Group Presentations

To broaden or deepen your exposure to different movements and issues in the study of movements, you will be broken into groups according to shared interests and required to make a presentation about your shared interest. Group may range in size from 2 to 5. We have four class periods set aside for the group presentations, therefore your group will have about 15 minutes per person for your presentation. This does not mean each person should talk for 15 minutes, but if you have 3 people, your total time should be not more than 45 minutes, etc. Your group presentations may reflect material in your papers, but it does not have to. Again, you could choose to present on a group, movement, tactic, or movement-related issue. For example, past presentations have been about a radical feminist group and the tactics they used, the different ways movements use the media and technology, media coverage of the Gay and Lesbian March on Washington, the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, a comparison of literature distributed by pro-life and pro-choice activists, conceptualizing 12-step self-help groups as social movements, and so on. The idea is to educate your classmates about some movement or issue that we have not covered fully in class.