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Senior Seminar Portfolio Checklist
Name:
Major:
 Write your Senior Seminar Reflection Essay (3-5 pages): Reflect on the program of study in English
courses. Be sure to answer the following question: 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.
 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
 a copy of an essay from one of the lower-division core
courses in major: SEGL 279, 280, 289, 290, 300, or 301.
Education majors should select an essay from English 300.
 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
 Senior Seminar Capstone Paper
 Senior Seminar Reflection Essay
Paper Titles
 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
Develop a knowledge 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
Revised 2015
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