Artifact

Assessed Learning Outcomes

Stage 1: Four Course Review

Application essay to CTS Master of Divinity program [link]

How does this artifact manifest the identified learning outcomes?

Promote Ethical-Spiritual Integrity

MD 3.1 Engage in sustained, critical, and effective theological and ethical reflection on the practice of ministry in the parish and other contexts.

MD 3.2 Seek greater and greater coherence between one’s publicly stated beliefs and values and one’s personal and communal practices.

Living Into Our Commitments course assignment [link]

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Cultivate Compassionate Connection

MD 2.1. Engage and collaborate across lines of difference, privilege and power.

CTS Students:
Pastoral Care/Theology course assignment, e.g. verbatim[link]

Bayan Students:
May use course assignment as above, or from Bayan’s Theories and Practices of Spiritual Care [link]

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How does this artifact manifest the identified learning outcome?

Cultivate Compassionate Connection

MD 2.2. Demonstrate ability to offer quality pastoral care and wise ethical guidance to individuals and communities.

Stage 2: Middler Review

CTS Students:
Demonstration of core knowledge with 2 artifacts from Bible, history and/or theology courses

Bayan Students:
Demonstration of core knowledge with 2 artifacts from Bayan’s History of Islam, Islamic Theology and Philosophy, or The Qur’an: Composition, Collection and Teachings.

Artifact 4 Course [link]:
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How does this artifact manifest the identified learning outcomes?

Artifact 5 Course [link]:
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How does this artifact manifest the identified learning outcomes?

Develop Critical Thinking

MD 1.1 Demonstrate knowledge of sacred texts most significant to you; knowledge of their history, tradition, and methods of interpretation; and the capacity to bring scriptural wisdom into critical engagement with current crises and opportunities.

MD 1.2 Demonstrate knowledge of historical, systematic, and constructive theology, and the capacity to bring theological insight into critical engagement with current crises and opportunities.

MD 1.3 Demonstrate knowledge of multiple cultural contexts and capacity for critical theological reflection that takes contextual issues seriously.

Practical Application, e.g. sermon, grant proposal, lesson plan, worship planning [link]

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How does this artifact manifest the identified learning outcomes?

Support Concrete Strategic Action

MD 4.1 Communicate effectively, orally and in written form, both interpersonally and publicly.

MD 4.2 Demonstrate ability to identify and analyze social structures of oppression and to propose and implement strategies of change.

Field Ed

Placement/year:
Midyear eval. (self and supervisor) [link]
Final eval. (self and supervisor) [link]

Which of the learning outcomes do you feel were best advanced by your work here, and how?

CPE Evaluations (self and supervisor) [link]

How do these artifacts manifest the identified learning outcomes?

Cultivate Compassionate Connection

MD 2.1. Engage and collaborate across lines of difference, privilege and power.

MD 2.2. Demonstrate ability to offer quality pastoral care and wise ethical guidance to individuals and communities.

Middler Review Packet:

a. Degree Proposal [link]

b. Learning Reflections [link]

c. Acknowledgment of Middler Review Completion [link]

Stage 3: Capstone

Assignment from a course focused on a lifestance other than your own [link]

Course:
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How does this artifact manifest the identified learning outcome?

Develop Critical Thinking

MD 1.4 Demonstrate knowledge of and ability to critically engage with at least one spiritual lifestance other than your own.

CTS Students:
Theology in Context Paper (Constructive Theology) [link]

Bayan Students:
Final paper from Bayan’s Islamic Ethics [link].

Term/Year, Instructor:
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How does this artifact manifest the identified learning outcomes?

Develop Critical Thinking

MD 1.2 Demonstrate knowledge of historical, systematic, and constructive theology, and the capacity to bring theological insight into critical engagement with current crises and opportunities.

MD 1.3 Demonstrate knowledge of multiple cultural contexts and capacity for critical theological reflection that takes contextual issues seriously.

Support Concrete Strategic Action

MD 4.1 Communicate effectively, orally and in written form, both interpersonally and publicly.

MD 4.2 Demonstrate ability to identify and analyze social structures of oppression and to propose and implement strategies of change.

Sacred Text in Context, e.g. sermon, op-ed, lesson plan that substantively engages interpretation of sacred text [link]

Course:
Term/Year, Instructor:
Grade:
Professor’s comments:

How does this artifact manifest the identified learning outcomes?

Develop Critical Thinking

MD 1.1 Demonstrate knowledge of sacred texts most significant to you; knowledge of their history, tradition, and methods of interpretation; and the capacity to bring scriptural wisdom into critical engagement with current crises and opportunities.

MD 1.3 Demonstrate knowledge of multiple cultural contexts and capacity for critical theological reflection that takes contextual issues seriously.

Support Concrete Strategic Action

MD 4.1 Communicate effectively, orally and in written form, both interpersonally and publicly.

Vocational Statement: Describe your professional goals and leadership philosophy [link]

How does this artifact manifest the identified learning outcomes?

Note: In your Capstone oral presentation, you will work to integrate these into your journey of theological education. The oral presentation is more than that, however; please see instructions.

Promote Ethical-Spiritual Integrity

MD 3.1 Engage in sustained, critical, and effective theological and ethical reflection on the practice of ministry in the parish and other contexts.

MD 3.2 Seek greater and greater coherence between one’s publicly stated beliefs and values and one’s personal and communal practices.

Concentration artifact