BA American Studies and History (with a study abroad year)
Entry requirements
A level: ABB or BBB IB: 32 points
About this course
BA (Hons) in English Literature, American Studies and Creative Writing and History, exploring transatlantic culture and historical contexts over four years full time. Core topics include Research Methods. Students complete a history dissertation and an American studies dissertation in the final year.
Modules
- Early American History, Literature and Culture
- The Early Modern World
- Modern American History, Literature and Culture
- The Making of the Modern World
- Historical Consultancy
- Theoretical Concepts in American Studies
- American City
- Engaged Public History
- Connections and Currents in the Early Modern Atlantic
- The People's Century? Britain after 1914
- 1661: Slavery in English America
- 1776: The Enlightenment
- 1857: Indian Rebellion
- 1942: Holocaust
- 1948: The Arab-Israeli Conflict
- 1959 Havana: Revolution in Latin America
- 1968: Rivers of Blood
- 1984: Thatcher's Britain (Observing the 1980s)
- Latin American Cinema: Contemporary Trends and Movements
- Picasso to Kahlo: Transatlantic Dialogues
- Pop Life: After Modern Art
- Queer Brighton and Sussex: Histories, Heritage, and Aesthetics
- States of Disunion: Power, Polarisation and Protest in US Politics
- American Studies Dissertation and Research Communication
- History Dissertation
- Britain and the Second World War
- City on a Hill: Faith and the American Project
- Debating Democracy in the Long 19th Century
- Freedom Now! The African-American Freedom Struggle After 1945
- Genocide
- Guns, Germs and Mai Tais: Culture and Imperialism in the Pacific
- Post-Rave Britain, 1988 - present
- Producing History
- Queer Archives
- Race and Ethnicity in Popular Cinema
- The French Empire and Its Aftermath
- The Global First World War
- The United States in the Middle East, 1917-Present
- Topics in African American Literature
- Visualising War: Image, Media, and Culture
- Witches and Witch-Hunts
- America in the 21st Century
- American Empire
- American Studies in Practice
- American Teen Cinema: Coming of Age on Screen
- Beauty, Fashion and History
- British Childhood, Past and Present
- DIY History
- Emotions
- Hollywood Industry and Imaginary
- Life Writing and Life Histories
- Migrant Ecologies
- Queer Fictions
- Race, Photography, Archives
- Resistance