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1) After having discussed some issues of American Studies in on-line class.(Mainly Easy-

Learning WA Group). American Studies has been an interesting subject for some students

since the e-learning class is run. The fact that they are eager to know the definition of 

American Studies. Now, write and explain to the best your knowledge, ‘What is American 

Studies’; ‘What are the Americanists; and ‘What are the main characteristics of American 

Studies’. Try finding some contributions toward the existence of American Studies as a 

discipline (100 %)—(Meeting 1-3)

1.WHAT AMERICAN STUDY IS?

what American Studies is, we also think of the 
fact that first, it means all information and readings about the US, such
as its politics, its 
presidents, its geography, its society, and so forth. The second one,
American Studies is 
as an academic discipline. In this lecture American Studies is
information and reading about the US.

2.WHAT ARE THE AMERICANISTS?

Americanist may refer to: a scholar specializing in American studies. a
scholar specializing in American politics, within the realm of political
science. a linguist specializing in the indigenous languages of the
Americas.

3.THE MAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF AMERICAN STUDIES

-Parrington said about how a study could embrace past, present, and
future, which has 
become one of the characteristics of American Studies.
-american studies will no doubt adoupt to the changing circumstances as
with american character, however there is no reason to assume
american studies will change its basic traits. innocence, nostalgia,
confidence, mission and exceptionalism will prevail even as the larger
cultural and institutional context of the amreican studies movement
changes

4.CONTRIBUTIONS TOWARD THE EXISTENCE OF AMERICAN

STUDIES AS A DISCLIPLINE
Perhaps most important is the idea that American studies practitioners
have a sense of their own identity and are aware of the field’s
boundaries and characteristics. Toward that end, many departmental
descriptions suggested an intellectual purpose for American studies as a
discipline to displace the formerly heralded mechanical process of
mixing disciplines at the core of American studies work. They frequently
mentioned stylistic, organizational tendencies such as an integrative
view of “seeing things whole,” “examining the big picture,” or thinking
thematically and critically; orientation toward addressing problems,
patterns, and issues of American society in “intersectional ways” or
“multiple dimensions,” including a variety of nontraditional evidence in
visual and material culture; considering the influence, often overlapping,
of local, regional, national, and global contexts, particularly in the
production of folk and popular expressive cultural forms; an applied
project as sociocultural criticism to reform America or convey intellectual
perspectives to a wider public and professions in a variety of institution
(e.g., myth-symbol, rhetorical analysis, ethnography, cultural criticism,
socioanalysis), a distinctive intellectual history with figures identified as
American studies scholars (e.g., Henry Nash Smith, Leo Marx, Alan
Trachtenberg), a separate bibliography and historiography including
foundational texts and standard textbooks and reference works such as
Locating American Studies: The Evolution of a Discipline (1998),
Encyclopedia of American Studies (2001), and American Studies: An
Annotated Bibliography (1986), and a community of discourse through
journals, book series, listservs, meetings, and institutions bearing the
American studies label and implying measures of American studies
practice and worth.