Our mission
Arantza de AreilzaDean, School of Arts and Humanities
arts-humanities@ie.edu
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The IE School of Arts and Humanities aims to go beyond the mere teaching of arts and humanities. Our goal is to educate our students by enhancing their individual capabilities, so that they may learn to embrace the complexity of the world around us. They will learn to analyse things broadly and in depth, to think critically, to pick out the essential from the trivial, to carry out empirical reasoning, to express themselves clearly and connect ideas together in a creative manner. We want our students to be capable of perceiving and taking responsibility for the intellectual, social and ethical consequences of their actions and thoughts. We want to turn them into citizens with a comprehensive outlook, good command of several languages and a clear sense of ethics and responsibility; young people capable of managing their own professional and personal expectations, willing to take on a major role in the creation of the new values that ultimately give rise to the changes that every modern society requires.
The IE School of Arts and Humanities will offer undergraduate and graduate programmes in English taught by national and international faculty members from the world's leading schools. The programmes will have a strong focus on international, practical, humanistic and highly current issues, with a substantial online component. Our programmes will discuss the world's artistic avant-gardes, international relations, the humanities seen as the application of culture to the improvement of our understanding of the world around us. All these programmes will share the common purpose of encouraging imagination, developing a number of humanistic values that are greatly needed by society today, and developing aesthetic perception and critical reasoning, which we view as vital elements of the human capacity for improvement and perfectibility - an ever-present and liberating challenge in every human life, which accounts for the existence of humanistic studies at the heart of our education.
- Our mission
- Education and Values
Education and Values
Our teaching will be based on the principle of acquiring an overall perspective, while at the same time enhancing the particular features and abilities of each individual student. It will be a highly applied form of learning based on practical projects and case studies, in small groups, with a strong online training component to allow students to combine academic training with practical experience, on both undergraduate and graduate programmes. Humanities, management and professional ethics will be compulsory subjects for all IE students. Our training is deeply interdisciplinary and will be provided in English, the international language of today's world. It will be based on the culture of innovation, as well as on the humanistic values of independence, tolerance, respect for diversity and ethics, and the promotion of the civic values that call upon us to respect and work with our equals, care for the environment and work towards improving society as a whole. The school's basic pillars are the freedom of inquiry, and the freedom of expression, and these fundamental tenets are underpinned by a culture of academic integrity, ethical conduct and civil debate.
We do not know how the world will have changed or what our students will have to face when they leave our lecture halls. We believe that traditional, rigid teaching methods would fail to equip them with the necessary resources to find answers to problems whose shape we do not yet know. Therefore, the more versatile, enduring and, ultimately, more practical knowledge that we endeavour to offer results from the opportunity to pursue interdisciplinary studies rooted in the global culture of innovation, openness, creativity, flexibility and the advantage of being educated in the arts and humanities.
We aim to achieve this through the selection of lecturers, tutors, managers, artists, writers, critics, communicators, diplomats and politicians characterised by their academic excellence and/or talent, with a distinctly international outlook and a strong educational vocation. Our goal is to instil in students the pleasure of learning as a characteristic trait that will accompany them throughout their entire lives.
- Advantages
Advantages
Those who have studied at the IE School of Arts and Humanities will have the advantage of being cultured and globally minded individuals, capable of critical reasoning and able to communicate effectively in several languages. People with sound technological skills, solid management abilities and a strong sense of ethics, which should give them a deeper insight into the intricate interrelationships of today´s world, thereby enabling them to pursue their activities with greater creativity, skill, flexibility, intelligence, tolerance and goodwill. We aim to help students discover who they are and to promote their intellectual qualities.
The IE School of Arts and Humanities is a learning arena in which our students are the main players. It is a space of close relationships in which students will learn to express themselves through the arts or political debates, to interact with lecturers, artists, writers, communicators, politicians, world leaders, philosophers, musicians, art gallery owners, anthropologists, archaeologists, directors of museums and foundations etc. Students will play an active role in the proper management of the School and will have to undertake a number of commitments to ensure it operates according to their own needs. We want to give our students the intellectual tools they need in order to have a rewarding relationship with the world they live in.
The University is located in Segovia; a city declared a World Historical and Artistic Heritage Site by UNESCO and only a 20 minute rail journey from Madrid. Besides being a European capital that boasts some of the world's most important museums, Madrid is also a financial, business and political capital, where some of our programmes will be taught.
The building that now houses the IE, formerly the Monastery of Santa Cruz La Real, dating from the 13th century, is truly a privileged environment for study and inspiration. In addition, we have a campus in Madrid city centre, which we will use to teach some of our graduate programmes, such as the Master's in International Relations.
- Differences
Differences
The key distinguishing features will be the careful selection of students and faculty with an international background and a high academic standard for undergraduate and graduate programmes focusing on highly current issues, with a strong practical component which is closely connected to the world around us and the existing career opportunities. We see the School of Arts and Humanities as a place where the ties between the academic and the business worlds are constantly being strengthened. We also want our students to have one foot in each of the two worlds, through a combination of practical work and lectures, frequently online in order to provide geographical flexibility, through debates and talks involving major national and international figures invited to our campus, through exhibitions, projects and events.
The students of the School of Arts and Humanities will be expected to acquire a high level of competence in at least two of the main international languages - English and Spanish. They will acquire sound practical skills through the compulsory management subjects taught by lecturers from one of the world's leading business schools, the IE Business School. These subjects will be a common feature of all the School's programmes and will give the students a significant advantage when they enter the labour market, allowing them to rise to positions of responsibility. Such management training, in conjunction with the humanistic and ethical training mentioned earlier, will provide our students with a number of additional, high value assets that are unique to our University.
Our campus
Madrid CampusMaría de Molina, 11. 28006 MadridPh. +34 91 568 96 00
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Segovia Campus. Santa Cruz la RealCardenal Zúñiga, 12. 40003 SegoviaPh. +34 921 412 410
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