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Seminar Facilitation

After the first seminar, which will be facilitated by the faculty, students will be expected to facilitate their own seminars, with faculty as participant/observer. Two or three of you will work together and your responsibilities will be two-fold: providing background information for the seminar and facilitating the seminar. Providing background information will consist in doing some extra research on applicable writers, artists, themes or historical context to present to your seminar group. You can divide the responsibilities; each person can prepare to give a five minute presentation (MAXIMUM) that you feel will be helpful in getting your seminar moving in an interesting direction. You can do your research in books or on the internet, but please, don’t just find a site, hit the print button, and then read what you’ve printed. You can research and take notes or write out what you want to say, but be sure and put your presentation into your own words and strive to connect with your audience. You can bring visual aids. Generally a presentation works well if you can convey your own enthusiasm as well as your knowledge of a topic to your audience. You do not have to do an essay response paper for the time you facilitate seminar. In leading the seminar, your main responsibility will be to keep the conversational ball rolling. You can choose any format that you feel will work best–round robin, free style, fishbowl, etc. You will also need to ensure that everyone is treated in a respectful manner, even if the argument gets heated. Your group will be assisted by using Web Crossing, where you can read your peers’ response papers ahead of time and see what issues they are interested in raising during the seminar. That way, you don’t have to do all the work or come up with all of the themes or ideas yourself; it will be a larger group effort.

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