Tackling complex challenges

Modern challenges require young and creative thinkers who combine rigorous disciplinary knowledge with the ability to navigate multiple fields. AUC provides thorough and in-depth training in sciences such as physics, biology, informatics and medicine. At the same time, you will be required to immerse yourself in additional areas of study. This cross-training, which is central to a Liberal Arts and Sciences curriculum, equips you with a solid foundation for future academic and professional opportunities. It also builds transferable skills that are valuable in a wide range of careers, including those not yet imagined.

Choosing to major in the Sciences 

Choose to major in the Sciences and you will develop expertise in the fields that interest you most, ranging from biology, mathematics, chemistry and physics to earth systems or public health. The difference comes when you connect these studies to philosophy, politics, culture, law and additional areas. You gain the technical skills needed for advanced study while also gaining insight into how science shapes, and is shaped by, societies, cultures and everyday life. This approach helps you become a well-rounded scientist who can apply knowledge more effectively to the world around you.

You will also be challenged to cultivate strong rational and logical thinking. You will formulate hypotheses, test them and modify them when results require it. The Academic Core curriculum provides mathematical methods courses and required logic courses to support these abilities. Particular emphasis is placed on understanding how scientific reasoning and scientific evidence are translated into public policy and public debate.

Integrating sciences across all majors

But what if you major in the Social Sciences or Humanities? Insights from biology, analytical methods or environmental studies, for example, will equally inform your coursework in sociology, urban safety, digital cultures, technology, climate governance, law, peacebuilding and more. You might uncover mathematical patterns that shape migration policy or test ethical questions using scientific reasoning. Even a small dose of Science can change the way you think, opening new perspectives and paths to both future studies and careers.