Student Portfolio

The Communication Studies Portfolio is an optional collection of your best work as an undergraduate student. Designed to showcase your applied projects, this portfolio helps you highlight the unique value of your degree to employers, graduate programs, and other external audiences. Here, you can demonstrate the transferrable research, training, speaking, and critical analysis skills you’ve developed throughout your coursework, as well as your ability to create products like podcasts, white papers, lesson plans, social media audits, and more. The goal of the portfolio is for you and others to see how your Communication Studies coursework translates into knowledge, tools, and solutions that can help businesses, nonprofits, and your community. 

We recommend selecting 3-5 projects from courses where you’ve demonstrated your skills and expertise to include in your portfolio. Consider choosing projects that align with your career goals, demonstrate a range of skills, or showcase standout work. Below are examples of transferable, applied assignments that you might have completed and could include:

• Sustainability Project from COMM 3342 (Interviewing Principles & Practices)
• Communication Resource Development from COMM 4350 (Comm & Coping) 
• Health Communication Training Proposal or Health Campaign from COMM 4326 (Health Comm)
• Lesson Plan from COMM 4311 (Instructional Comm)
• White Paper + Deliverable from COMM 4346 (Environmental Comm & Sustainability)
• Social Media Audit from COMM 4327 (Social Media in Organizations)
• Consulting Project from COMM 3301 (Empirical Research Methods)
• Organizational Culture Project or Organizational Communication Problem Brief from COMM 3319 (Organizational Communication)
• Creating My Gender Project from COMM 3328 (Communication and Gender)
• LGBTQ+ Infographic and Paper from COMM 3316I (LGBTQ+ Communication)

Your portfolio should be professional, polished, and easy to navigate. To generate your Communication Studies Portfolio, we ask that you use a template that we have created. 

Edit the template with your name, information about yourself, and a summary of your applied projects. For each course, describe the project you did and show some examples of your work. At the end of the portfolio, share the transferrable skills you have developed through these projects throughout your coursework. Please note that if you have projects that are only housed on your Canvas course from a previous semester, you can email your instructor to access that material.

When you are finished, click the File > Export > PDF. You can then post the PDF of your portfolio to LinkedIn or other platforms. If you’d like to email your portfolio, you can create a sharable FileLink to your document through TXST File Transfer.

Finally, please send your completed portfolio to COMMportfolio@txstate.edu. 

Questions or concerns? Email COMMportfolio@txstate.edu.