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During our last class meeting during finals week, you will do a two-minute oral presentation about your organize an activity experiment in philosophy in front of me and your classmates. That two minutes should include time for you to present the one-minute Pitch-Your-Success video you created for that experiment, so plan your presentation accordingly.

Here’s What I Want You to Do

For your final presentation, you will very briefly introduce and show your Pitch-Your-Success video. You will then spend the remainder of your time giving a short reflection on how the activity your organized is connected to course material. In doing so, you should draw on the materials from your organize an activity report.

Given the relatively short length of time you will spend talking, you will not create any presentation slides. Instead, I will have a slide with your name on it and I will play your Pitch-Your-Success video when you instruct me to do so.

Here’s Why I Want You to Do It

I am having you do this final presentation because it has you …

• Develop your communication skills.
• Cultivate your curiosity about the work of others.
• See that your work (and the work of your classmates) matters.

As such, your final presentation is an important opportunity for you to demonstrate your achievement of these learning outcomes for the course:

Here’s How to Do It

The good news is that by the time you present to the entire class, you will have already done the hard work! Indeed, all your final presentation needs to do is tie together some important parts of that work.

To help with that, I strongly suggest that you organize your final presentation as follows:

1. Begin by introducing yourself along with your one-sentence pitch. You will have already submitted your one-sentence pitch as part of your organize an activity report.
2. Show your one-minute Pitch-Your-Success video. Your video should generally follow the expanded pitch structure. You will also have already submitted that video at the same time as your organize an activity report.
3. Share your reflections on how the activity you organized connects to course material. Once again, you will have already submitted these reflections as part of your organize an activity report.
4. Thank the audience for listening.

Of course, you may find a different structure more appropriate for your presentation, which is totally fine. Just keep in mind that I will be looking for all of the above four items in your presentation.

One Last Reminder: Given the relatively short length of time you will spend talking, you will not create any presentation slides. Instead, I will have a slide with your name on it and I will play your Pitch-Your-Success video when you instruct me to do so.

Here’s How You’ll Earn Philosophy Experience Points

Your final presentation is worth a total of 1,500 philosophy experience points and it will be judged according to the following criteria:

• Capturing and maintaining the audience’s attention.
• Describing your project and its impact. (Your one-minute video should do this for your presentation.)
• Making connections to the course material. (The in-person part of your presentation should do this.)
• Possessing crystal clear organization and contents that are easy to understand.
• Demonstration of preparation and practice.
• Responding thoughtfully to audience questions.
• Asking interesting questions of the other presenters.

Beyond that, anyone engaging in distracting behavior (sleeping in class, chatting while others are presenting, using a phone or laptop, arriving late, leaving the room during the presentations, doing homework for another course, and so on) may have philosophy experience points deducted from their points for this activity.

Collaboration & Academic Integrity

While you may have organized an activity with some classmates, you still must do your own presentation that is distinct from those of your other team members. In doing that, just be sure to primarily focus on your own individual contribution to the entire project along with your own personal reflections.

Above all, please be honest if you do receive any outside assistance or use the ideas of others. This includes using AI tools. In any of those cases, be sure to let me know what assistance you received, and I will let you know how to properly acknowledge that assistance in accordance with standards of academic integrity.