BA American Studies and English (with a study abroad year)
Entry requirements
A level: ABB or BBB IB: 32 points
About this course
BA (Hons) in English and English Literature, American Studies and Creative Writing, combining English literature with American literature. Core topics include Research Methods. Students complete a four-year full-time programme that integrates historical, theoretical, and cultural modules.
Modules
- Burning to Read
- Early American History, Literature and Culture
- Modern American History, Literature and Culture
- World Making
- Theoretical Concepts in American Studies
- American City
- In the Embers of Empire: Reading Postcolonial Texts Today
- Language for Life
- Liberty and Horror
- Literature and Philosophy
- Novels (how to read them and why)
- The Art of Short Fiction
- Word & Image
- (Re)thinking Civilization
- 1661: Slavery in English America
- 1959 Havana: Revolution in Latin America
- Global Modernisms
- Latin American Cinema: Contemporary Trends and Movements
- Life Story
- Picasso to Kahlo: Transatlantic Dialogues
- Pop Life: After Modern Art
- Queer Brighton and Sussex: Histories, Heritage, and Aesthetics
- Right Here! Right Now! Twenty-First Century Literature and Culture
- Romance
- Sexuality and the Rise of Fiction
- Staging the Renaissance: Shakespeare
- States of Disunion: Power, Polarisation and Protest in US Politics
- Writing Poetry
- American Studies Dissertation and Research Communication
- English Literature Dissertation
- City on a Hill: Faith and the American Project
- Freedom Now! The African-American Freedom Struggle After 1945
- Posthuman/Premodern
- Psychoanalysis and Literature
- Race and Ethnicity in Popular Cinema
- Serial Fictions
- Topics in African American Literature
- Virginia Woolf
- Visualising War: Image, Media, and Culture
- Wollstonecraft and After: Gender, Writing and the Public Sphere
- Writing Race, Gender, and the Social: Experiments Beyond Representation
- America in the 21st Century
- American Empire
- American Studies in Practice
- American Teen Cinema: Coming of Age on Screen
- Championing Literacy Placement
- Decolonial Literature, Politics, Writing
- Gender, Race and Society in Early Modern Drama
- Hollywood Industry and Imaginary
- Modern Nature
- Queer Fictions
- Race, Photography, Archives
- Sussex Modernism