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Freedom from
Cultural Stereotypes |
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| A girlfriend of mine knew that I was
hoping to transfer to a university in Europe. One day, I
received a package in the mail from my friend. She had
enclosed a brochure from AUP with a note saying that she
knew this is where I should be... |
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From Baghdad to
AUP |
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| I served my country in the United States
Army as an infantryman. I spent a total of four years in
the Army including two one-year deployments to Mosul and
Baghdad, Iraq. It was my first time traveling outside the
United States and my brief exposure to the cultures in
Iraq left me wanting more... |
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Embarking on
Neuroscience |
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| While a student at AUP I founded the
Psychology Club and was the Psychology department
representative. I did this both to strengthen my CV and
because I wanted to be involved in activities related to
my studies. After graduating from AUP, I moved to London
to work at the Clinical Psychopharmacology Unit at UCL... |
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Humanitarian Nomad |
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| Since graduating from AUP I've gone to
graduate school, lived in three countries, learned two new
languages and have never stopped traveling. I've worked in
international development, public health, and global
lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender rights in a number of
countries... |
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Entrepreneurship
and Economics |
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University of Paris, it was almost too good to be true.
But AUP has lived up to all of its promises. I have not
only found the ideal environment for intellectual
stimulation, but have also found the right kind of people
to study and enjoy life with... |
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Learning from the
City |
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| I graduated from AUP nearly three years
ago, but the University is still a large part of my life.
I've found a group of people who make it possible to live
life in the way that we've all decided works best for us:
we've adopted the AUP attitude of seeing Europe as a place
that can be made into a home... |
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A Small Community
in Paris |
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| I think the opportunity for involvement
here at AUP is incredible. It feels like students can make
anything happen, from starting a club to bringing in guest
speakers to hosting an international conference. The small
community means that students and faculty really know and
help each other... |
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Working with the
Disenfranchised |
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| AUP was critical in my development and
is, without a doubt, one of the reasons I have gone on to
achieve my dreams of assisting the world’s poor and
disenfranchised. AUP's Comparative Literature degree
taught me how to think critically, write persuasively,
understand how cultures interact... |
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Learning from
Fellow Students |
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| I am always advocating AUP to prospective
students and telling them that attending AUP changes your
world view. The academic curriculum is a major part, but
in my experience what you learn from your fellow students
and surroundings is something even more valuable... |
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A True Art History
Experience |
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| AUP is an experiment in international
learning, very different from the proliferating semester
abroad programs offered by American universities these
days. It's a chance for students to learn about a foreign
culture in the most meaningful way—by joining it. |
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Cross-Cultural
Communication |
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Like every student at AUP, I have a story about how I
discovered The American University of Paris. I stumbled upon a copy of the
UNESCO Study Abroad Guide and came across AUP on the first
page. My university search came to a halt: I had found
what I was looking for... |
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On the Ground in
Haiti |
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While I was working with Transparency International in Sri
Lanka, I met up with former AUP student, Sean Casey '04.
We reminisced about our days at AUP, and promised to try
to work together in the future. When the earthquake hit
Port-au-Prince, Sean emailed me and asked me to come and
work with him in Haiti... |
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President of
Student Ambassadors |
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As AUP is a small school it's easy to get to know the
majority of the student body. I get involved as much
as I can in student life: I started the running club a
year ago and am currently President of the Student
Ambassadors. I am also organizing a marathon this semester
and have also coordinated various student events... |
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AUP: Gateway to
the Future |
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My studies at AUP solidified my focus on an international
career and helped me develop an international perspective
on world affairs, and also acquire key values and
analytical, communication, and managerial skills that have
been crucial for work with the United Nations and other
organizations... |
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Paris is the
Literary City |
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The amazing thing about AUP is that the classroom
experience hardly ever stops in the classroom. I read
Dante on a faculty-led trip to Italy. I learned about
French drama by accompanying professors to Paris theaters.
