Student Portfolio

The Portfolio allows you to assess your fulfillment of the learning outcomes established by the French and Francophone Studies Program. It also provides our faculty with important information for assessing the effectiveness of our academic program.

At various points in your Bucknell French career, you will be asked to submit examples of coursework that best illustrate your progress toward the learning goals. In addition, at three key junctures you will reflect upon your personal progress toward the acquisition of the key competencies that comprise the French and Francophone Studies major (see right panel). Explicit instructions for these self-reflections are included below.

To facilitate the storage and organization of your Portfolio, we have created an Eportfolio site. Although you will receive periodic reminders to submit various components of the Portfolio (for ex., in the context of specific courses), it is primarily your responsibility to ensure that your Portfolio is up-to-date and complete. You should verify with your French and Francophone Studies advisor that your Portfolio contains the required materials listed below.

Your completed Portfolio must be uploaded to the Eportfolio web site two weeks before the end of classes for the semester in which you graduate.


Timeline and Materials to Be Submitted

  • Upon declaration of the major: Self-Reflection #1
  • FR 150: Final composition — Analyse de texte
  • 200-level: A composition (final, ungraded version) from an introduction to French literature course (FR 230 or FR 231)
  • 200- level: A composition (final, ungraded version) from a French civ./culture course (FR 270, FR 271 or FR 275)
  • Second Semester of Junior Year: Self-Reflection #2
  • (Bucknell en France): Copy of DELF or DALF certificate demonstrating Level B1 proficiency
  • (Bucknell en France): Audio files and bulletin d’analyse of oral proficiency
  • 300- level: A research paper from a 300-level course (with its complete bibliography, final ungraded version)
  • Senior year: A list of French courses taken both at Bucknell and abroad
  • Senior year: Self-Reflection #3

Self-Reflections

You will be asked to reflect upon your personal progress toward the acquisition of key competencies that comprise a French and Francophone Studies major.

Each reflection paper should be typed, single-spaced, using a standard 12-pt font. Upload one copy into your Eportfolio and email one copy to your French and Francophone Studies advisor.

Self-Reflection I

Within three weeks of the Declaration of Majors meeting in spring of your sophomore year, you will be asked to attend a follow‐up meeting for newly declared French majors at which time you will submit your self-reflection IN ENGLISH and receive instructions for how to upload your Portfolio documents to the Eportfolio site. This self-reflection will be typed and at least one single-spaced page long.

After reading the course catalog and examining the French and Francophone Studies web pages, please answer the following questions:

  1. What do you look forward to discovering in the French curriculum?
  2. What courses have you taken thus far in French at Bucknell?
  3. What other courses do you plan on taking and why?
  4. How would these courses complement your learning goals and experience at Bucknell?
  5. What other major/minor are you considering and how do you imagine your majors working together in terms of content and/or skills required?
  6. How do you see this major potentially connecting to your larger experience at Bucknell?
  7. How do you anticipate your study abroad experience will contribute to your learning at Bucknell?

Self-Reflection II

Second semester of junior year, you will complete your second self-reflection. This self-reflection IN FRENCH will be typed and at least 1 ½ single-spaced pages long.

If you participated in a study abroad, internship or service-learning experience, please reflect on the following:

  1. What were your goals for this experience?
  2. How did you meet them?
  3. What specific initiatives did you take to meet those goals?
  4. What would you have done differently?
  5. How do you see this experience as enriching your French studies at Bucknell and beyond?

If you did not participate in a study abroad, internship, or service-learning experience, your second self-reflection will address the following questions:

  1. How has your coursework in the major enriched your understanding of the discipline?
  2. What linguistic and academic skills have you improved the most through these courses?
  3. Where do you need to concentrate your efforts for further improvement?

Upload one copy into your Eportfolio and email one copy to your French and Francophone Studies advisor.

Self-Reflection III

During the last semester of French study your senior year, you will submit your final self-reflection. To allow the French and Francophone Studies Program to share the results of your experience with the university administration, this final self-reflection will be IN ENGLISH. It will be typed and at least two single-spaced pages long.

Looking back over your Portfolio of your work you have submitted and your previous self-reflections, please discuss your growth as a French and Francophone studies major and the skills you believe that you have acquired through the major.

Please examine the six goals for Majors in French and Francophone Studies listed at the top right and comment upon the degree to which you believe you achieved competency in each of the six areas.

  1. Do you feel your progress reflects the effort you invested in your studies?
  2. If you had it all to do over again, what would you do differently?
  3. Are there things you would change to your approach?
  4. To what extent did the French major complement your other studies at Bucknell?
  5. How do you anticipate French influencing/enhancing your future studies and/or profession?
  6. To what extent do you think that your French major enhanced and/or influenced your understanding of the world and who you are as a person?

Upload one copy to your Eportfolio and email one copy to your French and Francophone Studies advisor.