Graduate programs in hospitality, fashion, int’l ed, visual media, and health and wellness studies.

The School of Graduate Studies offers unique opportunities for students to engage in an academic environment while applying leadership skills in diverse disciplines.

Candidates embarking on graduate study pathways expand previous undergraduate knowledge through in-depth and specialized approaches to training and instruction. At the graduate level, the perspectives, skills, and learning gained are addressed through further contextualization, multiple critical frameworks, and specialized forms of knowledge and experience. Graduate education at AUF emphasizes the mastery of a professional field through learning, research, and practice in order for the program candidate to demonstrate a complex and advanced preparation for not only entering but actively contributing to and leading in the intended field.

According to the program of study, graduate students regularly interact with the CEMI pertaining to the related discipline. Graduate students take on leadership and supervisory roles in CEMI engagement, contributing to faculty oversight and guiding the undergraduate student experience in the collective effort of community-building in Florence.