Course Enrollment: PD-210 Lecturing Skills Including Preparation

IMPORTANT NOTE: This course can be taken starting on the first Monday beginning in January, April, and September ONLY. Please choose the first Monday in one of these three months when assigning the start date to your course. 

This course is very hands-on and has course obligations with time requirements. You will need to schedule your time to meet deadlines. You are being prepared for real-life speaking engagements. 

Optional Print Course Material: Lecturing Skills Including Preparation

1. Mills, Elizabeth Shown, editor, Professional Genealogy: A manual for researchers, writers, editors, lecturers and librarians (2001; reprint, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 2012).
2. Mills, Elizabeth Shown, editor, Professional Genealogy: Preparation, Practice & Standards (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 2018).

*Course material will only be sent to students who are registered in the course.

Lecturing Skills is a hands-on course requiring the student to provide a 30-minute presentation online. The assignments have due dates, unlike our other courses, which allows a mentor/staff member to review and promote your presentation.

This course focuses on the skills needed to present genealogical-related lectures to a variety of audiences. As a student, you develop all aspects of the lecturing process, including:

• the proposal
• biographical sketch
• marketing
• syllabus material
• creating lecture slides
• and more

In order to complete this course, the student must develop and deliver a 30-minute lecture to an audience of students and/or genealogical society members virtually via the International Institute of Genealogical Studies’ Zoom event. The final presentation is 50% of the grade.

Course Length: 12 weeks

Historical: This course originated September 2013. Current version copyright is March 2025. 
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