The Graduate School
Graduate Portfolio Programs
Portfolio programs are opportunities for students to obtain credentials in a cross-disciplinary academic area of inquiry while they are completing the requirements for a master's or doctor's degree in a particular discipline. A portfolio program usually consists of four thematically related graduate courses and a research presentation; for master's portfolio programs, a practical experience related to the portfolio program may replace the presentation.
Portfolio programs are not degree programs. To be eligible to participate in a portfolio program, students must be admitted into one of the university's graduate degree programs.
General Description and Objectives of Graduate Portfolio Programs
Guidelines for Faculty to Develop a Graduate Portfolio Program
Current Portfolio Programs, with links to program descriptions and application procedures:
- African and African American Studies
- Cellular and Molecular Imaging for Diagnostics and Therapeutics
- Communication, Information, and Cultural Policy
- Cultural Studies
- Dispute Resolution
- Gerontology
- Imaging Science
- Indigenous Studies
- Integrated Watershed Science
- Interdisciplinary European Studies
- Mexican American Studies
- Museum Studies
- Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
- Nonprofit Studies
- Societal Impacts of Science and Technology
- Study of Religion
- Sustainability
- Women's and Gender Studies