All AUP students must complete the curricular requirements in order to fulfill their general education commitment within the 120 credits required for graduation.

A student’s linguistic, scientific, mathematical competencies, as well as advanced or transfer credit will determine how many elements of the program need to be completed during his or her AUP trajectory.

Students arriving with advanced-placement, IB, BAC, or other kinds of transfer credit may be able to substitute appropriate earlier coursework for various general education requirements.

In short, pathway 1 is the basic minimum general education sequence. All students at AUP will be expected to take FirstBridge (if they come in as first-year students), to complete the appropriate EN sequence for their level of English, to complete the appropriate French sequence for their level of French-language acquisition, as well as the FrenchBridge.

They must also fulfill the math and science requirements. In addition they will select two courses from each of the two rubrics that appear above: (1) Comparing Worlds Past and Present: Historical and Cross-Cultural Understandings and (2) Mapping the World: Social Experience and Organization.

Students may also elect to add an additional element to their general education sequence with the Senior Capstone, to obtain a four-year general education certificate in global citizenship (see below).

Students may also elect to add an additional element to their general education sequence with the Senior Capstone.

Some students doing double majors or electing to fulfill the requirements of minors may not have the flexibility in their degree programs to add these additional elements.  Others may feel that the special focus of the Senior Capstone option will best prepare them for their intended career path, or their place in the world beyond the university.

Students electing the full general education program will add the Senior Capstone.

The first articulation of the course—called “CA 401/402 - Viewing and Re-Viewing Islam”— will be taught in 2005-2006. The first semester “core course” will introduce Islamic history, law, religion, politics, sociology, interpretive traditions, reform from within, and relations with itself and with the West – all with an eye to giving students a solid, dispassionate view of the issues facing Islam today. In the second semester, students will elect from among three student-driven, faculty-facilitated study groups that will create an open curricular space for students and faculty to investigate their own relationships to and opinions on this pressing political and cultural issue.

The course is open to juniors, seniors and highly motivated sophomores. Those students who elect to take the capstone will receive a general education certificate in global citizenship, and may consider their general education pathway to be a sequence of courses equivalent to a minor.