The Faculty of Arts is determined to build a learning environment that enables the development of a particular breed of architects and designers who carry a reflective and a critical stance of their profession and who are capable of addressing emerging issues/problems by having access to the necessary most up-to-date set of theoretical and practical knowledge.  The Faculty of Arts' main goal is not limited to graduating employable architects in the local market. Still, it also aims to graduate designers and entrepreneurs who push the boundaries of the discipline.

Such an outlook is based on a conscious positioning of the Faculty of Arts graduates away from a dominant conventional design practice in the real estate sector to the boundaries of that practice, where socially and environmentally driven innovations are required.  To reinforce such a positioning, the outlook of this Faculty is to reverse the trend of specialization and the decentralization of the production process into capital [business], designers [architecture], and technicians [technology] by building on what East International University has to offer in other faculties- consequently integrating into its curriculum courses from the other faculties. Within such a program, we expect the Faculty of Arts graduates to innovate and to master all the necessary tools that will ensure that their innovations are context-based, technically sound, and commercially successful.

The Bachelor of Architecture program at the Faculty of Arts offers students a professional degree that qualifies them to practice architecture. The program takes into consideration country and institutional requirements and characteristics such as recognition by the Ministry of Higher Education, registration in the Syndicate of Engineers (for architecture only), as well as offerings at the University.

Faculty’s Vision, Mission, and Core Values

Vision

We aspire to become a nationally competitive and discovery-driven Faculty that is distinguished by being contextually grounded, multidisciplinary, and collaborative, shepherding a culture of inquiry and entrepreneurship. Our graduates shall be responsible leaders who actively contribute to the advancement and well-being of their community and beyond.  

Mission

The Faculty of Arts is learner-centered and design-oriented. Our pedagogy is based on fundamental principles and is propelled by creative research in social and environmental challenges. Applied and design research and the culture of discovery are integrated in our undergraduate education.

We are committed to graduate professional architects who are fully capable of continuous growth and successful practice in the fields of design, building, construction, and design computation.

Core Values

Within this broad vision, the Faculty of Arts carries an unwavering belief in the value of design as scholarship. Design –as a disciplinary skill- is approached as a creative and reflective process that is engaged in scholarly work and inquiry, and that contributes to the advancement of knowledge – Architecture, Interior, and Product Design being our field of expertise. The Faculty of Arts' course of action in the search for excellence in teaching is set through differentiated learning, whereby the Faculty provides a flexible delivery system that is tailored to the varied strengths and outlook of the student body in the Faculty.

More specifically, the Faculty of Arts values:

• Excellent and accessible higher education. Rooted in the Bauhaus tradition, the Faculty of Arts motto is: every committed person can become a designer.
• Sustenance in life and design practice.
• Craftsmanship, material, and technological innovation.
• Creative and pragmatic design practice propelled by social and environmental challenges.
• Critical pedagogy and learning will cross-disciplinary boundaries.
• Active engagement with the community.
• Integration of research in undergraduate education.
• Network with the global research and professional communities for an effective build-up of the Faculty of Arts capacity to create value on the local and global scenes.