Liberal Arts and Sciences

Aim and Approach

Liberal Arts and Sciences is a specific approach to Bachelor level education. It reaches across academic fields while also offering discipline-oriented academic training in a particular Major. LAS in Freiburg covers and integrates the breadth of academic endeavor. As a distinctive feature of UCF's LAS program, the Core offers a foundation for knowledge and reflection in academic world work and beyond.

We encourage students to critically reflect on science and knowledge and to become skilled communicators and creative shapers of their environment. Focusing on the education of the whole person, LAS creates opportunities for personal development into motivated and responsible human beings.

The LAS program offers interdisciplinary training that allows for individual emphases. The Core (66 ECTS) includes reflection on knowledge and sciences – the key to interdisciplinary education and training –, a curriculum on Responsibility and Leadership, and general academic skills training. In the Electives (72 ECTS), students can choose from a variety of options and courses as well as undertake study projects of their own. The Major (102 ECTS)constitutes the students’ training in a specific academic field. LAS offers four Majors: (1) Earth and Environmental Sciences, (2) Life Sciences, (3) Governance, (4) Culture and History. LAS teaches students intellectual flexibility across disciplines and enables them to apply the acquired skills to complex academic and practical questions. It prepares them for careers in international environments that demand fast and efficient adaptation to varying and complex challenges on a day to day basis. Finally, students will learn how to self-responsibly and self-confidently continue to advance their intellectual development after graduation, for and beyond their careers.

First semester:

restrictive admissions (local): entrance examination and replacement procedure 
(Proficiency in English, where applicable, level 1: pre-selection by average grade in the German higher education entrance qualification, level 2: selection interview, average grade in the German higher education entrance qualification) 

Germans and EU citizens: 90% of study spaces are granted in a selection procedure and 10% after a waiting period.  Non-EU citizens (without German school-leaving certificate): do not take part in this selection procedure. Study spaces are granted according to a quota of 20% of the available spaces.

Remark: Please check again at the beginning of the application period to make sure that the admission requirements for this degree program have not changed in the meantime.