5.10 Chapter Assignment
Plagues & Pandemics Assignment
This chapter’s materials focused on four notable pandemics in human history. For this assignment you are required to select another pandemic, conduct research on it, and create a narrated slideshow presentation using PowerPoint (all University of Windsor students have access to the MS Software Suite) that provides information and a detailed background on your chosen pandemic, as per the questions below (an example of a narrated slideshow MP4, created by Jessica Popescu in 2022, is provided at bottom of this page). The pandemic chosen for the assignment CANNOT be among the four pandemics focused on in this chapter or SARS. It is important to: (1) complete all chapter materials (chapter content, including all embedded links to readings and videos, and the required course materials) prior to starting the assignment; and (2) cite relevant course material (from current and previous chapters) and material from your research on your chosen pandemic throughout your assignment to support your points, credit sources of concepts/ideas, and demonstrate completion of assigned course materials.
Information about some pandemics may not be available, as data was never collected, documented, made public, etc. Some information about the pandemic may be speculative or theoretical in nature. Keep these factors in mind when selecting a pandemic for your assignment and framing your voice/slide content. If you start your research and find minimal and mostly speculative information, it is recommended that you switch to a different pandemic.
Assignment Formatting, Style & Length
- Presentations must include a cover slide that identifies the topic of the presentation/which pandemic, whose presentation it is, and the course number.
- Presentation must be 3-5 minutes in length (no longer than 5 minutes).
- PowerPoint presentations should have between 6 and 8 content slides (10 slides maximum including a title page slide and a reference slide). Be sure to build in slide transitions and slide animations to make the slide show more engaging.
- The final slide must be a reference slide (APA format). Narration is not part of this slide.
- Be sure to include images and photographs (these must be properly sourced).
- Videos CANNOT be incorporated in the narrated presentation.
- Use proper APA in-text citation style to support points, credit sources of concepts/ideas, demonstrate research completed for assignment, and completion of assigned course materials on slides AND in the speaker notes for each slide. One citation at the bottom of the slide or after the last bullet point is not sufficient.
- Avoid putting too much text on a slide. If you are making the font smaller on some slides, then there is too much content. Remember that slide content is typically in point form and the narration allows for elaboration. Recording yourself simply reading the slide content is NOT the same as slide narration. Slide narration expands/prov