Portfolio

The constructive and reflective process of developing a portfolio allows fellows to outline their goals, document their scholarly activities, assess their learning, and demonstrate their professional achievements. As fellows progress through the certificate program, they continue to build an archive of work and responses to it that they can draw upon formatively and summatively as evidence of their scholarly and professional development. 

Portfolio Advisors

Fellows’ portfolio advisors actively guide this process of developing, documenting, selecting, and reflecting on activities that fulfill the certificate’s learning objectives as well as the scholarly and professional goals fellows articulate for themselves in the portfolio. Students may suggest faculty to serve as their advisor when they apply to the program. The admissions committee will give your selections due consideration; however, they may suggest alternatives based on their internal knowledge of program faculty expertise, interests, or availability. In all cases you will have the opportunity to meet with your assigned portfolio advisor before the relationship is confirmed.  

If at some point in your progress through the certificate you find it necessary to change portfolio advisors due to unaligned or realigned interests or other incompatibilities, you can request to change your advisor.

Portfolio Review

The portfolio receives two formal reviews. Fellows are introduced to portfolio development and to the prompts that will structure their initial and final reflection essays as part of the gateway course to the certificate, HUM 594: Scholarship as Public Practice. This course also structures the portfolio’s first formal review: fellows will review their initial portfolio and reflection in a conference with their portfolio advisors and the course instructors.

The portfolio’s second formal review comes when fellows complete the final requirement of the program, HUM 603: Capstone Portfolio. In their final quarter of the certificate program, fellows finalize a portfolio and a reflective statement that links selected artifacts of their research, teaching, and engagement activities to the certificate’s learning objectives as they relate to their own personal and professional goals. The final portfolio is reviewed by the fellow’s portfolio advisor and the certificate’s core faculty. Completion of the program is contingent on the approval of the final portfolio by the core faculty.

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