Academics | Faculties | RAMEZ G. CHAGOURY FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE, ARTS & DESIGN

Faculty Profile

The overall aim is to provide a comprehensive and flexible range of programs in response to the educational and professional needs of the local community, the region, national and international demand, and to secure the opportunity for personal and professional development in any of the following areas: Architecture, arts, or design.

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We serve the community by providing programs of study that are professionally oriented, comprehensive, relevant to today’s business world, and of high standard

Note from the Dean

Since 1999, the RC-FAAD has evolved from two different Departments, Visual Arts and Architecture, and from two different Faculties, Humanities and Engineering, into a unique, growing and independent Faculty housing four Departments with their respective and varied undergraduate and graduate majors. The time spent was challenging, productive and rewarding in all of the three categories involved: teaching, research and services dedicated to NDU.

The vision for the Ramez G. Chagoury Faculty of Architecture, Arts & Design is now at a crossroad of local and global standards. Accomplishing NECHE accreditation, NDU has accepted the challenge of meeting the highest standards within the international academic framework. This is being achieved through development of new programs based on existing majors, leading to even further specialized areas of study.

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historical overview

In September 1987, NDU started its ‘Visual Arts’ programs with the Faculty of Humanities. During the years 1995-1998, the only two degrees in Visual Arts; which we offered then; Graphic Design and Interior Design, were redesigned to provide for an international and professional (vocational) education. Consequently, the number of enrolled students multiplied (from eighty five students in the year 1995 to two hundred seventy five in 1998).

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mission, vision & values

The Faculty is committed to the ambitions of students wishing to study Architecture, Arts, or Design. It seeks to attract a diverse range of students from Lebanon or the region by providing intellectually challenging and professional programs serving the needs of Lebanon and the region and underpinned by scholarship, research and professional activity.

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