American Studies and Film Studies (with a study abroad year) BA (Hons)
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Bachelor's degree
In Brighton
Description
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Type
Bachelor's degree
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Location
Brighton
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Duration
3 Years
By combining American Studies and Film Studies, you link together a wide range of interesting topics – from the birth of celebrity culture to Hollywood as an industry.
And you learn from leading experts about challenging works ranging from DW Griffiths’s Birth of a Nation to Andy Warhol’s Blow Job. You’ll have access to dedicated media laboratories, film and sound studios, and an in-house DVD library of over 5,000 films and TV programmes.
Plus, by spending a year abroad, you not only study America, but you experience it too. We’re proud to have more prestigious American partner institutions – including UC Berkeley and Georgetown – than any other programme in England.
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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.
Reviews
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It is good to get independence and to improve your political positions. And University is helpful.
← | →
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It is a good experience to explore new things and travelling around because it will help you to understand the new culture.
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It was expensive and I enjoyed a lot, thanks for everything, I had a good time in all.
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Subjects
- Film Studies
- Cinema
- Hollywood
- American Literature
- Film Analysis
- European Cinema
- American Studies
- Global Cinema
- Modern America
- Political Culture
Course programme
Year 1 at sussex
Autumn teaching
- European Cinema B
- Film Analysis
- Introduction to American Studies
- Global Cinema A
- Modern America
Autumn teaching
- American Literature to 1890: Part I
- American Political Culture
- Roots of America: From Colonial Settlement to the Civil War and Reconstruction
- American Humour
- American Literature to 1890: Part II
- The Look of America
Autumn teaching
- Film Theory
- Theoretical Concepts for American Studies
Autumn teaching
- American Cinema B
- American Literature Since 1890: Part I
- The African American Experience
- Women in America
- American Cities: New Orleans
- American Cities: New York
- American Drama
- American Literature Since 1890: Part II
- American Popular Music
- British Cinema A
- British Cinema B
- Chinese Cinema B
- Debates in Screen Documentary A
- Debates in Screen Documentary B
- Pulp Culture
- 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
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
OptionsAutumn teaching
- American Culture and Consumption
- American Studies Dissertation
- Film and Revolution (A)
- Hollywood Industry and Imaginary
- Sexualities and the Cinema
- The Film Festival Circuit
- Viewing Women
- Adaptation: Filming Fiction
- America in the 21st Century
- Documentary America: Non-Fiction Writing
- Eastern European Cinemas: myth and memory
- Film Studies Dissertation
- Hollywood Comedian Comedy
- Teen Cinema: Coming of Age on Screen
- The Cinematic City
- The United States in the World
Additional information
American Studies and Film Studies (with a study abroad year) BA (Hons)