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Université of the New Sorbonne; Paris III
	Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle; Paris III
Established	1971, following the division of the University of Paris (1253)
Type	Public
Chancellor	Maurice Quénet; Chancellor of the Universities of Paris
President	Bernard Bosredon
Students	19,360
Undergraduates	7 572
Postgraduates	7 904
Doctoral students	3 252
Location	Paris, France
Affiliations	University of Paris
Website	http://www.univ-paris3.fr

The University of the New Sorbonne (Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, also known as Paris III) is a public university in Paris, France.

The Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle is a founding member of the Paris Universitas, a union of 6 Parisian universities.

[edit] Overview

The Sorbonne Nouvelle offers courses in a wide range of Arts and Humanities subjects.

[edit] University Sites

The Sorbonne Nouvelle has sites at various locations in Paris, and one site at Asnières. The main university centres are:

Central Sorbonne Building - central administration offices, Literature

Censier - the main teaching site, named after the adjacent street

Bièvre - houses teaching and research facilities for language study and the main staff and student refectories

Central Sorbonne Building

Rue Saint Jacques - French as a Foreign Language

Rue des Bernardins - Linguistics and Phonetics

Rue de l' Ecole de Médecine - English Studies

Rue Saint Guillaume - Latin American Studies

Place du Maréchal-de-Lattre-de-Tassigny - Houses the E.S.I.T (School of Interpreting and Translation)

Asnières - located outside of Paris, it houses the German Studies department

[edit] University Libraries

The Sorbonne Nouvelle has one central and five specialised libraries (Foreign language and culture and French literature). It is also connected to the Library of Saint Genevieve, the Central Sorbonne Library, the Inter-University Library for Oriental Languages and the Library of Saint Barbara.

[edit] University Press

The Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle publishes research carried out by the university.

[edit] Accommodation and refectories

The CROUS de Paris (Centre régional des œuvres universitaires et scolaires) is the organisation responsible for both student accommodation and refectories in Paris. It runs various student halls of residence and student restaurants both in central Paris and in its outskirts. The Restaurant Universitaire Censier is the student refectory which is used by the large majority of Paris III students due to its proximity to the Censier university site.

[edit] Notable alumni

Marco Aponte Moreno - Venezuelan actor and linguist
Olivier Assayas - French film director and screenwriter
Arnaud Desplechin - French film director
Olivier Ducastel - French film director
Hüseyin Latif - Novelist and Aujourd'hui la Turquie's Director of publication
Sarah Lelouch - Daughter of Claude Lelouch
Laila Marrakchi - French film director
Homa Sayar - Iranian Poet

[edit] Notable Faculty

Frédéric Bozo - Academic
Latifa Ben Mansour - Algerian writer and linguist
Imanol Ordorika Sacristán - Mexican social activist
Predrag Matvejevic - writer and academic
Jean Bessière - Academic and writer
Youssef Seddik -Tunisian Islamic philsopher and scholar

[edit] External links

Research site of the Sorbonne Nouvelle
Forum de Paris 3, news by and for Censier students
Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle
CROUS de Paris

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