In lieu of a final exam, please prepare and submit a portfolio that showcases your work for the class and summarizes what you have learned during the semester. All portfolios must be mounted on the web and each should begin with its own summary page which should be named "portfolio.html." Deadline for submitting portfolios is the end of the final exam period for HONR 159J, which is Saturday, May 18th, at 10:00 a.m.

What should you include in your portfolio? At a minimum, your portfolio should include revised versions of Projects 1-3 and a summary statement synthesizing your take on American suburbia after having studied it for 14 weeks. We do not wish to be overly prescriptive about the content or form of the portfolio beyond these minimal requirements. But for those in need of ideas, here are some additional items to think about:

* rework or supplement one or all of your projects to include insights that you've gained since the original due dates or to highlight or introduce a unifying thread or issue running through your projects.

* rework or make use of some of the class handouts to highlight issues or insights or perspectives that you think are key to understanding suburbia.

* revise (and add) hyperlinks to relevant other sites or sources or images on the web.

* revise (and add) hyperlinks to the work of your fellow classmates and beef up your interaction with and response(s) to their ideas.

* reformat your pages, add images, change backgrounds, and experiment with hypertext in new ways to communicate your ideas more effectively or to craft a more interactive website.

* rethink or redesign a better suburbia based on what YOU have identified as most problematic and most appealing in suburbia today.

* rethink your HONR159J website--how might you make it more useful and substantive to browsers searching for a better understanding of this ubiquitous cultural phenomenon that we call suburbia?

Remember that good critical thinking involves continuous monitoring and rethinking of your ideas as you gain new knowledge or different perspectives on a set of issues. Show us the best results of the critical thinking adventure you've participated in this semester in HONR159J. Embrace the opportunity in this summary project to develop your own special point of view or give your own learned perspective on American suburbia.