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Individual portfolio assignment

Introduction

During the course, you will work on an individual portfolio in which you will gather and collect all kinds of stuff relating to the topics discussed during the sessions. With this portfolio, you will be able to proof that you have achieved the first three of the learning objectives. You are encouraged to deliver work on your portfolio on a weekly basis (there's an upload-point available on Nestor), but are required to upload the final and complete work before the end of the course.

We have chosen this portfolio form for a number of reasons:

  1. It will give you the opportunity to spread the workload and study load over the duration of the course. By giving you weekly assignments, you (probably) won't be tempted to postpone working on the individual assignment to the last week of the course;

  2. It will focus more on what you have learned during the course in stead of seeing what has been achieved at a certain moment in time;

  3. It will give you more freedom in the form and contents, putting you in charge of creating a convincing portfolio

Contents of the portfolio

Every week, we will have study-assignments. Those consist of both literature and artworks. These assignments will be accompanied with (rather open) questions, which will challenge you to relate the works with the literature (or the other way around) and to come up with other examples that illustrate the same point. Apart from being part of your portfolio, these questions will also be used as a starting point of the discussions that we will be having.

Apart from that, at certain points you are encouraged to make use of your own creativity and actually create work that illustrates the topics under consideration. Of course, this is not an art-school so your work will not be graded on its aesthetic value or technical completeness, but we are sure that using the questions and discussions as a basis, you will be able to come up with creative novel illustrations of the things we will be talking about.

In all these cases, you will need to explain why you think the artworks (either your own of the ones you have found) are actually an illustration of this topic. So you need to write a little text to make the works convincing. It would be nice if these texts are accompanied by references to literature.

Assessment of the portfolio

As you will be working on the portfolio during the whole of the course, we will strive to give feedback on it every week (or, rather, to use interesting examples or ideas as starting point of the session). This is, however, more on a formative level. At the end of the course, your portfolio needs to be complete and uploaded on Nester – this final version will be summatively graded.

Since the form of the portfolio is quite free, we do not (cannot) provide details rubrics of assessment criteria. That being said, we will look at the following

  • is the portfolio complete? Does it contain answers to all the questions that are being posed at the weekly assigments?

  • is the portfolio thorough? Do the answers prove to be interesting, complete, thorough, detailed, ...?

  • is the portfolio creative? Does it contain creative and novel ideas and insights?

  • is the portfolio convincing? Do the works and the texts gathers in the portfolio actually make sense with regard to to topic at hand?

Resit assignments

Should the portfolio prove to be lacking in one regard or another, we will give you detailed feedback on it and point you into directions how to improve upon it. We will make individual appointments on the schedule and deadline of the improved version.