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Informational video about the American Studies Program at Northwestern University from Director, Professor Gerry Cadava.

Find out more about our BA in American Studies, as our students and academic experts explain what you can expect to study and experience during your time (either three years or four years) at the University of Manchester. Learn about the unique historical links between the USA and Manchester, as well as the large variety of teaching methods, module options, and study abroad opportunities. 00:00 Why is Manchester the perfect place to study American Studies? 01:00 What will students learn? 1:46 What are the teaching methods? 02:08 What opportunities does this course offer? Our three or four-year single honours American Studies degree will give you a grounding in the history, popular culture and literature of the US, from colonisation through to contemporary times. The four-year option will include a full year in North America as part your programme. Find out more here: https://t2m.io/nqykR5m

Join faculty and students in a program information session about Laurier's North American Studies program, located at the Waterloo Campus.

Daniel Kane, Reader in English and American Literature in the School of English at the University of Sussex, discusses the Sussex Choice pathway in American Studies.

The Ron Clifton Lectureship in American Studies was inaugurated in 2018 to recognize the long service of Ron to the field of American studies at Salzburg Global Seminar. This year marked the 75th edition of the Salzburg Global American Studies program, and the 2022 edition of the Ron Clifton lecture was given by Heinz Ickstadt, professor emeritus in American literature at the Kennedy Institute of North American Studies, Free University Berlin. When explaining the reasoning behind the topic of his lecture, Heinz said: "I am in that phase of my life when I tend to reminisce and try to give account. Since my long academic life was committed to American Studies, I wondered why that was, and although I am aware of the mix between coincidence/opportunity and self-construction, I believe that my career was rooted in certain moments of experience (a seminar on Melville, the physical exposure to “America” and the significance it had for me from childhood on.) "I also believe that a temperamental affinity to an idea of democracy built on communication) led me to embrace the democratic belief that is at the core of American Studies. At the same time, my own process of disillusionment ran parallel to the redefinition of American Studies that has characterized the development of the field during the last thirty years or so. I tried to reflect on my original enthusiasm, on where I stand now in an effort to be realistic and optimistic at the same time – something that brought me to John Dewey’s old-age essay on “Creative Democracy.”

Short movie about the bachelor's degree programme American Studies at the University of Groningen. More information: http://www.rug.nl/bachelors/american-studies/