The American University of Paris | Academics

Although standing next to the other three pillars in a linear fashion on this section of the AUP website, the fourth pillar gives dimension to the entire process by setting students free to combine knowledge, skills, and contexts in new and undreamt-of ways.

Such AUP students will manifest intellectual autonomy; participate in contemporary culture; demonstrate imagination, an openness to new experiences, and flexibility; and begin to produce knowledge in their own right.

They become lifelong learners, extending their education far beyond the university.

By contributing to the societies in which they live through the work they produce and the lives they lead, students learn to build bridges between their own education and the future of their families and communities.

The integrated AUP curriculum encourages students to develop the following:

	an authentic personal voice and distinctive style in which to express their own ideas;

	a spirit of intellectual curiosity permitting them to assess paradigms;

	the creative capacity to question, to make decisions, and to find solutions to problems;

	the courage to take initiative and informed risks, and to weigh responsibilities, making in the process active and ethical contributions to civic life; and

	a sense of vision, permitting them to link theory with practice, the private with the public domains, and their own educations with the world beyond the university.

Knowledge & Perspectives | Intellectual Skills | Contexts | Creativity & Production