Graduate Portfolio
The NAIS Graduate Portfolio offers enrolled Masters and PhD students at UT Austin the opportunity to include Native American and Indigenous Studies in their academic training. We offer an intellectual path in the field that provides a rigorous scholarly training and a deep engagement in Indigenous decolonizing methodologies and practices.
MA Portfolio
The Master's Portfolio requires the completion of nine credit hours in approved graduate level courses. The nine credit hours for the Master's Portfolio must come from content courses, and at least two of the courses must be taken outside the student's home department.
PhD Portfolio
The Doctoral Portfolio requires the completion of twelve credit hours in approved graduate level courses. The twelve credit hours in the Doctoral Portfolio can include three hours from one independent study or directed reading with an affiliated faculty member, and at least two of the courses must be taken outside the student's home department.
Please note: Portfolio completion will be annotated on your degree as Graduate Portfolio in Native American and Indigenous Studies regardless of whether you are completing a terminal masters degree or continuing on to the PhD.
Additional Requirements
Students will also be required to participate in an annual culminating event in the late spring. Prior to the event, students will submit an abstract of their project to the Portfolio Committee, which will post the abstract on the portfolio program's website. At the event, students will give a public presentation of their scholarly project or research paper, which must then be submitted to and approved by the Portfolio Committee.
