American Studies

• Baccalauréat

  Diplôme

• Anglais

  Langue des instructions

• 4 années

  Années d’études

• À temps plein

  Mode d’étude

• Géorgie, Tbilissi

  Location

American Studies, an only English Bachelor program, opened in 2002 as a result of cooperation with the U.S. Embassy first time in Georgia at the International Black Sea University, gives a chance to Georgian, as well as foreign students, to acquire Western-type multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary education about the United States, envisaging Georgian requirements. The aim of the program is to expose students to different aspects of American life from a diachronic, as well as a synchronic, standpoint. The courses of this unique program are delivered by highly qualified Georgian and American outstanding professors and Fulbright scholars from the well-known American Universities invited specially for the program by the U.S. Embassy in Georgia. Block of Translation: Translation Studies in Georgia is a highly demanded area, which is conditioned by the fact that there is a need for Georgia to establish close business, educational, cultural, trade, military, and other types of relations with foreign countries, NATO, EU, and similar international organizations. Respectively, educational institutions face completely new challenges. This course in translation studies at the American Studies Program with the view to educate translator-interpreters who will be able to freely and efficiently do written, oral, the simultaneous translation that is highly demanded by the U.S. Embassy in Georgia, where American Studies program students undergo an internship and have an employment chance. Block of American Pop Culture and Public Relations (PR): Provided that the American founder of the public relations education Rax Harlou, the pioneer of this field, has actually established the present-day Public Relations Society Association (PRSA), it was considered reasonable to integrate the Public Relations course within the American Studies program.