Department of English

Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University

History Spot • AUA

(2012)

Assignment and Oral Presentation Practice

Assignment

In Unit 1: Alive and Well, we discussed cities, their character, and the ways they make us feel alive. For the section on family and oral history we looked at how we can learn about our roots, remember, and preserve these stories about our heritage. Unit 2: Right and Wrong raises questions about information, obtaining and evaluating it, and coming to terms with what is correct and incorrect as part of our learning process. When we visited the AUA (American University Alumni Association) on June 19, we had the opportunity to see both firsthand the design and organization of this center of modern Bangkok's cultural life and hear second and thirdhand the illustrious history of the association and its leaders. This assignment is a place for you to practice bringing together the critical look at cities, exploration of sources for learning about our history, and skills in reading, speaking, listening and writing that we have worked on so far in these two units.

• Choose someone to interview and choose one question from the list below that you think will elicit an interesting or informative response or story. You can ask more questions if you like, but the assignment requires only one.
  
• Explain to your interviewee that he/she will be asked a question and will be filmed while answering it as part of your work for a class at university and as part of an oral history project. Ask him/her for permission to use the footage on YouTube and for educational purposes. If your subject agrees, please ask him/her to sign this consent and release form. If your subject does not agree, the clip will not be used further after you show it in class.
  
• In a relatively quiet place with an uncluttered or meaningful background, have your recording device ready and ask your interviewee the question you've chosen. Film the response.
• Thank your interviewee for sharing his or her impressions and experience of AUA with you.
• Save your video clip onto a portable storage device.
• Prepare a short (no longer than three minutes) explanation of your clip as you show it to class on Thursday, July 5, 2012. In your talk, you can
• Introduce the person you've chosen to interview (ex. a random person on the street, a former instructor or student of the AUA language center, a past or current staff or member of AUA, a historian, an actor, a politician, an architect, a friend or family member, young or old).
• Explain your choice of question, why you think the response to this question would be revealing or useful.
• Give your impression of how the interview process went. Did it go as planned? What were the difficulties, surprises, or things you learned?
• Send the file of your video clip to me via e-mail and give me the signed model release form if applicable.
  

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