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The
Cultural Events Committee has established a procedure whereby some or
all of a student's Cultural Events credits may be earned on the basis of
significant past life experiences of a cultural nature. This procedure
involves the presentation to the committee of a Portfolio. This
procedure is primarily designed for the nontraditional student. Only
those experiences which the student has had since high school graduation
will be considered. The portfolio should be based on experiences since
high school and prior to matriculation at Winthrop University. Any
outside experiences which occur during the time spent as a Winthrop
student may be submitted using the petition
option.
If
a student wishes to exercise the portfolio option, it must be done
before reaching Junior status at Winthrop University. Those entering
Winthrop as transfer students who already have Junior status or higher,
and who wish to obtain cultural events credits through the portfolio
option, must submit the portfolio to the committee in their first
semester of matriculation at Winthrop. A portfolio submission must be
received in the Cultural Events Office no later than November 1st (for
1st semester submissions) or April 1st (for 2nd semester submissions).
No portfolios will be considered during the summer sessions as the
Cultural Events Committee does not meet over the summer months. Students
who, through unusual circumstances, or lack of knowledge, fail to submit
a portfolio following these guidelines, may petition the Cultural Events
Committee to grant an exception to these guidelines.
A
portfolio is designed to illuminate those activities and life
experiences which a student has had which are unrelated to their college
activities. Therefore, in the case of transfer students, no
consideration will be given for activities participated in or attended
at another college while they were a student there. Allowance is already
made for that by the reduction in the number of over-all cultural events
credits they must obtain at Winthrop. Consideration will be given for
experiences such as travel (foreign or domestic), museum visits, and
attendance or participation in plays, dance programs, operas, or
concerts done by professional, college, or community groups.
The
portfolio should be typed or word-processed and should be very detailed.
Although the committee does not expect a student to have ticket stubs or
programs relating to plays attended 10 years ago, they do expect the
written report to give the title of the play, where it was attended, and
something about the performance. The idea is to give the committee a
clear idea of those things which you have been involved with and/or
attended, how they affected you, and some sense of your continuing
commitment to such activities as a participant or audience member.
The
portfolio should be presented in a well-written and neat fashion. The
portfolio may contain programs or photographs, but should also include
the detailed written report. The more experiences you cite in some
detail, the better your chances are of getting a substantial number of
cultural events credits on the portfolio itself.
The
committee reserves the right, even if a large number of experiences is
submitted, to grant something less than the full cultural events
requirement if they feel that the student would benefit from exposure to
some of the on-campus events, or if they feel that the experiences
represent a rather narrow focus, and they wish to encourage the student
to broaden their experiences.
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