Mapping out the implementation of science-Islam integration on university students’ thesis at UIN Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang 2011-2016

The institutional conversion of IAIN into UIN is then followed by the policy of implementing integration of knowledge (with Islam) as a distinctive character compared with secular universities in Indonesia. This research aims to investigate the typology of ‘integration’ from student’s thesis at UIN Maulana Malik Ibrahim. It also tries to find out how far the integration implementation has been taken place. This study limits the scope only in the students’ thesis written from 2011-2016. It uses library research and to sharpen the analysis, the researchers use content analysis techniques, where it emphasizes on scientific analysis of the message content of a communication. The findings reveal that to some degree the implementation of ‘integration’ has already shown the fruit of the tree of science –the distinctive school of integration embraced by UIN Malang. The lack of similarity in the pattern and the integration model in the thesis writing is because the tree of science is not a pattern or model that offers instructions and practical steps for a research and thesis writing. The tree of science model works only in the infrastructure and superstructure level. Such integration will, of course, be difficult to follow and standardize because the university is just like providing the material solely, and the process of how to integrate and interconnect is left to each individual to formulate themselves. Up to the year 2016, the existing model of AMT, AMTT, comparison of mufassir, meaning analysis, DKM, Paragraph and Tafseer inclusion, paragraph inclusion that are used by students in their thesis writing are still limited to interconnection type of ‘integration’