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American Studies: Skills, Abilities and Knowledge
- Explaining Ideas
- Interpreting events and ideas
- Writing and presenting information
- Examining evidence
- Analyzing ideas and information
- Developing a world view
- Explaining the present by referring to the past
- Decision making
- Seeing relationships between factors
- Major features of American civilization
- Cross-cultural perspective
- American influences worldwide
- What has influenced American culture
1 Excerpted from O*Net OnLine, US Department of Labor by the National Center for O*Net Development