​Faculty of Arts and Sciences, East Africa

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences, East Africa has a unique opportunity to address issues facing the region in the 21st century in a coherent way:

• Accountable and entrepreneurial leadership
• Integrated and applied knowledge
• Nurturing creativity and innovation
• Application of knowledge and acquiring knowledge through 
         application
  

We will enable undergraduate students to discover themselves and aim at producing citizens who are:

• job-creators
• problem-solvers and team-builders
• creative and committed to excellence
• ethical leaders who enable others and mediate differences
• able to reflect on fundamental issues facing the human condition
  equipped with basic life-skills
  

We will also mentor postgraduate students on research that is cutting-edge and also applied to major challenges facing the region and the world.

Overarching Themes

The comparative advantage of the FAS EA will lie in thematic focus on vital issues, where knowledge is integrated and applied in the region.

• Resilience is an integrated approach to enhancing adaptive capacity of landscapes, communities and institutions to shocks such as climate change and globalisation;
• Human Development: early life experience has recently been discovered to be decisive on the future of the child. This impact calls for an approach to understanding and enhancing human potential that integrates genetics, the social sciences, the arts and natural sciences;
• Pluralism is vital in a region that has seen inter-ethnic violence and genocide, but must go beyond respecting diversity to grasping and honouring the many parts within and connection among individuals, communities, cultures and civilisations.