
Demonstration of familiarity with at least two key social science concepts in relation to your selected issue. Please submit a reference list in a word document
The following YouTube clip provides some advice about how to create a PowerPoint slideshow. How to use Microsoft office PowerPoint 2007 here. When creating a PowerPoint presentation it is important that the content is not copy and pasted rather directly inputted into the slide. PowerPoint presentations are to be submitted through Turnitin. Helpful information can be found at the following link:
https://my.navitasprofessional.edu.au/howto/index.php?lang=en&action=artikel&artlang=en&id=9
2b. PowerPoint Presentation Notes
To accompany the PowerPoint slides students should submit ‘presentation notes’ in the form of a word document no more than 1000 words long. This will accompany the largely visual power point presentation you have created.
Using text, appropriately define and apply the two social science concepts featured in the PowerPoint slides to the social inequality issue featured in the PowerPoint slides. Your written notes should briefly describe the historical roots of the selected social equality issue and the social contexts within which it emerged.
Referencing
The following website gives good information about citing pictures or graphs in your work using APA 6th edition:
http://sydney.edu.au/copyright/staff/citing.shtml
Submission The PowerPoint presentation should be converted to PDF for submission, this will reduce size and minimise difficulties in the upload process.
READINGS LIST
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22. Kushner, H. I., & Sterk, C. E. (2005). The limits of social capital: Durkheim, suicide, and social cohesion. American Journal of Public Health, 95(7), 1139-1143.
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