Thank you for taking the time to look over my portfolio,  this is a portfolio of all the work that I have done over the past few months.  The knowledge, art, and
power university studies class is a very affective way of teaching me many different things.  The course goals for this term have been.
        1. To examine the responsibility in constructing knowledge, and the cultural, scientific and artistic forces that affect such an activity.
        2. Explore various art forms as products of diverse perspectives, and as modes of communicating alternative viewpoints.
        3. Explain how expressions of art and knowledge are influenced by structures of power.
I feel that I together with the class through all the discussions and all the articles that we have read have come to touch up on all of these points.  Even though I have not talked much during this whole turn is because I didn’t much understand all of  the material at the time that we were discussing it.  It seemed to me as if I was a slow learner this term and that I always caught up with what the class was talking about after they had moved on to the next topic.  That might be one of the reasons that I have been very silent this term.  I also feel that all the articles that we have read helped a lot to realize all of the stuff that is going on around us and that we don’t realize it.  I learned very much about women how they are associated with nature, I learned about the two notions of power developed by Foucault.  Which were really hard to come to at the beginning.  But through the term I fell that I have really progressed a lot, and that if someone were to sit down and talk to me about the two notions of power, I could have a real sense of what they are talking about.
         One part that I feel I had real trouble with was one of the two notions of power.  I feel that maybe if we would have had a little bit more time to spend on the power relations topic I feel that I would of come to understand it much better.  Even though I do already understand, it is still like a blurry image that is far away.  I can see the shape and what it looks like but I can not tell you all of the details.  But that is totally because we had some much other stuff to cover that we did go a little bit faster then I would of liked.  I wish that for next term it would be much better if we slowed things down a little bit.  I mean not cover so much material and be able to understand what we are studying totally clearly.  That is also another reason that I feel I was quite this term, it was maybe because we went a little bit to fast, which also has to do with my first reason.
         One of the best pieces of work that I feel that I really did my best work was that dialogue between Artemisia and Galileo.  The teacher also feels that I did my best work because I received the highest grade out of all the work that I have done this whole term.  The reason I feel that it is my best work is because I was able to express what I was thinking through the two characters, rather then do it through an academic essay.  Academic essay’s are much harder for me because it is difficult for me to put the right words with the right emotions that I am feeling.  What I mean by this is that when I was able to express what I feel through the two characters it seemed that my whole vocabulary changed.  I don’t what it was but when I was able to think through some one else’s eyes it made a lot more sense to me and I was able to do my best work.  The reason that I chose this over the others is because I received the best grade out of all the other assignments.
         The things that I have learned in this university studies class are very important to me.  I was finally able to think outside of the box that I was taught my whole life.  This class made me see things that I never knew existed.  It made me see things that weren’t there they are kind of invisible but they are there.  Just like power over and power relations.  It is very simple to see power over and identify it, but it is very hard to see power relations, because it is invisible.  The topic that we did study a lot on was power relations and we were taught to see things that really aren’t there visibly but they exist.  I would like to say that this term I worked really hard in this class, I always had my assignments in on time, gave it my best effort and got good grades on all of my assignments.  I think that this term I would deserve and A, A-.  I don’t say this just because I would like to receive an A but because I feel I deserve and A.  I got A’s and B’s on all of my work, nothing lower.  I did all of my mind maps, my reader response papers, and poems.  I think this would be the best grade for my efforts.