Liberal arts
Title of the Program: Liberal Arts (Major/Minor)
Degree/Qualification: BA in Liberal Arts
Length of the program (credits): 240 ECTS
Program Aims
The Liberal Arts Bachelor’s Program aims to prepare graduating students to face and overcome the modern challenges of the complex world based on wide-ranging interdisciplinary knowledge, developed skills of critical thinking, and argumentative reasoning.
By researching classical texts and artistic works, the students of the Liberal Arts Program become involved in the discussion about the fundamental questions that have arisen from antiquity until today. They reason about topics such as the nature and purpose of human beings, the creation and transformation of a state, relationships between this state and religion, freedom, and happiness. With this, students can look at the eternal questions and complex modern problems through an interdisciplinary perspective, which is important in itself and will help them make strategic decisions.
The program helps the students develop transferable skills necessary for employment and undertaking the later stages of learning, effective written and oral communication skills in the English and Georgian languages, maintaining academic integrity, ethical principles, and the usage of modern technology.
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of the Bachelor's Program – Liberal Arts (major and minor) - the graduate has/can:
a wide-range knowledge of the key ideas, concepts, and principles in the field of politics, history, philosophy, literature, and arts;
identify fundamental questions that have arisen from antiquity until today and compare, synthesize and connect them with the challenges of the modern world;
determine and critically assess challenges, dilemmas, and resources, come up with an original, logical, and complex way of reasoning, and make important decisions.
research actual problems in various disciplinary fields based on predetermined instructions and methods;
communicate in the Georgian and English languages with specialists and non-specialists by upholding academic integrity and using modern technology.
the ability to work effectively individually and in a group.
assess and manage their own learning process, as well as identify and use the needed resources.
Assessment System:
(A) Excellent – 91-100 points;
(B) Very good – 81-90 points;
(C) Good – 71-80 points;
(D) Satisfactory – 61-70 points;
(E) Sufficient – 51-60 points;
(FX) Didn't Pass – 41-50 points, which means that a student needs to work more and is allowed to retake the exam once by working independently;
(F) Failed – 40 and less points of maximum evaluation, which means that the work done by the student is not enough and he/she has to retake the course.
Contact persons:
Heads of the Program:
Professor Ghia Nodia - ghian@iliauni.edu.ge
Invited Professor, Charles Herron Fairbanks charles.herron.fairbanks@iliauni.edu.ge