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Every summer we welcome students to the American College of Norway to take part in a four-week summer session and this summer was no exception.

ACN Alumni, Faculty and Friends, as we celebrate and build on ACN’s 25 year history of accomplishments, we remain challenged by limited resources to ensure that future students are also able to benefit from an ACN experience. We strive to provide the very best educational and personal growth experiences at an affordable cost. ACN increasingly depends on private philanthropy for the continued evolution of the college as a place where Norway and American truly meet for the benefit of all students. Therefore, we ask that you, as a supporter of ACN, help to celebrate our 25th Anniversary by becoming a Founding Donor to the new American College of Norway Foundation, USA.

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Course descriptions for Fall 2018 are now available! Here you can read about the courses that ACN will be offering for the upcoming semester. We look forward to welcoming a new group of students to ACN this August!

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ACN student and travel course participant, Song, reflects back on his art journey to London. From classical art at the National Gallery to touring Shakespeare's Globe and seeing Kinky Boots live on the West End, art can be found around every corner in London. Read more in depth about Song's transformative and enlightening experience in London.

This past Easter break, the American College of Norway ventured to London for an arts travel course led by visiting faculty, Dr. Tami Carmichael from the University of North Dakota. On their tour of London, the students took in art of various forms around every corner of London. Thank you, Dr. Carmichael for leading such a successful travel course filled with tons of art, lots of laughs and new friendships! Where should we have faculty led travel courses next school year?!

Every semester, we welcome a new group of international students who will spend a semester, sometimes even a year, studying abroad with us at American College of Norway. Recent West Chester University study abroad student, Jamison Ludgate spent her fall semester at the American College of Norway and offers great insight and reflections on what it is like to study abroad in Moss, Norway at ACN. If you're thinking of studying abroad, why not make ACN and Moss your second home?! Trust us, you won't be disappointed!

What is it like teaching abroad at the American College of Norway? Fall 2017 faculty member from the University of North Dakota, Ashleah Wimberly shares great insight into what it's like to be a visiting faculty member at ACN. Ashleah also opens up about her transformation not only as a teacher, but as a now global citizen in this reflective blog piece.

Thanksgiving is a time when family and friends come together to celebrate all the things they are thankful. ACN is proud to have brought this much loved and cherished tradition to Norway every year (25 to be exact!).

We would like to give a special shout out and thanks to Unni Gran from Skadesminke U.G. for coming down to ACN and helping create some pretty terrifying wound makeup for our haunted house this year. Your great work was definitely a factor to this year's well-received haunted house. Thanks for sharing your talent and craft with our staff, faculty and students, we're all beyond appreciative.

Halloween wouldn't be the same at ACN without our annual haunted house! This year, our American (College of Norway) Horror Story - Haunted House, had record breaking turnout and rave reviews, easily making it one of our most successful haunted houses to date!

During this year's fall break, American College of Norway students, faculty and staff went on a once in a lifetime Arctic expedition to Svalbard, Norway - Norway’s farthest northern territory! This exciting travel course was led by Dr. John Ross and this year’s ACN students got to explore Pyramiden, hike thousand-year-old glaciers and listen to educational lectures at the University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS)!

Another year, another incredible Homecoming Week filled with fun activities! Homecoming is a pivotal time at any American university institution and here at ACN, we aim to create the classic American Homecoming experience. Throughout the week we had fun dress up days, tasty treats, an American football game and a Masquerade Homecoming Dance!