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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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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 Career in the
Sciences and the Arts |
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My career in the sciences and the arts undoubtedly stems
from the experiences I was afforded at The American
University in Paris. Despite that my studies in physics
and the opportunity to become involved in theater were not
then apparent as far as where they would lead, the fact
they now serve me is unquestioned... |
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Paris Serves as
our Meeting Place |
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The thing I like most about AUP is our truly international
student body. I will never forget meeting students at
Orientation who were from countries I had never heard of.
Since then I have traveled with many of my peers to their
home countries, allowing me to experience new cultures
like a local... |
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Interacting around
the World |
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I have now worked for IBM, a very international American
corporation, for a bit more than 20 years. One aspect of
my time in Paris and at AUP that I always cherish is how
easy it was to be exposed to different cultures and
languages... |
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AUP was the Icing
on the Cake |
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Paris is a place that holds a special place in my heart
and I knew from the beginning that I wanted to study
there. It really is a special place and I am lucky I had
the chance to study there for a semester. The experience
was so much more than I initially expected... |
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One of the Best
Decisions Ever |
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Attending AUP opened up the world to me. At age 18, I
realized for the first time that I had been living with my
eyes closed, figuratively speaking. Ever since that day,
I've had an overwhelming appreciation for nature,
architecture, the arts, food, and the people in my life –
my eyes are wide open now... |
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AUP was like
Coming Home |
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For the hybrid multi-lingual multi-cultural creature that
I am, joining AUP was like coming home. I took to AUP like
the proverbial fish to water. And yet, the constant
exposure to a diversity of nationalities broadened my mind
even further and strengthened my desire to explore other
cultures... |
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Putting a Human
Face to the World |
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I truly believe I would not be where I am today if it had
not been for my time at The American University in Paris.
I was able to take classes with journalists who not only
taught the practical skills needed in journalism, but who
also created an atmosphere where we could discuss, debate
and develop a set of ethics... |
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A Sense of
Belonging |
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At AUP, I felt I finally belonged to a community because
of my cultural background – I'm half American and half
Mexican having lived in France for 30 years – and what
better place than Paris, where I grew up, to evolve into
becoming a citizen of the world? |
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Art, Culture, and
History |
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As a full-time faculty member of LIM College, Manhattan,
as well as the author of several books on various aspects
of 20th-century culture, there is not a day that goes by
when I don't bring my AUP experience into my own
classrooms or include it in my writing... |
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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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50th Anniversary
Global Alumni
Weekend
Join alumni, students, faculty,
staff, parents and friends of The
American University of Paris to
celebrate its 50th anniversary at
Global Alumni Weekend.
Celebration events will take place
May 24-27, 2013. The weekend
features cocktail events, two
lunches, a boat party, all lectures
and reunions, the graduation
ceremony at the Théâtre du Châtelet
and a fundraising gala.
Browse the Event Schedule »
Download & Print the Schedule »
Meet our
Sponsors » |
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Paris, 6 May 2013
— The American
University of Paris (AUP) has announced a $1
million donation from alumna Gisel (Hiscock)
Kordestani '96 and her husband, Omid
Kordestani — the largest gift in AUP's
history since its founding in 1962.
The
Kordestanis wish theirs to be an
unrestricted gift, allowing the
University to direct the funds
towards its highest priorities.
The acquisition of a new Student
Life and Learning Center tops this
list. The Kordestanis' generosity
will be recognized by naming the
Academic Resource Center within
the new Student Life and Learning
Center building the Kordestani
Academic Resource Center, or ARC,
as it is called on campus.
Learn more » |
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