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What are AAP Undergraduate Students Learning?

Pedagogical approaches in the college extend beyond conventional classroom instruction, preparing our students to purposefully engage their fields and the larger world. The ability to communicate effectively — through writing, speech, and visual media — is incorporated into all areas of study. Teachers foster critical thinking skills, focusing students on examining assumptions and assessing conclusions rather than simply acquiring and retaining knowledge. Through varied coursework students learn to address complex problems and grow to comprehend their chosen discipline historically and globally as they add value to society across cultural contexts.

 

Department Learning Goals

 

Student Highlights

AAP students thrive in an environment that embraces a purposeful, integrated, and collaborative educational process.

 

Katie Kasabalis at AAP NYCAfter spending a semester at AAP NYC interacting with architects in the field, Katie Kasabalis (B.Arch. '09) became keenly aware of how highly they regard the needs and desires of the people.
Meet Katie Kasabalis

Detail from Artifice issue #2 (2010), comic book, 7Three undergraduate art students have been selected as the recipients of the 2010–11 Bean Prize in Fine Arts. Christina Chaplin (B.F.A. ’12), Zhili Li (B.F.A. ’12), and Sarah Sanders (B.F.A. ’12), were chosen for the award in an exhibition juried by the art faculty and will study with the Cornell in Rome program next spring.

View the award-winning art

Martin Romo, (M.R.P. '12) looks out over Nuevo Juan de Grijalva, a newly created rural city, during his trip to Mexico.Six planning students participated in an international workshop in Chiapas, Mexico, to assess a government program that is attempting to combat rural poverty in the region. The students interviewed key stakeholders, local nongovernmental organizations and academics familiar with the program at each site.

Read more about the student trip
placeholderThe AAP student-run publication Association aims to features projects that are not confined to one field but generate associations crossing traditional boundaries, allowing for interdepartmental collaboration and exploration. Seven B.Arch. students worked on volume 4.

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First-year B.Arch. review, student demonstrating work

William Staffed / AAP

First-year B.Arch. review