Slide Presentations (Updated)


This semester, you, or you and a partner, will be responsible for a slide presentation based upon a '70s-related topic.

Presentations must:

  • Run at least 10 minutes—you may utilize any presentation program you like (e.g. PowerPoint, Slides, Canva).
  • Be 10-12 slides in length, excluding cover slide and works cited. Introduction and conclusion slides are mandatory—presentations without an introduction and/or conclusion cannot receive full points.
  • Contain at least one multimedia clip—no longer than 2 minutes in length.
  • Include an MLA Style works cited slide—not to be presented.
  • Be submitted to Canvas no later than the day of your presentation.
Important:
  • To present on Zoom, you will be made a co-host. Be sure to select "Share Sound" before sharing your screen.
  • Your presentation must be in your own words—simply copying and pasting text is not only plagiarism, it will result in an F.
  • Do not read your presentation. Instead, you should know your material enough so that you can sufficiently "riff" on your subject.
  • You must present with your camera on. And no presentations from phones—computer presentations only, please.

Very Important:

While you may utilize AI tools to create your presentation's visual aesthetics (e.g., slide backgrounds, color palettes, or layouts), all intellectual content (written and spoken narrative) must be your own. Presentations using AI-generated subject matter will result in an automatic F on the assignment, with the potential for further disciplinary action.

Also, ANY AI use must be reflected in your works cited. 

Topics:

  1. I Was a Seventies Superstar: Farrah Fawcett
  2. Entertainment for Women: The Story of Playgirl
  3. My Old School: High School Life in the ‘70s
  4. Knowing Me, Knowing You: The Story of ABBA
  5. The Storytellers: The Golden Age of the Singer-Songwriter
  6. Disco Demolition Night: The Backlash Against Disco Explained
  7. A Dark Revival: The Occult Fad of the 1970s
  8. In Full Blume: How Judy Blume Redefined Seventies Literature for Kids
  9. Blockbusters of the ‘70s: Jaws
  10. I am Woman, Hear Me Roar: On the Second Wave of Feminism
  11. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Hitchhiking in the ‘70s
  12. Coppola, Spielberg, Lucas, and Scorsese: How the "Movie Brats" Conquered Hollywood
  13. Being a Woman in the Seventies: What We Should Remember
  14. Marvels of Design: The World Trade Center
  15. The Voice of the Counter-Culture: The Comedy of George Carlin
  16. Why Did America Turn on Vietnam Vets?
  17. Magnavox, Atari, and the Birth of the Video Game Revolution
  18. Hooking Up Words and Phrases: The Legacy of Schoolhouse Rock
  19. Terror in Munich: The 1972 Olympic Summer Games
  20. Making Room for Everyone: Multiculturalism and the Seventies
  21. Not Ready for Prime Time: The Story of Saturday Night Live
  22. The Only Place to Be: Studio 54
  23. How Norman Lear Made Television Grow Up
  24. Cinema for the Brothers and Sisters: All About Blaxploitation
  25. Icons of Seventies Sports: Reggie Jackson, Dorthy Hamill, and “Mean” Joe Greene
  26. Michael Jackson in the Seventies
  27. Stayin’ Alive: The Story of Bee Gees
  28. The Rock Musicals of the Seventies: Jesus Christ Superstar, The Phantom of the Paradise, and Tommy
  29. Fantasy: The Designs of Bob Mackie
  30. Strangers in Two Lands: The Plight of the Amerasians
  31. Blockbusters of the ‘70s: Superman
  32. The Bodice Rippers: Romance Novels and the Liberation of Female Desire
  33. I Was a Seventies Superstar: John Travolta
  34. Classics of Seventies Horror: The Exorcist, Halloween, and Alien
  35. The Ladies of Seventies Television: The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Laverne & Shirley, and Charlie Angels
  36. The Hippest Trip in America: All About Soul Train
  37. How Star Wars Changed Everything
  38. Classic Cars of the ‘70s
  39. Egyptomania: The Egyptian Fad of the 1970s
  40. Gunne Sax Dresses to Hot Pants: A Tour of Seventies Fashion

Schedule:

Week 8: Mon 3.9/Wed 3.11 
  • Lokesh  
  • Allison C - The Ladies of Seventies Television: The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Laverne & Shirley, and Charlie Angels

Week 9: Mon 3.16/Wed 3.18 

  • Cassandra OG - Being a Woman in the Seventies: What We Should Remember

Week 12: Mon 4.6/Wed 4.8 

  • Ariel R - My Old School: High School Life in the ‘70s
  • Mia W - Stayin’ Alive: The Story of Bee Gees
Week 13: Mon 4.13/Wed 4.15 
  • Noah G - Classic Cars of the ‘70s
  • Arturo R/Vanessa L - Terror in Munich: The 1972 Olympic Summer Games
  • Dabian K - Why Did America Turn on Vietnam Vets?
Week 14: Mon 4.20/Wed 4.22 
  • Alex N/Adan D - How Star Wars Changed Everything
  • Maya E - Knowing Me, Knowing You: The Story of ABBA
  • Samuel C - The Hippest Trip in America: All About Soul Train 
Week 15: Mon 4.27/Wed 4.29 
  • Leila MD - Classics of Seventies Horror: The Exorcist, Halloween, and Alien
  • Aidah T - Blockbusters of the ‘70s: Jaws
  • Aydrien G - Michael Jackson in the Seventies
  • Chenxi W - Disco Demolition Night: The Backlash Against Disco Explained
Week 16: Mon 5.4/Wed 5.6
  • Jessica ML - Not Ready for Prime Time: The Story of Saturday Night Live
  • Palak W - Gunne Sax Dresses to Hot Pants: A Tour of Seventies Fashion
  • Edward L - Blockbusters of the ‘70s: Superman
  • Marisol C - I Was a Seventies Superstar: Farrah Fawcett

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