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"Young Life" is a club created for students living in the dorm in order to make them feel united as a family. Non-dorm students are more than welcome to join as well.

Non-AUCA Students can take classes and earn an AUCA Certificate of Study with the General Education Division

From December 7 to 11, 2016, more than 150 enthusiastic young activists from 21 countries gathered together in order to discuss youth entrepreneurship and education in the modern world. The Riau International Youth Summit (RIYS) 2016 has united the youth representatives in Pekanbaru city, which is located in Riau province, Indonesia. AUCA alumna Nurzhan Kadyrkulova was the only representative from Kyrgyzstan on this summit.

On November 29, 2016, the Logistics and Supply Chain Management (LSCM) Program of AUCA held its first Certificate Award Ceremony.

Galina Gorborukova, PhD, is an associate professor and coordinator in the Sociology Department. She joined AUCA in 2000 and began her work as part-time teacher of sociology. Now, Gorborukova works full-time. She took a moment to talk about her career at AUCA.

Daler Kaziev, an alumnus of the Future Leaders Exchange Program (FLEX 2011-2012) from Murghab District, known as Eastern Pamir Mountains in Tajikistan, is one of the first graduates of AUCA’s the newly opened Liberal Arts and Sciences concentration in Environmental Management and Sustainable Development.

On December 11, 2016, pre-competitions of the Enactus international organization took place in American University of Central Asia (AUCA), where teams with most various ideas were gathered and presented their intermediate results. The event was held in the AUCA Forum. Participants from southern regions also took part in this event.

Hafizullah Saeedi, freshmen in International and Comparative Politics, represented American University of Central Asia in the First Youth Competition of Ideas for A Sustainable Future at United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization Head Quarter, Rome, Italy, from 30th November 2016 to 2nd December 2016.

Course descriptionPolitical Theory is a distinct sub-field within the academic discipline of Political Science. Political theorists tend to focus on philosophical side of the investigation of the nature of politics rather than make empirical claims. This course will prepare you to start reading, thinking and writing like political theorists by urging you to consider why, how and for whom such texts are produced. You will engage in Socratic critique of the classical texts in political theory and will learn the principles of the ‘art’ of rhetoric as once outlined by Aristotle. The course also gives you some ‘nuts and bolts’ of writing in English language thus enabling you to write on political theory in different formats for various audiences and purposes.

Course Description
The course is designed to introduce students to main policy processes and issues, and familiarize them with basic policy analysis instruments. The course is divided into three parts – conceptual, contextual and instrumental parts of policy and policy analysis. Reading assigned literature and discussing them in the class would constitute the major part of the course, writing and presenting papers – another part. One of each week’s class would be conducted in the form of lecture with discussions of presented materials, while the second day (seminar) would be devoted to discussing the assigned materials and exploring discussed concepts through the lenses of specific policy cases. Although instructors would bring these cases to the class students are expected to come prepared with their own practical examples. Students have to get acquainted with required readings, and those wishing to deepen their understanding of the subject may familiarize themselves with suggested readings (available either at AUCA library) in the syllabus.