GPS & Academics

The Global Professional Skills Program (GPS) supports students as they navigate their university experience, which includes their activities inside and outside the classroom. The GPS Program encourages students to get involved in a wide variety of enriching activities across campus, supports students as the think about their post-AUP plans, and offers tools to articulate what they’ve learned and how it’s applicable in the context of their objectives.

The GPS Program is part of The American University of Paris’s Global Liberal Arts Core Curriculum (GLACC). All degree-seeking undergraduate students are required to complete an Experiential Learning activity. One way for a student to complete the Experiential Learning requirement of the core curriculum is to complete the GPS program and earn their GPS Certificate.

GPS Partner Courses

To increase the number of experiential learning opportunities for AUP students, the GPS Program has partnered with courses across many academic departments. All GPS partner courses include an experiential learning component that allows students to earn GPS credit for the Working with Others component of the Program by actively participating in the course’s activities, projects, and events. GPS course partnerships inspire students to approach their studies with increased sense of purpose and intentionality. 

Are you a faculty member teaching a course with an experiential learning component? To start a GPS-course partnership, contact gpsaup.edu.