SPCC ePortfolio
General Education Core Skills Page
The General Education Core Skills page is an important part of the ePortfolio because it includes your artifacts (college assignments) and reflections for each of the Core Skills. You have been saving your best work, so that you can select assignments to show off your skills. For each of the Core Skills, you will select an artifact. For instance, for Written Communication, you could choose an informative paper from ENG-112, a sociology paper for Information Literacy, a science lab for Critical Thinking, a religion paper for Intercultural Competence, and a speech video from COM-231 for Oral Communication. Take your time in selecting your artifacts; evaluate your college assignments thoughtfully and select only your best work. For assistance with selecting artifacts, email eportfolio@spcc.edu or call
704.290.5208.
What is a reflection?
A reflection is a short piece of prose that thoughtfully contemplates a subject. In the context of your ePortfolio, you are analyzing, evaluating, and interpreting your learning experiences. Your observations, impressions, opinions, memories, and feelings are central to the writing because they demonstrate your thought process. Sprinkling in sentences that begin with "I thought," "I considered," "I reflected," "I contemplated," "I recalled," "I remembered," "I felt," and "I observed" signal reflection. Unlike formal academic writing, you are free to "think out loud" on the page and reveal your thoughts. A reflection is written like a narrative that recounts your specific learning in the skill and how it is connected to other disciplines.
The interdisciplinary connections will show that you can see relationships between the disciplines. The School of Arts and Sciences includes a variety of disciplines that work together to form SPCC’s General Education program. Math, natural sciences, social sciences, the arts and humanities come together to form the foundation of your college education. The Associate in Arts, Associate in Science, Associate in Fine Arts, and the Associate in Engineering degrees share common courses from the disciplines. None of us are whole without the skills taught by both areas. In your reflections, you will be demonstrating your comprehensive learning.