1. British ad American Studies as a science. Its aim and field of study, neighboring sciences.

2. English as Global language. Multiculturalism. Variants, dialects and variations.

3. Old English period: the first inhabitants of the territory; old relicts.

4. The UK: geography, landscape, people population and climate. Official regions and counties.

5. The UK: Roman invasion and influence.

6. The UK: Scotland, Wales, the Northern Ireland.

7. Medieval Britain (12th- 14th c.) Formation of the nation. Norman invasion.

8. Geography of the UK. Population. Main industrial centres.

9. Places of Interest in Great Britain. Traditional holidays, sport games.

10. Official symbols of the UK.

11. Theatre and Music in Great Britain.

12. National Sports in the UK.

13. British Literature (modern writers).

14. Culture and religion in GB.

15. The UK and the USA as English speaking countries. Other English-speaking countries in the modern world. Contacts, spheres of influence.

16. Britain by the 16th century, the Renaissance in culture and sciences.

17. The great Empire: Britain in the 17th century.

18. Britain in the 18th century: British - American contacts.

19. British Literature (classical masterpieces).

20. The UK and the USA as English speaking countries. Other English-speaking countries in the modern world. Contacts, spheres of influence.

21. Modern Britain: Industrial centers and branches.

22. Religion in England, Scotland and Wales.

23. System of government in England, Scotland and Wales.

24. Geography of England, Scotland and Wales, comparative analysis.

25. Political structure of Ukraine and the UK (comparative analysis)

26. American History: protestants and puritans; the first colonies

27. American flag and other official symbols of the country.

28. The USA: establishing the nation and state system.

29. American Holidays and sport games.

30. Physical Culture and Leisure. What does "American dream" mean?

31. Population. Geography and Climate of the USA.

32. The system of education: Secondary Education in the USA.

33. The system of education. Higher Education in the US.

34. Political System of the USA.

35. American Mass Media and Communication.

36. American Economy: from the 17 century to present times.

37. American Arts (theatre, music)

38. Medicine and Health Care in the USA.

39. American Holidays and sport games.

40. American Political Parties

41. Science and Technology in the USA.

42. American Youth: Religious views, values and organizations

43. Population in the USA. Multiculturalism. American English and its variations.

44. Movements of social protest in the USA and racism (abolitionism, feminism, Ku-Klux- Klan)

45. The UK and the USA through the Great Depression.

46. The World War II. The UK, the USA.

47. The USA: the Northerners and Southerners.

48. The USA: capital, system of the states.

49. American mentality and nation, what do they mean?

50. American South: agricultural regions and centers.

51. Royal collection and all the castles.

1. British and American Studies as a science. Its aim and field of study, neighboring sciences

Scholars in the United Kingdom and the United States developed somewhat different versions of cultural studies after the field's inception in the late 1970s. The British version of cultural studies was developed in the 1950s and 1960s mainly under the influence first of Richard Hoggart, E. P. Thompson, and Raymond Williams, and later Stuart Hall and others at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham. This included overtly political, left-wing views, and criticisms of popular culture as 'capitalist' mass culture; it absorbed some of the ideas of the Frankfurt School critique of the "culture industry" (i.e. mass culture). This emerges in the writings of early British cultural-studies scholars and their influences: see the work of (for example) Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall, Paul Willis, and Paul Gilroy. In contrast, "cultural studies was grounded in a pragmatic, liberal-pluralist tradition" in the United States (Lindlof & Taylor, 2002,p. 60).The American version of cultural studies initially concerned itself more with understanding the subjective and appropriative side of audience reactions to, and uses of, mass culture; for example, American cultural-studies advocates wrote about the liberatory aspects of fandom. The distinction between American and British strands, however, has faded. Every year the Science Communication Conference addresses the key issues facing science communicators in the UK, bringing together some 300 delegates and 60 speakers from a wide range of backgrounds and levels of experience across the field of public engagement. The British Science Association is working in partnership with the Wellcome Trust to organise this year's Conference. As the only science communication specific conference in the UK, the two day event provides a unique opportunity for people to share ideas, build contacts and develop best practice in science communication. In addition around 30 bursary places are usually made available to science communication students, scientists, freelancers and people from charities and small businesses. In 2009, alongside sessions covering the whole range of activities within public engagement, the Conference will have a central focus - ‘Behaviour and Choice’ exploring the role that science communicators should or could play as influencers of behavioural change.

2. English as a global language. Multiculturalism. Variants, dialects & variations.

Because English is so widely spoken, it has often been referred to as a "world language", the lingua franca of the modern era. While English is not an official language in most countries, it is currently the language most often taught as a foreign language around the world. English is an official language of the United Nations and many other international organisations, including the International Olympic Committee. English is the language most often studied as a foreign language in the European Union, followed by French, German, Spanish, and Russian. Books, magazines, and newspapers written in English are available in many countries around the world. English is also the most commonly used language in the sciences. Multicultural policies were adopted by local administrations from the 1970s and 1980s onwards, in particular, by the Labour government of Tony Blair. In national policy, legislation includes Race Relations Act and the British Nationality Act of 1948. Most of the immigrants of the last decades came from the Indian subcontinent or the Caribbean, i.e. from former British colonies. The overwhelming majority of new citizens come from Africa and Asia, the largest three groups being people from Pakistan, India and Somalia. The expansion of the British Empire and—since World War II—the influence of the United States have spread English throughout the globe. Because of that global spread, English has developed a host of English dialects and English-based creole languages and pidgins. Two educated native dialects of English have wide acceptance as standards in much of the world—one based on educated southern British and the other based on educated Midwestern American. The former is sometimes called BBC (or the Queen's) English, and it may be noticeable by its preference for "Received Pronunciation"; it typifies the Cambridge model, which is the standard for the teaching of English to speakers of other languages in Europe, Africa, the Indian subcontinent, and other areas influenced either by the British Commonwealth or by a desire not to be identified with the United States. The latter dialect, General American, which is spread over most of the United States and much of Canada, is more typically the model for the American continents and areas. Aside from those two major dialects are numerous other varieties of English such as British English; Canadian English; and African American Vernacular English ("Ebonics") and Southern American English within American English. There are a number of regional dialects of Scots, and pronunciation, grammar and lexis of the traditional forms differ, sometimes substantially, from other varieties of English.