• One special characteristic of the CUPA program is the direct contact made with students’ professors, ensuring that the quantity and quality of assigned work will justify the credits recommended for transfer.
• A fiche de liaison pédagogique or "academic contract" is agreed upon and signed by both the student and the professor for each course. It establishes in detail the workload for the course, at the start of the semester.
• Since French university professors expect their students to be quite autonomous, this academic contract, along with the student’s Study Project (a self-designed syllabus detailing research and coursework to be done over the semester) provides the student with the necessary amount of structure for each course.
