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.
Reference
Further Reading
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อเมริกา,
2539.
[CL and Arts 378.06
ส293ส 2539]
Caunce, Stephen. Oral History and the Local Historian. Harlow,
Essex: Longman, 1994. Print.
[CL 907.2
C373O]
Peter, John. The Oral History of Modern Architecture: Interviews with
the Greatest Architects of the Twentieth Century. New York: Harry N.
Abrams, 1994. Print.
[CL and Arch 724.6
P478O]
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