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MISSION
Chartered as a liberal arts college in 1962, The American University
of Paris is today an urban, independent, international university located at the
confluence of France, Europe, and the world. We aim to provide the finest
American undergraduate and graduate programs to students from all national,
linguistic, and educational backgrounds, and to take our place as a renowned
global center for innovative interdisciplinary research.
To that end our
curriculum is discipline-based, comparative, and cross-cultural. 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. 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
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.
CORE VALUES
The American University of Paris is
committed to the highest standards of academic rigor and integrity, and to
academic freedom.
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 The American University of Paris' 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 American University of
Paris brings out the best in all members of the community, inspiring us to
excellence and equipping us to live actively and compassionately to create a
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