The AUC Core Curriculum Is the Most Critical and Inflenetial Necessity for a College Student

Our hypothesis: The AUC Core curriculum is the most critical and influential necessity for the college student.

Many AUCians asked and are continuing to ask about the importance of this program and the significant need of studying it to them. As we all know that the Core curriculum includes several categories which may not correspond to a student’s major or field of interest, so why should the student take it? Our project aim is to answer this debatable question. We will be studying the program and evaluating it critically, ask professors and take their opinions and also make surveys and questionnaires for the students—the freshmen and the graduates as well—for their experience and views. We have also thought of making a comparison between the AUCians amount of knowledge obtained due to them studying the Core curriculum and the student of Cairo University. Moreover, our main objective is to argue wither the Core Curriculum is beneficial to the AUCians or useless.

The research methods that we will be using are: correlation, interviews and surveys, case study. In the interviews will be explaining how we will conduct the interviews and case study methods. With the interviews we will be able write detailed documentations of what interviewees say about the educational system in their university (how it helped them or did not help them, how it affected their major, and for graduates we might ask them how it was beneficial in their scripts and resumes for jobs). And by the survey we will collect, examine and then evaluate those information and opinions of the student from the AUC community. Using these two methods, we will study the education systems of both universities and how it builds up the minds/knowledge of both universi...

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... of the general knowledge exam while, the Cairo university students who didn’t study the core curriculum courses were just able to answer 40 percent of the exam questions. The results of this study suggest that most of AUC students, the strong correlation between their performance and the exam questions indicates that student performance was satisfied with the quality of the questions, which include a variety of topics. For Cairo university students on both sides on the performance affiliation, the lack of correlation indicates that because Cairo university students are not studying core courses like AUC students had a strong influence on the final grade of the general knowledge exam. Thus, through the correlation method we were able to prove our hypothesis which states that students who study core curriculum courses benefit more and as able to grasp more knowledge.