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Dean's Book Course Model Presentations

Paper Presentations for DBC 291

In level II of the Dean's Book Course, students compose a paper intended for delivery to a listening audience. Students are expected to polish and practice reading their papers enough that their presentations have the audience appeal of a speech, sermon, or other form of public address, not simply a literal reading. For their second course assignment, students expand their delivered papers into ones suitable for print publication.

Greg Colby
"Automobile Dependency & the Working Poor"

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>> Read expanded Version II

Bryan Gervais
"Poor in Wealth, Poor in Turnout"

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>> Read expanded Version II

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The videos shown here were produced by the students of the Video Dean's Book Course, Honors 391V, under the direction of instructor Adrian d'Errico and teaching assistant Ron Martinez.

Terror in the Name of God jacket

Additional Paper Models
from Fall 2007

Version I: Presentation
Version II: Expanded
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