Student Handbook

STUDENT HANDBOOK

2017-2018 CONTENTS

ACADEMIC LIFE STUDENT COMMUNITY STUDENT LIFE STUDENT EMERGENCY GUIDE 6 Letter from the Provost 56 Letter from the Vice President 90 Residential Life 8 Academic Calendar 58 Student Leadership at AUP 94 Get to Know your City 134 Handling Emergencies 10 Undergraduate Programs 72 AUP Clubs 100 Safety 136 AUP Phone Book 22 Graduate Programs 74 AUP Student Media 102 Support 24 Study Trips 78 Athletics 104 Sexual Harassment 26 Academic Integrity 80 Cultural Program 106 Healthcare 32 Academic Policies 86 Event Calendar 110 Connecting 42 Academic & Career Resources 114 Immigration 118 Money Matters 120 Student Rights

1 OUR MISSION

solutions to contemporary global cultures; a wealth of intellectual challenges; to be digitally literate in exchanges on campus at conferences Chartered as a liberal arts college in 1962, a world of swift-paced change; to of global reach; and an integrated The American University of Paris is today an urban, understand the ethical imperatives learning model that marries classroom of living in such a world; and to move learning and its application to real- independent, international university located at the meeting across the cultural borders of the world contexts, preparing students to point of France, Europe, and the world. contemporary world with a sense of master and to make, to reflect and commitment to and responsibility for to apply, to analyze and to act. In a world held in common. these ways, an AUP education supports professional skills The University provides a student- AUP’s mission is to educate its The University achieves its mission development and cultural fluency, centered, career-enabling, and graduates to communicate effectively by providing to its students a the sense of global engagement and transformative learning experience in a world of many languages; to curriculum combining liberal arts the capacity to negotiate difference to the global explorers who are its read well, listen carefully, and write inquiry and preparation for that emerge from the natural diversity Bachelor’s and Master’s students, intelligently in a voice of their own; professional life, student-centered of AUP’s student and faculty bodies. empowering them to cross both to become critical thinkers about and active learning in small classroom Upon graduation, AUP students take disciplinary and cultural borders with history and human societies, settings; dynamic, engaged teaching part in and benefit from the global ease in order to assume their places economics, culture, literature, the informed by both disciplinary and network that is our worldwide alumni as responsible actors in over 140 arts, science, politics, psychology, interdisciplinary faculty scholarship; community, creating lifelong countries worldwide. business, and communication; to a host of opportunities for direct connections to one another and to develop creative interdisciplinary experience of the world and its many the University.

2 3 ACADEMIC LIFE

4 4 5 FROM THE PROVOST

CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR CHOICE TO STUDY AT THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF PARIS!

We are confident that your intellectual journey at AUP will be exciting and they will use the city to stretch you in unimaginable new ways; and they will that it will open a lifetime of possibilities. help you develop global skills and insights highly valued by contemporary organizations and employees. The American model of education, however, Our mission in Academic Affairs can be simply stated: to make your is not simply about career preparation. It is also about transformational experience at AUP as rigorous and relevant as possible so that you can experiences and self-discovery. If it’s done right, lightening will strike: a meet the challenges of the global 21st century. We accomplish this with a spark will cross the gap between minds. Be prepared to let it happen! Our world-class faculty, an innovative curriculum and high-quality academic hope is that you will uncover at AUP your unique passions as well as the and student support. AUP professors and professional staff are all deeply most rewarding pathways for their full cultivation and expression. devoted to your learning and are eager to help you identify the resources and services that you will need along your path to personal discovery and success. As Provost of AUP, I want to say once again that we are very excited that you will be among us. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not At AUP you will get the best of two worlds: an American education focused hesitate to contact our offices or me personally. on interdisciplinary and cross-cultural learning and the unrivaled experience of living, interning, and cultivating your talents in Paris. Your professors will On behalf of the faculty and academic staff of The American University of expose you to fascinating new people, ideas, places, and opportunities; Paris, I wish you a successful year.

Hank Kreuzman Interim Provost

6 7 ACADEMIC CALENDAR

FALL 2017 SPRING 2018 N.B.: Exams will be held on May 8, 2018 (Victoire). A Special Open Discussion Day August November will be held on a Wednesday during the semester. 28-30 Orientation begins for 10 Last day to withdraw January April different new student groups from a course 12 Late registration for 2 Easter Monday (no classes) 10 Last day to choose CR/NC returning students September grading option 15 Classes begin May 1 Late registration for 21 Last day to drop/add courses 1 Holiday (no classes) returning students December 2 Last day of classes 4 Classes begin 8 Last day of classes February 3-6 Reading days (first block) 10 Last day to drop/add 9-12 Reading days 26- Spring break (no classes) 7-9 Final exams (first block) courses online 13-19 Final Exams 10 Holiday Ascension (no exams) 9 Mar. 10-13 Reading days (second block) October January March 14-15 Final exams (second block) 18 Mid-semester 2 All grades due 14 Mid-semester 17 Degree candidate grades due 20 Mid-semester grades due 16 Mid-semester grades due 24 Graduation 30 - Fall break (no classes) 30 Last day to withdraw or 25 All grades due 3 Nov. choose credit/no credit option

8 9 UNDERGRADUATE

Become familiar on these pages with precise career choice (business, the adventure of intellectual discovery. Middle Eastern Pluralities or even the many aspects of academic life at journalism, psychology, management, Be ready to change majors if you Quantitative Environmental Science. AUP, including our academic policies and so on). Yet many more students make a discovery and feel that your Look below to see an overview of and support resources. do not know what they want to study original choice was an error. The AUP’s programs and go online to as they enter college. If this describes American system of education allows familiarize yourself with offerings and You will pick a major by the end of for choice and flexibility. And keep in requirements. Talk to your advisor. you, don’t worry! You have time to your second year at AUP. This choice mind that employers look last at what While you are at it, figure out what sample courses and to figure out what will determine your main concentration you majored in. They care that you minors are available. Often it is an major is best suited to your personal of coursework and your area of can think, reason, write, speak and interdisciplinary combination of academic expertise. Because students interests. Don’t settle for a major problem solve well. coursework that you will find typically view the major as their main because you think it’s practical or fascinating and that future employers career pathway, this decision can because somebody else wishes it for You are lucky: AUP boasts a wide will find valuable in your AUP often be a source of anxiety. Many you. Try to uncover what you are variety of innovative majors. Examples experience. Remember that 35-40% students, of course, know right away passionate about and what you want range from Art History (for which Paris percent of hiring is major what they want to study based on a to spend your life doing. Be open to museums are your classroom) through independent—meaning that what

10 11 many employers desire is a blend of The Department offers majors and of study and to match your individual Emphasizing interdisciplinary certain skill-sets (available via many minors in Art History, Visual Culture, interests with departmental education and research, the majors) and professionalizing and Fine Arts and contributes to the requirements.The Department offers Computer Science program experiences such as internships. major in Gender, Sexuality, & Society. a major in Comparative Literature in maintains close ties with many other Literary Studies & the Creative Arts, departments, as well as with research ART HISTORY AND FINE ARTS COMPARATIVE LITERATURE a major in Creative Writing as well as centers, universities, and industry in AND ENGLISH minors such as Classical Civilization, Europe and all over the world. Extending the classroom outward to Creative Writing and Linguistics. The the 132 museums and monuments in The Department of Comparative Department directs the English If you envision an environmentally Paris and to destinations all over Literature and English teaches you to Foundation Program and the General oriented career or want to explore Europe, the Department of Art pay close attention to the written word Education requirement “Speaking the the science of the environment and History makes certain that you in the analysis of historical, social, World: English.” implications for policy, you will learn acquire a broad grasp of the evolution philosophical, and psychological different environmental disciplines of Western Art. You learn to look processes. You become a critical and COMPUTER SCIENCE, MATH using scientific methods and carefully, to analyze works critically, creative thinker, learning to use the AND ENVIRONMENTAL understand the relationships and to develop a good visual memory. English language powerfully and SCIENCE amongst science, policy and citizen Research skills are continually precisely within a world of many activism as you pursue courses in sharpened, and you reach an optimal languages and cultures. You learn to As a student of Computer Science Environmental Science. level of both written and oral analyze and interpret individual you learn to understand the expression. As a Fine Arts student you literary texts and to make enlightened theoretical underpinnings of the field Coursework in this department learn about the artistic past while connections with other works and of computing and software enhances your general education at discovering your own talent through disciplines. Through intensive practice development, and prepare to work AUP by providing you with skills for a rigorously structured art studio in writing, you acquire professional in a field in which radical change is quantitative and abstract reasoning, program that includes drawing, writing skills within the cultural sphere, the norm. Professors in the comprehension, analysis, integration painting, sculpture, and printmaking. learning to express your ideas both department specialize in the areas of knowledge, and problem-solving. You learn to solve problems in clearly and elegantly. Close advising of human computer interaction, The Department offers a major in alternative ways and to develop a helps you to articulate a personal focus artificial intelligence, and robotics. Computer Science, a major in critical view of your own work.

12 13 Quantitative Environmental Science, The Department offers a major narrative structures, and genres. In methods. Language classes are a major in Environmental Studies and a minor in International addition, you learn the basic supplemented by a lively multimedia and several minors. It directs the Economics, and also plays an techniques of production, directing, program, regular excursions in Paris, General Education requirement integral part in the teaching of the writing, editing, and managing small as well as exhibitions and themed “Modeling the World: Math & Philosophy, Politics, and Economics productions. You will have evenings organized by the Science.” (PPE) major that is housed in the opportunities to network through department. You are actively involved Department of International and participation in festivals, screenings, in the learning process, whether by ECONOMICS Comparative Politics. and master classes, facilitating a wide sharing your unique experiences with range of possible career paths. French students or writing articles for The Department of Economics FILM STUDIES the departmental blog. provides you with tools, techniques, The Department offers a major and and a scientific system of analysis to Combining AUP’s liberal arts tradition a minor in Film Studies and contributes In addition to directing the General aid your understanding and appraisal with hands-on practice in filmmaking to majors and minors in Global Education requirement “Speaking of current economic issues. It offers and video production, the Film Communications and Visual Culture. the World: French” and offering an array of challenging courses in Studies Department provides you with upper-level French courses, the theoretical and applied economics a strong background in the history, FRENCH STUDIES AND Department offers courses in that enable you to develop critical, aesthetics, and theory of film, while MODERN LANGUAGES Linguistics, Arabic, Italian, and analytical, and empirical insights into introducing you to the practical arts Spanish and contributes to the minor economic issues. Recognizing that of writing, directing, and producing. The programs offered by the French in Linguistics, European Languages economics is only one way of You emerge with a broad knowledge Department equip you with and Cultures and Parisian Studies. examining societal problems, the of film history and awareness of communication skills for your everyday department and its faculty encourage cinema’s connections to other major life in Paris as well as for a multitude GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS an interdisciplinary approach to the art forms, such as literature, of career paths: speaking, discipline that prepares you for a photography, painting, and music. understanding, reading, and writing. The Department of Global reflective, ethical, and global You acquire analytical skills and are Courses are student-centered, run by Communications trains future world understanding of economics. trained to master the grammar of dynamic teachers, and designed citizens to think comparatively about film syntax, image components, according to the latest educational our changing societies, infused as

14 15 they are by information and digital HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY The philosophy major and minor is provide a sophisticated examination technology. In a fluid, ever-changing concerned with life’s fundamental of the allocation of ideas and environment, the Department’s A critical understanding of the past questions: existence, value, and truth, resources across nations and societies. approach is resolutely interdisciplinary cultivates your appreciation of its and allows you to study key texts and Through cooperation with world and cross-cultural. You are exposed relevance to the present and to the investigate the big questions. This renowned universities and ties to to both theory and practice, with a construction of the future. The history investigation not only hones international institutions, UN strong grounding in the field’s of Paris spans over 2,000 years and intellectual and critical-thinking skills, agencies, the media and non- historical roots. You learn to think the markers of this past are still visible it also helps you discover more about governmental organizations, the creatively about communication in today. For this reason, the Department yourself and what you believe. department offers you many all its forms, from the first uses of considers Paris its most essential opportunities for intellectual signs to digital flows. You work on partner. Regular visits in Paris—and INTERNATIONAL AND exploration, internships and special the intersections amongst media, to other important cities across the COMPARATIVE POLITICS research and publication projects. meaning, and social practices. The continent—are an integral part of its The Department offers a major in discipline is a rich weave of program. Because history is a way to The field of International and International and Comparative anthropology, journalism and media understand the full range of human Comparative Politics is a systematic Politics and a major in Philosophy, studies, geography, political experience, the department draws study of political institutions, processes Politics and Economy as well as economy, semiotics, and sociology. strength from several disciplines. Art and behaviors that can help you minors in Politics, International Law, Global Communications serves as a History, Global Communications, understand some of the biggest and Environmental Policy. gateway to a world grappling with Film, French Studies, Politics, questions of our day. It prepares a techno-cultural revolution of Philosophy, Psychology, and students of diverse nationalities to unprecedented speed and reach. Comparative Literature all contribute become world citizens ready to to placing history in its geographic, assume the responsibility of civic and The Department offers majors and temporal, and cultural context. political leadership in the twenty-first minors in Global Communications, The Department offers majors and century. You will choose from courses Visual Culture, and Journalism, plus minors in History, in History, Law & in political science, government, law, minors in Anthropology and Society, in Philosophy, and in Middle geopolitics, country and regional Comparative Political Communication. East Pluralities, and several minors. studies, and political economy that

16 17 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS financial environment, and enables wondered about other people’s The Department offers a major and ADMINISTRATION you to evaluate alternative investment motivations or tried to understand minor in Psychology, a major in opportunities, to learn how to finance your own feelings, you’ve already Gender, Sexuality, and Society, and AUP’s International Business those opportunities, and to manage explored psychology informally. a minor in Gender Studies. Administration Department teaches optimal portfolios of financial assets. Psychology is the formal inquiry into you all the skills needed to succeed in In the Entrepreneurship major you such questions, providing you with SELF-DESIGNED MAJOR (BA) a rapidly-changing and global world learn small business management a solid background in the central of management and commerce. Now and the activities required for theories and controversies in You may be a particularly motivated that major companies operate across planning and creating new enterprises contemporary psychology. Our student who wishes to define your own national borders, employers seek within a single country and faculty is especially interested in how interdisciplinary course of study at graduates who have a proven ability internationally. culture and social context influence AUP in a form unavailable in the to solve problems and manage The Department offers majors and basic aspects of psychology. The traditional disciplines. If you have a effectively across cultures. In addition minors in International Business program aims to foster dialogue clear vision of your objectives and are to learning the concepts, models, and Administration, International Finance, amongst different perspectives to prepared to add the extra work, you techniques required by the business Entrepreneurship, Management, and give insight into the complexity of may, under the supervision of two world, you practice real world problem Management Information Systems. human beings, their social positions, faculty members, submit a proposal solving, leadership, teamwork, and and their relationships. You are for a Self- Designed Major. The effective communication skills, gaining PSYCHOLOGY prepared for entry into professional proposal will be considered by the in the process global understanding life or for graduate studies in diverse Curriculum Committee. Only a few and a sense of ethics and responsibility. Psychology is the study of action, programs of study, including clinical, proposals are accepted each year so thought, and feeling. Why do people neuroscience, developmental, social, you should also have a traditional The Finance major prepares you to do what they do? What does organizational and cultural major in mind as an alternative. understand the economic and “normal” mean? If you’ve ever psychology.

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Contact the department chair(s) listed in the back of the handbook or contact the Advising Center at [email protected] 18 19 STUDY ABROAD

AUP maintains special partnerships with top-tier universities around the world AUP also has special curricular exchange agreements with member schools in that allow you to spend a semester as a full-time-student at another institution the Association of American International Colleges and Universities (AAICU), while earning credit toward your AUP degree. a consortium of American universities across Europe, North Africa, Central Asia and the Middle East. Study abroad institutions available to undergraduate students: University of Cape Town | South Africa The University of Miami | Florida, USA The American University of Cairo | Egypt Lingnan University | Hong Kong The University of Oslo | Norway

Contact the Study Abroad Coordinator in the Advising Center Study Abroad Coordinator | [email protected] for help choosing and preparing for your study abroad adventure. 20 21 GRADUATE

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT MASTER OF ARTS IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, CONFLICT RESOLUTION AND CIVIL SOCIETY DEVELOPMENT The MSc in Management offers a grounding in the theories and practices of international management in small classrooms of peers and faculty from around The dual-language, dual-degree Master of Arts in International Affairs, Conflict the world. You will focus on analysis and problem solving of management Resolution, and Civil Society Development permits you to earn both an American- challenges and develop a critical understanding of the economic and socio- accredited Master’s degree and a certificate from the Sorbonne-Paris 1. A one-year, English-language program, as well as a two-year, part-time, English- political environments of companies and other organizational forms. Our language program in international affairs, is also available. American-style graduate education offers you choice while providing global perspectives and experience with the various contexts of managerial work. MASTER OF ARTS IN DIPLOMACY AND INTERNATIONAL LAW

MASTER OF ARTS IN GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS AUP’s Masters in Diplomacy and International Law aims to achieve concrete results, using the respective tools of each discipline to prepare you to develop A cutting-edge program designed for students who want to learn the rare real-world solutions. This interdisciplinary program will enable you to think combination of critical theoretical research skills in media and communications critically about complex diplomatic and international legal issues in real and practical hands-on training in branding, public relations, video productions contexts. This is a highly competitive, one-year program that offers you a and advocacy. The Master’s of Arts in Global Communication also offers a graduate degree in partnership with Oxford University’s summer program fashion track, a visual and material culture track or a development communications in International Human Rights Law. track.

