PUBPOL 712
Public Policy Presentation Practicum
Dean Storelli
Description from DukeHub
This 5-week course will help you prepare for public policy presentations. It is a class about PowerPoint slides, but it is also about how to prepare your argument and yourself. We will look at design and content issues, including topics such as what to say in the first 45 seconds of a presentation, what kinds of content to avoid in a presentation and how to display complex data. The only homework will be to come to class prepared to work on your next presentation. This class is open to all MIDP and MPP students.
Skills
- public speakingdescription: "presentations" and 3 more
- policy and lawtitle: "policy"
- lab workhas a lab component
- fieldworktitle: "practicum"
- designAI review: "how to display complex data"
AI-resilient: 3 of 5
- Yes: Physical, lab or field work · "laboratory"
- No: Live work with people
- Yes: Judgment someone is accountable for · "policy"
- No: A craft you practice with your hands or body
- Yes: Small, in-person format · title: "practicum"
The checks lean on Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025), which found generative AI applies least to physical work and hands-on work with people. A signal, not a promise. How the score works
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