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Welcome to what distinguishes the 黑料网 as an 黑料网 university its liberal arts curriculum.

Like every AUN student, you will complete the University鈥檚 rigorous General Education program, designed by faculty to offer coursework and experiences aligned with the University鈥檚 mission and values, and relevant to Nigeria, the region, and the world.

The 50 credit hours in the General Education program provide a broad foundation across multiple disciplines, combining traditional and experiential learning. The program prepares you to become an ethical, thoughtful leader someone who understands yourself and your role in making the world better.

Your degree program or major may include prescribed courses; consult your specific major requirements and speak with Academic Advising staff for guidance.

These courses help you understand the concepts of community service, citizenship, and critical reflection through your participation in one of AUN鈥檚 many interdisciplinary community service programs. As an AUN student, you will enroll in at least one of the following courses:

• Education in Emergencies (CDV 203): Gain conceptual and technical knowledge and practical experience on how to provide safe and high-quality education in emergencies.

• Transmedia Storytelling for Social Change (CDV 204): Learn how to tell stories across multiple traditional and digital platforms that demand and captivate attention within humanitarian and development contexts.

• Data for Development (CDV 205): Learn how to use the appropriate statistical methods as tools for measuring andunderstanding development interventions.

• Peace through Arts (CDV 206): Discover how art can serve as the medium for supporting and promoting peaceful dialogue and co-existence, reaching out to the community youth.

• Environmental Sustainability (CDV 207): Participate in helping the local community find sustainable solutions to their most common environmental challenges: waste, water, energy, pollution, and agriculture.

• Financial Literacy (CDV 208): Deepen your understanding of the interconnection between financial illiteracy and poverty through researching sustainable financial options and creating community learning network opportunities that will assist the abject poor in the community to make sound financial decisions.

• Community Health (CDV 210): Address community health and environmental concerns at the grassroots level through designing and developing projects to serve the various communities in Adamawa.

• Law and Justice in Development (CDV 211): Learn how the Nigerian legal system can become a tool for the protection and promotion of the rights of marginalized and vulnerable groups in society.

• Security and Development (CDV 212): Explore both the factors that fuel conflicts in our society, causing insecurity, and the pathways to sustainable development, long-term positive change, and a peaceful future.

• Social Innovations and Social Entrepreneurship (CDV 213): Master the concepts, strategies, and approached to social change developing the skills required of social entrepreneurs and others working to make change in communities around the world.

• Sustainable Agriculture (CDV 214): Learn practical ways to produce healthy, nutritious, and affordable food and a profitable income for farm workers without negatively affecting the environment.

A course that introduces you to theories and techniques of logic, with emphasis on formal logic, including methods of deductive proof. Topics may include categorical and inductive logic, identifying arguments, identifying types of definition as well as other aspects of informal logic, fallacy detection and critical thinking.

Entrepreneurship (6 Credit Hours)

Students take at least two courses, depending on their major, designed by our School of Business and Entrepreneurship that develop your skills as a future leader and prepares you for 21st-century challenges.

• Introduction to Entrepreneurship (ENT 101): Introduces you to the principles of entrepreneurship, covering opportunity recognition and assessment, business model development, resources acquisition, business plan preparation, and fundamentals of management as well as areas of business operations marketing, finance, accounting, and human resources explored in an entrepreneurial context.

• Entrepreneurship II (ENT 201): Covers all aspects of running a business, from studying business plans of small and large business to creating a plan for your own business. 

• Social Entrepreneurship (ENT 325): Teaches you the how鈥檚 and why鈥檚 of non-profit enterprises (NPE鈥檚) and the essential steps for launching, building, and driving one, through developing a NPE start-up model, providing a NPE business model analysis, and develop a five-year personal philanthropy plan.

Introduction to Computers and Computing (CIE 111 - 3 Credit Hours)

Faculty from the School of Information Technology and Computing will introduce you to computers as tools for content creation, storage, and processing, for access to application and services online, and for solving problems. You will gain IT literacy, master concepts, and examine social, legal, and ethical issues related to the integration of computers and digital technology into all aspects of modern life.

Mathematics and Statistics (6 Credit Hours)

You will strengthen your analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills and become equipped with the tools needed to interpret data and make informed decisions.

• University Algebra (MAT 110), Pre-Calculus (MAT 112), or Calculus I (MAT210): You will complete one of these three class to complete AUN鈥檚 mathematics requirements. If you need re-enforce your math skills, as determined by the placement test, you may also be required to complete Pre-Algebra (MAT 100), a course that prepares you for university-level study mathematics, but that does not provide credits that count towards your degree.

