WRITER: PIYANAN SAROBOL

Responding to AU’s visions and missions, the Theodore Maria School of Arts and the department of General Education have collaborated their best team efforts for cultivating basic moral values for AU students. They realize that Ethics and moral principles are grounded in practical guidance for enhancing righteous human behavior. Ethics discern good from bad which has a great influence on various aspects of life.

To enhance ethical growth among AU students, they have discussed and come up with an academic yearly plan to facilitate and give support to the off-campus activities associated with the continuing moral growth and development of students’ ethical competence.

On December 3, 2022, the General Education Department received a letter from the World Peace Ethics Club to invite the 1st year -4th year students to engage in this Ethics Camp. They were pleased to take part in this activity as they understood the fact that this World Peace Ethics Contest will not only enable our students to attain The Three 21st-century skills; learning skills, literacy skills, and life skills which are needed for students to succeed and stay competitive in their career during the digital age but also achieve our 3Es goal for prompting AU students’ identity.

The following are constructive outcomes for our students:

A. Ethics: Learning Skills, and Life Skills

1. They can apply basic moral values such as love, kindness, politeness, punctuality, orderliness, mutual respect, and harmony in their everyday lives as they have to work and live together with students from other universities.

B. Entrepreneurial Spirit: Learning Skills, Literacy Skills, and Life Skills

2. They can learn to express their thoughts critically, positively, and creatively as they were divided to work in small groups. These group activities have brought them to get to know more about how to build good teamwork, listen to others’ opinions, respect multiple views’ points, and empower them to see things differently from other dimensions.

3. They can distinguish themselves from others as they are asked to be volunteers or group/university representatives which strengthens their leadership, a strong sense of self-respect, and self-love.

C. English Proficiency: Learning Skills, and Life Skills

4. They can practice speaking English as their second language to create an English environment when communicating with people internationally.

5. They can prepare and plan for their family lives in the future as they have been given ideas about how to be good parents, how to keep their family alive, and how to raise children properly.

6. They can learn to apply a few minutes of meditation a day as a universal practice to keep distractions away, and yet find their inner peace.

Having interviewed our students, many of them said that they are feeling so enjoyable and very satisfied with these new experiences and new friends. They would like to thank all of the AU Top Management Committee, the Vice President For Moral Development, the Dean of the Faculty of Arts, the Chairperson of General Education, and Ethics lecturers who have given them valuable support and chances to join the Ethics Camp. They are looking forward to joining the 14th World Peace Ethics Contest too.

On this exceptional event, we would like to announce the name of our students who have won the following 17 awards as follows:


Congratulations on your well–deserved achievements.!!!!! We are so impressed with your demonstration of ethics, love, and peace. We all are extremely proud of you. All of you are true inspirations for us!!!!!. Keep doing good and never stop striving for goodness. We look forward to hearing more about your success.

Related Link

The 13th World Peace Ethics Contest (World-PEC) 2023