Humanities
BackThe Humanities provide intellectual thinking, breadth of vision, personal enrichment and the sharply questioning and well-informed cast of mind needed for success in the competitive and complex world we live in.
IE Business School through The School of Arts and Humanities offers a range of courses on the Humanities across all the programs at IE.
For IE undergraduate students, the faculty offers an intensive first-year seminar program designed to foster critical and creative thinking as well as help improve their proficiency in analytical writing. Seminars vary in content from year to year, and in the past have included topics in philosophy, history, linguistics and political science. Discussion-based and with small class sizes, the seminar program allows students to explore specific readings and ideas in depth.
For IE graduate students, the School offers a number of courses that play either a complementary role to the students' main field of study or else are integrated within the program's core pedagogical design.
In many of the professional degree programs, students take the "World Awareness Seminar," taught by leading area specialists. The seminar examines different cultures that are increasingly critical to the modern professional environment, including China, Japan, Brazil, India, and the Muslim World. The focus of the seminar extends well-beyond merely superficial engagement to instead provide insights about how different ideas, history, legal traditions, sense of belonging, kinship structures, etc… inform cultural, and hence professional, perspectives.
For IE graduate students pursuing an MBA or International Management degree, the School offers a specially tailored set of courses that are integrated within the modern managerial curriculum. Courses like "Creative Management Thinking" [sp: Nuevas formas de pensar] are taught as part of the program core and provide students the perspectives and toolsets informed by a humanities approach to confront the challenges of the modern business environment. Drawn from a multi-disciplinary knowledge base, including anthropology, sociology, history and critical theory, these courses encourage students to push the boundaries of what a business education means and are ground-breaking in bridging what has traditionally been a wide gulf between the humanities and professional education.
The humanities program at IE is complemented by elective courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Elective courses offered include:
- Keys to Contemporary Culture
- Understanding Modern China
- Mass Media, Politics and Propaganda
- Knowledge, Culture and Borders
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