Introduction

This text will present Parami University’s vision of a Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) in a very particular context: present-day Burma. Parami offers education to distressed students through a model of connected and significant learning with writing-based pedagogies at its core. Parami initiated the undergraduate program in the academic year of 2021–2022, and at the time of writing the second cohort has just started.

Since the University’s undergraduate program is so new, there are only small sets of data available to illustrate the significance of writing-based pedagogies in a connected and significant learning model. The data was obtained from evaluation surveys of the Language and Thinking program in the Fall of 2022 and Fall of 2023, and one questionnaire that was administered in the Social Psychology course provided by the author in the second semester of the first academic year.