Curriculum Principles

Intellectual Development

Our educational principles are to be applied to develop a new generation of leaders educated in solving real life problems of humanity and society. African University will provide a curriculum and an educational environment that: fosters:

  • Immerses students in the historical, scientific, and cultural foundations for the contemporary world by integrating intellectual discovery and critical thinking.
  • Engage students in integrating knowledge and forming relationships between academic coursework in particular and ideas in general.
  • Engage students in problem solving
    • Comprehend, interpret, and analyze problems
    • Use quantitative analytical skills to evaluate and process numerical data
    • Solve problems using critical and creative thinking, and scientific reasoning
    • Evaluate the logic, validity, and relevance of data
    • Use data to guide evaluation, management and prevention of problems
  • Life Long Learning
    • Formulate strategies to locate, evaluate, and apply information
    • Use computer and emerging technologies effectively

Values Development

  • Engage students in a discussion of the values that bind, guide and drive our world general and African society in particular.
  • Demonstrate knowledge of ethical reasoning and its application to problems in society
  • Demonstrate knowledge of natural systems function and the impact of human beings on the environment
  • Demonstrate an appreciation for aesthetics and creative activities

Effective Communication

  • Ensures that students reach the level of competence in listening, reading, written and oral communication, mathematical, technological, and information literacy critical to learning and also necessary function society.

Leadership Development

  • Develop and sustain personal and professional standards to enhance the goals of society
  • Recognize professional role in society
  • Engage students the habit of maintaining physical, spiritual, and emotional health and well-being.
  • Promotes in students the habit of acting on their responsibilities as citizens of the world in general and society in particular.
  • Engage students in the habit of enriching their lives through the humanities and art.
  • Engage students the habit of maintaining physical, spiritual, and emotional health and well-being.
  • Social and community context of life
    • Demonstrate knowledge of diverse cultures
    • Understand diverse historical and cultural perspectives
    • Formulate strategies that enhance the fulfillment of personal and civic responsibilities

Career Development

  • Provide superlative preparation of professionals in careers of critical need to society or further education.
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