Introduction

The College of Arts and Sciences is a large, complex organization that fulfills three major roles. The college plays a central role in the Colloquy on Integrated Learning, Zayed University‘s core curriculum, in which all ZU students study a full range of subjects recognized as the foundation for modern learning. The college offers specialization through majors that provide students with the opportunity to deepen their understanding of the nature and richness of human learning and experience and to apply their knowledge through research and internship experiences.

Mission

The College of Arts and Sciences seeks to educate graduates who have acquired the knowledge and skills needed for successful careers, leadership roles, and the capacity for lifelong learning, regardless of a student‘s major. It also seeks to contribute to the advancement of the U.A.E. through research, service, and outreach activities that advance the development of the nation‘s intellectual assets.

The college‘s programmatic mission includes three different but related goals:

1. To contribute to the general knowledge of all University students by designing and offering a range of core curriculum courses that enhance both subject knowledge and skills development;
2. To serve the needs of the professional colleges and support their programs by providing elective courses in the humanities, art and design, social and behavioral sciences, and natural science and public health and minors in Applied Psychology and in Literature;
3. To offer majors in selected disciplines that are intellectually and socially meaningful and prepare students for careers which currently exist as well as those which may develop in the future.

Academic Programs

The college offers academic majors leading to baccalaureate degrees in three programs:

• Art and Design
• Health Sciences
• International Studies

In addition to these majors, the college offers a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary courses in the core curriculum, as well as support courses for majors in the other colleges. These programs are provided by the departments of:  

• Art and Design
• Humanities and Social Sciences
• Natural Science and Public Health