Hva er American College of Norway
Drømmer du om å studere i utlandet? Kickstart eventyret på USA reisen ved American College of Norway! Vi gir deg en smidig overgang til det amerikanske utdanningssystemet, og gjør deg rustet til å takle praktiske og faglige utfordringer underveis. Finn ut hvordan vi kan bidra til at du lykkes som student i USA!
FULLFØR ETT ÅR AV BACHELORGRADEN DIN I NORGE
Som student hos oss tar du ett år med fag i Norge, før du fullfører bachelorgraden din ved et universitet i USA. Året på ACN består av generelle fag som er obligatoriske for alle amerikanske bachelorstudenter, såkalte general education requirements. (Nærmere forklaring under)
ACN-studiet teller som ett år av en fireårig amerikansk bachelorgrad, og gir deg 30 amerikanske studiepoeng som kan overføres til et universitet i USA. I tillegg, etter å ha bestått fagene på ACN med gode nok karakterer, er du garantert plass ved våre åtte samarbeidsuniversiteter! Du kan også søke fritt på andre skoler i USA. Klikk her for å lese mer om partneruniversitetene.
PERSONLIG VEILEDNING
AMERICAN COLLEGE OF NORWAY (ACN) SIN ROLLE I DET AMERIKANSKE UNDERVISNINGSSYSTEMET
HVA ER FORSKJELLEN MELLOM UNIVERSITET OG COLLEGE?
HVORFOR ER EN AMERIKANSK BACHELORGRAD 4 ÅRIG?
VALG AV GRAD
KORT FORTALT
FORDELER MED AMERICAN COLLEGE OF NORWAY
For mange har det vært en livslang drøm å studere i USA. Ikke bare er det et nytt eventyr - du utfordrer deg selv både sosialt og faglig. En internasjonal bakgrunn kan utgjøre en viktig forskjell når du skal søke jobb i fremtiden.
DERFOR BØR DU VELGE ACN
American College gjør deg kjent med hvilke muligheter du har for å studere i USA, og hjelper deg med å legge en plan for din akademiske utvikling og bachelorgrad i utlandet.
Ett år på ACN innebærer en rekke fordeler for deg som drømmer om å studere i USA. Her er noen av grunnene til at du bør starte utenlandseventyret ditt sammen med oss:
- Du studerer sammen med både norske og amerikanske studenter.
- Du får et unikt sosialt nettverk før du drar videre til USA.
- Du får god kunnskap om det amerikanske universitetssystemet.
- Du får hjelp med praktiske og byråkratiske gjøremål – alt fra omfattende søknadsprosesser, til å søke om lån og visum.
- Du er garantert plass ved et av samarbeidsuniversitetene våre. Klikk her for å lese mer om våre partnerskoler.
- Du forbedrer engelskkunnskapene dine, og får undervisning av amerikanske professorer fra partneruniversitetene våre.
- Du kan bo på campus sammen med norske og amerikanske medstudenter. Her får du virkelig en forsmak på college-livet!
- Det er gøy å studere hos oss! Vi arrangerer en rekke sosiale aktiviteter i løpet av året, både på og utenfor campus.
- Du har alle muligheter åpne når du skal studere i USA. Velg studieretning innen alt fra film til fysikk.
Ansatte og forelesere
Staff
Krista Lauritzen
Krista Lauritzen is the Executive Director of the American College of Norway, a position she has held since the college’s founding in 1991. She is from Two Harbors, Minnesota and has her higher education from Augsburg College in Minneapolis, MN. While in college she participated in an exchange program at the University of Trondheim and is committed to helping students to study abroad!
Siv Lønningdal
Siv is the Office & Accounting Manager. She is from Os in the western part of Norway, but has lived in the area since 1974. She has been with ACN since 1993 and is likely the first person you will meet here. She handles the college’s finances and assists with information about such things as rent and student tuition payments.
Tonje Kristiansen
Tonje is the Marketing & Event coordinator at ACN. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Event Management at the University of Winchester, and her Master’s degree in Tourism Studies from the Arctic University of Norway. Tonje grew up in Moss and is passionate about making sure students explore the town, and she is always looking for opportunities for students to engage authentically with the local community.
Heidi Benjaminson
Heidi is the Academic Advisor. She earned a Bachelor’s degree in Communication from ACN’s partner school, University of North Dakota and spent half of her junior year studying abroad at ACN, where she met her husband, a Norwegian ACN student. After graduation, they lived and worked in Norway for a few years before moving to Scotland where she earned a Master of Science in Education focusing on international education and study abroad. Heidi spent nearly a decade in Brisbane, Australia working with inbound and outbound international students before moving back to Norway.
Colin Solaas
Colin is the Resident Assistant at the on-campus dorms. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks. He started his college education at ACN in 1999 and has taught accounting classes here.
Faculty
Eric Todd Guggisberg
ACN FACULTY FALL 2022, FALL 2023, FALL 2024 AND Fall 2025
Eric Todd is a teacher and actor who works with students and artists to deepen their analytical understanding and personal development. His work helps to set a foundation for their careers on and off the stage. He holds a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in Acting from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and a Master’s degree in Ibsen Studies from the University of Oslo. Originally from the United States, Eric moved to Norway in 2017 with his wife and their dog Jasper who has taught him that, in Norway, “there is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing”.
