Assignment 2: Professional Portfolio
This assignment requires you to gather a compilation of papers and projects from this course and previous courses and add them to your Professional Portfolio. The portfolio is designed to help you compile all you have learned throughout your undergraduate studies with the best examples of your work to represent what you are capable of doing when you graduate the program. This assignment also gives you a opportunity to reflect on what you have learned as a student of psychology and to prepare to actualize your post-graduation goals. It will serve as a resource as you navigate the world of prospective employers and graduate admissions committees. The student portfolio is also a measure of effectiveness for the Argosy University baccalaureate program in Psychology. As you develop professionally following graduation you can add work samples and other pertinent materials as well as modify existing documents to reflect that development.
The Professional Portfolio includes two main sections. A Professional Profile section that is completed by all students with either an Employment focus or a Graduate School focus depending on your post-baccalaureate plans. The second section holds your Professional Work Samples demonstrating your abilities skills and competencies across a range of tasks and objectives. This section also includes a Final Evaluation of your work samples yourself and the psychology program.
The Professional Profile section summarizes your career planning and professional goals. You have already compiled the documents for this section in Modules 1 and 2 of this course. It contains the following documents:
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A Personal Statement describing your immediate and long-term career goals including an explanation of why these goals are appropriate in terms of your knowledge skills personal characteristics values and experiences (Graduate School).
Note: The personal statement is attached to the Curriculum Vitae (Graduate School) and the Cover Letter is attached to the Resume (Employment) so take the time to be creative and not repeat yourself.
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A Curriculum Vitae with list of References that is current accurate and professional in appearance. (Graduate School)
The Professional Work Samples section demonstrates your performance and mastery of Argosy University’s program outcomes/competencies for the Psychology major. Select 3-5 documents to serve as samples of your best work in the program. Together they should illustrate your mastery of all the 7 program outcomes listed below. Examples of the type of work that would illustrate each outcome is provided below as well. The 3-5 documents should be samples of your work that you completed in previous courses as an undergraduate student.
These outcomes are listed below along with the assignments that could be included to demonstrate mastery of the outcome:
Once you have assembled your work samples you will write a 700-1000 word narrative to serve as a preface to the Professional Work Samples section. This narrative should consist of a clear and thoughtful analysis of how each work sample reveals your strengths and areas for improvement according to each of the seven areas addressed in the program outcomes/competencies (listed above). Towards this purpose you will complete the Student Self Appraisal of Learningfirst and then use that to generate the preface . Make sure you also address how you intend to strengthen your competencies in all areas as you graduate onto the next step of your professional career. On which areas will you focus most and why?
This preface should also include an evaluation of the Psychology program as well as suggestions for the program that will enable it to help future Psychology majors develop these strengths and overcome these weaknesses in the future.
Enter each of these components (Professional Profile Professional Work Samples with self- evaluation) into the Professional Profile Template. Post your Professional Portfolio to the M4: Assignment 2 Dropbox by Wednesday April 19 2017