# Core Interdisciplinary Connections

**Source**: https://www.aucegypt.edu/academics/core-curriculum/core-interdisciplinary-connections
**Parent**: https://www.aucegypt.edu/academics/core-curriculum

Connect your Core Curriculum learning across fields of knowledge and design an interdisciplinary pathway that deepens your knowledge and broadens your perspective.

### **What are Core Interdisciplinary Connections?**

Through the Core Curriculum, you will examine some of the urgent issues that shape our world and impact our future. Engage with enduring questions, and develop critical thinking and career-ready skills needed to address the complex challenges of human society.

You may wish to connect your Core Curriculum learning through selecting thematically-related courses on interdisciplinary topics of current global significance, to gain depth within a particular theme from an interdisciplinary perspective.

### **Learning Goals**

- **Thematic Depth:**Pursue purposeful thematic pathways that connect a selection of your Core courses around a multidisciplinary theme or Big Question.
- **Interdisciplinarity:** Approach themes through multiple disciplinary perspectives and develop an enriched understanding through interconnected knowledge.
- **Global Connections:** Deepen your awareness and appreciation of pressing global issues, and develop diversity of thought and cross-cultural competence.
- **Integration:**Pose questions that go beyond the specifics of an issue to generate new ideas and solutions addressing broader societal contexts.
- **Career Readiness:** Translate interdisciplinary learning into practical, transferable skills that prepare you for engagement in a wide range of professional and civic environments.

## Core Interdisciplinary Connections

[### Workplaces Industry and Economies](https://www.aucegypt.edu/academics/core-curriculum/core-interdisciplinary-connections/courses/#workplaces)
[### Gender Equality/Human Equity](https://www.aucegypt.edu/academics/core-curriculum/core-interdisciplinary-connections/courses/#genderequality)
[### Poverty and Social Equality](https://www.aucegypt.edu/academics/core-curriculum/core-interdisciplinary-connections/courses/#poverty)

[### Sustainable Energy and Resources](https://www.aucegypt.edu/academics/core-curriculum/core-interdisciplinary-connections/courses/#sustainability)
[### Artificial Intelligence](https://www.aucegypt.edu/academics/core-curriculum/core-interdisciplinary-connections/courses/#artificialintelligence)