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BA English

University of Sussex

Institution
University of Sussex
Level
undergraduate
Subject
English BA (Hons)
Duration
3 years
UCAS code
Q303
Typical offer
A-level BBB, IB 32

Entry requirements

A level: BBB IB: 32 points

About this course

BA (Hons) in English, exploring literary texts across diverse cultures and historical periods. Core topics include Research Methods. The course concludes with an independent English Literature Dissertation.

Modules

  • Burning to Read
  • Critical Approaches
  • Radical Theory
  • World Making
  • Language for Life
  • Liberty and Horror
  • Global Modernisms
  • In the Embers of Empire: Reading Postcolonial Texts Today
  • Literature and Philosophy
  • Novels (how to read them and why)
  • The Art of Short Fiction
  • Word & Image
  • (Re)thinking Civilization
  • Life Story
  • 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
  • Writing Poetry
  • English Literature Dissertation
  • Posthuman/Premodern
  • Psychoanalysis and Literature
  • Serial Fictions
  • Topics in African American Literature
  • Virginia Woolf
  • Wollstonecraft and After: Gender, Writing and the Public Sphere
  • Writing Race, Gender, and the Social: Experiments Beyond Representation
  • Championing Literacy Placement
  • Decolonial Literature, Politics, Writing
  • Gender, Race and Society in Early Modern Drama
  • Modern Nature
  • Queer Fictions
  • Sussex Modernism