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BA English and Film Studies

University of Sussex

Institution
University of Sussex
Level
undergraduate
Subject
English and Film Studies BA (Hons)
Duration
3 years
UCAS code
QP3H
Typical offer
A-level BBB, IB 32

Entry requirements

A level: BBB IB: 32 points

About this course

BA (Hons) in English and Film Studies, focusing on narrative forms across literature and cinema. Core topics include Research Methods. Students can undertake optional placements and engage with local cinemas and cultural organisations.

Modules

  • Analysing Film: Forms and Contexts B
  • Burning to Read
  • European Cinema
  • Analysing Film: Authorship and Genre B
  • Global Cinema
  • World Making
  • Debates in Screen Documentary
  • Adaptation: Filming Fiction
  • Exploring Local Film Cultures
  • Film Musicals
  • 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
  • British Cinema
  • Chinese Cinema
  • Global Modernisms
  • Latin American Cinema: Contemporary Trends and Movements
  • Right Here! Right Now! Twenty-First Century Literature and Culture
  • Romance
  • Sexuality and the Rise of Fiction
  • Staging the Renaissance: Shakespeare
  • Writing Poetry
  • English Literature Dissertation
  • Film Studies Dissertation
  • Cinema and Migration
  • Pop Soundtrack Cinema
  • Posthuman/Premodern
  • Psychoanalysis and Literature
  • Race and Ethnicity in Popular Cinema
  • Serial Fictions
  • Topics in African American Literature
  • Viewing Women
  • Virginia Woolf
  • Wollstonecraft and After: Gender, Writing and the Public Sphere
  • Writing Race, Gender, and the Social: Experiments Beyond Representation
  • American Teen Cinema: Coming of Age on Screen
  • Championing Literacy Placement
  • Cinema and Sexualities
  • Decolonial Literature, Politics, Writing
  • Film and Revolution
  • Gender, Race and Society in Early Modern Drama
  • Hollywood Industry and Imaginary
  • Modern Nature
  • Queer Fictions
  • Sussex Modernism