Integrative Learning and the ILP at Salve Regina University

John Henry Cardinal Newman

The Idea of a University

“All the branches of knowledge are connected together, because the subject matter of knowledge is intimately united in itself, as being the great Creator and

His works.”

“True enlargement of mind is the power of viewing many things at once as one whole, of referring them severally to their true place in the universal system, of understanding their respective values, and determining their mutual

dependence.”

Ten Types of Integration:

1. Social 6. Ethical

2. Personal 7. Cultural

3. Experiential 8. Religious

4. Skills 9. Structural

5. Interdisciplinary 10. Evaluative

1. Social Integration: the First Year Experience

Orientation to Community Values

Orientation to Academic Values

First Year Learning Communities

2. Personal Integration: a Wellness Model

Intellectual

Emotional

Physical

Spiritual

Social

Life Planning

3. Experiential Integration: Theory and PraxisGroup Projects

Field Trips

Service Learning

Study Abroad

4. Skills Integration: Across the Curriculum

Writing Across the Curriculum

Information Literacy and Technology Across the Curriculum

Continuity in Pedagogy

Consistency in Evaluation

5. Interdisciplinary: Portal and Capstone Courses

Interdisciplinary “framing courses” integrating signature disciplines of philosophy and theology

Freshman Year:

Portal – Seeking Wisdom

Senior Year:

Capstone – Living Wisdom

Portal CapstoneSeeking Wisdom Living Wisdom

Imagining Themes

Women and MenHeroes and HeroinesSufferingGodNatureCitizenship

Acting ThemesHuman Needs and Human DevelopmentDynamism of the SpiritEthics, Technology, and Environment WisdomAchieving Community

6. Ethical : Catholic Social Teaching

Stewardship

Equality Preferential Option for the Poor

The Common Good

Solidarity Subsidiarity

Association Participation

Human Life

Human Dignity

7. Cultural: Developing a World View

Question of God Summer Reading

World Citizenship Focus in Core

Integrative e-Portfolio

Reflective Essays

Study Abroad

8. Religious: The Integration of Faith and Learning

I believe in order that I may understand.

St. Anselm

I seek to understand in order that I may believe.

Abelard

The Integration of Faith and Learning

Theology and Philosophy as framing and integrating

courses for the Core

“An education with a Catholic identity” as a Core goal

Focus on Catholic Social Teaching

Theology as an academic discipline

9. Structural Integration

The Core Capstone

RationaleProcessLessons LearnedMomentum

Rationale for Capstone

“The Capstone Course, then, will serve as both an end and a beginning.” (Capstone Syllabus)

Experience Core Goals over all Four Years by linking Seeking Wisdom (Portal) and Living Wisdom: Contemporary Challenges (Senior Capstone)

Integration, synthesis and student self-assessment of undergraduate education including major, minor, study abroad, etc.

Look to the future

10. Evaluative Integration: Mapping Core and the Integrative Learning e-Portfolio

Faculty Mapping and Student Integrative e-Portfolio

Collect Select Reflect Connect

Mapping Overview

2004-2005 Faculty Workshop with Peggy Maki

Mapping First Year Courses (Collecting and Selecting)

Consensus Mapping (Reflection and Connecting)

Cycle of Inquiry Continues

Mapping of Upper Level and New Courses

Assessment Central to Campus Culture

Community-Wide Laptop Initiative

Faculty Development