Presentation Skills

Academic year 2011-12

Date last modified

23-4-2012 1:29

Period

Period 1		Startdate:	05-Sep-11		Enddate:	28-Oct-11
Period 4		Startdate:	06-Feb-12		Enddate:	06-Apr-12

Code

SKI2007

ECTS credits

2.5

Organisational unit

University College Maastricht

Coordinator

Description

Students will study and practice different aspects of a presentation. All students will give a number of presentations and discuss their outlines, content and the final delivery with their group members. First we will have an opening presentation on the same topic for all students. Then students can decide on their own topics to present, usually within their field of interest. The purpose is to be able to convincingly convey information about a topic you are knowledgeable about to other people. Besides giving presentations, an important aspect of this training is giving and receiving constructive feedback. Both the trainer and your fellow students will provide you with it and you will be asked to provide feedback several times. Students are supposed to use the feedback to improve their skills. The training will help you to work out future presentations, either at UCM or as part of a future job or master program.

Goals

Giving a presentation could serve a number of purposes: • You inform or instruct an audience. • You try to persuade them. • You entertain people. This Skills Training focuses on presentation skills for informative presentations. It will allow you to improve these skills by practicing different aspects of presenting. During the training we will pay attention to: • Preparation: brainstorming, organizing and outlining your presentations. • Delivery: gestures, attitude and the use of visual aids. • Content: working out an introduction, body and conclusion for your presentation, employing forms of support like explanations and examples, setting up main points and subpoints, comparing and contrasting information. • Audience: analyzing the audience and adapting to their knowledge, interacting with them and dealing with questions.

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Prerequisites

Students must be familiar with PowerPoint. A PowerPoint training was offered to all students that participated in: • SKI1008 Introduction to Academic Skills I and SKI1009 Introduction to Academic Skills II • Basic Study Skills I and II or • Introduction to Academe I and II. Students that did not attend the training may contact the coordinator of SKI2007 Presentation Skills and obtain a copy of the training manual.

Recommended literature

Teaching methods

PBL
PRESENTATION(S)
LECTURE(S)
ASSIGNMENT(S)
PAPER(S)

Assessment methods

FINAL PAPER
ATTENDANCE
PARTICIPATION
WRITTEN EXAM
ORAL EXAM
TAKE HOME EXAM

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