American Studies and History (with a study abroad year) BA (Hons)
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The place was very great because I have a lot of information about the place before I going there but it exceeds my expectation and it would be the most one of my best experience in my life.
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It is a good University with very cooperative processes and a nice social life.
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At the beginning of the year for sports or places..Quite difficult t advise..You have to live it to know exactely what you need.. it can be helpful to have a bank account
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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
When you study American Studies and History at Sussex, you join a stimulating and collaborative community committed to interdisciplinarity.
You learn from leading experts about topics ranging from Civil War poetry to the history of the Civil Rights movement. You learn to think across disciplinary boundaries covering history, film, photography, literature and music.
Your year abroad in America enables you to gain a range of practical skills and experience that will make you stand out as a graduate. 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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The place was very great because I have a lot of information about the place before I going there but it exceeds my expectation and it would be the most one of my best experience in my life.
← | →
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It is a good University with very cooperative processes and a nice social life.
← | →
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At the beginning of the year for sports or places..Quite difficult t advise..You have to live it to know exactely what you need.. it can be helpful to have a bank account
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Course rating
Recommended
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Subjects
- Music
- American Literature
- Poetry
- Teaching
- American Studies
- Modern America
- Modern World
- Roots of America
- Political Culture
- Civil War
- Colonial Settlement
- Reconstruction
- American Humour
Course programme
Autumn teaching
- Introduction to American Studies
- The Early Modern World
- Modern America
- The Making of the Modern World
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
Autumn teaching
- Ideas of History
- Theoretical Concepts for American Studies
- Global History 1500-2000: Trade, Science, Environment and Empire
Autumn teaching
- American Cinema B
- American Literature Since 1890: Part I
- History Short Period: Britain in the 20th Century
- History Short Period: England in the 16th Century
- History Short Period: Europe in the 20th Century
- History Short Period: The Middle East and North Africa since 1908
- Picasso to Kahlo: Transatlantic Dialogues
- 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
- The Nineteenth-Century American Short Story
- Time and Place 1851: Science, Empire and Exhibitionism
- Time and Place 2008: The Spectacle of the Beijing Olympics
- Time and Place: 1796: Lithography and the Mass Produced Image
- Time and Place: 1831: Slave Revolts
- Time and Place: 1861: The Coming of the American Civil War
- Time and Place: 1938: Kristallnacht
- Time and Place: 1953: Monarchs and Murders
- Time and Place: 1968: Rivers of Blood
- 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
- History Special Dissertation
Autumn teaching
- American Culture and Consumption
- American Studies Dissertation
- America in the 21st Century
- Documentary America: Non-Fiction Writing
- The United States in the World
Additional information
American Studies and History (with a study abroad year) BA (Hons)