Final Project (35% of course grade)
Your final project is due at the end of the course. Your final project should consist of 11 – 15 PowerPoint slides or a
5 – 8 page paper (submitted as a .doc or .rtf file) on a specific economic topic of your choice.
Rubric for Final Project
Grade Criteria
A to A-
Clear evidence of all of the following: context and target audience is identified on the first slide
(or page) of the final project, factual accuracy, conciseness, relevant and explanatory graphics
on over half of the slides or pages, creativity, design, technical level, usefulness, interest level,
clarity, within the indicated length of slides or pages, under 6MB file size, on each slide (or
page) containing info and/or images you have taken from an outside source you must list the
URL where the info and/or images was obtained, last slide or page is a bibliography and
includes at least one peer reviewed journal article obtained at the college online library,
timeliness, and no grammatical, syntax or other writing errors.
For your ease in accomplishing the citations for the bibliography, you may use an online
citation machine e.g. http://citationmachine.net/index.php?callstyle=2&source=&all=yes#here
Grade Criteria
A to A-
Clear evidence of all of the following: context and target audience is identified on the first slide
(or page) of the final project, factual accuracy, conciseness, relevant and explanatory graphics
on over half of the slides or pages, creativity, design, technical level, usefulness, interest level,
clarity, within the indicated length of slides or pages, under 6MB file size, on each slide (or
page) containing info and/or images you have taken from an outside source you must list the
URL where the info and/or images was obtained, last slide or page is a bibliography and
includes at least one peer reviewed journal article obtained at the college online library,
timeliness, and no grammatical, syntax or other writing errors.
For your ease in accomplishing the citations for the bibliography, you may use an online
citation machine e.g. http://citationmachine.net/index.php?callstyle=2&source=&all=yes#here
B+ to B- Clear evidence of fifteen of the above criteria.
C+ to C- Clear evidence of fourteen of the above criteria.
D Clear evidence of thirteen of the above criteria.
F Clear evidence of less than thirteen of the above criteria.
C+ to C- Clear evidence of fourteen of the above criteria.
D Clear evidence of thirteen of the above criteria.
F Clear evidence of less than thirteen of the above criteria.