Why is it possible to select courses across both the arts and sciences?

Liberal arts education involves learning across different academic disciplines and transcending the boundaries between the arts and the sciences.

ICU uses a unique system to enable students to explore different academic areas and find the ones that they want to pursue at deeper levels. Under this system, students are able to cultivate their basic academic abilities through a wide range of courses during their first and second years, gradually narrow their fields of interest, and then choose their majors before starting their third year.

Pursuing a specialization after acquiring broad-ranging knowledge across the arts and sciences enables creative thinking with a solid, extensive grounding in real expertise. It also fosters a capacity to integrate the diverse knowledge and information essential to achieve solutions to the various problems arising in our complex, globalized society.

The capacity for students to study both the arts and the sciences is a crucial foundation for ICU's success in cultivating internationally minded citizens ever since its foundation.