IDS 4890 FIU Showcasing Your Intellectual Growth Questions

ASSIGNMENT ONE:Curriculum Summary For this week’s assignment, identify three university courses that when presented together tell a story about your intellectual journey and academic experiences and abilities.

Building on your research and thinking from your work on last week’s assignment, and using Curriculum Summary examples as your guide, write a detailed and polished Curriculum Summary that lists and describes three courses.

Your total submission (the discussion of three courses) must be at least 250 words long.

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Think about what classes you took and what accomplished in them. The successful Curriculum summary is about showing rather than just telling. This is your time to show off your best work, focusing on particular skills. For example, pick an assignment (project or paper) where you did a particularly strong job. Fully describe your work. Prove that you can do what you say you can do. This involves making the important distinction AWAY from just a list of your courses and what you did in them—to who you are as a professional and a creative problem solver.

As you list and discuss your course work, you’ll build a tool made out of words that you can use to enhance your resume or prepare for an interview.

Here are some Curriculum Summary Examples.

And also a formal template, so you can see what each entry does in sharing the story of your academic journey with readers.

Heading: Provide an informative subheading, usually the complete name of the course;

Body paragraph opening sentences that provide context for what follows: The first sentences should summarize the course content. This information can be found online in the FIU course catalogue.

Include a story or example that shows why this course/project/paper matters to you. Here you might share insights, achievements and/or surprises.

Explain how this course/project/paper will help you to advance your plans for the future: Finish by explaining how you will transfer your skills and knowledge into other areas of your academic or professional life

Finally, you might even include an image or attach a paper as evidence of your claims. This part is optional.

CHM 4090L Introduction to Scientific Glassblowing (Provide an informative subheading, usually the complete name of the course)

In this class, where the emphasis was on making and repairing scientific glassware, I learned Basic glassblowing operations with glass tubing and rod….(Body paragraph opening sentences that provide context for what follows : The first sentences should summarize the course content. This information can be found online in the FIU course catalogue.) As I worked in the glassblowing lab, I learned more about precision than I expected to. Discovering and following established best practices for getting things exactly right in procedure, measurements, materials, and temperature matters is something I will never forget and that I will bring to my future work in other areas. We didn’t guess and make approximations. The standard we adhered to was strict precision. I worked harder for an A in this class than in most of the other classes I have ever taken, etc. (The story or example that shows why this course/project/paper matters to you. Here you might share insights, achievements and/or surprises) When I explain to employers and graduate program admissions officers what is special about me, I will tell that I am a meticulous person who notices and manages details, even in high-stress situations and I’ll use my achievements in the glassblowing class as proof (Explain how this course/project/paper will help you to advance your plans for the future: Finish by explaining how you will transfer your skills and knowledge into other areas of your academic or professional life) My here is a picture of my final project for the class. (You might even include an image or attach a paper as evidence of your claims.)

This is a paragraph about one class. Your curriculum summary should discuss three classes.

.ASSIGNMENT 2Looking Ahead to the Capstone Portfolio Instructions

There is a connection between the first week’s work, all the work in between, and the Capstone Portfolio.

Recall the Practicing Curation exercise. For that assignment, you created a little museum exhibit about yourself. The Capstone Portfolio assignment which is due in the last weeks of class, asks you to do something similar. But instead of assembling found objects from your home to make a museum exhibit that tells a story about you, you’ll assemble work from this class to make a portfolio that tells a story about you.

Step 1: Read the Capstone Portfolio and Reflective Letter Instructions. As you read, think about which items you’ve written so far in class — mood board, resume, video-selfie, cover letter etc. — that you might want to polish and revise for the Capstone Portfolio.

Step 2: Make a list of at least three initial questions about this big end-of-the-semester assignment. Is there something that puzzles you? Unfamiliar words or ideas?There is no word count minimum but to earn all available points, you must have at least 3 different questions that reflect your careful reading of the Capstone Portfolio Instructions.