Summer Courses

Summer Courses

Through writing poetry and analyzing examples, students become familiar with poetic forms and techniques. This workshop, led by a publishing writer, includes weekly peer critique of poems written for the course. Students explore what makes a poem moving, evocative, and imbued with a sense of music, no matter what the approach: lyric, narrative, surreal, or experimental.May be taken twice for credit.


From Wednesday, July 2, 2025 to Wednesday, July 23, 2025
DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Monday
14:30
18:00
G-102
Tuesday
14:30
18:00
G-102
Wednesday
14:30
18:00
G-102
Thursday
14:30
18:00
G-102

Whether a story is an imaginative transformation of life experience or an invention, the writing must be well crafted and convincing, driven not only by plot and theme but also through characterization, conflict, point of view, and sensitivity to language. Students produce and critique short stories and novel chapters while studying fiction techniques and style through examples.


From Wednesday, July 2, 2025 to Wednesday, July 23, 2025
DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Monday
14:30
18:00
G-207
Tuesday
14:30
18:00
G-207
Wednesday
14:30
18:00
G-207
Thursday
14:30
18:00
G-207

This workshop gives students the opportunity to explore through reading, research and writing assignments an array of creative nonfiction forms, including memoir, travel writing, food and nature writing, and social essays. Assignments help students strengthen their ability to create the self as character, a first-person narrator who leads the reader into the world of personal experiences and research. The course explores narrative structure, description, characterization, dialogue, and tension, all key elements in making writing spirited and appealing. The workshop also includes guest speakers and field exercises in Paris. May be taken twice for credit.


From Wednesday, July 2, 2025 to Wednesday, July 23, 2025
DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Monday
14:30
18:00
G-009
Tuesday
14:30
18:00
G-009
Wednesday
14:30
18:00
G-009
Thursday
14:30
18:00
G-009

This course is designed to give you strong technical and conceptual skills in video production. This course will prepare you for future video work in film, journalism, media and communications, studio art, and can be useful across many other disciplines. You will learn to create several complete film and audio projects, each challenging you to explore new skills. Class time will be divided into lectures, screenings, and mostly in-class labs and critique. Homework will consist of readings, writing responses, shooting, editing and screenings.


From Wednesday, June 4, 2025 to Wednesday, July 16, 2025
DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Monday
13:40
15:20
C-501
Tuesday
13:40
15:20
C-501
Wednesday
13:40
15:20
C-501
Thursday
13:40
15:20
C-501

Topics vary every semester.
“For the course description, please find this course in the respective semester on the public course browser: https://www.aup.edu/academics/course-catalog/by-term.”


From Wednesday, June 4, 2025 to Tuesday, June 24, 2025
DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Monday
09:00
12:30
C-101
Tuesday
09:00
12:30
C-101
Wednesday
09:00
12:30
C-101
Thursday
09:00
12:30
C-101

Topics vary every semester.
“For the course description, please find this course in the respective semester on the public course browser: https://www.aup.edu/academics/course-catalog/by-term.”


From Wednesday, July 2, 2025 to Wednesday, July 23, 2025
DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Monday
09:00
12:30
C-505
Tuesday
09:00
12:30
C-505
Wednesday
09:00
12:30
C-505
Thursday
09:00
12:30
C-505

Topics vary by semester


From Wednesday, June 4, 2025 to Tuesday, June 24, 2025
DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Monday
09:00
12:30
C-501
Tuesday
09:00
12:30
C-501
Wednesday
09:00
12:30
C-501
Thursday
09:00
12:30
C-501
Friday
09:00
12:30
C-501

Students may undertake an internship in an advertising agency, film company, or television company. Internships may be taken for 1 or 4 credits. Students may do more than one internship, but internship credit cannot cumulatively total more than 4 credits. The internship must be registered for 4-CR if the student decides to do an internship instead of the senior seminar. Students have taken internships at CNN, Harpers, Societe Francaise de Production, Le Courrier International, Sixty Minutes, European Broadcasting Union, amongst many others.


From Tuesday, June 3, 2025 to Monday, July 21, 2025

In consultation with a faculty member, the student undertakes a senior project related to the field or pratice of journalism and media production. Written projects are normally 25-30 pages. The project can take the form of a feature-length magazine article, a long-form piece of video or audio journalism, a multi-media production including iconography and illustrative material, or a strategic business plan for a journalism or media product such as a magazine or online platform.

(https://aupforms.formstack.com/workflows/senior_project)


From Monday, September 1, 2025 to Tuesday, December 16, 2025

This course explores fashion not (only) as product but process. It explores this industry from field to fashion and investigates the complex global fashion system from cultures of extraction, design, manufacture, to cultures of representation, consumption, wearing and disposal/re-use. The fashion chain will be studied through a series of rich textual and visual sources, lectures, debates and visits.


From Tuesday, June 3, 2025 to Tuesday, June 24, 2025
DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Monday
14:30
18:00
Q-604
Tuesday
14:30
18:00
Q-604
Wednesday
14:30
18:00
Q-604
Thursday
14:30
18:00
Q-604

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