What to write: In 100-200 words, describe your major and minor, as well as your reasons for choosing these programs. What experiences or interests led you to pursue the academic program you’ve chosen? What about your programs are you most intellectually curious about? What are some of the hard problems do you hope to solve by the end of your degree? What important conversations (about culture, gender, nations, identity, expression, or the like) are you participating in through your studies?
Then, add individual posts with specific course content, as evidence of the kind of work you’ve done and the skills you’ve developed by doing it.
If you’re struggling to articulate what most intrigues you about your academic program, or your contribution to scholarship, consider speaking with one of your favourite professors or with an advisor in the Arts Academic Advising Office.
What to post: Add a “New Post” to add new content to this page once or twice per semester. Include samples of some of your best work, ensuring that you describe the nature of the project and the course of which it is a part, so that a reader who isn’t familiar with your course will still understand your post. You will want to organize your posts by using relevant Categories and Tags. You can find more details here on what these are, and how to use them. While you can organize your content in any way you like, note that it is important you use the correct Category or Tag with posts that will be graded for a course you are in. This information will be provided to you by your instructor.
Images: If there is an image associated with the work that you produced, by all means include it! But ensure that you provide some context that explains the work. Write as if you are addressing someone who wasn’t in your class, and may not even know much about this academic discipline.
The best images are ones that you’ve created–your own photographs or your own drawings. If you didn’t create the image yourself, ensure that your use of the image is legal.