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Graduate Program Administrators: Elizabeth Guinel | [email protected] Lilyana Yankova | [email protected] 22 23 LOOKING AHEAD STUDY TRIPS See the upcoming semester’s cultural excursions and study trips on our website at www.aup.edu

Engage directly with the histories, perspectives and contemporary realities of some of the most fascinating places in Europe and beyond.

STUDY BEYOND THE CLASSROOM

AUP’s faculty-led study trips are closely tied to AUP’s academic curriculum, Study trips are led by AUP faculty members, in order to closely complement permitting you to experience in an immediate and tangible way the ideas you your academic experience while at the University. The trips are organized by the have learned about in books and lectures. Cultural Program Office in close collaboration with faculty members, so that trips carefully link with course material. Study trips and excursions are offered CHOOSE YOUR DESTINATION throughout the year, and you may go on trips designed for courses you are not enrolled in. Trips connect to courses in a range of ways: a contemporary world Take an art history trip to London, study sustainability in Sweden, discuss the literature course goes to the Frankfurt Book Fair; an advertising and branding business climate with entrepreneurs in Istanbul, or visit human rights NGOs course trip heads for London and includes visits to multiple agencies in the city; and war crimes courts from the Bosnian war in Sarajevo and Belgrade. Though a politics or communications class might go to Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia most trips last one to four days and take you to destinations within France and and an environmental science class may study sustainability in Sweden. As you Europe, some are longer and explore other continents. Check the website prepare for your upcoming semester you should be sure to understand the cultural regularly for new opportunities. study options available to you by going to the AUP website at www.aup.edu

24 25 ACADEMIC INTEGRITY

The American University of Paris PLAGIARISM such as a term paper, for FABRICATION AND values honesty, fairness, and respect coursework or credit; FALSIFICATION in all academic endeavors. Integrity Failure to acknowledge the sources • Restating or paraphrasing works in this context includes a commitment and authors of all borrowed, quoted, without acknowledging or Fabrication is the practice of inventing to providing a true and valid copied or paraphrased material (in correctly citing the source(s); information, or knowingly submitting indication of individual achievement. any format) constitutes a serious • Copying any portion of work dishonest work. It includes the A number of actions comprise violation of academic integrity. All belonging to another without falsification of research, data, academic integrity and honesty and use of, or references to, the work or proper citation. quotations, studies or other findings, they all involve taking responsibility ideas of others (including books, re- and thus is an unacceptable practice. for your own work, citing sources search, opinions, statistics, Web/ The AUP Writing Lab offers Examples of fabrication or responsibly, and attributing any Internet content, electronic workshops and individual falsification include the following: borrowed materials in a rigorous and communications), whether published consultations if you have questions • Submitting a paper, thesis, lab forthright way. The most egregious or unpublished, must be correctly about plagiarism. Writing Lab tutors report, or other academic exercise examples of academic misconduct cited. Plagiarism includes the use or are experts in citation guidelines and that is falsified, invented, or include plagiarism, fabrication, and submission of someone else’s work can explain when, why, and where to contains fictitious data or cheating. Infringements of the Code as one’s own work. It is considered attribute ownership of ideas and evidence; of Academic Integrity are serious theft and is unacceptable practice content included in research papers • Deliberately and knowingly and can lead to failing grades or at AUP. Plagiarism can take the and assignments. You can make an concealing or distorting the true dismissal from the University. The following forms: appointment in the Academic nature, origin, or function of data importance of this topic requires a • Submitting research, papers, Resource Center ([email protected]) to or evidence; few examples and explanations to assignments, quizzes or have your papers checked before • Falsifying or misrepresenting one’s provide clarity. examinations produced by submission, if you are concerned. The records, transcripts, experience, another as one’s own; MLA Handbook for Writers of or coursework; • Submitting purchased material, Research Papers and other citation • Selectively manipulating research guides are available to you. and results.

26 27 CHEATING ADDITIONAL EXAMPLES OF ACADEMIC MISCONDUCT

Academic integrity requires compliance with all testing and evaluation procedures Academic integrity policies are important to your success and fair treatment. so that the results demonstrate your honest mastery of information. Cheating If your work, progress, and performance are not measured under equitable is the act or attempted act of deceiving, misleading or misrepresenting this conditions, you may obtain an unfair advantage over your peers. Additional mastery and is unacceptable behavior. Examples include: examples of academic misconduct include, but are not limited to:

• Copying from another student’s • Collaborating on a test, quiz, or • Stealing, reproducing, circulating • Failing to comply with AUP’s quiz, test, or examination paper; other project in a manner or otherwise gaining access to Acceptable Use Policy for the use • Obtaining unauthorized access unauthorized by the instructor. examination materials prior to the of University computer resources to testing content before, during, time authorized by the professor; and networks; or after an exam; • Encouraging, or collaborating • Failing to adhere to University • Using unauthorized aids such as with, another student to violate policies for classroom decorum, notes, textbooks, PDAs, cell the Code of Academic Integrity; such as disrupting the class by phones or calculators, while taking • Stealing, defacing, or concealing arriving late or leaving the room an exam; library or course materials with while class is in session, using or the purpose of depriving others consulting a cell phone during of their use; class, talking to a neighbor, • Tampering with grades, course reading e-mail or otherwise documents or student records, with compromising the learning the purpose of obtaining an unfair experience of one’s fellow students. advantage over other students;

28 29 THE HONOR BOARD

If you dispute or appeal the PROCEDURE FOR Disputes that are not resolved data, university records, findings of the Office of VIOLATIONS OF between faculty and students are information and information Academic Integrity, the ACADEMIC INTEGRITY formally handled by the Office of technology. case can be referred Academic Integrity. The Director of • I will uphold the highest standards The Honor Board is to the Honor Minor infractions and first-time the Office of Academic Integrity of academic integrity in all of my composed of seven Board. offenses are often resolved between serves as an impartial mediator and work at AUP, including during members who are you and the professor. The professor will attempt to resolve difficulties and examinations. prepared to meet at least may choose to consult with his/her seek resolutions. • I understand that I will be subject once per semester. Its Department Chair, the Office of to serious sanctions should I membership includes: two teaching Academic Integrity or the Provost. Confidential questions and concerns commit any violation of the AUP faculty members, (appointed by the You may consult with your academic may be sent to academicintegrity@ Code of Academic Integrity. Chair of the Faculty Senate), the advisor, the Office of Student aup.edu. For more information on Sanctions may involve failing Director of the Office of Academic Development, the Office of Academic what constitutes academic dishonesty, grades, suspension or expulsion Integrity, and the Dean of Student Integrity, or student members of the please see our Writing Lab website: from the University. Development. Honor Board. https://www.aup.edu/academics/ offices-resources/academic-resource- In order to facilitate these processes, center/writing-lab. THE HONOR BOARD the Office of Academic Integrity provides a faculty-student resolution STUDENT PLEDGE Incidents involving egregious form. The forms are available online. TO UPHOLD THE AUP offenses, repeat offenses and/or Resolution forms allow you and the CODE OF ACADEMIC unresolved appeals will be turned professor to come to an agreement INTEGRITY over to the Honor Board for upon the circumstances and the adjudication. The Honor Board will penalty for violations. If you choose In the interest of academic excellence hear all cases that could result in to dispute the outcome of a particular and community trust, all members of suspension or expulsion. You may incident, the matter will be referred AUP are responsible for understanding request an advocate from the Office to the Office of Academic Integrity and upholding the tenets of the Code of Student Development or from the for mediation. of Academic Integrity. Honor Board at any time during the • I pledge that I will neither formal procedures. Honor Board THE OFFICE OF misrepresent my work nor give or decisions are final. Only the President ACADEMIC INTEGRITY receive unauthorized aid. of the University can reverse an • I accept responsibility for Honor Board decision. A confidential The Office of Academic Integrity, maintaining the AUP Code of written record of Honor Board working closely with Academic Academic Integrity at all times. proceedings will be kept on file in Resource Center and the Writing Lab, • I pledge to foster an atmosphere the Office of Student Development, supports both students and faculty of honesty and academic integrity and a written record of the Honor members by providing information among my fellow students. Board’s conclusions will be placed in on integrity issues and mediating • I pledge to practice ethical the your file. cases of academic dishonesty. behavior in the use of research

30 31 ACADEMIC POLICIES

You need to be aware of these important AUP academic polices to plan your academic program.

GENERAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS purpose of Gen Ed is to prepare you solid math skills, achievement of placement results or credits to address today’s challenges with elementary French, completion of transferred can count for some of General Education (Gen Ed) is at versatility, deftness and multiple an academic writing sequence, a these elements of AUP’s General the heart of an American university perspectives. It also prepares you to science course and three General Education program. education and represents the shared communicate your findings in clear Education classes in a range of part of the curriculum that each writing and persuasive public disciplines. Two of the three General Substitution student in the University studies. This speaking. In a world where 70% of Education courses must be selected You may submit a Substitution collection of courses and activities employers seek graduates who can from each of the “Mapping the Petition to obtain permission to carries the University’s particular think broadly and deeply and who World”(Course Type: GE110) and substitute a course for a specific signature and delivers on its mission. can analyze the complex forces “Comparing Worlds”(Course Type: major requirement, a minor A twin pillar to the major—your driving our world today, general GE100) course categories. You can requirement, or a General Education choice of specialization—General education will serve you well recognize the latter classes by their requirement. Substitutions are Education will permit you to gain throughout your life and career. course type as part of the course possible for courses transferred from exposure to a broad foundation in number. Courses that can be applied another institution or for one taken other subjects, develop a range core AUP’s General Education Program to either category carry the course at AUP when the content is similar skills, and learn different methods includes: FirstBridge or designation GE115. Your advisor can to the specific requirement. of thinking and problem solving. The EnglishBridge, the acquisition of help you to identify whether your

32 33 SUMMER EXCURSIONS YOUR ACADEMIC STATUS MORE ACADEMIC COURSE OPTIONS Visit the D-Day beaches of Maintaining Academic Standing Provost’s Distinguished Normandy, spend summer All undergraduate degree-seeking Achievement List Auditing weekends in Provence, students (including part-time) must If you have achieved a distinguished Full time degree-seeking students and learn the science maintain a cumulative grade point level of academic performance you may audit one class for no extra of winemaking, all average (GPA) of 2.00 or above to are honored each semester by being charge in spring and fall on a space during your be in good academic standing at named to the Provost’s List of available basis. Audit petitions are summer at the University. Students with a GPA Distinguished Academic Achievement. due in the first week of classes. In AUP. of less than 2.00 are subject to pro- You are eligible for Provost’s List honors summer students pay a reduced fee bation status or university dismisssal after you have completed 16 graded to audit classes; please see the depending on the progress made to- semester credits at The American website for details. wards the degree as outlined in the University of Paris; if you have not AUP Academic Handbook. received an Incomplete in a course or Directed Study (https://goo.gl/IHM7AA) taken any courses on a Credit/No Directed Study allows the exceptional Summer Term Credit basis; and if you have earned degree-seeking student to work in an From the beginning of June to mid- All graduate students must maintain a semester grade point average of area of special academic interest July, The American University of a cumulative grade point average of 3.50 or above with no grade below under the direct supervision of a Paris offers a variety of credit- 3.00 to be in good academic stand- C+ (2.3). If you take a course with an faculty member. bearing courses adapted to fit the ing at the University. Students with obligatory Credit/No Credit grading intensive study format of a summer a GPA less than 3.00 will be placed policy (internship, external language If you have a minimum of junior term. Enrollment is open to you as on probation. Graduate students with course) you are not excluded from standing and a GPA of 3.00 you are a returning AUP student as well as a GPA less than 2.7 or students who Provost’s Roster consideration. eligible. Directed Study projects may visitors, 18 and older, who have earned a third grade of C+ or lower not be taken on a “Credit/No Credit” completed secondary education. The will be dismissed. Departmental Honors basis, and the successfully completed flexible schedule allows you to earn Academic Honors are a tradition project may earn one to four credits. from 1 to 11 credits in either a six-week Dismissed undergraduate and gradu- in AUP’s curriculum. Some degree You may take no more than one session, or in one of the two intensive ate students can appeal the dismissal programs offer an honors track to Directed Study in a given semester, three-week sessions. by a written petition addressed to exceptionally motivated students and submit no more than eight the Registrar. who wish to be challenged beyond Directed Study credits for graduation. the scope of regular degree require- Completed Directed Study forms ments (see Program Requirements must be submitted to the Registrar for more information). (https://goo.gl/ey3RAa) by the end of the Drop/Add period.

ACADEMIC POLICIES 34 35 into account the highest grade earned eligible for Provost’s List during that Credits for each College Level GRADING AND CREDITS and credit will not be used in semester. As you advance toward graduation, calculating the cumulative grade point you move from one college level to Grades average, although a record of the Transfer Credits the next. Registration priority is Your grades are reported at the end repeated course will remain on your If you come to AUP after having based on your future college level. of each semester. If your work is transcript. Only certain courses may attended another university (i.e., unsatisfactory at the midpoint of be taken twice for credit without transfer students) you will receive freshman: 0 – 31 credit hours each semester you will receive counting as repeated. Examples are credit for previously completed sophomore: 32 – 63 credit hours warning grades. Grades are neither Fine Arts (AR) courses, creative writing courses only after an evaluation of junior: 64 – 95 credit hours discussed over the telephone nor (CL/EN 3000), as well as special your transcript. The credits from all senior: 96 or more credit hours given out by e-mail. topics courses that are specifically courses for which you have received designated as such in each department. a C or higher will automatically Degree Audit Impact of Receiving an F grade transfer to AUP upon presentation (Junior and Senior Degree Check) Grades of F are treated as attempted Credit / No Credit of an official university transcript. You As you enter your third year—having credits that were not earned, and so Undergraduate students may may transfer a maximum of 64 earned between 64 and 80 credits— are included in both the calculation designate one course per semester credits from all sources (i.e., advanced you are required to complete a of GPA and minimum completion to be graded Credit/No Credit (CR/ credit awards and transfer credits). Junior Degree Check with your rate. Classes in which an F grade NC). You must choose this option You are required to complete 50% academic advisor. This third-year was earned should be repeated to (https://www.aup.edu/webform/ of your upper-level major requirements audit verifies your academic progress protect your grade point average. credit-no-credit) no later than the at AUP. Up to 8 credits of transfer to ensure a timely schedule for deadline stipulated in the Academic work may be applied toward a minor. graduation. All Junior Degree Checks Minimum Passing Grade Calendar. The granting of CR means The last 16 credits must be completed are verified by the Advising Center As an AUP undergraduate you need that you have satisfactorily in residency. Once you have before becoming a part of the to earn the following minimum completed the requirements of the matriculated there are limits set for student’s file. A second degree audit grades to pass your degree course with a grade at least equal further transfer of credits. (Senior Degree Check or Degree requirements: to C. Credits so earned will count Application) is due in October of the • English (up to EN 2020), French toward graduation requirements, academic year of graduation. (up to FR1200): C but will not be used in the • Major/Minor coursework: C- computation of the grade point • Other General Education average. Once the CR/ NC option AUP GRADING SYSTEM Requirements: simply earning is invoked, any letter grade submitted The following grading system is used, based on the 4.00 system: credit in the course (D-) by the professor that is a C- or below will result in an NC grade and zero A = 4.0 A- = 3.7 Excellent Repeating a Course awarded credits. Any courses (except B+ = 3.3 B = 3.0 B- = 2.7 Good All courses may be repeated when an Directed Studies) can be taken CR/ C+ = 2.3 C = 2.0 C- = 1.7 Satisfactory unsatisfactory grade is earned. In such NC; however, it is not recommended D+ = 1.3 D = 1.0 D- = 0.7 Unsatisfactory cases, your GPA computation will take for courses in the major. If you elect to take a course CR/NC you are not F = Failure W = Official Withdrawal IN = Incomplete AU = Audit

