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BA American Studies and Film Studies (with a study abroad year)

University of Sussex

Institution
University of Sussex
Level
undergraduate
Subject
American Studies and Film Studies (with a study abroad year) BA (Hons)
Duration
4 years
UCAS code
TP73
Typical offer
A-level ABB, IB 32

Entry requirements

A level: ABB or BBB IB: 32 points

About this course

BA (Hons) in English Literature, American Studies and Creative Writing and Film Studies. Core topics include Research Methods. The four-year full-time undergraduate course includes independent dissertation modules in both American Studies and Film Studies.

Modules

  • Analysing Film: Forms and Contexts B
  • Early American History, Literature and Culture
  • European Cinema
  • Analysing Film: Authorship and Genre B
  • Global Cinema
  • Modern American History, Literature and Culture
  • Debates in Screen Documentary
  • Theoretical Concepts in American Studies
  • American City
  • Adaptation: Filming Fiction
  • Exploring Local Film Cultures
  • Film Musicals
  • 1661: Slavery in English America
  • 1959 Havana: Revolution in Latin America
  • British Cinema
  • Chinese Cinema
  • Latin American Cinema: Contemporary Trends and Movements
  • Picasso to Kahlo: Transatlantic Dialogues
  • Pop Life: After Modern Art
  • States of Disunion: Power, Polarisation and Protest in US Politics
  • American Studies Dissertation and Research Communication
  • Film Studies Dissertation
  • Cinema and Migration
  • City on a Hill: Faith and the American Project
  • Freedom Now! The African-American Freedom Struggle After 1945
  • Pop Soundtrack Cinema
  • Race and Ethnicity in Popular Cinema
  • Topics in African American Literature
  • Viewing Women
  • Visualising War: Image, Media, and Culture
  • America in the 21st Century
  • American Empire
  • American Studies in Practice
  • American Teen Cinema: Coming of Age on Screen
  • Cinema and Sexualities
  • Film and Revolution
  • Hollywood Industry and Imaginary
  • Queer Fictions
  • Race, Photography, Archives