Humanities

Wars, armed conflicts, and displacement are not only attacks to spaces, places and people, but also violations of a fundamental human right recognised in numerous international, regional and national instruments. Education is a right in itself and a multiplier of other rights. Legal frameworks, measures and tools already exist [...]

Discover how urban design can help tackle inequality and socio-economic segregation in cities. Learn how to use analytical tools to measure these two phenomena and make urban design part of the solution. Urban design, inequality and segregation are strongly connected.

This course is a tailor-made introduction about the variety of issues that may arise in the context of charitable organizations, with the aim of strengthening the responses and overall knowledge of their leadership. The questions that arise regarding international charities are multifaceted and many times those within the leadership [...]

This course provides an introductory, accessible but also in-depth overview of the emerging and promising field of Islamic Bioethics. It is developed and taught by one of the world’s leading scholars in Islamic Ethics, Dr. Mohammed Ghaly (Professor of Islam and Biomedical Ethics). The course explores how the rich [...]

Humanities in Focus is about raising questions rather than providing you with answers. You will engage in ongoing conversations about social issues in film, challenges and opportunities in art, experience and consciousness in history, and the power of language. This type of humanistic inquiry will allow you to uncover [...]

Gender intersects with everything. Using examples from popular culture, classical literature, and history, this course will teach you how to analyze religious texts and traditions, class divisions, racial inequality, sexualities and nationalism through a gendered lens.