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Bureau
of Educational and Cultural Affairs
STUDY OF THE U.S. BRANCH
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The Study of the U.S. Branch seeks to promote a better understanding
of the people, institutions, and culture of the United States among
foreign students, teachers and scholars whose professional focus is
American society and culture, past and present. The Branch works directly
with Fulbright
Commissions and Public Affairs sections of United
States Embassies abroad in developing such programs as the Study
of the United States Faculty Institutes, the Study
of the United States Institutes for Student Leaders, the Currents
in American Scholarship series, and the 2006 Study
of the U.S. Institute on U.S. National Security, as well as other
projects that support the study of the United States abroad.
The Branch understands "American Studies" as a term that
is meant to encompass a variety of academic and scholarly approaches
to the study of the United States, whether that study is interdisciplinary
in its scope or, alternately, whether it is pursued through any of the
more traditional disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.
Such study may take place within traditional academic departments abroad
or undertaken as part of a foreign area studies program.
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