American Studies and English (with a study abroad year) BA (Hons)

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  • If I must choose it again, I would love to go to the university of Sussex because it is a very beautiful University who has huge library with all the computers. You will get here everything ever you asking for.
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  • I have the best academic experience ever and it was amazing to be involved in such internationally oriented University.
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Bachelor's degree

In Brighton

£ 9,250 VAT inc.

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Brighton

  • Duration

    3 Years

Learn from leading experts in English literature and American Studies.
Develop the analytical skills you need to read and appreciate a broad range of genres and forms – from poetry and drama to autobiography and slave narratives – while exploring the culture and history of a global powerhouse.
Plus, by spending a year at one of our partner institutions, you not only study America but experience it too. We’re proud to have more prestigious American partner institutions – including UC Berkeley and Georgetown – than any other programme in England.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Brighton (East Sussex)
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Sussex House, BN1 9RH

Start date

On request

About this course

Recent American Studies graduates have started work as:
campaign executive, Spink
editorial intern, Bloomsbury
analyst, Infosys Consulting.

You should have a broad range of GCSEs 9-4 (A*-C), including good grades in relevant subjects.

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4.0
fantastic
  • If I must choose it again, I would love to go to the university of Sussex because it is a very beautiful University who has huge library with all the computers. You will get here everything ever you asking for.
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  • I have the best academic experience ever and it was amazing to be involved in such internationally oriented University.
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  • The natives but you tend to improve quickly if you make efforts, but you tend to improve quickly if you make efforts.
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4.6
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Course rating

Recommended

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NASTASSIA

4.0
22/11/2020
About the course: If I must choose it again, I would love to go to the university of Sussex because it is a very beautiful University who has huge library with all the computers. You will get here everything ever you asking for.
Would you recommend this course?: Yes

YASSINE

4.0
19/11/2020
About the course: I have the best academic experience ever and it was amazing to be involved in such internationally oriented University.
Would you recommend this course?: Yes

anonymous

4.0
02/10/2018
What I would highlight: The natives but you tend to improve quickly if you make efforts, but you tend to improve quickly if you make efforts.
What could be improved: Everything was OK.
Would you recommend this course?: Yes
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Subjects

  • English
  • Drama
  • Writing
  • American Literature
  • Poetry
  • Thinking Literature
  • American Studies
  • Spring teaching
  • Political Culture
  • American Humour

Course programme

Year 1 at sussex

Autumn teaching
  • Introduction to American Studies
  • Thinking Literature 1
Spring teaching
  • Modern America
  • Thinking Literature 2
Options

Autumn teaching
  • American Literature to 1890: Part I
  • American Political Culture
  • Roots of America: From Colonial Settlement to the Civil War and Reconstruction
Spring teaching
  • American Humour
  • American Literature to 1890: Part II
Year 2 at sussex

Autumn teaching
  • Theoretical Concepts for American Studies
Options

Autumn teaching
  • American Cinema B
  • American Literature Since 1890: Part I
  • For Love: Taste, Evaluation, and Aesthetics in Criticism and Culture
  • Inner Worlds: Literature, 800-1750
  • Modernism and Childhood
  • Other Worlds: Literature, 800-1750
  • Reading Post-Colonial Texts
  • Science and Literature
  • The African American Experience
  • The Art of Short Fiction
  • The Languages of Racisms in Literature and Art
  • Women in America
Spring teaching
  • American Cities: New Orleans
  • American Cities: New York
  • American Drama
  • American Literature Since 1890: Part II
  • American Popular Music
  • Contemporary Literature and Culture
  • Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain
  • Modernisms
  • Primitivism at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century
  • Pulp Culture
  • Romance
  • Sense and Sexuality: Women and Writing in the Eighteenth Century
  • Staging the Renaissance: Shakespeare
  • The Nineteenth-Century American Short Story
  • Time and Place: 1831: Slave Revolts
  • Time and Place: 1861: The Coming of the American Civil War
  • Transatlantic Rhetoric: Public Speech and Anglo-American Writing 1750-1900
  • Victorian Things
  • Word & Image
  • Writing Poetry
Student abroad

You spend your third year studying at one of our US or Canadian partners’ campuses. Our range of partner institutions represents every facet of the American experience, and includes:

  • UC Berkeley and UCLA
  • Tulane University in New Orleans and the University of North Carolina
  • Georgetown University and George Washington University, Washington, DC.

Whether you are interested in Native American culture, the Civil Rights movement, or American modernist poetry, Sussex offers you a unique experience while studying in North America.

Year 3 at sussex

Options

Autumn teaching
  • American Culture and Consumption
  • American Studies Dissertation
  • Capital Culture: Money, Commerce and Writing
  • Experimental Writing
  • Islam, Literature and the 'West'
  • Queer Literatures
  • Special Author(s): Jean Rhys, Jamaica Kincaid and the Postcolonial Caribbean
  • Special Author: Christopher Marlowe
  • Special Author: Edgar Allan Poe
  • Special Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
  • Special Author: Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Special Author: Salman Rushdie
  • Special Author: Thomas Hardy
  • Special Author: Virginia Woolf
  • Special Author: Vladimir Nabokov
  • Special Author: William Blake
  • Spectacular Imaginings: Renaissance Drama and the Stage 1580-1640
  • Technologies of Capture: Photography and Nineteenth Century Literature
  • The Literatures of Africa
  • The Uncanny
  • Utopias and Dystopias
Spring teaching
  • America in the 21st Century
  • Documentary America: Non-Fiction Writing
  • Research Dissertation (English)
  • School Placement Project
  • The United States in the World
  • Writing Lives before 1800

Additional information

International students :  £16,750 per year

American Studies and English (with a study abroad year) BA (Hons)

£ 9,250 VAT inc.