Alliance University Launches School of Liberal Arts

Along with undergraduate programme, the university is also offering a fellowship programme, “Global Leaders’ Alliance”

Alliance University launched its school of liberal arts, the school offers undergraduate programme with the freedom for the students to choose subjects and design their degrees with majors and minors of their interest. This is the defining ethos of the programme that is captured in the maxim: “freedom to excel”.

The Vice-Chancellor, Dr Anubha Singh marked out transdisciplinarity as the unique feature of the liberal arts program at Alliance University. Given the complexity of 21st-century challenges like climate change, she spoke about the need for a reinvention of pedagogy that goes beyond mere interdisciplinarity.

Along with the undergraduate programme, the university is also offering a fellowship programme called the “Global Leaders’ Alliance” (GLA) fellowship. The fellowship programme aims to train and mould young thinkers with the potential for excellence to address the unique and multifaceted challenges of the twenty-first century. “The taught phase of the fellowship will be offered by a stellar group of foreign faculty members from top-rated universities from across the globe including Oxford, Cambridge, and Harvard,” states a release issued by the university.

The undergraduate majors offered by the school of liberal arts include English, Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Public Policy, Economics, Data Science, and Applied Mathematics. Students who enter the programme will also study a broad set of foundation courses, which would help them develop their fundamental skills in critical thinking, research, and ethics. They will also have the option of studying a foreign language of their choice. The students will have the privilege of attending classes led by international faculty. These students will also have an inside track into the GLA fellowship programme at the end of their undergraduate studies.

With these programmes, the University echoes the spirit of the renaissance genius Leonardo Da Vinci when he spoke about the unity of knowledge which we must acknowledge while embracing the increasing diversity of specializations.

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