• Introduction to Statistics (STA 101): A course that offers you a general introduction to statistical methods and applications with illustrations from business, economics, and sciences; it also prepares you for further quantitative courses.

Natural and Physical Sciences (7 Credit Hours)

As an AUN student, you will gain a broader understanding of the physical world and scientific principles through taking two science courses, including one with a lab component, to ensure that you explore how hands-on experience and practical applications reinforce theoretical knowledge.

You may choose any course offered by the Departments of Biology, Chemistry, Geology, Natural and Environmental Science, and Physics courses. Among the many options are the following:

• BIO 101 Exploring Life (4 Credit Hours)

• BIO 102 Human Biology (4 Credit Hours)

• BIO 103 Essentials of Nutrition (3 Credit Hours)

• BIO 104 Health & Disease in Africa (3 Credit Hours)

• BIO 120 Introduction to Biology I (4 Credit Hours)

• BIO 121 Introduction to Biology II (4 Credit Hours)

• BIO 205 Animal Form & Function (4 Credit Hours)

• BIO 206 Applied Botony (4 Credit Hours)

• CHE 101 Introduction to Chemistry (4 Credit Hours)

• CHE 120 General Chemistry I (4 Credit Hours)

• CHE 121 General Chemistry II (4 Credit Hours)

• GEO 101 Introduction to Geology (4 Credit Hours)

• GEO 301 Elements of Petroleum Geology (3 Credit Hours)

• GEO 312 Soil Science and Environmental Change (4 Credit Hours)

• NES 101 Introduction to Environmental Sustainability (4 Credit Hours)

• NES 102 Topics in Natural and Environmental Sciences: Conservation Biology (3 Credit Hours)

• NES 201 Introduction to Natural and Environmental Sciences (3 Credit Hours)

• NES 202 Principles of Ecology (4 Credit Hours)

• PHY 101 Physical Science I or Conceptual Physics I (4 Credit Hours)

• PHY 102 Physical Science II or Conceptual Physics II (4 Credit Hours)

• PHY 131 College Physics I (4 Credit Hours)

• PHY 132 College Physics II (4 Credit Hours)

• PHY 205 University Physics I (4 Credit Hours)

• PHY 206 University Physics II (4 Credit Hours)

• PHY 220 Meteorology (3 Credit Hours)

Social and Behavioral Sciences (6 Credit Hours)

You will also take two courses in the social and behavioral sciences Anthropology, Civilization, Economics, History, International and Comparative Politics, Psychology, and Sociology to gain a broader understanding of society and human behavior. There are hundreds to choose from many first-year students choose from among the following:

• ANT 101: Introduction to General Anthropology (3 Credit Hours)

• ANT 201: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology 3 Credit Hours)

• CIV 101 and 111: African Civilization (3 Credit Hours)

• CIV 102 and 112: Western Civilization (3 Credit Hours)

• ECO 101: Introduction to Economics (3 Credit Hours)

• ECO 102: Introduction to Accounting (3 Credit Hours)

• ECO 210: Principles of Microeconomics (3 Credit Hours)

• ECO 220: Principles of Macroeconomics (3 Credit Hours)

• HIS 202: World History Since 1500 (3 Credit Hours)

• HIS 212: Conquest & Resistance: African History Since 1880 (3 Credit Hours))

• HIS 270: Nigeria in World History (3 Credit Hours)

• ICP 101: Introduction to Comparative Politics (3 Credit Hours)

• ICP 131: Introduction to International Relations (3 Credit Hours)

• ICP 135: Introduction to InternationalDevelopment (3 Credit Hours)

• ICP 161: Introduction to Political Theory (3 Credit Hours)

• ICP 186: Introduction to Public Administration (3 Credit Hours)

• ICP 187: Introduction to Public Policy (3 Credit Hours)

• PSY 101: Introduction to Psychology (3 Credit Hours)

• SOC 101: Introduction to Sociology (3 Credit Hours)

• SOC 288: Criminology (3 Credit Hours)

Writing (6 Credit Hours)

AUN鈥檚 Writing Program will prepare you to articulate your ideas following the international conventions of academic writing in English, which is essential for success as a student and will serve you throughout your career. All students complete Composition I (WRI 101), which develops effective written communication as well as critical and analytical skills, and Composition II (WRI 102), which prepares you to undertake and communicate your research. If you need help building your vocabulary, improving your reading comprehension, and mastering the fundamentals of English usage and mechanics, you will be placed in Introduction to Composition ((WRI 100), credits from which do not count towards earning your degree.