For Major Assignment 3, I will be presenting on the leadership opportunities in Greek life. I will be outlining some of the various positions held by members of the Greek community within their respective organizations, and I hope to interview some Greeks to get a wide range of information and examples. I will also be using my own experiences, describing the positions I've held and how they have forced me to improve as a student and a member of my sorority.
My audience for this project is students at Michigan Tech who are either uninformed about Greek life or who have a negative stereotype about all Greeks. This group could range from freshmen to seniors, include both males and females, and all races and religions. I simply would like to reach those college level students who don't know about leadership opportunities in Greek life. This moves me along to the context, which is informational. I'm not trying to recruit new members, I simply would like to inform people of my topic.
To convey my message, I believe I will be using a Prezi presentation, and I am considering trying to use music. I would like to set up my presentation so that it begins by addressing the Greek stereotype (all they do is party) and then move on to state my thesis and some general examples of leadership opportunities. I'm then going to move into the interview examples, and finish with my personal experiences.
I plan to test my presentation on my friends who are non-Greeks; in the past they've been really good at being unbiased and telling me what works and what doesn't. They know about my experiences, and so they are more open to the idea of Greek life being a positive thing. Overall, I hope to use the presentation to change some minds and open some eyes, so that more people know how positive Greek life can really be.
Since I am unfamiliar with Greek Life in general, I think this will be very interesting, especially leadership opportunities.
ReplyDeleteAddressing the stereotypes of Greek Life is good, I think a lot of people have these, especially at a technical school.
Interviewing is also a great thing you plan on doing. Touching on both fraternities and sororities would be beneficial because you would have input from both sides on their leadership opportunities.
Having arrived at Tech with the negative Greek mentality, it took joining an organization for me to see just what Greek-life is really about. What most people don't realize is how important image is for fraternities and sororities that are looking to improve the lives of the members. It's unfortunate that many Greek organizations, especially those with good intentions, get a bad reputation from the mistakes of one or two members.
ReplyDeleteI think this is a great idea! As a greek woman myself, I feel like all to often the stigmas of alcohol, parties, drugs, sex, etc follow the greek community when clearly most of us are not about that! I like the idea of interviewing other greeks in the community as well. One of my friends Aaron Schroeder is the president of Delta Upsilon here at tech, and I think he would be a really interesting person to talk about on the subject since his fraternity is a No secrets, No hazing sort of fraternity.
ReplyDeleteAnother cool thing to add to your prezzi might be video interviews of different members of the greek community.