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Over 170 courses at NYUAD have more than 250 community-based learning components that bring theory to practice in the UAE.
Through Community-based Learning Programs in the UAE and abroad, J-Term, language studies, and the Engineers for Social Impact Program, NYU Abu Dhabi guides students in reading and engaging with the dynamic text of the real world. This is a different kind of literacy that requires disciplined observation, recognition of a variety of experts within and beyond academia, deep listening, spirited inquiry, collaboration with the local community with humility and respect, and bringing critical reflection to direct experience.
Over 170 courses at NYUAD have more than 250 community-based learning components that bring theory to practice in the UAE.
Video: Students, faculty, and guest speakers paint a picture of Community-based Learning in NYUAD's J-Term program.
Over 40 courses at NYUAD have community-based learning components that bring theory to practice through regional academic seminars across the globe.
Engineers for Social Impact (EfSI) supports and complements the mission of the Engineering Division and the broad goals of NYU Abu Dhabi through courses that emphasize experiential learning and projects that develop globally relevant, locally sustainable designs to meet challenges and deliver on opportunities that enable individuals across global communities to more effectively realize their aspirations and ambitions.
By engaging with the study of ethics in the classroom and ethnographic fieldwork off-campus, all first-year engineering students expand their comfort zones to work from vantage points of broader mindfulness of social, cultural, and economic aspects that are inextricably connected to technology-driven solutions in today’s hyper-connected world. Students may optionally enroll in a second, project-driven course focusing on the process of co-designing meaningful innovations, projects, and products with members of a selected community.
Throughout all fieldwork, the goal is to connect with the people, sights, sounds, experiences, and stories that are only accessible outside the classroom and bring new understanding to bear on the ways to address a wide range of issues and challenges in the courses and beyond.
All first-year engineering students participate in Engineers for Social Impact, studying ethics in the classroom and ethnographic fieldwork off-campus.
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