Who we are
Overview
The Cairo Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences CILAS invites students from diverse socio-economic and cultural backgrounds to engage with the liberal arts through a pedagogy of discovery. CILAS hosts a dynamic, discussion-based learning environment conducive to creative inquiry, self-reflection, and civic engagement. Co-creation of knowledge at CILAS is fostered through classroom discussion and debate, workshops, musical performances, guest lectures, field visits, cooking, laughing, and listening.
Yearlong Study Programme
Visiting students
CILAS welcomes visiting students to enroll in second and third trimester thematic courses.
Conviviality
CILAS opens its doors to the public every Tuesday evening for talks, screenings and performances, and every Saturday for workshops and/or reading groups.
The Cairo Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences CILAS invites students from diverse socio-economic and cultural backgrounds to engage with the liberal arts through a pedagogy of discovery. CILAS hosts a dynamic, discussion-based learning environment conducive to creative inquiry, self-reflection, and civic engagement. Co-creation of knowledge at CILAS is fostered through classroom discussion and debate, workshops, musical performances, guest lectures, field visits, cooking, laughing, and listening.
Yearlong Study Programme
- A core curriculum in the fields of Arts & Culture, Humanities, Social Sciences and Natural Sciences provides students with an intellectual foundation to engage in analytical discussions, creative inquiry, collaboration, and debate over the first trimester.
- Thematic coursework emerging from the four fields of study encourages students to delve deeper into specific themes of interest, and to test and transgress disciplinary boundaries over the second and third trimesters.
- Community service engagement requires students to complete sixty hours of community service along one of three tracks: Social Innovation, Pedagogy, or Research.
- Students demonstrate their acquired competencies in an end-of-year capstone project.
Visiting students
CILAS welcomes visiting students to enroll in second and third trimester thematic courses.
Conviviality
CILAS opens its doors to the public every Tuesday evening for talks, screenings and performances, and every Saturday for workshops and/or reading groups.