Integrative Learning across the Curriculum
Quality Enhancement Plan
Brite Divinity School

The Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) at Brite Divinity School focuses on integrative learning across the curriculum. This focus reflects a broad-based series of conversations over 18 months with various constituencies of the Divinity School: Faculty, Board of Trustees, Students, Alumnae/i, and denominational partners who demonstrated strong consensus on the topic of integration. Brite’s QEP supports the implementation of a new Master of Divinity (MDiv) curriculum designed to encourage integrative learning.

QEP

The recently adopted MDiv Curriculum has four learning outcomes and the QEP focus expands this list as the fifth outcome:

1. Students will demonstrate knowledge and skills for constructive theological analyses in ecclesial and public contexts
2. Students will demonstrate knowledge and skills for engaging social and religious diversity in the human family as evidence of God’s creativity and vision;
3 Students will demonstrate knowledge and skills for effective, ethical, and wise, ministerial leadership;
4. Students will demonstrate growing knowledge and skills to engage in advocacy for the justice and love promised in Christian tradition for all God’s creation
   
5. Students will demonstrate integrative capacities
Characteristics:
1. Draw on content, methods, and/or skills from multiple disciplines (fields of theological studies);
2. Advance in more complex analyses through degree program;
3. Interrelate two or more of the other four outcomes of the MDiv Curriculum

Four Goals describe how the QEP will be implemented:
1. To encourage and foster cross-disciplinary team-teaching;
2. To encourage and foster immersion experiences that are team-taught as one aspect of increased attention to experiential contextualized learning;
3. To encourage and foster cross-disciplinary community conversations around emerging issues related to public theology; and
4. To encourage and foster faculty development that will highlight integrative learning.

Primary responsibility for implementation: Brite’s faculty
Oversight of the QEP Process and Assessment: Brite’s Masters Program Committee
Timeline for full implementation of the QEP: fall 2011-fall 2015

QEP Plan QEP Plan

MDiv Curricular Structure MDiv Curricular Structure

MDiv Outcomes and Characteristics MDiv Outcomes and Characteristics