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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.

 

image of caution signIn Feb. 2012 a student exhibition took a critical look at Schoolhouse South Africa and the merits of humanitarian design as a follow-up on the outreach project. Cornell University Sustainable Design (CUSD) orchestrated the outreach project, Schoolhouse South Africa, from research to design to construction. The result is the first such facility in Cosmo City, a community of 12,500 dwellings.
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Detail from Artifice issue #2 (2010), comic book, 7Five undergraduate art students have been selected as recipients of the 2012–13 David R. Bean Prize in Fine Arts and will study with the Cornell in Rome program this fall. Jon Atkinson (B.F.A.'14), Vincent Chong (B.F.A.'14), Jihyun “Joy” Jeong (B.F.A.'14), Natani Notah (B.F.A.'14), and Christine Pan (B.F.A.'14) were chosen by a jury of art faculty from a collection of student work.

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Flood damage in Owego NYStudents in the Department of City and Regional Planning participated in an effort to help flood victims by coordinating survey mapping systems to obtain information about residents' most pressing needs.

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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

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First-year B.Arch. review