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Our Mission and Values
mission statement
LUC The Hague is founded on the belief that the efforts of individuals can make a
difference in the world. Its creative and flexible curriculum aims to provide each
student with the best possible route to fulfill their intellectual potential and to
contribute towards resolving the global challenges that we all face today. At LUC
we aim to recognise excellence and talent within, outside and across the boundaries
of conventional disciplines, believing that students are capable of scholarly
innovation and creative insight. LUC seeks to encourage its students towards these
goals by creating a highly fertile, international and cosmopolitan environment for
motivated students and dynamic staff working together in small groups to help
build knowledge for a better world.
internationalisation and Community
It is very fashionable to be ‘international,’ although it is not always clear what
this means. Does it refer to the experience of having been ‘abroad’? Does it mean
that you have been a ‘foreigner’ or that you are somehow conscious of the fact
that you are not? Is it exclusionary, referring to everything that is not from your
homeland? Or is it inclusive and tending towards cosmopolitanism?
At LUC, we take the fact that we are an international college seriously. We hope
that the experience of living and working here will help you to find answers to
all of those questions, and we organise our classes and accommodation in order
to facilitate this. You will live together with students from all over the world
(46 different nationalities will be represented this year), experiencing the ways
in which they conduct their lives and studies. You will learn together with them
and an international faculty (our Assistant Professors are from ten different
countries on four continents), who each bring a special wealth and diversity to
our environment.
But our goal is not only to give you a fun and exciting environment (although
that is also our goal). Rather, we believe that these kinds of experiences will be
essential to the formation of Global Citizens, who can really understand what it
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