English and Art History (with a study abroad year) BA (Hons)
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
Explore how literature and the visual arts shape our culture and society. You also have the opportunity to apply for a year studying abroad.
You investigate literature in diverse historical, political and cultural contexts while exploring a wide range of visual material – from painting and architecture to sculpture and dress. You interrogate what we read, how we read, and why we read, in order to produce your own critical and creative response to the world we live in today.
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About this course
Recent School of English graduates have found jobs as:
publishing administrator, Little Brown Book Group
intern, Royal Society of Literature
marketing trainee, BBC.
You should have a broad range of GCSEs 9-4 (A*-C), including good grades in relevant subjects.
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Subjects
- Art History
- English
- Art
- Writing
- Literature
- Transatlantic Dialogues
- Post-Colonial Texts
- Science and Literature
- Modernisms
- Pop Life
Course programme
Autumn teaching
- Stories of Art I: Shaping Art
- Thinking Literature 1
- Stories of Art II: Making Modernity
- Thinking Literature 2
Autumn teaching
- Reading Art History: Critical Texts
- Art and the City
Autumn teaching
- For Love: Taste, Evaluation, and Aesthetics in Criticism and Culture
- Inner Worlds: Literature, 800-1750
- Modernism and Childhood
- Other Worlds: Literature, 800-1750
- Picasso to Kahlo: Transatlantic Dialogues
- Reading Post-Colonial Texts
- Science and Literature
- Statues to Saints: The Art of Late Antiquity
- The Art of Short Fiction
- The Languages of Racisms in Literature and Art
- Contemporary Literature and Culture
- Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain
- Modernisms
- Picasso to Kahlo: Transatlantic Dialogues
- Pop Life: After Modern Art
- Primitivism at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century
- Romance
- Selling yourself: 18th Century Art and Society
- Sense and Sexuality: Women and Writing in the Eighteenth Century
- Staging the Renaissance: Shakespeare
- The Nineteenth-Century American Short Story
- Transatlantic Rhetoric: Public Speech and Anglo-American Writing 1750-1900
- Victorian Things
- Victorian Visions: Art, Industry, Modernity
- Word & Image
- Writing Poetry
Apply to study abroad – you’ll develop an international perspective and gain an edge when it comes to your career.
Year 3 at sussex
Options
Autumn teaching
- A Great and Golden Age:Byzantium 843-1204
- Capital Culture: Money, Commerce and Writing
- Experimental Writing
- Inhuman Bondage: the Image of Slavery 1750-1850
- Islam, Literature and the 'West'
- Queer Literatures
- Sex and the City: The Origins of Modernism in Britain 1870-1910
- 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 Order of Things: The Museum and its Objects
- The Uncanny
- Utopias and Dystopias
- Ways of Seeing: Early Modern Drama and Visual Culture
- Album to Algorithm: Photography in Context
- Art and Letters: Visual Culture in its Literary Contexts
- Decolonising the Curriculum: Literature and Theory of the Global South
- Representing Women
- Research Dissertation (English)
- School Placement Project
- The World Encompassed: Art and Empire
Additional information
English and Art History (with a study abroad year) BA (Hons)