ACADEMIC POLICIES 36 37 REGISTRATION POLICIES level. You mustn’t miss the registration Graduate Student Thesis THE STUDENT PORTAL period (registration window) assigned As a graduate student you must Entering Student Check-in to your college level, since no register your thesis/research project Register online as a returning and Registration enrollment certificates or visa letters just as you would any other course. student at student.aup.edu. As an entering student you must can be issued for the following However, all Master’s theses/research withdraw from a Access your unofficial participate in the Orientation week semester without registration. projects require additional paperwork course you will not be transcripts, placement check-in process to finalize your in order to be fully registered and given tuition refunds. exam results, registration, even if you have pre- Drop/Add involve completion of a thesis/ Withdrawing from a class personal course registered for courses online. You Drop/Add week is the first week of research project application form. does not imply that another schedule, etc. must have met the terms of your classes. You can make changes to Once completed, and bearing the class can be added. Dropping and online. payment plan within the deadlines your schedule online by dropping and required signatures and attachments, adding classes is an option solely provided or take the risk of having adding courses. It is important to the form must be submitted to the available during the drop/add week your course registrations cancelled. know that there is no waiting list and Associate Dean for approval. All (first week of classes). Withdrawal a dropped class cannot be added paperwork must be submitted no later from a course can be requested Returning Student Check-in back if another student registered for than the end of the Drop/Add period online (https://www.aup.edu/ When returning to AUP for the next the last seat in the meantime. during the semester in which you are academics/offices-resources/ semester you must complete the registering the project. registrar/forms/course-withdrawal) check-in process to confirm your Prerequisites only before the deadline announced presence on campus for the new Upper level AUP courses may require You have a one-year limit to complete in the Academic Calendar (mid- semester. You must be checked-in the completion of a pre-requisite your thesis from the time that the thesis semester). by the end of the third day of classes. course. If this is the case your access is first registered. In the two semesters If you do not meet this deadline, you to the upper-level course will be following registration 0-credit Withdrawing from the University will have your classes cancelled and blocked by the mention “PreReq” on extensions will be registered for no Once classes begin, if you wish to you will have to re-register during the online portal. extra charge other than mandatory withdraw from the University and stop the Drop/Add period, with no special fees (health and insurance). attending classes you must contact guaranteed re-entry into the Transcripts and Certificates After that deadline, an administrative the Office of Student Development cancelled classes. You can view your unofficial fee will be charged for one more to start the University Withdrawal transcript(s) and access automated semester’s extension before the thesis procedure. Tuition refunds are Returning Student Registration enrollment certificates via the AUP is officially graded as Withdrawn (W). calculated on a percentage basis After consultation with your academic student portal. Official transcripts dependent upon the official date of advisor, you will register online for should be ordered online through WITHDRAWAL POLICIES withdrawal. Withdrawal from the classes for the following semester. the web tool on the Registrar’s Office University does not release the Only if you are in good financial web page (http://student.aup.edu). Withdrawing from a Class Financially Responsible Person from standing are you permitted to register. No transcripts will be issued if you Course withdrawals (W) after the tuition obligations. All outstanding The dates and times of registration are not in good financial standing Drop/Add period are not included in debts, including those related to the are announced and posted during with the University. the GPA calculation, but are termination of the Monthly Payment the academic year. You are given considered a non-completion of Plan, are due in full within 30 days priority according to your college attempted course work. If you of the official withdrawal date. If you

ACADEMIC POLICIES 38 39 receive University Service Grants and you do not need academic credit. In plan agreements have been met and VETERANS’ BENEFITS then withdraw you will forfeit your case of long internships, an internship there are no outstanding obligations right to receive the grant; however, extension for 0-CR can be registered or fees to the library, bookstore, Eligible participants for the the applicable (earned) portion of the to ensure enrollment in two semesters. housing, cultural program, multimedia US Military Veterans’ grant will be credited to your account. or Student Accounting Services by the Educational Benefits Following withdrawal, the designation Study Abroad end of a semester or academic year. that due to the program may receive “W” is recorded on your transcript for When you participate in an approved rigorous demands of support for their all relevant courses. AUP study abroad program, you Transcripts, grades, graduation the Master’s programs, studies at AUP. are charged AUP tuition, and if you certificates and diplomas will not be graduate students at AUP CREDITS EARNED are receiving financial aid you will issued to you if your account is not in are generally not allowed to OUTSIDE THE UNIVERSITY retain your financial aid while good financial standing. You will be take course overloads. If you studying abroad. Candidates for refused enrollment for the following are a Graduate student you pay Language Study at study abroad may transfer a semester until all debts are cleared. per credit. another Institution maximum of 36 semester credit A debt of greater than €1000 will If you wish to study a language not hours from an AUP partner school exclude you from participating in the Privacy Settings (FERPA) offered at AUP, or are prepared for towards their graduation. If you AUP graduation ceremony. AUP’s accreditation requires that the very advanced-level work, you may study abroad outside of an approved University’s privacy policy comply with register at another institution to AUP study abroad program, you Satisfactory Academic Progress the Family Education Rights and extend or complete your language will make all the arrangements and Financial Aid Privacy Act (FERPA). This means that study. A minimum GPA of 2.8 is yourself, including paying tuition to Satisfactory academic progress is the University cannot send your grades required to take external language your host institution; and you do not evaluated each year in January and to your parents or to a Financially courses, and grades are recorded as retain your AUP financial aid. You June. If you receive student loans you Responsible Person without your either “Credit” or “No Credit”. For can transfer no more than 18 must maintain a minimum cumulative permission. The decision on whether more information visit the External semester credits towards your GPA of 2.00 (3.00 for graduate to give permission is first requested Language Course Website at graduation. If you wish to study students). To keep the undergraduate during the online orientation process https://www.aup.edu/academics/ abroad for one semester or one year academic scholarship, you must and then during every semester’s offices-resources/advising-center/ you must request a Leave of Absence maintain a minimum cumulative check-in procedure. You can decide language-study and complete an external course GPA of 3.00. Other institutional whether you want to release address pre-approval form prior to your requirements are described in the information to the AUP community, Internships for Academic Credit departure. Only courses in which the AUP Academic Policies Handbook. directory information (enrollment, As an undergraduate, once you have grade of C or better was earned at majors, graduation), to a third party completed a minimum of 32 credits the host institution will be considered Tuition and Credits requesting it, and to an FRP or parent you may register for an internship for transfer credit at AUP. Full-time undergraduate tuition (12- at the end of each semester. It’s of up to 4 credits toward graduation. 18 credits) covers basic tuition for important to read our Privacy Policy You can register for an internship at FINANCES four courses per semester. Credits web page for further information and any time in the semester (requires a taken beyond this normal course discuss this choice with your family. separate online registration Good Financial Standing load will be charged per credit. Privacy Policy: https://goo.gl/RVAvvR. procedure). Voluntary 0-credit Your account is considered in good Graduate student tuition is calculated internships are available for you if financial standing when all payment on a credit per credit basis. Note

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: More information can be found in the AUP Academic Handbook on the website available at https://goo.gl/IHM7AA 40 41 ACADEMIC & CAREER RESOURCES

CENTER FOR ACADEMIC, INTERNSHIP AND CAREER ADVISING

AUP’s Center for Academic, WHO IS MY ADVISOR? in that department who will review semesters or if you are considering Internship and Career Advising has and monitor your academic progress taking courses at outside institutions. all the resources you need for a The first year of university life can until graduation. The name of your successful pathway from college to be somewhat bewildering, especially advisor shows on your AUP academic CAREER PLANNING career. At AUP, you will work closely for students who are not familiar profile (https://www.aup.edu/user/ AND DEVELOPMENT with academic advisors and with our with the American system of higher me/student/academic) and on your Center staff who are committed to education. For this reason Freshmen unofficial transcript accessible via the Whether you are a freshman, providing you with the academic are assigned to one of the faculty student portal (https://student.aup. returning undergraduate, co-op, support services to ensure your members who are teaching the edu/cePortalTranscript.asp). Should visiting, transfer, or graduate student, success. FirstBridge course they select. This you want to change advisors, please it‘s never too early to start preparing faculty advisor will be your advisor email the Advising Center. for life after you graduate. AUP is small enough that we will during your first year at AUP. Our The Career Development Office know you by name and will remember experience is that this creates a The Advising team at the Center assists students in career exploration your personal needs and interests. special link for you with other provides support for course selection and planning; writing resumes (CVs) decisions, transfer credits, and any We are all personally invested in Freshmen and with faculty members and cover letters in English or French; other necessary academic advising for your learning goals and… your timely teaching Freshmen classes. targeting potential employers for part- both assigned advisees of the center graduation. We will also encourage time and summer jobs, internships, but also for walk-in consultations. you to link your academic interests During the second year of study, or or permanent employment; and with appropriate co-curricular and before you have declared a major, applying for graduate school. You are welcome to see your advisor internship experiences so as to enrich you are assigned to an advisor in at any time, but you must see your your AUP education and to align it the AUP Advising Center. Once The office also organizes career academic advisor whenever you events, posts internship and job with exciting career options. you have declared a major, you are assigned to a faculty member register for courses in upcoming opportunities, works hand in

42 43 hand with the Internship Office to may be full or part time, short or maintain strong relationships with long term, and be paid or unpaid. CAREER DEVELOPMENT CAREER PLANNING TIPS FOR organizations in Paris and around FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS UNDERGRADUATES the world, and nurtures connections French regulations require that with working alumni. only degree-seeking students may Graduate study is a pivotal moment, Freshman: What are your dreams pursue an internship and only with when you may choose to implement for your future? How can you move The AUP Career Development and an obligatory contract between a career transition or deepen your towards your goals in the next few Internship Offices enjoy privileged the student, the company and the chosen professional path. The AUP semesters? Find out how it all works relationships with hundreds of university. This contract, called Career Development office supports by making an appointment at the corporations and organizations in “convention de stage,” will be issued you in this important step by providing Center and introducing yourself! France, other parts of Europe, the by the AUP Internship Coordinator personalized, one-on-one assistance US, and elsewhere around the world. once the student completes the in the following areas: Visiting Students: Don’t “lose” a View current job and internship offers registration process. semester in your career development– at https://www.aup.edu/job • Self-assessment: identifying core use AUP resources to update your To find out more about how to strengths, career interests, and resume and prepare job, internship, Every semester, the Career register internships, either for credit professional values or graduate school applications! Development Office and the or as a non-credit option, go to • Researching and identifying Internship Office distribute the https://www.aup.edu/academics/ potential fields, functions, Transfer Students: You may be Global Talent brochure which academic-career-resources/advising- positions, and organizations graduating in two years or less! Make comprises the mini-resumes of AUP careers/internship-office. Here you • Writing compelling and culturally sure you are preparing yourself for students seeking internships to over can register for an internship online, appropriate resumes, cover letters, “Life After AUP” by proactively 500 professional contacts. If you obtain information about internship and other application documents contacting the Center. will be seeking an internship, don’t requirements and assignments, learn in English and French miss out on this exciting initiative – about how your fellow AUP students • Networking online and off, Returning Students: If you have met watch for announcements early in rated their internship experiences, including the effective use of with the Career Development team the fall and spring semesters or go find out about why you may want social media in the past, we suggest that you to www.aup.edu/academics/careers- to defer your graduation date in order • Preparing for recruitment make an appointment to update internships/career-development/ to complete a full-time internship, and interviews in English or French your resume and discuss how your global-talent-brochure. browse through the FAQ section. The plans have evolved. Internship Coordinator will be happy Career support begins when you INTERNSHIPS AT AUP to advise you on any other questions arrive at AUP and continues as long If you have not met with the Career you may have. as needed after graduation. Development Office yet, now is the An internship is a form of time to do so as you move closer professional experience carried out towards graduation, notably to plan by a student in a company under for at least one internship before the supervision of one or more graduation. practicing professionals. Internships

Center for Academic, Internship and Career Advising Career Development Office | [email protected] Advising Center | [email protected] Internship Office | [email protected] 44 45 THE AUP LIBRARY

The mission of the AUP Library is to What happens when an academic Key library services: help you succeed in your academic library of this kind opens more hours • Access to personalized research help with four professional references librarians life and teach you how to deal with in the evening and during finals week, ([email protected]) the complex world of information that allows beverages and snacks, invites • Document delivery & inter-library loan services (articles, books & films) you face these days. The AUP Library you to free coffee and cookies (three • Orientation and referral to other Paris libraries, i.e. the Bibliothèque nationale de France, provides a selection of services to times a semester), has comfortable the Sciences-Po Library, the Institut du monde arabe Library, the Institut national d’ students, but one of the highlights is seating and lighting, allows unlimited histoire de l’art Library, among others the personalized research help and book renewals within a given semester, • Personalized help with your Master’s thesis presentation orientation on how to find the right and provides different study areas, For further information join the library tours during Orientation or request a personalized kind of information. wireless, plenty of electric power library tour at any time. for your devises, copying, printing In order to meet student information and scanning services? That library needs the AUP Library has built becomes your space. a strong academic collection integrating more than 500,000 When rare or very specialized items AUP LIBRARY e-books, 45,000 books, 40,000 are not available at the AUP Library 9 rue Monttessuy (ground floor) Opening hours: journals and e-journals, and 2,300 our professional team can help you Administrative Office: 01 40 62 05 61 Regular Hours (60 hours/week–full services), media. All these resources constitute find them and will direct you to one Service Desk: 01 40 62 05 62 plus 25 additional Study Hours (self-service the best Anglophone academic of Paris’ monumental libraries or to Lobby/guard: 01 40 62 05 60 library until 11:00 pm) and a week of resources right in the center of Paris. a picturesque local library. [email protected] | http://library.aup.edu Rush Hours during finals week (until 2:00 am)

46 47 ACADEMIC RESOURCE CENTER

“The Writing Lab proved to be quite helpful during the semester, especially in explaining writing as in the American system (formats, citation, etc.); the tutors are really nice and available.”

You are not alone in wanting to take place. Please drop in and meet Lab to pick up useful handouts ARC. Please contact Ann Borel at succeed in your studies at AUP -- the tutors and staff – they are eager on citation styles (MLA, Chicago/ [email protected] for consultations there are many opportunities to to help you. Turabian, APA). Special assistance is or workshops. obtain help along the way. The now available for graduate students Academic Resource Center (ARC@ THE WRITING LAB writing theses. To make an appointment, call us at AUP.EDU) offers a combination of 01.40.62.06.52, e-mail writinglab@ writing, tutoring and technology The AUP Writing Lab, directed by ARC and the Writing Lab work closely aup.edu, or use the new online tutor support services in the Grenelle Professor Ann Mott, is at the center of with the Office of Academic Integrity. request form: https://www.aup. building. Here you will find the a constellation of academic services. We help students avoid plagiarism edu/academics/offices-resources/ academic resources and coaching In the Writing Lab, expert student and learn how to cite their sources. academic-resource-center/tutor- you need in order to do your best tutors provide feedback and support We also manage campaigns against appointment-request. You may also work. The comfortable furniture and at any stage of the writing process plagiarism and cheating and serve as stop in and put your name on the handy laptop plugs make ARC an (developing a thesis, organizing an consultants to the AUP Honor Board. board for the day and time that work ideal space for studying, tutoring essay, avoiding plagiarism or simply best for you. and collaboration. ARC includes overcoming writer’s block). Tutoring Support for faculty in combating the Writing Lab and the iSpace sessions are interactive and highly plagiarism with Blackboard™ tools, (Interactive Teaching and Learning collaborative. They generally last 30 and increasing awareness among Center) where many tutoring sessions minutes. You may also visit the Writing their students, is also available in

48 49 THE iSPACE – INTERACTIVE post their syllabi, course readings, “The math tutoring helped me understand the material and TEACHING AND LEARNING links, assignments, video clips, presentations and images. Students gather the pieces. The best thing was that the tutor was accessible The iSpace features an interactive may consult the course material at any and willing to help all the time!” whiteboard and HD projection time of day or night, which is especially system, as well as a DVD/Blu- helpful if have to miss a class due to ray player and sound system. The illness or a study trip. Faculty may central collaboration table (wired request assistance and basic training have already succeeded in the are resourceful, tech-savvy and able for laptops and mobile devices) is in course site development in ARC. courses they tutor, they are an to help you with standard software complemented by soft furniture for E-mail us at [email protected] or call ext. excellent resource for improving your applications (such as Word, Excel tutoring clusters. There is a small, 690 for an appointment. To access grades. The schedules change every and PowerPoint). They troubleshoot pedagogical library with textbooks Blackboard, log in at this link with semester, so please check the list computers in ARC and can advise and materials used by peer tutors your AUP network ID and password: in ARC or on our Facebook page. you on projects and presentations and faculty to assist students. https://blackboard.aup.edu/. Sessions take place in the iSpace, involving multimedia technology. unless otherwise posted. These tutors also provide technical Students may prepare for exams ARC-LINKS PEER support, during exams, for students here with their tutors, or practice their TUTORING PROGRAM TECH/MEDIA PEER TUTORS with disabilities. presentations. Faculty may reserve the iSpace for special seminars and While the Writing Lab Tutors help The ARC Tech/Media Tutors are conferences when it is not in use for you to improve your writing across the third cohort of peer tutors. They tutoring sessions and workshops the curriculum, our ARC-Link Tutors (contact [email protected]). specialize in selected subjects and challenging courses. While the Writing You may even encounter some four- Lab Tutors help you to improve your legged helpers here when we have writing across the curriculum, our ACADEMIC RESOURCE CENTER special exam stress therapy events ARC-Link Tutors specialize in selected before finals! subjects and challenging courses. ARC Director and Librarian General Information, Blackboard They are nominated by faculty each Ann Murphy Borel requests, Tutoring Appointments: INSTRUCTIONAL semester and coordinate weekly Ext: 695 | [email protected] [email protected] | [email protected] TECHNOLOGY – ONLINE group-study sessions. ARC-Link tutors TEACHING AND LEARNING serve many different disciplines, from Writing Lab Director and Tutors: Ext. 652 Calculus to Economics to Arabic and EN/CL Professor Ann Mott ARC provides support for various French. Ext. 672 | [email protected] ARC on Facebook: instructional technologies and www.facebook.com/ARCatAUP administers the university’s online They will help you work through Coordinator, Instructional course sites. Blackboard™ is AUP’s assignments, prepare for exams Technology and Academic Writing Lab on Facebook: Learning Management System. and discuss any difficulties you Support Services Ext. 690 www.facebook.com/AUPWritingLab Online course sites allow faculty to may be encountering. Since they

50 51 AUP BOOKSTORE

AUP’s Bookstore is a non-profit service to AUP students, dedicated to providing educational materials at affordable prices. How it works: Payments • When you arrive at the Bookstore, Purchases may be made in you fill out a form with the courses Euros only: for which you need books. The books • Cash Books assigned as required or recommended GETTING YOUR BOOKS are pulled for you. • Personal Euro Cheques course reading may be purchased at the • We have a selection of used books • Visa/CB, Mastercard, Bookstore. At the end of the Fall and What to bring: sold on a first-come, first-serve basis. American Express the Spring semesters, students have the • Your official online • During the “Rush” period, allow an • Debit cards opportunity to sell a selection of their used registration form. hour or more to purchase your books. • Traveller’s Euro Cheques course books back to the university. Please • Your valid AUP ID card note that we do not buy back at the end Summer Sessions. In addition, the Bookstore Note: Credit cards purchases will be charged in Euros and conversions to your bank’s currency will be done through the international banking system. Pricing: International shipping charges, French carries dictionaries, telephone cards, books taxation (TVA) and fluctuation in currency exchange rates produce higher costs on imported books written by AUP faculty, AUP clothing and for booksellers located in France. The AUP Bookstore, which imports books from Britain, Holland memorabilia, and yearbooks. and the United States, is not exempt from these added costs.

