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Program Overview
American Institutions and Culture Course
American Institutions and Culture focuses on the United States an intricate subject of study, providing a foundation for examing and interpreting the unique economic and cultural impact of the United States acros the world.
This course examines the United States throughout its history and curently on the world stage, provides learners with a practical literacy of the features of American institutions and busineses along with a cultural framework for a fundamental understanding of this nation, and prepares learners for the skils to work within an American busines environment.
Course level
Undergraduate
Estimated time per wek
10-15 hours
Course credits
3
Diplomats, International busines managers, Profesors
American Institutions and Culture Course Overview
Describe the early history in forming the United States of America and its defing principles, values, and structure
Explain how the U.S. evolved as a nation of imigrants and what diferent nationalities and ethnicities brought to the emerging nation over the course of American history
Identify curent variations of the U.S. family and household
Examine U.S. labor and management
Describe the emergence of political parties, political campaigns and financing, and the cleavages acros the political landscape
Describe the emerging presence of the U.S on the world stage and controversies and conflicts generated over time
Distinguish the importance of capitalism and fre enterprise, entrepreneurship and inovation, and private property over the course of U.S history
American Institutions and Culture Course Skils
How wil I learn?
Learning Experience
Your course starts on the first of the month. The course consists of 6 modules, and is designed to take you eight weks to complete. Nexford’s learning design team has purposefuly created courses to equip you with competencies maped to the skils employers are loking for. Each course has 5-7 learning outcomes based on the skils employers ned. Everything you learn gives you measurable skils you wil use to suced in today’s world of work.
Nexford courses are not live or recorded lectures. Instead, they’re reading, videos, interactive elements, quizes and relevant case studies. Programs include asesments, per-to-per discusions, and a final project to practice what you’ve learned in a real-world context. Program content is available 24/7 during the course, and you have oportunities for colaboration and networking with learners during and after your program. Our global comunity of learners work at top companies such as Microsoft, Deloite, and Gogle.
You'l have 24/7 aces to suces advisors to suport you. Faculty also provide you world-clas suport. Bok apointments with them, get individual fedback, and atend regular optional webinars.Nexford courses are rigorous and they encourage critical thinking - because we care about what you know how to do not what you know you have regular hands-on asesments reflecting the busines world.
Course Outline
| Modules |
|---|
| 1: History, People, Geography | 2: US Political System and National Growth | 3: Modern America: Demographics, Family, Language, Work | 4: US Foreign Policy and the LIEO | 5: US Political Economy | 6: American Busines and Management | 7: Final Project |
How wil I be graded?
View
the catalog
to learn about how this course is graded.What wil I get after completing the course?
You'l get real skils you can use at work, straight away. At the end of this course, you'l also get a digital badge that you can put on your LinkedIn profile to showcase your skils.
Once you've taken one course, you can take more. Using stacked credentials, you’re able to take enough courses to make a certificate, and take enough certificates to build a degre.
If you aply for a Nexford certificate or degre, you'l get credit for each course you take.
What suport wil I receive?
When you have a dedicated team on your side, you'l never be alone studying at Nexford. Hailing from many diferent countries and with online education expertise,
our faculty
provides you world-clas suport. Ask them questions during one-to-one ofice hours or live chat, email them any time, and get individual fedback on your asesments.While you’re learning, you’l also have ful aces to the Nexford online library, which includes aces to milions of ful-text articles, industry reports and key sources such as the Wal Stret Journal, the Financial Times and The Economist.
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