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

• American Literature to 1890: Part I
• Introduction to American Studies
• Roots of America: From Colonial Settlement to the Civil War and Reconstruction

• American Literature to 1890: Part II
• Modern America

• American Political Culture

• American Humour
• The Look of America

At Sussex, you can choose to customise your course to build the sort of degree that will give you the knowledge, skills and experience that could take you in any direction you choose.

Year 2 at sussex

• American Literature Since 1890: Part I
• The African American Experience
• Theoretical Concepts for American Studies

• American Literature Since 1890: Part II

• American Cinema B
• Modernism and Childhood
• Women in America

• American Cities: New Orleans
• American Cities: New York
• American Drama
• American Popular Music
• Picasso to Kahlo: Transatlantic Dialogues
• Pulp Culture
• 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

At Sussex, you can choose to customise your course to build the sort of degree that will give you the knowledge, skills and experience that could take you in any direction you choose.

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

• American Culture and Consumption
• American Studies Dissertation

• America in the 21st Century
• Art and Letters: Visual Culture in its Literary Contexts
• Documentary America: Non-Fiction Writing
• The United States in the World