Bookstore 10 bis rue Amelie, Monday to Friday: 10:00–16:00 Extended opening hours for fall & spring: 3 working days before classes begin 1st Week of Class: 10:00—18:00 | 2nd Week of Class: 10:00—17:00 10:00—12:00 & 13:00—17:00 (Closed during lunch time) 52 Closed on Saturdays and Sundays Extended opening hours for summer: 10:00—16:00 53 STUDENT COMMUNITY

54 54 55 FROM THE VICE PRESIDENT

TAKE FULL ADVANTAGE OF YOUR AUP EXPERIENCE AND ENJOY EVERY MINUTE OF IT.

I am certain that you, whether a new or returning student, will find answers A key to successfully navigating your way through this and future semesters to many of your most frequently asked questions if you take the time to read at AUP is good time management. Use the handbook to circle meeting through this handbook. In addition to pages on key academic programs times, social activities, work hours, etc. Or simply refer to it for essential and policies, dates and services, a variety of opportunities and activities dates like Drop/Add and graduation. I also encourage you to explore our are reviewed here to encourage you to broaden your University experience university website which features much of the information in this handbook beyond the classroom. Read more about our terrific Student Government as well as many other useful tools and resources, especially those featured Association, Sports and Cultural Programs and Student Advising Program in the Student Life section at www.aup.edu/student-life. And remember that for incoming undergraduate students. you are always welcome in The Office of Student Development if you have questions or are looking for support. As Vice President for Security, Operations and Student Services, I challenge you to take full advantage of your AUP education and to enjoy every Here’s to an excellent and rewarding year! minute of it. Meet as many new people as possible and explore learning opportunities both inside and outside of the classroom. Keep in mind Marc Monthéard that during your university experience, like in any human adventure, the Vice President for Security, Operations and Student Services more you give the more you will receive in return, so become an engaged member of our community!

56 57 STUDENT LEADERSHIP

BEYOND THE CLASSROOM

Student clubs, government, and volunteering provide chances to explore, CLUBS to create and to lead. Don’t be surprised if you are invited as early as your first semester to contribute to a student-run publication, to act in a Join one of a number of active AUP clubs or start your own to develop leadership skills theater production or to serve on our student senate. These opportunities and make new friends. Opportunities range from competing in international confer- and many others are an integral part of your AUP education, providing ences with the AUP Debate and Politics Club to getting on stage with our White Mask hands-on opportunities to work in a team, bring a new idea to life, show Theater Club. Don’t miss Clubs Night on the 1st floor of Combes each semester to find off your talent and acquire skills applicable now and after you graduate. out more: September 12 in the fall and January 23 in the spring. Be involved, make a difference! VOLUNTEER INITIATIVES STUDENT GOVERNMENT Learn how to teach English to your francophone peers in Paris and the nearby suburbs Make your voice heard. Applications and elections for some Student Senate and SGA through One, Two, Three ... RAP! Raise funds and awareness for the Syrian refugee executive positions open at Orientation with voting over by the third week of classes. crisis with Baytna à Vous. Consult with the Student Leadership Office for more about these and other service opportunities available throughout the year. Consider representing your graduate program, your undergraduate class or undergraduate department. Elections for the 2018-19 student government will take place in April 2018. STUDENT ADVISING STUDENT MEDIA The Student Advisor Program welcomes new students to campus, helping them to settle into their new housing and connect with clubs and activities in Paris. We offer a One of the University’s largest student-run organizations, AUP student media produces number of events and excursions throughout the year, designed specifically for first- the Peacock Magazine, peacockplume.fr and PTV videos. Co-curricular credit-bearing year undergraduate students. workshops for the magazine, Web and video production teams are open for enrollment during Orientation and the first week of class each semester. Apply for vacant executive positions during Orientation and the first week of class.

58 59 CLUBS AND SGA WELCOME FAIR

Join the myriad clubs and activities on campus: Sept. 12, 2017 & Jan. 23, 2018. Combes, 3rd floor.

Seize the opportunity today to bring your talent and interests to campus and learn in the process.

SUPPORTING STUDENT-LED INITIATIVES The Student Leadership Office is overseen by Student Leadership Coordinator The Student Leadership Office and student-run Activities and Clubs Commit- Joëlle Gewolb and Dean of Student Services Kevin Fore. Collaborating with tee (ACC) support student-led clubs and initiatives on campus. They can help faculty, Student Development, the Amex and other units, they serve as advisors to you identify currently active organizations, define and secure a budget request our student government and student media organizations and support student- and coordinate with other groups, both at AUP and in Paris and beyond. They run clubs and volunteer initiatives on campus. They also supervise our Student are particularly interested in helping you to develop successful and sustainable Advising Program for first-year students in collaboration with Vice President for programming, whether through existing clubs or by launching a new idea. Security, Operations and Student Services Marc Monthéard. Contact [email protected].

Student Leadership Coordinator Dean of Student Development Joëlle Gewolb | 01 40 62 08 21 | [email protected] | [email protected] Kevin Fore | 01 40 60 06 31 | [email protected] 60 6 Rue du Colonel Combes, C-306 6 Rue du Colonel Combes, C-308 61 STUDENT GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

Dear students,

The Student Government Association (SGA) was made with you in mind. ELECTION DATES We serve as a liaison between students and the University, as well as Fall Senate Elections function on a daily basis to improve and benefit student life on campus. Aug. 29 Applications Open The SGA consists of Committees, Student Senate, and Undergraduate and Sept. 10 Applications Close Graduate Executive Teams – all of which is entirely student led. Graduate Sept. 12 Speech Night, Voting Opens and undergraduate students alike are encouraged to join to improve their Sept. 15 Voting closes, leadership skills. Whether you want to start a club, host an event, or have results announced a say in our student budget, the SGA is here for you. Our mission is to continue to build an AUP community in which students can get involved Spring Senate Elections and feel like a part of something more. Although AUP is a small school, it Jan. 8 Applications Open Jan. 21 Applications Close can be hard to get connected, and that’s where we come in. Feel free to Jan. 23 Speech Night, Voting Opens share your thoughts, ideas, and talents with us! Jan. 26 Voting Closes, Results Announced Sincerely yours,

The 2017-2018 Student Government Association

62 63 YOUR STUDENT GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

Open to all students. Stop by to see us or attend a Student Senate session on Wednesday period three in Combes for more information.

Undergraduate Student Council 2017/18 Left to right: Elizabeth Xuan-Mai Nguyen Son, Amelia Harvey, Jasmine Paul, Nebi Dzhabrailova, Annamaria Deganutti

EXECUTIVE TEAM: STUDENT SENATE: COMMITTEES: SGA CHARITY WEEK • Works to create a community- • Represents departments, classes, and • Sub-groups of the SGA working towards achieving Promoting both local and oriented environment on campus general student interests. goals relevant to the AUP student body. international charities while every day. • Makes decisions regarding the • There are five existing committees: Activities and raising awareness on campus. • Serves as student representation to student budget and its allocations. Clubs Committee (ACC), Events Committee, Service If you have a suggestion for staff, faculty, and administration Committee, Judiciary Committee, and Health and a good cause or would like to within AUP, as well as outside Wellness Committee. support charity week, contact organizations and institutions. [email protected].

SGA Office 6 Rue du Colonel Combes, C-304 01 40 62 05 89 | [email protected] | sga.aup.edu facebook.com/aup.sga | twitter.com/aup_sga | instagram.com/aup_sga/ 64 65 VOLUNTEERING & COMMUNITY SERVICE

Interested in volunteer initiatives or community service? Want to work to- IMPROVE YOUR FRENCH WHILE HELPING OTHERS wards social and environmental change? Volunteering is an excellent way to make your time in Paris meaningful beyond academics as well as to hone AUP has a partnership this year with Les Petits Frères des Pauvres. Improve unique skills for professional work after graduation. We have developed a your French, brush up on your culture codes and support elderly citizens who unique selection of both long- and short-term opportunities catered to your are isolated and seeking companionship. Training is provided for these short- schedule and interests. Give back to the Parisian community by joining a term internships. soup kitchen, for example, or help further afield with one of our international partnerships in Kenya, Peru or South Africa. To get involved, start by talking OTHER OPPORTUNTIES to the Student Leadership Office. Love Hip Hop and Rap? Become a teacher with One, Two, Three…Rap! Help CONTRIBUTE TO A BETTER WORLD organize concerts and recording sessions, or work on the group’s website and communication strategies. Interested in children and art? Join My Art Goes Baytna à Vous, translated as Our Home for You, is a student-led initiative at Bang to bring a little light and joy into what can sometimes be a traumatic AUP with a focus on the Syrian Refugee Crisis in France. Raise awareness through and difficult stay for children in Paris hospitals. information sessions and panel discussions with experts. Organize fundraisers and charity drives to help refugees with their basic needs as they settle in France. These are just a few examples of how you can take your education outside the classroom and gain valuable experience. Contact student_leadership@aup. edu to find out more or to sign up.

66 67 STUDENT ADVISOR PROGRAM

All new undergraduate students are assigned an upper-class student advisor at Orientation.

Student advisors are on hand to assist as you WHAT SOME “I can’t wait to be a “The contribution of the settle in to Paris and your new apartment, STUDENT ADVISORS friend for new students student advising program was accompanying you during the entire week of HAVE TO SAY... and to help them make a big part of my integration Orientation. Your student advisor will lead the most of their AUP to the community.” you on a unique selection of social events and experience!” — Nicolas Banduwardena activities throughout the week. They are also — Keti Archaia available throughout the semester to answer questions, direct you to relevant campus services “Learn the ropes around “We know AUP and Paris and update you about student activities. Take the city and the university from a student perspective… the time to get to know your student advisor “Know you can always with a student advisor and that’s what we can give and don’t hesitate to schedule an appointment come to me in good supporting you the whole you as a welcoming gift” if you have any questions or simply would like and bad times.” way through.” — Jade Ascencio to chat about something. — Hanis Zainul — Nicole Pizzorni

68 69 STUDENT ADVISOR PROGRAM ACTIVITIES 2017-18 DAY EXCURSIONS

Attention all new, incoming students: get out and explore France with FALL 2017 your fellow classmates before the semester gets too busy. AUP Student Giverny • Saturday, Oct. 7 €20 Advisors have organized in collaboration with the Cultural Program two day trips for all incoming students this year. Travel to Giverny in the fall Meet up with your Student Advisors for this fun and easy and to Champagne in the spring – each trip costs only €20 and you trip to Claude Monet’s residence in Giverny, only one can sign up at Orientation. As part of the Student Advisor Program, new hour from Paris by bus. See the setting for the artist’s students are also cordially invited to a happy hour in the Amex at the start famous Water Lily paintings and visit his home, where of each semester. you will experience his eccentric taste in decoration and an impressive collection of Japanese prints. Student Advisor Happy Hour — FREE SPRING 2018 Kick off the semester with a friendly meet and greet in the Amex. Your Champagne • Saturday, Feb. 10 €20 Student Advisors have come together to invite you to enjoy free pizza, happy hour priced drinks and a fun quiz! Champagne, the region between Paris and Lorraine, is the only internationally recognized source of real FALL 2017 SPRING 2018 champagne. Learn how champagne is made and enjoy Friday, Sept. 15, 6-8pm Friday, Jan. 26, 6-8pm a tasting during this easy day trip to Reims and the Champagne region.

VISIT PARIS & NEIGHBORING TOP DESTINATIONS! Sign up for the events at the Orientation Activities Fair or online at www.aup.edu.

70 71 AUP CLUBS

One of the best ways to feel connected at AUP is by joining or starting your own club.

Learn how to contribute effectively to AUP MUSIC & THE AUP DEBATE AND publicists, White Mask Theater Club is a team, coordinate events, delegate PERFORMING CLUB (AMP) POLITICS CLUB a source of entertainment, expression, tasks and projects, and improve your [email protected] [email protected] and creativity at AUP. The group communication skills. You may also Responsible for Open Mic nights in Creates a place for discussions on collaborates with faculty and staff to learn practical skills such as writing, the Amex Café as well as other musical current topics such as human rights produce several performances each bookkeeping, marketing, layout events that happen throughout the and social movements via lectures, year. It also hosts improv’ workshops and graphic design. See below for year, including the Fall Holiday Bash movie screenings, Model United and scriptwriting competitions. a selection of active AUP clubs. Start and the Spring Showcase. AMP also Nations trips, and other activities. exploring at Clubs Night on the first manages the Music Room. Located The Debate and Politics Club aims to AUP WINE SOCIETY floor of Combes each semester: in the basement of Combes, the encourage student leadership among [email protected] September 12 in the fall and January Music Room is home to an excellent the student body while bringing The AUP Wine Society is open to all 23 in the spring. Who knows? You and eclectic collection of instruments everyone in the community together who are interested in the discovery may discover a talent or passion that and equipment. to think critically about current affairs. and enjoyment of wine. Through you didn’t even know about. Check wine tastings and other events, out a sampling of AUP clubs here: WHITE MASK THEATER CLUB such as film screenings, the Wine [email protected] Society introduces students to a very Always on the lookout for student important aspect of French culture. talent, be it actors, writers, producers, make-up artists, technicians or Contact [email protected] for more about these clubs and others.

72 73 STUDENT MEDIA

One of the University’s largest and design, website curation, video Leadership Office, students step into editors in collaboration with faculty student-run organizations, AUP production and editing, and social editor positions to gain real world advisors. The magazine combines Student Media produces a print and media branding and promotion. newsroom experience and in some in-depth investigative feature online version of Peacock Magazine, Student gain hands-on experience cases build their careers as future articles with columns and photo peacock.plume.fr news website and across media platforms that will journalists. features. Peacock’s online presence Peacock TV. Combining print and prepare them for careers in journalism enhances the established print brand online media, each platform is and media production. Student media publications are with regular posts. Students take managed by a team of dedicated produced in separate workshops that on roles in design, layout, editing, students and faculty advisors to THAMER SALMAN focus on each form of media, and photography and marketing as well create professional-level products. STUDENT MEDIA CENTER are open to all students regardless as in reporting and writing both Students can earn academic credits 6 Rue du Colonel Combes, of experience. Sign up for student online and for the print copy. for their involvement in these student- C-301 and C-302 media workshops during Orientation led media activities and, if they wish, or the first week of class. While not mandatory, it is graduate with a major in journalism. Students involved in student media recommend that students interested work out of this state-of-the-art PEACOCK MAGAZINE in Peacock Magazine take the Whatever their level of involvement, newsroom and video production studio, magazine workshop course, students work collaboratively in a creating content for digital, print, Peacock is a print magazine Magazine Journalism (CM 1850), real-world newsroom setting on every and broadcast media. Supported celebrating the vibrancy of youth which meets Wednesdays. We look aspect of journalism production – by a faculty of knowledgeable culture in Paris. It is produced once forward to meeting you! writing and editing stories, layout professionals and the Student a semester by a team of student

