Social Engagement
The School of Arts and Sciences is a driver of community involvement and social transformation in which students, faculty and staff collaborate with local communities, national organizations and regional institutions to respond to real-world problems.
Through interactive lectures, cultural events, hands-on volunteer initiatives and summer camps, our activities are centered on inspiring and making a meaningful difference. This offers room for students to grow and learn, and the surrounding communities to be inspired by ideas, innovation and interaction.
Highlights
SoAS Summer and Boot Camps
The LAU SoAS camps invite middle school and high school students to dive into an exciting selection of summer and boot camps designed to spark curiosity, enhance skills, and provide real-world experiences in cutting-edge fields.
University Theater Festival
Held under the Department of English and Creative Arts, the University Theater Festival offers workshops and professional sessions for students to engage with theater professionals and peers.
International Dance Day Festival in Lebanon (IDDFL)
LAU’s International Dance Day Festival in Lebanon is an annual celebration of dance that brings together local and international artists through performances, workshops and cultural exchange.
News Highlights
LAU students cook for marginalized groups
Communication and Journalism students and alumni take part in the Global Media Monitoring Project
LAU students visit a local high school to teach about generative AI
Alumnus and filmmaker Oualid Mouaness screens his directorial debut at LAU
Journalism and Communication students participate in World Press Freedom Day 2025
Forensic Psychology students visit the Internal Security Forces Academy in Aramoun
More Engagement
All About the Arts
The IMAGINE Workshop and Concert Series (IWCS) is a series of events—from concerts, workshops, panel discussions, art exhibitions, outreach and education programs that bring all arts disciplines together, to commissioning projects and supporting LAU students and alumni, and young students and artists. IWCS seeks to stimulate and encourage the appreciation, performance and composition of performing arts.
Imagine Summer Arts Camp (ISAC) is a one-of-a-kind summer camp that combines music, dance and acting through a comprehensive and fun learning experience. Campers enjoy learning from LAU’s faculty and guest artists through classes, workshops and artistic performances in a safe and fun environment.
LAU students majoring in English have contributed to recording audiobooks, participating in workshops, and attending awareness sessions pertaining to issues of people with disabilities, in collaboration with the Youth Association of the Blind, an NGO that works on integrating blind students in society.
Festival NEXT builds on the history of LAU’s International University Theater Festival. It strives to create an interdisciplinary space for innovative, avant-garde, and experimental performing and communicative arts. It offers opportunities to students and pre-professionals to work with established artists through workshops, lectures, productions, and performances.
Created by Communication Arts students, staff and faculty and supervised by Dr. Claudia Kozman, CONNECTions Magazine is the annual publication of the Department of Communication, Arts and Languages.The magazine brings together the CAL community and highlights the annual achievements of the department’s students, faculty, staff, and alumni.
… and the Sciences
As part of the Nutrition and Dietetics Coordinated Program (CP) internship, students take part in community rotation at Makhzoumi foundation and Ain w Zein long term care where many community projects, health awareness campaigns and education take place. In the current Covid-19 crisis, CP students and their preceptors have been using tele-health to provide online nutrition consultation to LAU community. They have also conducted an online health education session to pregnant and lactating women in Lebanon as part of an interprofessional activity.
Nutrition students conduct a yearly food drive for the Lebanese Food Bank. In addition, through their food production course, they cook meals and donate them to this NGO as well.
In collaboration with the Outreach and Civic Engagement department, Education students have been providing educational entertainment for children aged 5 -15 years, who come from extremely challenging circumstances, and who are on the verge of leaving school at the OLA center in Sidon. LAU students design and deliver education games with the children and enthusing them about learning.