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Individual,
interactive, and practical intellectual skills will be polished in a
range of personal and cross-cultural contexts during the
undergraduate years for future use in professional and personal
life. The protected environment of the academy, inside and outside
of the classroom, allows for guided experimentation and growth.
AUP’s extended campus —both Paris and Europe— expands the
international educational context, exposing students to differing
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Communities provide the first context in which students
situate their knowledge and practice their intellectual skills. They
may learn to define and redefine themselves by considering: |
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their own prejudices; |
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the implications for behavior of different sets of ethical
standards; |
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how to mediate and resolve conflicts; |
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the limits of tolerance; |
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the complexities involved in creating community from a
diversity of classes, races, genders, sexual preferences,
and ethnic or religious backgrounds; |
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the functioning of democratic processes; and |
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their civic responsibility as educated community members. |
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Particularly relevant for
the AUP student is the second context: a
multicultural world.
The adaptability so
essential to success in our rapidly changing world will take on
an added dimension when it functions across cultures. Teamwork
involving individuals from various cultural groups becomes more
complex while communication in more than one language opens the doors
to a deeper understanding of others’ motivations. An AUP student
thus learns to
move responsibly from one national context to another, one
discipline to another, and one language to another.
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Knowledge & Perspectives
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Intellectual Skills
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Contexts
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Creativity
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