74 75 APPLY FOR A BOARD POSITION PEACOCK.PLUME.FR like to get involved in, please sign up training as fashion journalists. The Candidates must enroll in the for the workshop course (CM1852), undergraduate Fashion Journalism corresponding student Peacockplume.fr is our news website which meets every Wednesday. We Practicum is CM4013 and the media workshop attend focused on campus and world news, would love to have you on the team! graduate course is CM5017. The Board meetings. aup. politics, culture and the arts. Featuring course is offered in Spring 2017. A edu/student-life/ a wide range of stories, serious and PLUME OPINION fall course that provides an excellent clubs-activites/ quirky, the site aims to inform and introduction to Fashion Journalism is asm/the- entertain an audience at home in Plume Opinion is a graduate course Communicating Fashion CM3004 board Paris. Our team of professional focused on opinion writing, personal which meets Tuesdays and Fridays. journalists gain professional-level branding, and media industry trends. training in writing, editing, web Students hone their skills as columnists curation, infographics and social for the website Opinion page, writing media management. on a wide range of topics and issues, while learning how to manage and All students are welcome to curate the back end of the website. contribute to peacock.plume.fr, but They also build their own personal to fully benefit from digital training brands online via Twitter, Instagram, you are encouraged to sign up LinkedIn, and personal websites. STUDENT MEDIA BOARD – FALL 2017 for the workshop course, Online The course, Digital Media Writing News Journalism (CM 1851), which Practicum (CM5062), meets in the PEACOCK TV MA ASSISTANTS meets on Wednesdays. Stop by the fall 2017 term every Tuesday. [email protected] ASM Business Manager newsroom and join the team! Executive Producer: Thomas Lopez ASM Social Media and PEACOCK FASHION Deputy Producer: To be appointed Content Manager PEACOCK TV Applications now open. Peacock Fashion combines PEACOCK MAGAZINE Contact [email protected] and Peacock TV is an audiovisual undergraduate and graduate [email protected] [email protected] journalism platform. Students students in a newsroom workshop Editor in Chief: Stuart Edwards working on Peacock TV gain devoted to the fashion industry Deputy Editor: TBA GRADUATE EDITORS hands-on experience writing scripts, — trends, designers, brands, Appointed in the fall. reporting, producing on camera street styles, and fashion shows. PEACOCKPLUME.FR broadcasting, and editing news Students manage the Fashion [email protected] Staff Advisor: Kevin Fore segments — skills that are crucial page of peacockplume.fr to gain Editor in Chief: Ali Nielsen Dean of Student Development for anyone interested in a career hands-on experience in editing Deputy Editor: Lillian Wagner in broadcast journalism. If Peacock and content curation, providing Travel Editor: Fernanda Perez Faculty Advisor: Hannah Westley TV sounds like something you would them with professional-level Department of Global Communications ASM Photo Director: Jacqueline Wegwerth

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: AUP Student Media 76 C-301 & 302 | [email protected] 77 ATHLETICS

The Athletics Office offers a selection of competitive and recreational classes. Join one of the existing courses EVENTS AND TICKETS or create your own activity with the activities based on student demand, access to local gym memberships and help of our Athletics Office. The Athletics Office secures a limited support to students interested in practicing their favorite sports in Paris. number of tickets to national and Thanks to partnerships with local international sports events in Paris. clubs, we are able to cater to or COMPETITIVE SPORTS at least assist with most students’ Yearly Gym Membership for sports interests. In addition, the Special €200 AUP Student Rate! AUP’s competitive teams participate Athletics Office ([email protected]) office collaborates with our SGA Forest Hill now offers AUP students in intercollegiate tournaments with or feel free to reach out to team and Student Leadership Office to a special yearly subscription at students from other universities. The coaches and captains directly. organize events. Aquaboulevard, located just 25 rewards of playing on a team include minutes from Combes door to learning to work collaboratively, 2017-2018 Competitive Teams: The Athletics Office invites you door. Sign up for this great deal at setting challenging goals… and Equestrian, Volleyball (Women), to check out our Wellness Room, www.aup.edu or contact us achieving them, and making lifelong Indoor Soccer (Men), Basketball in which regular meditation and at [email protected] for more friends and memories. Students yoga sessions are held, but which information. who wish to play on a team must Other Potential Competitive also can be used to just take a demonstrate dedication and good Teams: Badminton, Dance/Cheer, nap and disconnect from the fast Alternatively, if you are interested time management. Make sure to Soccer (Women) paced city life. in gym membership with access to not miss the tryouts during the first multiple locations around Paris, you week of classes to be considered for RECREATIONAL SPORTS 2016–2017 Recreational Offering: may be in touch with the Athletics the team of your choice, even if you Yoga, Ballroom Dance, Meditation, Office about other gym options. would consider yourself as not being Our recreational or “fun” sports Self Defense, Running an “experienced” player. Passion and sessions are weekly activities that commitment are prioritized over pure fit into students’ busy academic Our 2017-18 offering will depend on pure skill in our competing teams. If schedules. They are designed to student interest. interested in assisting and managing help students stay in shape, meet a competitive team, contact the friends and simply de-stress after

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Athletics Coordinator 78 Ashkan Shalbaf | C-307 | 01 40 62 05 93 Hours: Mon-Thurs 14:00-17:00 79 CULTURAL PROGRAM

CROSSING CULTURAL BORDERS

EXCURSIONS AND STUDY TRIPS

Each semester, the AUP Cultural Program offers 15-20 study trips as well as are learning about in class. Most trips are in Europe, but more faraway and a number of cultural excursions and events for the AUP community. Study exotic destinations are also offered. The Cultural Program office, located in trips, proposed and led by faculty, are designed to closely complement and C-305, should be your first-stop location to find information on study trips, deepen an academic curriculum, allowing you to discover in person what you cultural excursions, and other events in Paris.

80 81 FIND OUT MORE! Grab a copy of the Cultural Program brochure (available at the CP office and across campus) or check out the CP webpage on the AUP website.

REGISTERING FOR TRIPS: USEFUL TIPS

Interested in registering for a CP study trip? The online registration portal FALL STUDY TRIPS on My Student Services is open during the first week of classes or DROP/ ADD. Registration for a study trip is done the same way as registration for an Caverne du Pont d’Arc Oct 4 Maison Jean Monnet Oct 25 academic course; simply filter study trips by applying “CP” in the department Led by Profs. Linda Martz, Led by Prof. Steven Ekovich field of the registration portal. Elizabeth Kinne, Elena Berg, Anna Russakoff UAE Oct 28-Nov3 The cancellation deadline from a study trip is the last day of DROP/ADD in Led by Prof. David Tresilian the beginning of the semester; no refunds are possible after this date. Study Tangier Oct 5-8 trips are billed directly to your student ledger and should be paid no later Led by Prof. Hall Gardner Caen Memorial Nov 8 than the end of the third week of class each semester; online payment can Led by Prof. Steven Ekovich be done through Student Accounting Services. Please note that outstanding Warsaw - Poland Oct 12-15 balances will result in blocked grades and transcripts. Led by Prof Brian Schiff Geneva Nov 16-17 & Charles Talcott Led by Prof. Hall Gardner

FALL STUDY TRIPS Fes Oct 14-17 Rome Nov 16-19 Led by Prof. Waddick Doyle Led by Profs. Jonathan Shimony L Vallon Pont D’arc, Chauvet Roscoff, The Island of Batz & Anna Russakoff Caverne, Ardeche River, Avignon and Morlaix Sept 22-25 WWI Museum – Meaux Oct 18 Sept 15-17 Led by Profs. Charles Led by Prof. Oleg Kobtzeff Led by Prof. Steven Ekovich Vienna Nov 23 26 Talcott & Brian Schiff Led by Prof. Daniel Medin Venice Sept 28-Oct 1 Madrid Oct 12-15 London MAGC Sept 21-24 Led by Profs. Jonathan Shimony Led by Prof. Jessica Maratsos India Practicum Dec 14-Jan 11 Led by Prof Waddick Doyle & Sian Dafydd Led by Prof. Charles Talcott Florence & Pisa Oct 19-22 Marseille Sept 22-24 Bordeaux Sept 28-Oct 1 Led by Prof Isabel Gardner Led by Prof David Tresilian Led by Profs. Daniel Medin & Herve Vanel

82 83 COUP DE POUCE provides a limited amount of A SAMPLING OF RECENT to better understand contemporary to discover an important intersection financial aid to AUP full-time AUP STUDY TRIPS events in Egypt and the Arab world of Franco-American history in the students who are registered fall, and to Giverny to enjoy Monet’s in classes with study trips. Sicily Iceland gardens in the spring. Recent tours and celebrations of Contact the Cultural AH2012 Medieval Art CM5091B Place Branding: Travel, have included the Chocolate Walk crafts, cuisine, music, Program Office for & Architecture Tourism & Competitive Identity and Fashion Walk with Paris Walks and dance from different information. Sicily was the site of a unique Visit an exceptional and highly and guided museum visits. parts of the world. Contact Arabo-Norman Kingdom in the unlikely “tourist” destination in the Cultural Program directly eleventh and twelfth centuries. order to conduct ethnographic FALL 2017 CULTURAL if you would like to discuss a Discover how the architecture and field research in the emergent PROGRAM EXCURSIONS partnership or project. art, notably mosaics and frescoes, and “globalized-market driven” of sacred spaces, functioned as “promotional culture” that is fast Chocolate Walk | Oct 12 the visual rhetoric of a very special becoming “Iceland,” particularly Check the new Cultural Program Food & Wine in Montmartre | Oct 18 hybrid court culture. as it relates to (and impacts) local brochure and your e-mail throughout Tour de France des Vins | Nov 22 customs, habits and traditions and the year. In order to sign-up for a Marseille shared senses of place and nation. cultural excursion, event or guided CL/1091 The Modern Literature Ballets: tour, pre-pay for your participation of the Arab World OTHER EXCURSIONS Joyaux | Oct 4 on the Cultural Program webpage, at Explore Euro-Arab dialogue AND ACTIVITIES Ballanchine/Teshigawara/ Orientation or in the Cultural Program through a visit to Marseilles, a main Bausch | Oct 25 Office on the third floor of Combes. crossing point between Europe and In addition to organizing myriad Please note that all payments are the Arab Mediterranean.Visits to faculty-led study trips (as detailed Tickets final and no refunds are possible in the MUCEM and the Museum of in the Academic section of this The Cultural Program frequently the event of cancellation. the History of Marseilles highlight handbook), the Cultural Program provides reservations or discounted the Mediterranean as a Euro-Arab also offers non-academic excursions tickets to the many cultural events region and a region of cultural and tours, tickets to local events and in and around Paris. Attend a ballet NEED A HELPING HAND TO exchange. a selection of on-campus activities. recital at the Opéra Bastille, to a PAY FOR YOUR STUDY TRIP? musical or play at a local theater. Cairo Excursions are fun one- or two- Reserve your tickets at Orientation Coup de Pouce is a donation-based CL/1091 Contemporary Middle East day trips that take advantage of and during the first week of class as resource that provides a limited This trip, focused on Cairo, one of the the many opportunities close to they sell out fast. amount of financial aid to AUP full- largest, oldest, and most important Paris and within France. They’re time students who are registered in cities in the Arab world, complements not associated with an academic AUP Events classes with study trips and who are texts and ideas looked at in class. course but you’ll definitely have a fun Student Government, official AUP in financial need. See the SGA or the Discover the history and development educational experience. This year, clubs and individuals partner with Cultural Program Office for more of the city and its architecture, with first-year undergraduates are invited the Cultural Program to organize information. visits to media institutions and NGOs to travel to Normandy’s D-Day sites photo exhibitions, film festivals,

Cultural Program Coordinator FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Alexis Dang | [email protected] | 01 40 62 05 96 84 www.aup.edu/academics/cultural-program 85 EVENT CALENDAR

2017 2018 Aug. 23 SGA Planned Meeting Oct. 18 Senate Jan. 4-5 Orientation Training Mar. 25 SGA Executive Aug. 24-25 Orientation Training Mid-semester Jan. 8-12 Orientation Applications Close Aug. 28-31 Orientation Oct. 20 Mid-semester grades due Jan. 12 SGA Senate Applications open Mar. 27 Executive Speech Night Sep. 1 Orientation Oct. 25 Senate Jan. 17 Welcome Back Senate Voting Opens Late Registration Oct. 27 Halloween Party Jan. 21 SGA Senate Mar. 28 Senate for Returning Students Oct. 30 – Applications Close Mar. 30 Voting Closes Sep. 4 Classes begin Nov. 3 Fall Break (no classes) Jan. 23 Clubs / Speech Night Results Announced Sep. 6 Open Info Senate Nov. 8 Senate Voting Opens Apr. 2 Senate Applications Open Sep. 8 Back to School Party Nov. 10 Last day to withdraw Jan. 24 Senate Apr. 4 Senate from a course Sep. 10 Fall Senate applications close Jan. 26 Voting Closes Apr. 11 Senate Last day to choose CR/NC Last day to DROP/ADD Jan. 31 Senate Apr. 15 Senate Applications Close courses online grading option Feb. 7 Senate Apr. 17 Senate Speech Night Senate Sep. 12 Clubs / Speech Night Nov. 15 Feb. 9 International Student Soirée Voting Opens Voting Opens Nov. 20-24 Charity Week Begins Feb. 14 Senate Apr. 18 Senate Senate Sep. 13 Faculty Senate Nov. 22 Feb. 21 Senate Apr. 20 Voting Closes Thanksgiving Sep. 15 Voting Closes Nov. 23 Feb. 26 – Results Announced Senate Results announced Nov. 29 Mar. 9 Spring Break (no classes) World’s Fair Holiday Bash Sep. 20 First Full Senate Dec. 8 Mar. 12 SGA Executive Apr. 25 Senate Last day of classes Sep. 27 Senate Applications Open May 2-4 Reading Days Reading Days Oct. 4 Senate Dec. 11-12 Mar. 14 Senate May 7-11 Finals Finals Oct. 11 Senate Dec. 13-19 Mar. 21 Senate Jan. 2 All grades due

86 87 STUDENT LIFE

88 88 89 RESIDENTIAL LIFE

Find housing and receive help with housing-related issues, such as payment of rent, insurance declarations, and liaising with landlords. FIRST YEAR STUDENTS

As a first-year student you are or your roommate arrangements and WHAT THE OFFICE OF housed by AUP in either shared give you tips. If you are housed in a RESIDENTIAL LIFE DOES student apartments made available homestay, you will also be assigned by our housing partner Comforts of a Student Advisor, albeit without a • Houses hundreds of AUP Students each semester Home, or in homestays arranged by house call. • Liaises closely with our first-year student housing provider Comforts of the Office of Residential Life. Home to ensure your satisfaction and proper communication Roommate Relations • Assists with housing insurance claims, CAF applications, while encouraging Student advisor apartment visits Learning to live with others is a responsibility and accountability New undergraduates housed with valuable part of the college experience • Develops and maintains good working relationships with independent Comforts of Home will be assigned a and at AUP we are pleased to be able landlords who provide housing to AUP students throughout Paris Student Advisor at Orientation. Your to provide you with communal living • Helps resolve disputes and misunderstandings between you and your Student Advisor will visit your COH spaces within the heart of our unique landlord and among you and your roommates in shared apartments. apartment early in the semester to city. Instead of a typical American ensure that your transition to Paris dormitory setting, you will be housed has been successful and to discuss in a family-style Parisian apartments how you can take full advantage of where you will share space with student activities at AUP. They will anywhere from 1 to 7 other students, also provide support for any concerns on average, depending on the size you may have about your apartment and layout of the apartment.

90 91 Roommate grievances Tips for paving the way to a THE HOUSING DATABASE AUP and COH staff are here to help positive roommate relationship: mediate in the case of a roommate Graduate students and returning undergraduate conflict. This may arise from small • Set the ground rules: fill out your may peruse our online listings when looking for issues, such as having someone roommate agreement together, and new housing. Contact with landlords is arranged else use your toothpaste, or from discuss potential points of conflict. with Residential Life staff. You’ll find a map of a big one, such as being called a • Do your part: pick up after the neighborhood, information about nearby derogatory term for not taking out yourself, and stick to apartment- amenities and photographs of the apartments, the garbage. Conflicts generally arise wide agreements on taking out if available. Carefully note the availability date from disrespectful behavior, such as the garbage and cleaning the of the apartment as well as any potential extra rooming with someone who never does bathroom, etc. costs, and visit the AUP Office of Residential Life his or her dishes, or regularly comes • Communicate! Let your roommates to inquire about scheduling a visit. home and turns the lights on at 4am know before bringing guests into the while you’re sleeping. apartment.

Communication is the first step towards Homestay Students HOUSING RIGHTS & RESPONSIBILITIES building an agreeable roommate Those who select a homestay for their relationship, and AUP’s Housing Office first-year housing will have a Parisian The Office of Residential Life may help you with: and Counseling Service can help expert at home with whom to practice • Finding comfortable, affordable accommodations within a reasonable you troubleshoot miscommunication their French. AUP staff organize various commuting distance from campus; between roommates and to try to start events for homestay students throughout • Resolving interpersonal issues that may arise between you and your roommates, anew in the case of disagreement or the year, including a one-on one meeting your neighbors and your landlord; a communication breakdown. to check-in during the first semester. • Finding someone to help with maintenance issues that may arise in your apartment such as leaks, electrical problems or appliance issues.

RETURNING UNDERGRADUATE & GRADUATE STUDENTS Your responsibilities include: • Ensuring you do a walk-through upon arrival and departure of your apartment, Graduate students and returning undergraduate students may elect to use the Office keeping a copy of the walk-through form (état des lieux in French); of Residential Life to find an independent apartment by consulting listings on our • Maintaining your apartment while you are living in it, including cleaning or database and arranging apartment visits via a staff member or housing counselor. necessary repairs prior to your move-out; If you choose to find accommodations through AUP’s Office of Residential Life • Communicating with the Office of Residential Life and your landlord when you are bound by certain rules and regulations, but are also guaranteed certain issues arise; rights. It is essential to understand these rights and responsibilities from day one • Respecting COH move-out dates communicated at the beginning of the in order to avoid confusion or unnecessary frustration later in the year. semester, or, if you are in an independent apartment, giving one-month’s written notice before moving out of your apartment, which should always coincide Graduate students and returning undergraduates who wish to find housing outside with the end of a semester (December, May, or July) – not mid-semester. of AUP’s Office of Residential Life should consult the ‘Housing Resources’ page • Contracting a French “assurance d’habitation” if you are housed in an on the AUP website for a few practical details. independent apartment.

