Interdisciplinary Honors Portfolio

The Honors Minor Portfolio is comprised of a minimum of five pieces of work done in fulfillment of the minor and an essay, which reflects upon these pieces and your experience in the UHP. Rather than these pieces being a simple cataloging of your experiences, they should be chosen to document your development and significant milestones within the UHP. When creating your portfolio, please keep in mind how your honors experiences reflect the goals of the UHP, which are:

  • challenging students to take full advantage of their intellectual and personal talents;
  • emphasizing problem-solving, self-expression and creativity;
  • providing opportunities to gain research or professional experience;
  • engaging students as active learners and discoverers and encouraging innovative approaches to familiar ideas and vexing problems; and
  • fostering excellent communication skills and community engagement.

Your essay serves as an introduction to your portfolio and a retrospective examination of significant milestones in your pursuit of the Interdisciplinary Honors Minor. In the essay, you should explain why you have chosen the pieces included in your portfolio. Whenever possible, there will be a public presentation of the portfolio or a meeting with the Honors Council Review Committee.

Portfolio Pieces: Represent your progress through the UHP courses, internships, contracts, research experiences, and capstone projects.  For each piece please include: 

      • Course Number  
      • Course Title
      • Instructor    
      • Semester & Year

Self-Reflective Essay: Develops a coherent and comprehensive understanding of your education experience in the minor.  You will work with the director or faculty member which whom you compiled the portfolio.

Guidelines: Upload your portfolio in a file that includes a table of contents, the self-reflective essay, and the representative work. The work should be included in chronological order and have consistent formatting.

 

For any questions, please contact us at honors@msubillings.edu.