Eric Todd is a teacher and actor who works with students and artists to deepen their analytical understanding and personal development. His work helps to set a foundation for their careers on and off the stage. He holds a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in Acting from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and a Master’s degree in Ibsen Studies from the University of Oslo. Originally from the United States, Eric moved to Norway in 2017 with his wife and their dog Jasper who has taught him that, in Norway, “there is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing”. Eric has worked in motion pictures (A Cure For Wellness), television shows (Emmy-nominated series The Sinner, Blue Bloods, etc.) as well as independent movies, voice-over, and video game motion-capture. In Norway he can be seen in TV shows such as Neste Sommer. Most recently he toured through London and Norway in the Norwegian Ibsen Company’s production of When We Dead Awaken, produced by Kåre Conradi. He has taught internationally in subjects ranging from Stanislavski’s “Method” to Henrik Ibsen’s presentation of gender roles within his body of work.
Dr. Robin Smith
ACN FACULTY SPRING 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Summer 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025 and Fall 2025
Robin Smith is a femme, queer, writer & scholar originally from Northern California. Robin is the author of the chapbook “Confessions of a Love Addict” (Dancing Girl Press, 2020) and two full length collections Love Glut (Rebel Satori Press 2021) and Willow Abuelo & Me (UND ProQuest 2023). She is the winner of the Academy of American Poets Prize and the Katherine B. Tiffany Award, among others. Her work has appeared in By & By poetry review, Aji Literary Magazine, Visual Artists Collective, Zoetic Press, Red Ogre, Westwind, Legendary Review, PACIFICReview among many others.
Robin Smith is a femme, queer, writer & scholar originally from Northern California. Robin is the author of the chapbook “Confessions of a Love Addict” (Dancing Girl Press, 2020) and two full length collections Love Glut (Rebel Satori Press 2021) and Willow Abuelo & Me (UND ProQuest 2023). She is the winner of the Academy of American Poets Prize and the Katherine B. Tiffany Award, among others. Her work has appeared in By & By poetry review, Aji Literary Magazine, Visual Artists Collective, Zoetic Press, Red Ogre, Westwind, Legendary Review, PACIFICReview among many others. Her work has also been featured in anthologies such as Bliss and Drawn to Comics. She was the lead poetry editor for the Northridge Review, and is an associate editor for Voicemail Poems. Robin Smith was the judge of the 2019 Rachel Sherman award for up and coming poets. She received her B.A and M.A in Creative Writing (poetry) from California State Northridge and recently graduated the University of North Dakota where she received her Phd in Creative Writing and Literature. Robin currently lives in Norway where she teaches Composition for the American College of Norway. She is a huge fan of Taco Bell and was proudly rejected by Taco Bell Quarterly this year and she also loves literary gossip and trash TV.
Dr. Kara Hodgson
ACN FACULTY Fall 2025
Dr. Kara (Kat) Hodgson is a researcher at the University of Bergen's Department of Government. Her specialties are international relations, comparative politics, Russian studies, and Arctic studies. Although a native of Colorado, Kat earned her bachelor's from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and master's degrees from both Indiana University and Colorado State University. She moved to Norway to complete her PhD at UiT-The Arctic University Of Norway in Tromsø.
Kat's professional goal is to inspire students to be empowered global citizens by appreciating the rights and responsibilities they hold.
Her personal goal is to cross the Arctic Circle in each of the 8 Arctic states...so far, she has done it in 4 countries.
Abbey Schneider
ACN FACULTY FALL 2022, SPRING 2023, SPRING 2024, SPRING 2025 AND FALL 2025
Abbey Schneider is a social sciences lecturer at the American College of Norway and Bjørnholt videregående skole in Oslo. She is from Washington, DC where she taught for several years in Maryland high schools, the American University and Georgetown University before coming to Norway as a Fulbright Roving Scholar in American Studies in 2007. For the last twelve years she has been teaching psychology in Oslo. Abbey is passionate about equity in education, student well-being and the role of education in democracy. Outside of her professional interests, Abbey is active in the international community in Oslo. She spends her free time trying to keep up with her daughter and the family dog.
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HISTORIE
American College ble grunnlagt i 1990 av tidligere NHO-direktør Dr. Steinar Opstad. Hvert år siden 1992 har vi hatt gleden av å ønske norske og internasjonale studenter velkommen til Moss, for å bidra til at de lykkes med utdanningen sin i USA.
Det første året gjennomførte 24 norske og amerikanske studenter programmet ved ACN. Mye har skjedd siden den gang, og i dag har vi opptak for opptil 50 studenter. Vi har gjennom tidene hatt vårt campus i historiske omgivelser som på Torderød Gård, Møllebyen og Konvensjonsgården. Høsten 2023 flyttet vi vårt campus til Torvterassen, i hjertet av Moss by. Herfra er det kort vei til det meste – bibliotek, kaféer og handlegater.
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