Senior Seminar Portfolio Checklist
q Write your Senior Seminar Reflection Essay (3-5 pages): Reflect on the program of study in English courses and the capstone experience in Senior Seminar. How well have the courses in English at USC Upstate prepared you to apply skills in analysis, research, critical thinking, and writing? After reviewing your work in the English program, evaluate your strengths and weaknesses in the following four areas:
1. Disciplinary knowledge of literary periods, literary movements, genres, theory, and criticism;
2. Textual analysis and interpretation;
3. Writing skills; and
4. Research skills.
q Fill in your Senior Seminar Portfolio Table of Contents below, indicating the title of the paper you selected for each item. In the case of an internship paper or paper for another course, please indicate the course/type of internship and the type of work produced if there is no title.
Senior Seminar Portfolio Table of Contents / Paper Titlesq a copy of an essay from one of the lower-division core courses in major: SEGL 279, 280, 289, 290, 300 (formerly 295), or 301
q a copy of a creative writing project, internship project, or written project from a course outside the major to demonstrate flexibility in writing for different audiences
q Senior Seminar Capstone Paper
q Senior Seminar Reflection Essay
q Once you have compiled your four papers, select a highlighting color and indicate relevant passages from the papers in your Senior Seminar Portfolio that show how you have achieved each of the following four student learning goals:
Goal / Highlighting ColorDevelop aknowledge of literary periods, movements, genres, and authors that is informed by literary criticism, theory, and linguistic analysis
1. demonstrating an ability to situate and interpret texts in their historical and cultural contexts
2. utilizing appropriate literary and linguistic theory in discussing the assigned texts
The ability to analyze, synthesize, and evaluate a variety of texts, interpreting meaning and significance based on close observations of details within and among texts.
The ability to communicate in a clear and concise manner for a variety of audiences, writing with clarity and precision as appropriate for the given audience.
The ability to incorporate, engage, and utilize well-planned and executed research
1. critically engaging the ideas of other scholars
2. incorporating research in writing about the assigned texts
Updated Spring 2010