English and History BA (Hons)

• The Early Modern World
• Thinking Literature 1

• The Making of the Modern World
• Thinking Literature 2

• Ideas of History

• Global History 1500-2000: Trade, Science, Environment and Empire

• For Love: Taste, Evaluation, and Aesthetics in Criticism and Culture
• History Short Period: America in the 20th Century
• 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
• Inner Worlds: Literature, 800-1750
• Other Worlds: Literature, 800-1750
• Reading Post-Colonial Texts
• Science and Literature
• The Art of Short Fiction
• The Languages of Racisms in Literature and Art
• Word & Image

• Contemporary Literature and Culture
• Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain
• Modernisms
• Primitivism at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century
• Romance
• Sense and Sexuality: Women and Writing in the Eighteenth Century
• Staging the Renaissance: Shakespeare
• 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
• Victorian Things
• Word & Image
• Writing Poetry

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Year 3 at sussex

• History Special Dissertation

• Capital Culture: Money, Commerce and Writing
• Experimental Writing
• Islam, Literature and the 'West'
• Modernism and Childhood
• 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
• Ways of Seeing: Early Modern Drama and Visual Culture

• Special Subject: Britain and the Second World War
• Special Subject: Domesticity and its Discontents: Women in Post-War Britain
• Special Subject: End of Empire: Nationalism, Decolonisation and the British Raj in India 1937-1950
• Special Subject: The Century of the Gene
• Special Subject: The Civil Rights Movement
• Special Subject: The European Experience of the First World War

• Decolonising the Curriculum: Literature and Theory of the Global South
• Research Dissertation (English)
• School Placement Project