Office of Residential Life Residential Life Manager Residential Life Assistant Residential Life Assistant 6 Rue du Colonel Combes | fourth floor Jennifer Larsen | C-408 Jo Lowrey | C-406 Rose Weeber | C-409 01 40 62 05 99 01 40 62 05 97 01 40 62 06 86 92 [email protected] 93 GET TO KNOW YOUR CITY

Paris is one of the most culturally rich cities in the world, with a multitude of museums, theaters and monuments.

The best way to discover your new home away from home is to walk as much Student Development is available at Orientation and throughout the year as possible, exploring the specificities of each arrondissement with friends and to inform and assist AUP students in all these aspects of everyday life. relaxing at a café or park along the way. We have developed partnerships with local banks and a service company As a student living in Paris, you benefit from many discounts in theaters, museums to facilitate moving to Paris. Schedule an appointment or stop by to see and movie theaters. Make the most of your stay in the French capital by discovering Yann Louis for assistance with any of these questions, as well as more its multicultural facets and venturing out! However, settling in and getting around tips on living independently in the French capital. can sometimes be challenging whether you are a native Parisian or not, and you may have many questions about living in Paris. Common areas of concern include: Yann is also available to meet with students who are looking for ideas about fun activities to do around Paris. You can also refer to the “Living • Need advice on banking? in Paris” section of the AUP website for more information or feel free to • Confused about how to obtain a metro pass? come and say hello to Yann during his office hours. • Not sure where to get a cell phone or replace a SIM card? • Not sure where to find storage space? • Having trouble with administrative red tape and contracts? • Dealing with a loss or theft and not sure where to turn? • Looking for ideas about fun activities?

The Office of Student Development Student Development Assistant 6 Rue du Colonel Combes | 4th floor reception next to student lounge Yann Louis | 01 40 62 06 30 | [email protected] 94 Office Hours: M-F 10:00–18:00 95 BANKS AND CELL PHONES

BANKING MOBILE AND INTERNET SUPPORT

Because we know from experience that Société Générale AUP collaborates with Com Avenue, a opening a bank account in France can 106, rue Saint Dominique company that can assist you in choosing Com Avenue be challenging, AUP has established 75007 Paris a phone plan, and provide you with 24 rue du Champs de Mars a priveleged partnership with a local Tel: (33/1) 47 53 55 17 an internet box.Employees speak (a 5 minute walk from campus) branch of the Société Générale. English and are happy to meet with Hours: M–F: 10:00-19:00; This bank is close to campus and Representatives: you to discuss the phone and internet Saturday: 11:00–19:00 provides designated English-speaking Elvis Edon | 33 1 47 53 55 17 plans that best meet your needs. They Tel: (33/1) 45 55 00 07 representatives for our students. If you Samantha Philippe | 33 1 47 53 55 12 provide reliable, quality advice as well [email protected] plan to stay in Paris for more than Camelia Taleb | 33 1 47 53 55 29 as excellent customer service. one semester, we highly recommend Email: [email protected] opening a French bank account. Bank (please write the name of your accounts are required in France to representative in the subject line of obtain a phone and internet plan, as your email) well as to open an account for any apartment utilities.

96 97 TRANSPORTATION

The very first metro line was built in Paris • Students under the age of 26 can purchase a yearly student discount transportation card for €342, called the Carte Imagine R. in 1900, and the city has since developed a complete • Students over 26 can purchase a regular transportation card, called Carte network of public transportation that includes the metro, (Pass) Navigo, which you can renew on a monthly or yearly basis. At the time of this printing, it cost €73/month for a pass covering Paris and the suburbs. bus and tramway systems. Note that a pass is valid for all metros, buses and tramways. Don’t miss Yann’s workshops during Orientation week for more in-depth explanations of Paris’ transportation system and how to purchase the passes.

98 99 SAFETY

STREET SMART IN PARIS

Paris is a relatively safe city, but like in any city you should stay alert when out and about. • Please review AUP’s Emergency Procedures section in this handbook on page Here are a few things to consider whether you consider yourself Parisian or are new to the city: 132, which is also posted on our website. Take a picture of the document and keep it on your cell phone, as well as enter AUP’s 24-hour hotline number (for emergencies ONLY.) Post a copy in your apartment. • Spend time observing your surroundings and learn to recognize red flags. • Develop street-smart habits, such as watching out for pick-pockets and con artists, and having a “non-tourist” attitude. CABS/CAR SERVICES PHARMACIES • Be aware of cultural differences that can potentially lead to misunderstandings, thus conflicts: keep a reserved attitude, be friendly Uber Pharmacie Centrale but not too inviting, and avoid eye contact that could be misinterpreted. www.uber.com Open 7 days a week, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 a.m. • When riding the metro, the bus, or when wandering on the streets, watch The Uber app connects you with a 15th arrondissement your belongings at all times: cell phones are the most stolen item, snatched driver at the tap of a button. Available 52 Rue du Commerce right out of your hands or pockets. on iPhone, Android… Metro: Avenue Emile Zola • When going out and drinking: set-up a “buddy system” just like a Tel: 33(0)1 45 79 75 01 “designated driver;” be aware that when under the influence of substances, Taxi G7 you become an easy target for all kinds of aggression, including sexual www.taxig7.fr Pharmacie du Drugstore des Champs-Elysées assault: watch out for each other. Phone: 3607 Open 7 days a week until 2:00 a.m. • In clubs/bars: don’t leave your drink unattended, and/or don’t accept a 8th arrondissement drink from a stranger, unless you’ve seen it poured in front of you, to prevent Taxis bleus 133 Avenue des Champs-Élysées date-rape drugs being administered surreptitiously. www.taxis-bleus.com Metro/RER: Charles de Gaulle Etoile • Make sure to set aside some money for a cab, and preferably order one. Phone: 08-91-70-10-10 Tel: 33(0)1 47 20 39 25 • Always have a valid ID on you, but leave the passport at home: you can carry a photocopy of it, but make sure to have another official form of ID; MEDICAL AND TRAVEL LOCAL POLICE STATION OPEN 24/7 have your student ID card with you at all times, just in case. SECURITY ASSISTANCE 7th arrondissment • At the Champs de Mars or other similar places: please know that pickpockets/ FOR AUP STUDENTS: 9, rue Fabert thieves, petty criminals are on the lookout for foreigners, and especially 01 44 18 69 07 drunk ones… International SOS: Metro line 8 — RER C Invalides • Note: alcohol is a major factor in aggressions, so follow the advice given Phone: 01 55 63 31 55 previously to avoid any potentially dangerous situations. www.central-taxi-parisien.com

100 101 SUPPORT

COUNSELING

Adjusting to college life can be can be challenging socially and academically, Note: we favor student-lead DID YOU KNOW? and even more so when adjusting to life abroad. AUP’s Health and Wellness workshops, so if there’s a particular team collaborates with a large English-speaking network of medical and mental topic you would like to be addressed, Getting good grades and making the health care providers in Paris, including counselors, doctors, psychologists, and and organize such a project, please most out of life at AUP is certainly psychiatrists, whose care is usually fully reimbursed by AUP’s comprehensive don’t hesitate to contact the Student important to most students. Thus Health Care Plan. In addition to the services mentioned previously, our Health Guidance Counselor. students’ general well-being, in terms and Wellness program also provides in-house guidance counseling, as well as of physical and mental health, is off-campus appointments with psychologists and psychiatrists. OFF CAMPUS crucial as well. We provide a range of services to assist with more general Additionally, AUP works with two off- daily life issues to ensure that your ON CAMPUS campus therapists, whose 45-minute experience at AUP goes as smoothly sessions are free of charge. Scheduling as possible. In a safe and confidential environment, the Student Guidance Counselor meets an appointment is necessary and can one on one to assess individual needs and provide adequate support, whether be done either directly by students Important components for a healthy it is academic (i.e. time management/organization strategies,) or psychological. or through the on-campus Student and academically successful semester While students are welcome to drop-in to meet with the on-campus counselor, Guidance Counselor. include the following: scheduling an appointment is preferred to ensure appropriate time and attention • having a grasp on time will be given. You can learn more about what management counseling may have to offer you, • enough sleep The office of the Student Guidance Counselor offersvarious workshops throughout and what professional counseling is • healthy eating habits the academic year to guide, inform, raise awareness, and hopefully encourage all about by visiting AUP’s website, • a good social network prevention. Areas of concern include body image, study drugs, substance abuse under Student Life/Health and and its consequences, dealing with stress and anxiety, time management, as well Wellness/Counseling. www.aup. Our counselors can provide you as sexual harassment and assault. Stay tuned to www.aup.edu for information edu/student-life/resources-services/ with tools and tips on some of your about upcoming workshops. health-wellness/counseling. personal concerns.

Student Guidance Counselor/On Campus Guidance Counseling Off-Campus Therapists (by appointment only) Sandrine Godt | 01 40 62 06 43 | [email protected] Mathilde Toulemonde | 06 13 91 46 12 | [email protected] 102 Louis Monaco | 07 83 49 94 52 | [email protected] 103 JOIN THE AUP SEXUAL AGGRESSION TASK FORCE

Want to learn more or make a difference on campus? Contact Sandrine Godt at sgodt.aup.edu

SEXUAL HARASSMENT

Let’s talk about it. It could happen to anyone.

HANDLING SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND AGGRESSION WHAT TO DO IF SEXUALLY ASSAULTED: OFF-CAMPUS RESOURCES:

Incidents of sexual violence should be reported to Student Development • Call someone you trust, and/or a member of the SOS Viol/Sexual Aggression and/or the police. Silence about such crimes contributes to an environment AUP Sexual Aggression Task Force (peer.) 0.800.05.95.95 that is supportive of sexual violence, and communicates to victims that • No matter what, do NOT take a shower: save sexually violent behavior is tolerated. crucial DNA samples, in case you decide later Urgences Medico-Judiciaires (UMJ) to prosecute (put clothes in a paper bag.) Hôpital Hôtel-Dieu DID YOU KNOW? • French law & procedures require you call the 1 Place du Parvis Notre-Dame Police (dial 17) before going to any hospital: 75001 Paris. • Victims of sexual violence come from all different backgrounds. Age, race, the police will then set-up the proper medical religion, sexual orientation, gender, and size do not matter. examination, at Urgences Medico-Judiciaires. Accueil Victimes (Victims Unit) • About 80% of all sexual assaults are committed by an acquaintance of • If you’re a friend of the victim: be supportive, available 24/7 the victim. remain calm and concerned, listen without no appointment needed: • Between 20% and 25% of women will experience a completed and/or interrupting or questioning, believe the student, 01-42-34-87-00 attempted rape during their college career: that is 1 in 4 women! and encourage him/her to do the above and • On average, at least 50% of college students’ sexual assaults are associated seek the proper help and support. Violences Femmes Info: 39 19 with alcohol use. • Remind the student that he/she is NOT at fault. • Sexual assault is the most under-reported violent crime in many countries. • Allow the victim to make his/her own decisions. Medical and Travel Security • No one ever asks for or deserves to be sexually violated. Sexual assault is an • Do NOT ask “why” questions that might imply Assistance for AUP Students: act of violence and is a crime that is punishable by law. blame. International SOS 01 55 63 31 55

Student Guidance Counselor Off-Campus Therapists Clinical Psychologist, Trauma Specialist Sandrine Godt Louis Monaco | 07 83 49 94 52 Rosemarie Bourgault (bilingual French/English) | 7 rue Saint-Senoch [email protected] | 01 40 62 06 43 Mathilde Toulemonde | 06 13 91 46 12 01-47-20-40-11 | Cell : 06-13-50-82-60 | [email protected] 104 105 HEALTH CARE

The American University of Paris offers its students a comprehensive health care plan that guarantees excellent medical coverage at an affordable price.

You are covered and reimbursed from the first day of orientation. If you need THE CARTE VITALE to see a doctor you will need to pay them directly. Keep all the paperwork that they give you including your prescription after you have had it filled — If you are staying at AUP for more than one semester it is worth applying for a you will need it to get your money back. “Carte Vitale” to speed up the process and so that you get a permanent social security number. You will need a birth certificate with an apostile to apply. The • The first time you see a doctor, ask them to complete the médecin traitant Health Office staff can help you with your application. form, this way you can be sure of the maximum reimbursement. • Come to the Health Office for information and lists of doctors and to drop off your claims. • Think about setting up your online account with both SMEREP and MSH quickly so that you can track any claims you have made; the health office will issue instructions on how to do this during the first week of class.

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Health Care Coordinator Anne Lecorguillé | 01 40 62 05 77 | [email protected] 106 107 DOCTORS IN PARIS

EMERGENCY Students Medical and Doctors who charge Dr. Céline Bismuth Laboratories Physical Therapist SERVICES Dental Center less than €40 7,rue Bernard de Laboratoires d’Analyses Mr. Paul Beurskens Affordable fees and a Dr. Philippe Labet Clairevaux Médicales 34, rue Dauphine Hospitals with variety of specialists 41, avenue Rapp Metro : Rambuteau 42, avenue Bosquet Metro : Odéon Emergency Rooms 12, rue Viala Metro : Pont de l’Alma 01.48.87.61.61 Metro : Ecole Militaire 01.44.07.04.97 in Paris Metro : Dupleix 01.44.18.394.82 01.47.05.84.37 http://www.aphp.fr/ 01.53.95.30.00 or English/French/German Dr. Guillaume Brahami Psychiatrist urgences 01.53.95.30.21 1B Place de Valais Laboratoire d’Analyses Dr. Isabelle laffont Dr. Philippe Martinetti Metro : Palais Royal Médicales 11, rue Vignon HOSPITALS 39, avenue Duquesne 01.42.61.60.40 16, rue José-Maria de Metro : Madeleine & CLINICS GENERAL Metro : Ecole Militaire Heredia 01.40.06.04.49 PRACTITIONERS 01.47.83.56.57 Dr. Aidan Dowd Metro : Ségur [email protected] Clinique Blomet English/French 11, rue de la Fontaine 01.47.83.24.13 136 bis, rue Blomet English Speaking du But Radiology/X-rays Metro : Convention Doctors Dr. Maxime Szusterkac Metro : Lamarck Ophthalmologist Centre d’Imagerie Médicale 08.26.30.45.37 Dr. Patricia Nizard 70, rue de Sèvres Caulaincourt Dr. Esther Blumen 199. rue de Grenelle 41, avenue Bosquet Metro : Duroc 01.46.06.90.64 41, avenue Bosquet Metro : Ecole Militaire L’Institut Hospitalier Metro : Ecole Militaire English/French Metro : Ecole Militaire 01.45.55.08.09 Franco-Britannique 01.45.55.66.15 01.43.06.71.45 Dermatologist 01.45.55.65.45 3, rue Barbès Dr. Brigitte Marchal Dr. Anne Ducellier-Orlowski 92300 Levallois-Perret Dr. Francis Slattery 40, avenue Bosquet Opticians 16, rue Franklin Metro : Anatole-France 10, avenue d’Eylau SPECIALISTS Metro : Ecole Militaire Optique Monnery Metro : Trocadéro 01.47.59.59.59 Metro : Trocadéro 01.45.51.04.40 49, rue Cler 01.45.25.15.10 01.47.42.02.34 Chiropractor Metro : Ecole Militaire Hôpital Européen Mr. Thierry Legagnoux Gynecologists 01.47.05.18.67 Georges-Pompidou SOS Médecins 119, rue de l’Université Dr. Anne-Françoise PHARMACIES 20, rue Leblanc SOS Médecins makes Metro : Invalides Neiman Walter Optique Service Metro : Balard house calls when you are 01.45.51.38.38 150, rue de l’Université 107, rue Saint Dominique 49, avenue Bosquet 01.56.09.20.00 too sick or when a GP is Metro : Invalides Metro : Ecole Militaire Metro Ecole Militaire not available. Make sure Dentists 01.44.18.72.18 0145.51.70.08 to ask for a claim form Dr. Olivier Besserman 104, rue Saint Dominique PSYCHIATRIC from the doctor so that 34, rue de la Victoire Dr. Nathalie Osteopath Metro Ecole Militaire EMERGENCIES you can be reimbursed. Metro : Notre Dame de Partouche-Fihma Mr. Jacques Lachant You can sometimes Lorette 29 bis, rue Monge 9 bis, rue Valence 151, rue de Grenelle Hopital Saint-Anne request an English- Metro: Cardinal Metro : Gobelins Metro : La Tour-Maubourg Open 24/7 speaking doctor. Lemoine 01.43.37.85.55 Day: 1 rue Cabanis Day 3624 or 01.47.07.77.77 01.43.25.42.56 Night: 17, rue Broussais Metro: Glacière or bus 62 01.45.65.80.00 108 109 CONNECTING

KEEPING IN TOUCH

You will want to be online and in touch from MOBILE/CELL PHONES MAIL SERVICES In order to purchase a cell phone All students at The American University the moment you arrive in Paris — able to receive calls, with a monthly subscription, you will of Paris have a mailbox in the 102, packages and mail and be in touch with family and friends. need to have already opened a bank Rue St. Dominque building entrance. account, as all calls and charges are A list with your box number will be billed monthly to your bank account. posted on the Monday of Orientation. You will also need to provide the cell You may receive mail in care of the INTERNATIONAL PHONE CALLS phone company with an enrollment University at the following address: certificate, available during Calls outside of France may be dialed direct or collect by going through an operator. Orientation and at the Registrar’s Your Name & Mailbox Number As in most countries, the rate you pay can be reduced by a substantial amount office during the semester. You may The American University of Paris depending on when you call (cheapest between 22:30 and 06:00 and on Sundays). choose to purchase a cell phone that 102, Rue St. Dominique operates on rechargeable cards. These 75007 Paris To make an international telephone call, phones can receive calls, but calls France dial: 00 + country code + number. can only be made when the card has credit. Such cell phone packages are The mailboxes at the University cannot To call collect, use either of the following: a good way to keep your phone bill be locked; plan on receiving personal AT&T international calling service: under control. mail at your Paris address as soon as 0800-99-0011 you are housed. Check your mailbox MCI international calling service: regularly, as this is one of the principal 0800-99-0019 means of contact that the University has with you.

