Oral Presentation of Graduation Thesis

Presentation should take place in the presence of the SCM adviser(s) and one internal reviewer*. It will last for half an hour. Students should present their Graduation Thesis in no more than 10 minutes. The presentation should include the final concept of the work (explain with details or examples from the work) and your research findings. This will be followed by a 20-minute Q & A session.

Guidelines of Oral Presentation of Graduation Thesis

This presentation will be an academic event to testify to your achievement and degree of excellence at the end of your BACM program:
- It is a discussion session where you learn to see your work through other people’s eyes.
- It is an occasion where you defend the value and uniqueness of your work in front of a panel.

10-minute presentation

You should make full use of this chance -
* to summarize the main tasks and core issues of your work; (Learn to summarize your work in one or two lines – a good exercise -- if you can do that, it means you really have a very good command of your entire project.)
* to fill in the gaps for those issues or aspects you feel your work and thesis have not covered enough;
* to discuss your own work critically and reflectively now that it is complete (what you would have done, what is not enough, a reflection of the work process etc.); and
* to summarize your personal discovery and what you have learned about the field or similar kinds of works

Oral presentation: based on the work and thesis you have submitted, your panel members will raise questions to engage you with a critical review.

* These questions can be for clarification of your work, they can be questions to examine the concept supporting your work, or they can be questions that link your work to broader theoretical issues of relevance.
* Instead of ask a question, a panelist may sometimes offer a critique of your work or certain aspects of it. You should be ready to respond to such critique, sometimes by defending yourself, or by discussing the panelist’s recommendation.
* You need not pretend to give perfect answers to all the questions. You need not pretend to know everything. Honesty and responsiveness are more important.
* AVOID DESCRIBING THE OBVIOUS: You should assume your panelists have examined your work and read your thesis carefully.
* PLEASE DO NOT waste time on paraphrase your work if it is a video, script, short story etc. with a story.
* AVOID INTERPRETING the meanings of your work to the panelists be it a video, screenplay, installation, short novel, or other narrative works. (If your work is good enough, your audience would figure out.)
* PLEASE DO NOT waste time on describing the process of the work unless your work is mainly about the process itself.

AS IMPLIED IN THE UNIVERSITY GUIDELINES, ENGLISH IS THE REQUIRED, OFFICIAL MEDIUM OF TEACHING AND LEARNING. PRESENTATION SHOULD BE CONDUCTED IN ENGLISH, UNLESS YOU HAVE PRESENTED STRONG REASONS AND OBTAINED SPECIAL PERMISSION IN ADVANCE.

Contact the Graduation Thesis administrators or the BACM Program Leader if necessary.

Procedures

(1) Check in advance that all equipment required for your presentation is in place at the venue.

[*Download your files and fix your settings in advance. Check the earliest session of the day. You must complete this task before the sessions begin or during lunch break. Check the venue-schedule carefully.]

[**Web/CD-ROM projects: you’re allowed to show your work alongside the 10-minute presentation.]

[***Power Point is NOT REQUIRED, but is made available at all venues, in case you need to use it for your 10-minute presentation. ]

[****It should be based on the version submitted on 30 April 2007. No revised version should be submitted during the Oral presentation.]

(2) Please arrive at the assigned venue 15 minutes in advance.

(3) Your First Adviser will introduce the panelist to you and chair the entire session.

(4) Your 10-minute presentation

(5) 20-minute Q & A Session

Oddities

*There is no “I” grade for Oral Presentation. If you are absent from the Oral Presentation, you will lose substantially on your final grade.

**If it is time of your Oral Presentation but you do not see your advisers or external reviewer, what should you do? – Report to the General Office, call 27888049. In any case, you should wait for your advisers and external reviewer to start your presentation. Your advisers may be on the way to your venue from another.

***Had you missed the deadline for Graduation Thesis submission, your External Reviewer would not have had the chance to examine your work. In this case, you must present your entire work and summary review within the TEN MINUTES assigned to you. Your First Adviser will signal you to stop at the end of the 10th minute.

KEEP THESE NUMBERS WITH YOU ON THE DAY OF YOUR PRESENTATION:

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