FASSC PROFILE.pdf - CUEA

knowledge alone is not education. Education is a highly comprehensive word, taking all
dimensions of human life. Such education comes through serious academic activities that
involve the following: knowledge, critical mind and comprehensiveness.
2.1 Staff and Students
2.1.1 Doing what ought to be done
The highest point of our presence in the university is to form our students by equipping
them with knowledge, skills and values that will enable them live, work and transform the
world. Let all academic and non-academic staff be prepared to face this challenge and reflect
on the positive ways of responding to it. Serving our students is the most effective way of
advertizing our university. Moreover, this is the first and most important phase in our
community service and Catholic identity.
On the other hand, students should know that studying justifies their presence in the
university. Therefore, their first primary task is to study, the second is to study, and the third is
to study. With this understanding, all our students should consider studying as their life within
and outside the campus. There is time for everything; this is their time to learn with
intelligence, prudence and curiosity in order to discover new ways of life.
2.1.2 The key to social life: self
elf-knowledge and the knowledge of the other
Do you know yourself? Let us appreciate that life begins with the self and continues with the
other. We should, therefore, spend time in knowing backgrounds, limitations, attitudes,
behaviors, level of understanding and our areas of research.
It is the duty of each student to know his/her lecturers for this is a prerequisite for true
discipleship and fellowship. Thus, a student should get the full names of his/her lecturers, enter
into prudent familiarity with their modes of teaching, their preferences as far as teaching is
concerned and their office hours. The expression “She/he is never in his/her office” should be
discouraged.
Likewise, it is the duty of the lecturers to know their students, for such knowledge shapes,
the pedagogy used in teaching and the type of parenthood that is required to help, particularly
the weak students.
2.2 A Call to Critical
Thinking
The Faculty advises one to think critically because the music of the cosmos, the sound that it
produces, the message that it conveys, the perceptions that it creates and the way it influences
people’s minds could be misleading. They should be subjected to serious questioning. Here,
hidden assumptions, claims, rumors and mere expositions could be accepted or rejected
through a constructive critical process. This helps avoid mere affirmations and vain negations.
We should not affirm or deny something on account of mere saying but on account of its stand
after deep reflection.
So, each unit offered has a purpose; we need to thank all those who designed our
programmes for their brilliant vision. Moreover, each academic/extra-academic activity
proposed by the Faculty/University has a noble function. The Faculty of Arts and Social
Sciences emerged from the need to form and train people in humanities and in Social
Sciences. However, the types and number of subjects offered make our Faculty the most multidisciplinary
in the university. These programmes require critical thinking about the various