Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 11: SRM University announced the setting up of School of Liberal Arts and Basic Sciences (SLABS) at its main campus in Amaravati.
The announcement was made by president of the university, Dr P Sathyanarayanan, in the presence of the Honorary Pro Chancellor of SRM University, AP – Amaravati, Prof Nicholas Dirks (Chancellor Emeritus, University of California, Berkley) and Dr D Narayana Rao, Pro Vice Chancellor of the University.
SLABS will be SRM Amaravati’s home for fundamental research, where free, open, and critical inquiry will be pursued across disciplines, finding answers and solutions to world’s most challenging problems and daunting issues. SLABS will have its first intake of students in 2018 and will offer BA, BBA, BCom and BSc programs across 12 departments -Economics, English, History, Journalism, Psychology, Business Studies, Commerce, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Biology and Computer Science.
“Today, we face increasingly complex issues and challenges, and tackling these, calls for multi-dimensional thought processes and problem solving skills. Education needs to focus on this and much more. We aim to help students develop such skills through the liberal arts and basic sciences education offered at SRM SLABS. For this, we are looking at hands-on guidance from Prof Nicholas Dirks. SRM SLABS also has a strong faculty base of international caliber, who will bring a global perspective to liberal arts education”, said Dr P Sathyanarayanan.
Prof Nicholas Dirks said,”As we launch SLABS, we are working to ensure that our undergraduate students will be the full beneficiaries of the best set of undergraduate experiences available anywhere, in the larger context of building a leading research university with aspirations to become world-class in every possible sense”.
“The multi-disciplinary focus of SLABS will ensure that the students would have both breadth as well depth of knowledge about a wide range of subjects”, said Dr D Narayana Rao.
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