110 111 CONNECTIVITY AT AUP Broadcast studio. Contact: PRINTING [email protected]. • The purchase of an external hard • Each semester, a certain number YOUR AUP NETWORK The AUP network uses the 802.11b/g drive is strongly advised when of ‘free’ pages are allocated to ACCOUNT standard and “Wi-Fi Protected working on video projects. each student. Additional printing Access” (WPA Enterprise) security. credits may be purchased by Your AUP NetID allows you to access For instructions on using AUP Wi-Fi YOUR PERSONAL COMPUTER logging in to www.aup.edu// e-mail, computer labs, file storage, see, www.aup.edu/wifi current-students, then IT Services, printing, library services, Blackboard For compatibility with AUP systems, My Printing. Please respect the course sites and more. It consists of your COMPUTER LABS & the following minimum standards environment and help reduce five-digit student ID number, preceded MULTIMEDIA SERVICES apply: Windows 7, 8 or 10 and Mac costs. Avoid printing unnecessarily. by the letter “a.” For example, if your OS X 10.6 or later. More recent • You can print from your laptop. ID number is 99999, your NetID will PC and Mac labs are located in operating systems are supported. Log on to http://printing.aup.edu be a99999. Passage Landrieu. Services include AUP strongly encourages you to and click “Web Print.” scanning, printing in color and purchase extended warranty options AUP E-MAIL black & white, CD/DVD burners for your computer. DEVICE DO’S AND DON’TS and equipment loans (USB keys, Every student receives an AUP headphones, etc.). Well stocked PERSONAL FILE • Keep and bring your laptop email account: [email protected] with cameras, tripods, microphones STORAGE-MY FILES installation CDs and manuals, or [email protected]. All and the like, the Multimedia Office in case you need to reinstall or official University communications provides equipment and guidance for Every student has a personal file reconfigure your system. are sent to this account so be sure audiovisual projects. The Multimedia storage space. Nightly backups make • Be sure to bring the appropriate to check your email daily at http:// Office also supports classroom this a secure place to store files. Access adapters and electrical connectors mail.aup.edu. audiovisual equipment and the your files from any campus computer for France. See: http://goeurope. Pat Thompson Production Studio. or your laptop at www.aup.edu/ about.com/cs/electricity/l/ bl_ WIFI AND YOUR DEVICES Multimedia Services include: current-students electricity.htm. • Keep a record of your computer You can use your personal computer, • Free Microsoft Office installation SECURITY configuration and serial numbers, phone or tablet to connect to AUP’s for personal Windows and Mac and a backup copy of your files. wireless network in any campus laptops. • Personal laptops must have up-to- • Check international warranty building. You can also easily sync • Free McAfee VirusScan installation date anti-virus software installed, options for equipment purchased your AUP account (e-mail, calendar on personal Windows laptops. available free of charge (PCs only, outside France. and contacts) with your phone or • Audio & Video equipment available not MACs). Bring your laptop to • Please note that to protect AUP tablet using the “Microsoft Exchange” from the Multimedia Office, C-303. the Lab. equipment, food and drinks are account option on your device. You See Multimedia policy. • Never share your NetID password prohibited in all Computer Labs can send certain types of documents • Free access to video tutorials at with anyone, and remember to from your laptop to campus printers https://lynda.aup.edu. always log off lab computers! using the “Web Print” feature at http:// • Access to the AUP Film/Photo/ • Please review AUP ITS Policies at: printing.aup.edu. www.aup.edu/its/policies.

NEED TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE? Help Desk 01 40 62 06 96 | [email protected] | http://helpdesk.aup.edu 112 113 IMMIGRATION

Our Student Immigration Services Office provides you with the resources to apply for and renew your legal residence documents.

FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS AND TRANSFER STUDENTS

Non-European union nationals When you arrive at AUP, the SIS Office will send a copy of your passport, leave the OFII without being inserted inside your passport the OFII “vignette” student visa, the entrance stamp placed in your passport upon entry and your (the OFII sticker). Once done with the OFII, you must visit the Immigration original Office Francais de l’Immigration et de l’Integration (OFII) form to the Office on Campus (SIS) to update your residency records. You must bring OFII Office in order to request an appointment to validate your student visa your passport to show the OFII sticker. in order to legalize your stay in France. Once your application is processed by the French Authorities, the OFII will schedule a mandatory appointment IMPORTANT: If you are in your first semester of study in France you will not that cannot be rescheduled. receive a separate titre de séjour upon your first application. The vignette inserted in your passport “validates” the visa and legalizes your stay in France. At this visit, you will be requested to provide some justifications of your stay Both combined, the OFII sticker and the student visa, are your residency card in France, such as a proof of housing. Your passport, a copy of your birth (also called VLS-TS: visa long séjour valant titre de séjour). Please note that if certificate (in French or in English), 3 pictures will also be required. Do NOT you are housed outside Paris (75), you must immediately contact the SIS Office.

114 115 RETURNING STUDENTS AUP, we will make copies of your passport, your visa, and take your original OFII Fall and Spring: If you are a Non-EU returning student you must contact the form. This form is given to you by the Consulate when you receive your student visa. Immigration Office three months before your titre de séjour expires to start the renewal application. Note that the application must be complete and sent to If you are studying in France for two semesters, you must be issued a long term the French Authorities two months before the residency card expires. student visa (VLS-TS- Visa Long Séjour valant Titre de Séjour). You will need to submitt additional documents to the French Authorities. See the SIS Office Be timely as expensive late fees apply: for further details. One day - three months after expiry: €180 (late fee) + €49 (renewal fee) Three months after expiry: €417 (late fee) + €49 (renewal fee) ESSENTIAL ADDRESSES

IMPORTANT: While the renewal application is processed by French Authorities, Prefecture De Police OFII–Office Français de you must remain in France until they are issued their residence permit (or at least Centre de Réception l’Immigration et de l’Intégration the temporary récépissé). See the SIS Office for further details. des Etudiants Etrangers (OFII appointment) 92 Boulevard Ney 48 Rue de La Roquette VISITING STUDENTS 75018 Paris 75011 Paris

If you are staying only one semester, all you need is a temporary student visa (D Important: Please be sure to first schedule an an appointment with SIS before –visa, dispense temporaire de carte de séjour) to enter France. When you arrive at reporting to the Prefecture or OFII offices. Appointments are required.

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: SIS Office 5, Boulevard de La Tour Maubourg | Room 2.01 (2nd floor) Hours: M–F 09:00–13:00 & 14:00–17:00 | [email protected] 116 117 MONEY MATTERS

HOW TO PAY OUTSTANDING Once registered for classes, you can FINANCIAL OBLIGATIONS TUITION PAYMENT AND DEADLINES log on to your account on the AUP If your account has an overdue balance website and look under the Student you will have a hold placed on your Tuition must be fully paid prior to the start of the semester; you will not be allowed Portal to find MyBilling. This will show account. You will not be able to register to attend classes unless your full semester tuition and fees have been paid. Student all amounts owed and payments for the subsequent semester and Accounting Services may cancel class registration or place a hold on academic received for any given term. transcripts, certificates of credit, and records if you do not pay tuition on time. Tuition payments must be made by the diplomas will not be issued until the deadlines listed below. Late fees will be charged for all payments received after Payments may be made online by accounts are paid in full. If you have the deadlines. credit card via the AUP website an outstanding balance you will not be http://my.aup.edu/payment. Other allowed to participate in the Graduation 15 July: Fall semester for yearly and semester payers payments can be made by bank ceremony. If you think you may be 15 December: Spring semester for semester payers transfer, by check in euros drawn on affected by these policies you should a French bank, or in cash. contact Student Accounting Services If you have selected the Installment Payment Plan, to make arrangements to resolve for which there is a fee of 200€, outstanding financial obligations. deadlines are:

Fall: 1 June or upon receipt of invoice, 1 July, 1 August and 1 September STUDENT ACCOUNTING SERVICES (SAS) Spring: 1 Sept or upon receipt of invoice, 1 Nov, 1 Dec and 1 January SAS supports you and your family with billing and payment processes. The department maintains all your AUP financial records. Information about tuition and fees is available Summer tuition is due on 30 April for the first session on the SAS pages of the AUP website: www.aup.edu/student-life/ resources-services/ and 31 May for the second session. student-accounting-services.

Student Accounting Services is happy to meet with you and your parents if you For questions about making payments and requesting refunds please contact would like assistance managing payments. If you are receiving financial aid and/ Sally Overton | [email protected] | 01 40 62 07 13 or have loans, you are expected to contact the Financial Aid Office (ddolyak@ For questions about invoices and debts please contact aup.edu) regarding any requirements that must be met. Mattea Lalanne | [email protected] | 01 40 62 07 11 For general information: [email protected] 118 119 STUDENT RIGHTS

AUP students move across cultural boarders both on campus and in Paris on a B. Student right to participate in the shared governance of the University, daily basis. As you find your place in our diverse community, you are expected including an opportunity to express concerns and affect change through to act as an exemplary citizen, upholding the AUP code of student conduct the Student Government Association as well as student membership on while also respecting local French customs and laws. Read the Rights and appropriate committees and administrative bodies. Responsibilities document in this section of the handbook to also understand your rights as a student, including representation by student government, protection C. Freedom from discrimination on the grounds of sex, race, color, religion, from discrimination and harassment and access to a wealth or resources and national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation or gender identity, creating facilities. an atmosphere of mutual respect in which the improvement of opportunities for individual intellectual development is the paramount concern; I. THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF PARIS (AUP) COMPACT D. The safety, welfare and property of all members of the University community, The American University of Paris is an educational institution that exists for and the safety and property of the University itself. the transmission of knowledge, the pursuit of truth, and the development of its students as critical thinkers able to move across the cultural borders of the It is the responsibility of each member of the AUP community to support these contemporary world with a sense of commitment to and responsibility for a standards of the AUP Compact. world held in common. II. RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES ON CAMPUS The University promotes its educational goals and preserves the human rights of each of its members by supporting the following rights and safeguards for The University’s campus in the 7th arrondissement of Paris brings together all of its students: academic resources, offices, and public spaces in a unified, though distributed, architectural whole. While on urban campus, students benefit from the following: A. Freedom of expression and freedom of inquiry for students and all members of the University community, subject to the limitations that such freedom A. Representation by Student Government: the Student Government Association shall not extend to the denial of another’s rights nor to attacks on individuals (SGA) is an integral part of the University’s model of shared governance. or on the university community as a whole. Each year a new student government, including an executive branch and members of the student senate, is democratically elected by the student body.

120 121 Graduate and undergraduate executives, the senate and SGA-mandated Student editors are not required to submit advance copy to the administration committees contribute actively to discussions about the community, including for review and are free to challenge ideas about the campus, the University and challenges and problems, and are free to propose projects and solutions the world at large. With this right, however, comes responsibility. Any student directly to the faculty, administration and the Board of Trustees. The SGA who contributes to student media at The American University of Paris is expected is also responsible for allocating the University’s student activities budget. to adhere not only to the basic tenants of responsible journalism but also to the University’s educational mission. This includes but is not limited to adequate B. Access to student-led organizations: official student-led organizations must research for all material before publication and properly quoted sources as well first be approved by the Student Leadership Office; members are required as avoidance of all forms of prejudice, libel, slander, undocumented allegations to be currently registered students. Current students are allowed to start and attacks on personal integrity. All ASM publications are required to indicate new organizations or to join already-established groups, and thus benefit on the proper editorial pages or in other appropriate formats that the opinions from access to meeting rooms on campus, equipment available through the expressed are those of the publication and are not necessarily those of the multimedia office, the use of student leadership spaces, the right to request University or the student body. funds through the student activities budget and other resources and support. Student groups that violate University policy may be disbanded or have The ASM Board represents student-led media initiatives at the university, certain rights listed here suspended. Students and student organizations providing an official voice to student editors. The board comprises a student may not sign contracts in the name of the University and should refer to the editor, a deputy editor and a faculty advisor for each ASM-mandated platform Student Leadership Office for support with external vendors. as well as a faculty advisor from the Global Communications Department and a staff advisor from the Office of Student Development. Student editors are C. Right to assemble, promote causes and invite guest speakers: the University’s appointed by a majority vote of the Board each semester. Faculty, staff and mission includes educating students to communicate effectively in a world students collaborate on a weekly basis through the ASM Board structure as of many different languages, to listen carefully and to think critically about well as via related student media classes. Student editors may be subject to history, human societies, economics, culture, literature, the arts, science, suspension or removal from their positions by the ASM Board if they do not politics, psychology, business and communication. As such, students are free adhere to the tenants of responsible journalism or if they are found in violation to assemble on campus, address topics of their choice, distribute pamphlets of the Code of Student Conduct. and petitions and invite guest speakers so long as their actions do not interfere with the normal processes of the University or infringe on the rights of others. Posters displayed on the campus must first be approved by the Office of III. RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES Student Leadership. OFF CAMPUS AND IN RESIDENTIAL LIVING

D. Right to free and autonomous student media organization: AUP Student All students studying at The American University of Paris, regardless of nationality, Media (ASM), the University’s student-led media organization, is a co- are bound by French legislation both on and off campus. Students are required curricular endeavor, providing hands-on educational experience for students to maintain proper legal residence status during their time as students in interested in journalism, communication, social media and other fields. It France. They are encouraged to explore the subtle and sometimes not so subtle produces print, digital and video news and entertainment for the entire differences between French culture and customs and other cultures and customs community. While ASM is dependent on the Student Government Association that they may be more familiar with. These differences will be addressed at for funding, the University provides sufficient editorial freedom for student Orientation and throughout a student’s studies at the University. Students should publications to maintain their integrity as platforms of free inquiry and free also familiarize themselves with all emergency and safety procedures relevant expression. to the University campus as well as Paris, France and Europe. Full details are available in the AUP Handbook and online.

