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AUP's
mission is to educate our graduates to communicate well in a world
of many languages, to think critically about history, culture, the
arts, science, politics, business, communication, and society, to
develop creative interdisciplinary approaches to important
contemporary challenges, 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.
Ours is 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.
In AUP’s multilingual, multicultural
learning environment, students develop a capacity for ethical and
political judgment that is alert to cultural diversity.
In the
living laboratory that is Paris, in the exceptional space of the AUP
classroom, students and faculty of 100 different nationalities meet
to articulate civic values and negotiate difference, as together
they question, reflect upon, and work toward creative solutions to
real-world problems.
The special alchemy of our exceptional
learning community inspires students, faculty, and staff alike to
excellence, and equips us to contribute actively and compassionately
to an increasingly just and sustainable world.
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You are about to
discover a unique learning community—one of the most
demographically diverse educational institutions on the planet.
Here at AUP, everyone is a language learner; here virtually
everyone is a foreigner in an international environment in which
all feel “at home.” AUP is a true 21st-century world university
with an incomparable urban location in the most beautiful city
in the world, and a curriculum designed to produce global
leaders by focusing on the comparative and the cross-cultural,
the international and the interdisciplinary. Over the past
decade, the University has made tangible progress toward its
founder’s dream to create a community of learning that crosses
and indeed effaces cultural boundaries. By mounting rigorous
Master’s programs, articulating increasing numbers of academic
partnerships, and hosting international conferences that
foreground AUP faculty scholarship and that of renowned
scholars, practitioners, and artists worldwide, the University
is taking its place as a leading academic, intellectual and
cultural center in France and in the world. In this unique
learning environment—inflected by the remarkable demographic
diversity of student, faculty and staff bodies—attention is
brought to bear on the role of knowledge production across
languages, cultures, and societies in an ever-globalizing world. |
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Founded as a liberal arts institution in
the 1960s, today AUP is an urban,
independent, international university
located at the confluence of France,
Europe, and the world. We provide the
finest American undergraduate and
graduate programs to students from all
national, linguistic, and educational
backgrounds in the global city that is
Paris, drawing together teaching and
research in our unique academic
environment. Both student learning and
faculty research are driven by a desire
for excellence, are shaped by our
singular geography and demographic
diversity, and directed towards critical
twenty-first-century issues. |
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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. Our students enter the global
workplace as creative problem solvers
with the skills to cross both borders
and disciplines. Our faculty
accomplishes innovative
interdisciplinary research in the
traditional humanities, social science
and science fields, as well as in the
domains of cultural translation; Middle
Eastern and Islamic Studies;
international relations and public
policy; international business; and
film, media, and global communications.
AUP hosts annually over 200
lectures and
seminars, several
international conferences, multiple film
series, and
working papers
series in both the
humanities and the social sciences. The
University has articulated
partnerships with other
academic institutions, such as New York
University, George Washington
University, Emory University, Eugene
Lang College of The New School, Cape
Town University in South Africa, as well
as a consortium of 22 American
universities abroad, and the Sorbonne in
France, to name but a few. |
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AUP’s
undergraduate academic program takes the form of four
major divisions: Arts and Sciences, International Business
Administration, International Politics, Economics, and Public
Policy, and Communications and Film. In addition to a host of
interdisciplinary programs that cross academic disciplines, the
University also offers eight
graduate programs at the Master’s level: the Master
of Arts in Cross-Cultural and Sustainable Business Management; the
Master of Arts in Cultural Translation; the Master of Arts in Global
Communications; the Master of Arts in Global Communications and
Civil Society; the Master of Arts in International Affairs, Conflict
Resolution and Civil Society Development; the Master of Arts in
Middle East and Islamic Studies; the Master of Arts in Middle East
and Islamic Studies and International Affairs; and the Master of
Arts in Public Policy and International Affairs. Our deepest values
include academic rigor, academic freedom, intercultural
understanding, global sustainability, and the excellence toward
which the faculty strives continually. |
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Together with the Board
of Trustees, the President’s Cabinet, the students, alumni,
faculty and staff of AUP, I take great pride in welcoming you to
our academic community and in inviting you to explore the world
of learning that goes on at our university by availing yourself
of the wealth of information on this website. I look forward to
hearing from you directly should you wish to share your comments
and suggestions. |
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Celeste Schenck |
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President |
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president@aup.fr |
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