Mission Statement
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.
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Spain