Year: 2006
Type: article
Abstract: At present, American Studies is not recognized by the state educational system as a field of study in its own right, but it belongs to Modern Languages (English) listed among academic disciplines taught at Polish universities.The Polish Association for American Studies has been getting ready to take steps towards establishing American Studies as a separate discipline through proper official channels.PAAS (www.paas.org.pl) was founded in 1990 in Warsaw and now has 150 members-faculty and Ph.D. students, mostly from the university Departments of English, since American literature and culture are obligatory components of three-year B.A. programs and optional components of two-year M.A. programs in English.Moreover, American Studies is taught at the American Studies Center of the University of Warsaw (chair: Dr.
DOI: 10.4000/ejas.424
Author: Marek Wilczyński
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2095025307