BA American Studies
Entry requirements
A level: ABB including one essay based subject
About this course
BA in English Literature, American Studies and Creative Writing, focusing on the history, culture, and literature of the United States. Students complete a long essay in the final year and can undertake a second-year semester abroad at partner universities in the US or Canada.
Modules
- A Global Nation: Power, Politics, and Struggle Across the American Century, 1870-2020
- Introduction to American Literature to 1900
- American History to 1877: Columbus to Civil War
- Twentieth Century American Literature
- Introduction to American Studies
- From Jamestown to James Brown: African-American History and Culture
- American Cultural Studies
- American Film Studies
- Cold War America, 1950-1991
- Work and Play in the USA, 1880-2020
- American Literature and Social Criticism, 1900-Present
- Twentieth Century African American Literature
- The American Civil War
- Long Essay
- Slavery and the Old South
- America Abroad: Non-State Actors and the Making of a World Power
- Love American Style
- History of California
- Conspiracy Theories in American Culture
- Harlem and the State of Urban America
- Climate Change & Culture Wars
- American Hauntings
- James Baldwin in Context: Race, Sexuality and Activism