A degree in history will often require you to deliver a spoken presentation. Presenting before a group trains you in the research process used by professional historians, who often workshop ideas in this way. Oral presentations also develop an important skill for the workplace and for everyday life.
Most oral presentations on a degree course take place during seminars, a class format where an academic staff member facilitates a small-group discussion. Student presentations are usually quite brief, and they often involve PowerPoint (or similar) slides. While presentations require research, they are not intended to be as fully developed as a research essay. They offer work in progress as a starting point for responses and subsequent discussion. Presentations often receive a grade that counts toward the final mark for the module. The grade will recognise the quality of research, but will also assess the student’s delivery, the structure of the talk, the clarity of the slides, and so on.
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