The School of Culture & Language at the Institute for Art and Culture aims to create socio-historical consciousness needed to promote cultural sensitivity and culturally driven practices. The school offers degree programs based on people and place specific approach. Being an ancient society we have a living legacy of cultural and linguistic diversity which is a collective asset that needs to be understood and promoted, making it compatible with the demands of modern times. The school recognizes the fundamental right of each culture to exist in the process of human evolution and believes that co-existence of diverse cultures can lead towards a tolerant, harmonious, and progressive society.

With interdisciplinary approaches, SCL aims to promote creative expression through exposure to diverse cultural practices in which language, art, music, theater, and storytelling constitute an important component.

The objectives of the Degree Program are to develop the student’s capabilities to:

•  Appreciate the value and significance of culture and its diversity through interaction with communities, exploring their behaviors, beliefs and practices.

• Enhance their cultural sensitivity in developing innovative policies, strategies and projects that are socially inclusive and environmentally sustainable.

• Promote creative expression through exposure to arts, music, theater, art appreciation, cultural theories and critical thinking.

• Effectively understand and communicate in Pakistani and international languages for a better understanding of peoples values, cultural norms, practices, and rituals.

• Appreciate the evolution of culture through the people’s history, mythology and folklore, allowing them to develop a deeper understanding of their past.

The degree program explores the dialectics of culture and development and enables students to search and recognize creativity inherent in culture and employ it towards development. Supported by an exploration of cultural assets, expressions, and practices through interaction with people and their environment, the degree program focuses on holistic human development, inclusive of the economic and the social. The goal is empowering people to live in dignity and freedom, fulfilling their creative potential and enable students to design innovative and culturally sensitive development projects.

Degree Requirements:

The students are required to obtain a minimum of 134 credit hours with a minimum GPA of 2.0 for degree eligibility. These credit hours are distributed over 8 semesters in a period of 4 years.

The “Center for Creative Partnerships”, established under the School of Culture and Language, is the hub of conceiving, designing and implementing projects in the fields of arts, culture and development.  It is established with an aim to generate practical and hands-on knowledge of students in the proposed fields and to enrich and inform the practice with theoretical perspectives and academic inputs.  By bridging the gap between traditional knowledge and contemporary trends, CCP removes out the distinction between traditional and modern, folk and classical practices, and provides the opportunity to bring both closer to enrich each other, through exchange, innovation and contemporization.