BA American Studies,
Entry requirements
A level: ABB-BBC IB: 32 points
About this course
BA in English Literature, American Studies and Creative Writing, an interdisciplinary programme combining three complementary disciplines. Core topics include Research Methods. A study abroad semester or year in the United States or Canada is available. The programme includes a History Work Placement module and a final-year American Studies Dissertation.
Modules
- Locating American Studies
- From Facts to Fake News: Being a Historian in the Twenty-First Century
- Who Sings America? Literature and Culture of the United States
- Forging a Nation: US History and Politics
- Making Modern Europe, 1789 to the Present
- Politics and the People
- The Early Modern World, 1500-1800
- Hollywood: A History of American Film
- America in a Nutshell: A History of Pennsylvania from William Penn to Donald Trump, 1631-2016
- The Making of Transatlantic America
- Race and Ethnicity: American Perspectives
- Rhyfel Cartref America
- America in Crisis: From the Tet Offensive to Trump
- Global Justice and Human Rights in the Age of Globalisation
- Re-Thinking the South: Southern Culture and History, 1865-1955
- American Word / American Image
- History Work Placement
- The Story of America on Film and Television, 1607-1867
- Stori America Ar Ffilm a Theledu, 1607-1867
- The Global First World War
- Contemporary Wars and Conflicts
- American Studies Dissertation
- African American Literature 1910-1940: The Harlem Renaissance
- The Lights that Failed: the League of Nations and International Peace 1919 -1939
- The Story of the USA on Film and Television, 1865-2008
- Stori yr Unol Daleithiau ar Ffilm a Theledu, 1865-2008
- Clear and Present Danger: America and Terrorism
- The American Civil War in History and Memory
- The Cold War
- Shadow Wars: US Presidents and covert action from the Cold War to Trump
- America and the Bomb