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AUP Summer School allows you to immerse yourself in French culture and history while earning credits towards your degree or as part of your continuing education by auditing classes. Join our intensive programs in French language or Creative Writing to improve your skills or check out a new field like art history or fashion. Whatever you choose, AUP Summer School provides the ideal mixture of in-class learning and creative exploration of Paris, combining the best of our academic programs with excursions and events around the city. Whether you take one class or a few, you will get to experience the best of what both AUP and Paris have to offer.

Our Summer 2021 courses

Intensive Programs

Creative Writing

Sign up for poetry and fiction writing courses

French Immersion

Take your French to the next level by immersing yourself in Paris

Explore the Liberal Arts

Every summer, we offer courses in a range of subjects that count as electives or fill general degree requirements. You may also audit a class to pursue an interest in a new subject. 

 

History and Art History Courses
Course Spotlight

History of Photography

Learn about the evolution of photography, which is both closely related to modern painting and clearly distinct from it. We will focus on major figures such as Atget, Weston, Stieglitz, Steichen, Hine, Brassaï, and Man Ray in an effort to develop the visual skills necessary to understand photographs as specific forms of artistic vision and creation.
Business and Communications Courses
Course Spotlight

Fashion Systems: Paris and Beyond

There is more than one fashion system, more than one global capital of fashion. This course aims to decentralize and de-hierarchize existing notions of fashion by exploring a number of fashion systems – past and present. While we take our location, Paris, as a starting point for our experiential exploration of the professional field of fashion, we will move beyond the myth.
Math and Science Courses
Course Spotlight

Society, Illness, and Health

Examine health and illness in a social, cultural and historical context. This course focuses on physical or behavioral 'symptoms' without any apparent organic etiology (e.g. sick-building syndrome), appearing in members of specific groups or localities (socio-genic illness). This course also considers socio-cultural shaping and experience of other more prevalent disorders.

Your summer at AUP

We want you to be able to dive into all of the fascinating components of Parisian life, develop your artistic aspirations, and lay down the foundation for your academic and professional future. Take a look at the video below and get a taste of summer at AUP.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

  • All AUP Summer School courses are transferable for academic credit in the U.S. university system.

  • Courses numbered 1000 to 2099 are generally introductory courses designed for freshmen and sophomores (first and second year undergraduates). Courses numbered 3000 and above are principally for juniors and seniors (third and fourth year undergraduates).

  • Enrollment may require proof of successful completion of prerequisite courses. Please see each course description.
  • Tuition for course credit  is charged at the university’s standard rate of 983 euros/credit.
  • Housing can be requested through the university. Shared rooms and single rooms are available. All accommodation is central with access to Paris’s extensive public transportation network.

Feel free to request further information or contact our summer counselor. If you’re ready for an unforgettable summer, don’t hesitate to apply now. We look forward to seeing you.

Summer Session 2021 

Summer courses are organized in two sessions that take place in June and July. Courses are available in 3-week or 6-week formats. Please refer to the individual course description to view the specific start and end dates for each course.

Key Dates for Summer School, 3 Week Session, June 2021
DATE EVENT
2 June Orientation (mandatory)
3 June Classes begin
14 June Last day to withdraw from course
23 June End of classes
 
Key Dates for Summer School, 3 Week Session, July 2021
DATE EVENT
29 June Orientation (mandatory)
30 June Classes begin
8 July Last day to withdraw from course
21 July End of classes

 

Key Dates for Summer School, 6 Week Session
DATE EVENT
2 June Orientation (mandatory)
3 June Classes begin
23 June Last day to withdraw
15 July End of classes

 

To explore all courses available this summer, or search by start date head to our catalog or browse all available courses.

AUP Summer School Brochure

AUP Summer School Brochure

AUP Summer School Brochure 2019-2020.pdf

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Summer Excursions

Discover France while you study in Paris with trips to Versailles, Giverny and more. 

See the summer excursions calendar