EXAMEN LICENŢĂ – 2026
SECŢIA A-STUDII AMERICANE
Examenul va testa cunoştinţele studenţilor cuprinse în cele trei module ale specializǎrii (Culturǎ şi valori, Istorie şi politicǎ, Societate şi comunicare), capacitatea studenţilor de a trata subiectele de examen din perspectivă interdisciplinarǎ, precum şi exprimarea corectǎ și coerentă în limba englezǎ. Va fi un singur subiect de examen, cu două cerințe (durata examenului: 2 ore). În 900-1500 de cuvinte, se va comenta, la prima vedere, din perspectiva interdisciplinarǎ a studiilor americane, un text general privind Statele Unite.
Model de subiecte:
Comment on the following quotation from an American Studies interdisciplinary perspective (you may refer to various subjects and critical perspectives). Illustrate your arguments with two relevant examples from American culture (you may refer to historical/socio-cultural/political etc. events and processes as well as to relevant cultural texts). The suggested length of your response should be between 900 and 1500 words.
“American exceptionalism has been said to refer to clusters of absent (feudal hierarchies, class conflicts, socialist labor party, trade unionism, and divisive ideological passions) and present (a predominant middle class, tolerance for diversity, upward mobility, hospitality toward immigrants, a shared constitutional faith, and liberal individualism) elements that putatively set America apart from other national cultures. While descriptions of these particulars may have differed, the more or less agreed upon archive concerned with what made America exceptional would include the following phrases: America is a moral exception (the ‘City on the Hill’); America is a nation with a ‘Manifest Destiny’; America is the ‘Nation of Nations’; America is an ‘Invincible Nation.’ These conceptual metaphors do not supply definitions of America, but they do give directions for finding the meanings that are intended to corroborate the belief in American exceptionality. All of which leads to the conclusion that American exceptionalism operates less like a collection of discrete, potentially falsifiable descriptions of American society than as a fantasy through which U.S. citizens bring these contradictory political and cultural descriptions into correlation with one another through the desires that make them meaningful” (Donald E. Pease, The New American Exceptionalism, 2009).
Barem:
Subiectul 1 (total 10 puncte):
- Comentarea citatului prin aplicarea corentă a unei perspective interdisciplinare relevante – 3 puncte
- trimiterea la exemple concrete – 4 puncte (2 puncte/exemplu)
- coerența și corectitudinea exprimării în limba engleză – 2 puncte
- 1 punct din oficiu.
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