Integrative Learning and the ILP at Salve Regina University

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Integrative Learning and the ILP at Salve Regina
University
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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.
John Henry Cardinal Newman The Idea of a
University
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Ten Types of Integration

1. Social 6. Ethical
2. Personal 7. Cultural
3. Experiential 8. Religious
4. Skills 9. Structural
5. Interdisciplinary 10. Evaluative

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1. Social Integration the First Year Experience

• Orientation to Community Values
• Orientation to Academic Values
• First Year Learning Communities

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2. Personal Integration a Wellness Model

• Intellectual
• Emotional
• Physical
• Spiritual
• Social
• Life Planning

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3. Experiential Integration Theory and Praxis

• Group Projects
• Field Trips
• Service Learning
• Study Abroad

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4. Skills Integration Across the Curriculum

• Writing Across the Curriculum
• Information Literacy and Technology Across the
  Curriculum

Continuity in Pedagogy Consistency in Evaluation
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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
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Portal CapstoneSeeking Wisdom Living Wisdom

• Imagining Themes
• Women and Men
• Heroes and Heroines
• Suffering
• God
• Nature
• Citizenship

• Acting Themes
• Human Needs and Human Development
• Dynamism of the Spirit
• Ethics, Technology, and Environment Wisdom
• Achieving Community

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6. Ethical Catholic Social Teaching
Human Dignity

Human Life
Association
Participation
Solidarity
Subsidiarity
Preferential Option for the Poor
Equality
Stewardship
The Common Good
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7. Cultural Developing a World View
Question of God Summer
Reading World
Citizenship Focus in Core Integrative
e-Portfolio Reflective Essays
Study Abroad
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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
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The Integration of Faith and Learning
Theology as an academic discipline
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
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9. Structural Integration

• The Core Capstone
• Rationale
• Process
• Lessons Learned
• Momentum

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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
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10. Evaluative Integration Mapping Core and the
Integrative Learning e-Portfolio
Faculty Mapping and Student Integrative
e-Portfolio
Collect ? Select ? Reflect ? Connect
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Mapping Overview

• 2004-2005 Faculty Workshop with Peggy Maki
• Mapping First Year Courses (Collecting and
  Selecting)
• Consensus Mapping (Reflection and Connecting)

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Cycle of Inquiry Continues
Mapping of Upper Level and New Courses Assessment
Central to Campus Culture Community-Wide Laptop
Initiative Faculty Development