STUDENT RIGHTS 122 123 The University commits to housing first-year undergraduates and all other students • Right to choose one person to accompany them to any official proceedings who request assistance with housing during the time of their studies. Working or hearings; with our preferred housing partners and local landlords, the University is able • Right to appeal any decisions made by a judicial committee; to provide a selection of clean, comfortable and well-maintained apartments. • Right to maintain student status until all investigations are completed and a decision is reached by a judicial committee. Students who accept accommodations through the University or its preferred housing partners must sign a housing agreement. This agreement is designed to V. UNIVERSITY POLICY ON SEXUAL HARASSMENT protect students, landlords and the property, ensuring that all parties by French laws and University regulations. Students should note that if they wish to change The American University of Paris affirms its commitment to the principle that their apartment assignment, they must consult Residence Life staff directly. no student, employee or applicant for employment shall be subject to sexual Staff members will evaluate the situation and, as a first recourse, recommend harassment. Sexual harassment is a violation of the standards of conduct at AUP a mediation procedure. A move may or may not be recommended as a second and is defined as any unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, recourse after the mediation procedure has been completed. and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature where:

Wherever students may be housed, they are expected to behave appropriately • Submission to such conduct is made either explicitly or implicitly a condition with roommates, neighbors and the community at large, in all respects. Violence or term of a student’s status in a course, program or activity or a condition or threats, sexual harassment, inappropriate behavior and loud noise are not of work. tolerated, in accordance with the University’s Code of Student Conduct, and • Submission to or rejection of such conduct by an individual is used as the will result in a warning or possibly immediate eviction. basis for academic or other decisions affecting a student or employee. • Such conduct has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with a IV. RIGHT TO PROCEDURAL FAIRNESS IN DISCIPLINARY CASES student’s academic performance, educational experience, or creating an The University strives to protect the dignity, integrity and reputation of each intimidating, hostile, or offensive environment. and every student, while at the same time enforcing the Code of Student Conduct and other University policies to maintain order, protect individuals and It is a violation of university policy to initiate any action of reprisal against a property and to fulfill our mission. Students accused of a breach of the Code of member of the university community who in good faith reports incidents of Student Conduct or of a violation of other University policies are guaranteed sexual harassment. a disciplinary process free of excessive legalism and based on common sense. The Student Code of Conduct and details regarding possible sanctions, judicial Complaints of sexual harassment should be filed with the Dean of Student boards and the appeals process are detailed later in this guide. When students Development. If the complaint concerns the conduct of another student, the face sanctions that may include censure, probation, suspension, expulsion or Dean of Student Development will initiate an investigation and follow the eviction, they are guaranteed the following rights: procedures outlined above under the standards of conduct for the University and the judicial procedures where appropriate. If the complaint concerns the • Right to be informed of the charges brought against them within a reasonable conduct of a university employee, the Dean of Student Development will forward timeframe, typically within a week of the charges first being reported; the complaint to Provost or to the Director of Human Resources, whichever is • Right to know prior to any hearing the names of any witnesses testifying appropriate, and an investigation will begin immediately. Should allegations against them; of sexual harassment be found to be true, disciplinary actions will be initiated. • Right to know prior to any hearing the details of all accusations; • Right to rebut any accusations and to produce witnesses on their own behalf;

STUDENT RIGHTS 124 125 VI. ACADEMIC INTEGRITY law; • Smoking in University buildings • The use of the University name AT AUP • Theft or willful destruction of the or in University-arranged housing in such as was as to imply physical or intellectual property of where smoking is forbidden; representation of the community, Please refer to the discussion of the University or of any member • Students housed through the in any public statement or Academic Integrity in the Academic of the community as well as the university Housing Office must demonstration, without prior Life section of the handbook storage of stolen property on sign a Housing Rules and authorization by the Office of the university premises; Regulations Agreement before Dean of Student Development; VII. CODE OF STUDENT • Conduct outside of the University, accepting accommodations, and • The posting or distribution CONDUCT including on University-sponsored subsequently must respect all of announcements, publicity, trips and housing, whether aspects of this agreement while publications, or products that To preserve its integrity as an arranged by the University or not, housed through the University, are not related to the University’s educational community, the University which violates either the Code of including timely payment of academic or non-academic has defined below institutional Student Conduct, or French Law, rent and arrival and departure programs, unless approved by standards of conduct for its students. or which damages the University’s deadlines. the Office of Student Leadership The University provides a mechanism standing in the local community; • Students excessively late with or the Dean of Student for student participation in the • Disorderly conduct: verbally rental payments for housing Development; formulation of standards of conduct abusing University officials acting secured through the university • Violations of the University’s and in judicial proceedings. These in performance of their duties; Housing Office, or with payments computer security systems and standards of conduct do not restrict acting in a manner that annoys, for university study trips or cultural altering the configuration of the right of the faculty to control disturbs, threatens or harasses excursions, risk judicial procedures University computers, software, conduct in the classroom within others; disrupting, obstructing or as outlined in the Student Rights e-mail accounts, or any other accepted standards of academic interfering with the activities of & Responsibilities Guide. computer files; freedom and responsibility. others, particularly on campus or • Dogs and other pets and animals • Non-compliance: failure to in residential living, or behaving are not permitted on university comply with reasonable directions PROHIBITED CONDUCT in a lewd or indecent manner; premises or housing arranged of University officials acting in • Cyberbullying and stalking through the University unless performance of their duties. The following are prohibited: another member of the authorized for instructional or Directives to cooperate in the • The use or threat of force, by community is prohibited. Whether laboratory use or when they are administration of the Code of any member of the community virtually through social media or trained guide dogs for specific Student Conduct are included in against any other; other technologies or in person, documented medical conditions the scope of this provision; • Sexual harassment, as defined engaging in any course of conduct or for the visually impaired. • Discrimination: committing any in Section V of the AUP Rights directed at a specific person Appropriate documentation must of the above acts because of a & Responsibilities Guide; that would cause a reasonable be submitted to and approved by person’s race, color, religion, sex, • The possession of firearms or other person to fear for his or her safety the Office of Student Development national origin, age, disability, dangerous weapons or substances or the safety of others, or suffer in these cases; sexual orientation or gender on university premises; substantial emotional distress; • Violation of the code of academic identity. • The use, transfer, distribution, • Conduct disturbing or disrupting integrity, as defined in Section IX of possession or sale of any substance the authorized use by others of the AUP Rights & Responsibilities classified as a narcotic by French University facilities; Guide;

STUDENT RIGHTS 126 127 VIII. SANCTIONS FOR Board, Appeals Committee or • Obligation to seek counseling with an on-campus counselor or off-campus VIOLATIONS OF CODE OF Dean of Student Development. therapist as determined by the University. Multiple sessions may be required STUDENT CONDUCT • Immediate suspension from to ensure the well-being of the student and in some cases a written medical elected office and participation statement attesting to the student’s well-being may be required. All cases of alleged violations of the in student-led organizations, • Community service: In certain cases the University may assign a set number of Code of Student Conduct or violations including the Student Government community service hours on or off campus to allow the student to demonstrate of French law and disruptions of Association and athletic teams, his or her goodwill and to help them gain a greater appreciation of the public order should be reported to and restricted access to certain community and campus life. the Dean of Student Development, campus facilities and resources • Residential warning: In the case of a less serious violations of the Code of who will investigate allegations as (e.g. Amex, multimedia office, etc.) Student Conduct or housing regulations, students will first receive a written soon as possible after the reported during the semester in progress. warning stipulating possible consequences of future violations violation. • Non-academic Probation: students • Residential Probation: indicates that a student is no longer in good standing on non-academic probation are within the university Housing Office and could be forced to relocate with The following is a non-exhaustive list not permitted to hold elected office another violation. of possible sanctions, provided as a or participate in extracurricular • Eviction from residence: termination of residence contract and exclusion from guide to those assessing sanctions. activities of the University during visiting housing offered by the University or its housing partners. Any student This broad list allows for considerable the probation period. Should they who is evicted forfeits all refunds and housing fees and must find new housing discretion, supporting the Conduct violate other standards of conduct on their own unless decided otherwise by the University. Board, Appeals Committee, the while on probation, they may be Residential Life Office and the suspended or dismissed from the IX. JUDICIAL PROCEDURES Dean of Student Development in University. their efforts to provide justice based • A recommendation to the Any person may refer a student or student groups or organizations suspected on the facts of each case examined. President of the University that of violating any part of the Code of Student Conduct, University policies or a student be suspended from the French law to the Dean of Student Development or the Office of Residential Non-exhaustive list of possible University for a limited period of Life. Students who feel that they have been discriminated against may also sanctions: time or be banned from taking request a meeting with the Dean of Student Development or the University • Warning: a verbal or written final exams and thus completing Conduct Board. All members of the Conduct Board and Appeals Committee reprimand indicating that a the semester. are appointed yearly in May and must adhere to absolute confidentiality relative student’s conduct is in violation • A recommendation to the President to the names and details of all persons involved in cases reviewed. of the Code of Student Conduct. of the University that a student be Students involved in disciplinary cases are guaranteed a certain number of • Censure: a written reprimand, not dismissed from the University for rights as detailed in Section IV of the Guide to Student Rights & Responsibilities. noted on transcripts, indicating that non-academic reasons. Students a student’s conduct is in violation of who have been suspended or A. Dean of Student Development: In a first instance, accused parties or students the Code of Student Conduct. dismissed may not enter or use who feel discriminated against are invited to an informal meeting with the • Assessment of damages and the University’s facilities. Dean of Student Development (or his/her representative) or the Office requirement of payment: a student • Requirement to produce a of Residential Life. If charges can be resolved administratively by mutual may be required to settle claims for medical certificate indicating that consent of the involved parties, the case will be decided at this level with damage or theft, the amount of the student is in the proper state of no further proceedings or appeal. A written confirmation will result from which is determined by the Conduct health to study at the University.

STUDENT RIGHTS 128 129 this meeting indicating all decisions agreed upon. If mutual consent cannot X. FERPA PRIVACY RIGHTS be resolved with the Dean of Student Development, the case is referred to the University Conduct Board. FERPA stands for The Family Education Rights and Privacy Act. It’s the U.S. federal law that governs release and access to student educational records. The B. University Conduct Board: Composed of two staff members appointed purpose of this law is to protect the rights of students and to ensure the privacy by the Dean of Student Development; one faculty member appointed by and accuracy of educational records. The act applies to all institutions that are Faculty Senate; and two students appointed by the Student Government recipients of federal aid administered by the U.S. Department of Education. Association, this board convenes to review grievances that cannot be settled at the level of the Dean of Student Development. After hearing all evidence • Students are protected by FERPA from the first day of classes at The and meeting with all parties concerned, the Conduct Board presents a American University of Paris and therefore have the following rights: decision to the Dean of Student Development. The Dean in turn conveys • The right to inspect and review academic record within 45 days after the this decision in writing to the accuser and the accused by AUP email and University receives a request for access. in hardcopy to their AUP mailboxes. Accused students who fail to appear • The right to request an amendment to educational record if it is inaccurate before the Conduct Board after one written notice will be deemed not to or misleading. have contested the allegations against them. Appointments to the committee • The right to consent to disclosure of personally identifiable information are made for one year from mid-May to mid-May. contained in academic records, except to the extent that FERPA authorizes disclosure without consent. C. Appeals Committee: Students wishing to appeal the decision made by • The right to file a complaint with the United States Department of Education Conduct Board must submit a written petition within five class days of such concerning alleged failures by the University to comply with FERPA. a decision to the Dean of Student Development, who will convey the petition to the Appeals Committee, which is composed of the Dean of Student PARENTS’ RIGHTS Development, the Chair of the Faculty Senate, and the SGA President (graduate and or undergraduate, depending on the case). The Appeal Since all AUP students are “eligible students” under FERPA, parents do not have Committee will meet as soon as possible to review the case and the decision. free access to their children’s records—even if they pay the bills. If the “grade The Appeals Committee will then decide to uphold or revise the decision of release” record is set to “YES”, only parents who are listed as the financially the Conduct Board. This decision is based on a majority vote. In the case of a responsible person will receive a grade summary and invoice every semester. But tie when both the graduate and undergraduate SGA presidents are present, they still have to be authorized by their children to receive any supplementary the Dean of Student Development makes the final decision. The Committee information. may propose to affirm the original decision of the Conduct Board, remand the case back to the Conduct Board for a new hearing, request that new For more about FERPA, please see: http://familypolicy.ed.gov/ members of the Conduct Board review the case or decide to lift sanctions or impose new sanctions. The decision made by the Appeals Committee is final. Only the President of the University can reverse an Appeals Committee decision.

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“WHAT DO I DO OFF CAMPUS?” NON-LIFE THREATENING OTHER EMERGENCY SERVICE EMERGENCY AND CONTACT INFORMATION A life threatening situation calls for the patient’s condition (cannot walk, If you need help in a medical immediate and independent action on is vomiting, is in pain, etc.) emergency that is not life-threatening, Medical and Travel Security Assistance your part. This information should be kept • LISTEN CAREFULLY to directions the Office of Student Development for AUP Students: visible and accessible in your cellphone they may give you – your actions can help you find the kind of medical International SOS or taped to your apartment wall. may help save a life. service you need. You can also find 01 55 63 31 55 the list of medical providers in your WHEN CALLING AN Note: SOS Médecins and MSH Student Handbook, and on AUP’s Hôpital Cochin EMERGENCY SERVICE, YOU International can answer emergency calls website: https://www.aup.edu/student- Severe Burns (Service des brulés) : NEED TO: in English. Remember that important life/resources-services/health-wellness/ 01-58-41-26-49 or 01-42-34-17-58 numbers are on the back of your Student medical-providers • SPEAK CLEARLY AND SLOWLY. ID Card! Injuries/ER : 01-58-41-27-22 If you don’t speak French and do not • SOS Médecins: 3624 27, rue du Faubourg St. Jacques have anyone nearby who does, the LIFE THREATENING (If you’re too sick to get outside, 75014 Paris person on the other end may be able EMERGENCY the doctor will come to you.) to understand you, or get someone • Fire Department/Paramedics Hôpital Fernand Widal who can. • EU Emergency number: 112 (Pompiers): 18 SOS Anti Poison (Poison Control Ctr) • PROVIDE your name and address, (available from cell phones, • SOS Dentists: 01-43-37-51-00 01-40-05-48-48 floor (étage,) entrance code number, and in any EU member country) • SOS Drogues Int’l: 200, rue du Faubourg St. Denis if needed, and your phone number. • SAMU = 15 (Emergency 01-55-87-55-55 75010 Paris Say who you are (victim/patient/ Medical Technicians (EMTs) and • Sexually-Transmitted Diseases: witness, etc.) Provide a number on Paramedics/Ambulance)Or: 01- 01 40 78 26 00 Hôpital Saint-Anne which you’re always reachable. 45-67-50-50 • AIDS/HIV Info Service: Psychiatric Emergencies • INFORM THEM of the nature of • Fire Department/Paramedics 0 800 840 800 01-45-65-80-00 the illness or accident, and what (Pompiers): 18 Visit: www.aup.edu/student-life/ Day : 1, rue Cabanis has happened since, and if any • Police Department resources-services/health-wellness/ 24/7 : 17, rue Broussais treatment has been given. Describe (Police Secours): 17 medical-providers Paris 75014 - Metro Glacière or Bus 62

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ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT CHAIRS

2017-18 Undergraduate Department and Graduate Program Chairs

Division/Department Chairs Telephone Email Division/Department Chairs Telephone Email

Art History & Fine Arts Anna Russakoff 01.40.62.08.14 [email protected] International Business Administration Dianne Bonneau 01.40.62.06.97 [email protected] Comparative Hall Gardner & [email protected] International Politics Philip Golub 01.40.62.06.91 [email protected] MSc in International Management Robert Earhart 01.40.62.05.79 [email protected] Comparative Literature & English Geoff Gilbert 01.40.62.08.25 [email protected] MA in Global Communications Robert Payne 01.40.62.08.28 [email protected] Computer Science, Ruth Corran 01.40.62.06.82 [email protected] MA in International Economics Ali Rahnema 01.40.62.06.85 [email protected] Affairs Susan Perry 01.40.62.05.88 [email protected] Film Studies Alice Craven 01.40.62.06.80 [email protected] MA in Diplomacy English Foundation Linda Martz 01.40.62.06.73 [email protected] and International Law Susan Perry 01.40.62.06.85 [email protected]

French & Psychology Brian Schiff 01.40.62.05.88 [email protected] Modern Language Dominique Mougel 01.40.62.06.77 [email protected] Writing Lab Ann Mott 01.40.62.06.72 [email protected] Global Communications Charles Talcott 01.40.62.05.75 [email protected] Writing Program Cary Hollinshead- 01.40.62.06.70 [email protected] History Albert Wu 01.40.62.07.05 [email protected] Strick

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CAMPUS CONTACT INFORMATION Your Concern Office Campus AUP Phone Location Extension(s) The Index below identifies offices that can help with various issues. If dialing from a non-campus phone, dial 01.40.62.0… before the AUP extension listed here. Doctors/ L = La Tour Maubourg PL = Passage Landrieu G = Grenelle Health Concerns Student Development Office C-308 821 C = Combes StDo = Saint Dominique Enrollment Certificates Registrar’s Office L J-02 813

Financial Aid Financial Aid Office L-002 727 Your Concern Office Campus AUP Phone [email protected] Location Extension(s) Forms, Requirements, Master Programs Academic Advising Center for Academic, PL-1 661 & 671 and General Inquiries [email protected] L-108 654 Internship, Career Advising [email protected] Guidance Counseling, Counseling Office Therapist References [email protected] C-405 643 Academic Concerns Dean’s Office L-101 604 Health Plan Health Coordinator C-500 821 Academic Requirements Registrar’s Office L J-02 611 [email protected]

Academic Status Registrar’s Office L J-02 612 & 813 Housing/Roommates Residential Life Office C-408 597-599 Add/Drop Registrar’s Office L J-02 612 & 813 [email protected]

Admissions Admissions Office L-002 720 I.D. Cards Registrar’s Office L J-02 813 [email protected] Internships/ Center for Advising, PL-1 634 & 625 Books and Supplies Bookstore Amelie 594 Career Planning Internship, Career Advising [email protected] Carte de Séjour / Student Immigration Services [email protected] Titre de séjour (SIS) [email protected] L-201 615 Library Inquiries Library [email protected] Montessuy 562 Class Schedules Registrar’s Office L-001 818 Lost and Found Reception C 616 Complaints/Misc Student Development Office C-308 630 & 631 Passport/Visa Issues Student Immigration Services L-201 615 Computer ITS Helpdesk Information [email protected] PL-1 696 Presidential Inquiries President’s Office L-103 659

Credits Registrar’s Office L J-02 813 Raising your concerns Student Government to administration, Association (SGA) Office Cultural Events/ Tickets Cultural Program Office help plan events [email protected] C-304 589 [email protected] C-307 596

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Your Concern Office Campus AUP Phone Location Extension(s)

Sexual Harassment The Office of Student C-405 643 Development, Sandrine Godt

Sports Inquiries Sports Office C-307 593 [email protected]

Student Accounting Student Accounting Services Services (SAS) Office L J-05 711 & 713

Student Activities Info Student Leadership Office C-306 821 [email protected]

Student Publications AUP Student Media (ASM) C-302 -- Office [email protected]

Student Mail Mail Office StDo 609 [email protected]

Study Abroad/ Center for Academic, Internship, Exchange and Career Advising [email protected] PL-1 661 & 671

Transcripts Registrar’s Office L J-02 813

Travel Info/Trips Cultural Program Office C-307 596

Writing Support Writing Lab G-009 672

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