Frequently an author I was studying would give a lecture
at AUP... |
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A Variety of
Career Paths |
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The training I received in and out of the classroom has
been useful in countless ways in my current position as
the Marketing & Communication manager for an online
start-up. I've had to draw from my experiences in the
program and I know that my work is more efficient because
of that... |
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Connections that
Count |
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AUP alumni form a diverse group of people. Self-motivated,
passionate, eclectic, forerunning, innovative, global,
interdisciplinary. AUP is a revealer of intellectual,
professional, and creative possibility but it leaves
students with the conviction that they can create their
own possibilities in life... |
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From Athlete to
Business Executive |
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Like many AUP students, I came to Paris looking for
something – perhaps the chance to make changes to my
current life or possibly create something new. My
experience at AUP did allow me to take control of my
career by leaving the stereotypical "athlete" role at home
in the U.S... |
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With AUP, I hit
the ground running! |
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With its location in the melting pot of Europe and its
students and staff from the most interesting mixture of
nationalities and ethnicities, attending AUP helped me
feel related to every nation, to every culture, and to
every language. It is an ideal place for truly
appreciating our similarities... |
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A Melting Pot of
Cultures |
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I greatly benefited from the melting pot of cultures that
living and studying in Paris – a cosmopolitan city of
international repute – afforded me, and I must say that my
success and level of sophistication can be traced to the
experience I had at The American University of Paris... |
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Students from over 100 nations.
Faculty from over 25.
A curriculum that stretches from Art History to Global
Communications to Business.
Life-changing learning experiences every day – within
the classroom and without – in the global city that is
Paris. |
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AUP offers an innovative
pedagogical model integrating classroom learning and
hands-on experience that prepares students to master and to
make, to reflect and to apply, to analyze and to act. |
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Students from over 100 nations.
Faculty from over 25.
An American liberal arts
university located in central Paris,
changing the world every day,
student by student. |
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AUP's curriculum is
discipline-based, comparative, and cross-cultural.
Student learning and faculty research are driven by a desire for
excellence, shaped by the University’s urban geography and
demographic diversity, and directed towards critical 21st
century issues. |
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AUP promotes an academic culture
of engagement, global citizenship, and community that fosters in
students and faculty alike a critical sense of commitment to and
responsibility for a world of interdependence.
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AUP graduates understand the
ethical imperatives of living in a world of swift-paced change,
and take their places as responsible actors in communities,
civil societies, and countries around the globe. |
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Undergraduate and graduate
degree programs for students from all national, linguistic,
and educational backgrounds.
A global center for innovative,
interdisciplinary teaching and learning, research and
scholarship. |
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Interdisciplinary programs
ranging from Visual Cultures to Middle Eastern and Islamic
Studies.
A global center for innovative,
interdisciplinary teaching and learning, research and
scholarship. |
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At AUP, students develop a
capacity for ethical and political judgment responsive to
cultural diversity.
Students and faculty meet to
articulate civic values and negotiate difference, as they
question, reflect upon, and work towards creative solutions to
real-world problems. |
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A campus at the crossroads of
contemporary intellectual culture in the global city that is
Paris.
A classroom that is a place of
dialogue, negotiation, and synergies.
The
American University of Paris:
A University that Changes
Lives. |
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A
curriculum that centers upon critical 21st century issues from
cultural translation to global communications.
The
American University of Paris:
A University that Changes
Lives. |
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Students and faculty from over a
hundred different national, cultural, and educational
backgrounds.
The AUP experience:
An academic community where
greater understanding and new perspectives surface every day,
as faculty and students together transcend linguistic,
cultural, and ideological boundaries. |
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AUP graduates are prepared to
communicate well in a world of many languages, think critically
about history, culture, the arts, science, politics, business,
communication, and society, and develop creative
interdisciplinary approaches to important contemporary issues. |
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AUP students are prepared to be
both technologically and culturally literate in a world of
swift-paced change, to understand the ethical imperatives of
living in such a world, and to take their places as responsible
actors in communities, civil societies, and countries around the
globe. |
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An American university located in
the “City of Lights.”
A
university in and of the city, with a curriculum to match that
focuses on the philosophy, art, languages, history, politics,
and business of global cities and citizens. |
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AUP gives students a different
perspective on the world by means of small, interactive
classes, a highly international mix of students, and a
rigorous academic program based on the American liberal arts
model.
All
in the city of Paris. |
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Students from over 100 nations.
A
faculty from over 25.
A
university of the world, AUP graduates students for the world,
uniquely equipped to take their places in the international
workplace, and in countries, civil societies, and in
communities around the globe. |
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Objects and Urban Space
AUP and the Eugene Lang Partnership invite the
community to the first session of the
Communicative Objects Seminar Series, with
Professor Stephen Sawyer and Professor Scott
Salmon, entitled Downscaling Competitive City
Discourse: Planning in the Age of Global Megaevents. On Thursday, January 31.
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