Student portfolios

Portfolios portray the student's identity as a CD practitioner and offer evidence of their developing professional skills. Put another way: who are you, what did you do, what's next (for you, for your partner organization, and for the viewer--who might want to learn more about your issues).

The portfolio is about the student, not about the organizational partner (they already have a website!). Your header and URL should be something like "Student Name portfolio."

The portfolio should be rich with graphics, photos, links, documents, and narrative that capture what you worked on an inspire the viewer to care about what you did. It should demonstrate to your organizational partner what you learned from working with them, document your contributions, and demonstrate how you applied your CD major coursework to a real world effort. Taken together, this should create a compelling portrait of an engaged scholar-practitioner who has some ideas about what they want to do next. This is not a simple homework assignment, it is the culmination of your undergraduate career. You are welcome to add additional features to your portfolio and use it for other professional purposes.

While you may choose to keep your site private as you are building it, you need to give your instructor and classmates viewing access. When you complete your final term of the field experience seminar, you MUST to make your portfolio viewable to the public.