Requirements for Submission of a "Junior Portfolio"

Due date:  December 10 or earlier as you prefer.  (Due means completed in your portfolio web -  Email me when your portfolio is ready for review. )

Assignment:  You must complete portions of your CATA Professional Portfolio by the end of the semester.  In order to receive a passing grade in CATA 321, the following portions of the web based portfolio must be completed using reasonably good web design techniques.

   1.  The header, footer, and navigation bar must correct and up to date.
 

   2.  Your "Home" page must look completed.  This page should serve as an introduction to your portfolio and to you as a potential professional Communication and Theatre Arts.  The design and content are entirely open but your goal is to make a good, professional, first impression.
 

   3.  Your resume must be posted on the resume page and format problems and other elements that make it difficult to read on-line should be corrected.  The page should also contain a link to an adobe .pdf version of your resume (suitable for printing).
 

   4.  You must be sure you have updated your "Objectives" page.  This is the "front page" of your effort to document how you have achieved the goals of your CATA major.  A correctly formatted "objectives" page will show clearly the concentration objectives you are fulfilling.  The "reflection" pages linked to your main objective page will provide the names of the artifacts that the page will contain when finished for EACH of the goals in your chosen concentration.  The points below identify what a "correctly formatted "Objectives" section pages are like.

• The "Objectives" page needs to provide an overview of what the process of documenting competencies is all about for readers who may not be familiar with the CATA Portfolio requirement. 

• It should include a link to the CATA Major Learning Outcomes document.

• It should be organized and labeled in a way that makes it easy for the reader to see what objectives you will be documenting over the next year.

• The "reflections" pages must include partial or complete reflection statements on at least three (3) goals and at least five (5) artifacts must be linked on one or another of the "reflections" pages.

   5.  By the time you complete the portfolio in the Spring of your Senior year, for each goal you will have a link to a "Reflection" page that describes how you have met that goal.  The description will, in most cases, contain links (on the right side of the page) to the set of artifacts that illustrate your mastery of the goal as explained on the left side of the reflection page.  Artifacts may be papers, web documents and sites, photos or videos, scanned-in tests or evaluation sheets, or any of a variety of other possible materials that can be displayed on the web.  (Artifacts are required to be displayed in a "new window.") 

For an acceptable "Junior Portfolio" you should include some portion of the Reflection Statement on at least three goals for your CATA major concentration and include links to at least five artifacts.