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Undergraduate Portfolio Requirements
Note: Students who were
English majors in Fall 2004 or earlier have the option of adhering to
these revised guidelines or of continuing to adhere to those in effect
when they entered the major.
We believe that students' conscious reflection upon their own learning
can deepen and expand that learning. As students look back upon
the items they have contributed to their portfolio regularly throughout
their tenure as English/English Education majors, they have an
opportunity to contemplate their own intellectual growth and
understanding.
Keeping the above in mind, the English Department has chosen to use
student portfolios to assess its program strengths and weaknesses. The
primary purpose of the portfolio is to assess whether the Department is
achieving the following three goals:
- That students read attentively, closely, and critically;
- That students write thoughtfully, coherently, and persuasively;
- That students develop and challenge their own thinking through scholarly research.
All English majors are therefore required to submit for their
portfolios one paper each semester during which they are English majors
and taking an English class. The only qualifications are the
following:
- At least one paper must involve research;
- Papers must be at least two pages long, but longer papers are preferable.
The final portfolio paper will be the exit paper, a paper in which the
students look at our goals and discuss their careers as English majors
in terms of those goals. The exit paper will be written during
the semester that the student takes Senior Seminar. Whether the
paper will be part of the Senior Seminar syllabus is up to the
instructor. Students will take ENGL 401, Portfolio Completion,
while they are in Senior Seminar. Students who have not (except for the
exit paper) completed their portfolios will be prohibited from
enrolling in ENGL 400/401.
Students, please keep a copy of these Guidelines and the Portfolio
Checklist for your own consultation. Advisors will place a copy
of the signed checklist in the student’s advising file and update
it each semester as the student turns in work.
Required for students who declare the major from Fall 2004 onward.
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