What is Liberal Arts Education?
Liberal Arts education provides students with the skills needed to meet this fast paced and dynamic world, building well-rounded individuals ready to pursue any career and excel in it. By exploring different fields like humanities, social and natural sciences, and languages, students learn to think critically and broadly, write effectively, work collaboratively, and solve challenging problems efficiently. It prepares students to quickly pick up new skill sets that will allow them to keep up with changes in their field and succeed in becoming future leaders.
Liberal Arts Education at AUC
Liberal arts education is what characterizes education at AUC. It's an approach that provides students with intellectual skills and experiences that are essential to all disciplines, professions, and effective participation in our world. A liberal arts education engages our students in a timely examination of enduring human issues, complex problems, and current topics in the humanities and social and natural sciences. It develops critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and civic skills - that prepare students for a productive life. Through the centerpiece of our liberal arts education, the Core Curriculum, you engage in an interdisciplinary, diverse journey of learning that does not restrict your learning to knowledge or skills in only one particular field.
AUC's Liberal Arts Education Encourages You To:
Think critically and examine your role in the world
Study across disciplines and develop a lively curiosity about new and unfamiliar ideas
Engage with the world’s economic, political and cultural traditions
Find creative solutions to enduring and urgent problems
AUC's Liberal Arts Experience
Academic Departments
Rhetoric and Composition
The Department of Rhetoric and Composition provides a solid foundation for critical thinking, reading and writing, promoting excellence in research and rhetoric in a variety of multi-modal, discipline-specific and inter-disciplinary genres.
English Language Instruction
The Department of English Language Instruction (ELI) offers intensive, semi-intensive, and modular non-credit courses to prepare undergraduate and graduate students in academic English, critical thinking, and other academic skills that they will need at university.
Arabic Language Instruction
The Department of Arabic Language Instruction (ALI) is one of the oldest language and cultural hubs in the Middle East, that invites students from all over the world seeking knowledge of Arabic language and culture at all levels.
Outreach Programs
Our liberal arts curriculum is designed to prepare AUC students, regardless of their major, to be well-rounded individuals with lifelong learning skills necessary for successful professional and personal lives and productive participation in their communities. Through development of skills of effective communication, critical thinking and collaboration, and through reflection on enduring human issues and complex problems, students emerge with a readiness for participation and leadership in an ever-changing world.
You can always spot our liberal arts students a mile away because whatever their major, you'll see them debating politics, discussing science, arguing with philosophy, and appreciating art. You'll see them standing out at podiums and shining on stages. You'll see them out in the world connecting with people and behind closed doors doing their research.
A liberal arts university is a safe space for young people to develop the necessary informed critical perspectives and solution-oriented mindsets that allow them to participate positively and articulately in civic discourse and civic life.
Explore our Arabic Programs
AUC In Motion
This is AUC
AUC is Egypt's leading global university, emphasizing a liberal arts approach that motivates students to explore their interests, seek active learning opportunities and engage themselves outside of the classroom.
Important Facts
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