English and Media Studies BA (Hons)

• Questioning the Media A
• Thinking Literature 1

• Debates in Media Studies A
• Thinking Literature 2

• News, Politics and Power A

• Class and Popular Culture
• For Love: Taste, Evaluation, and Aesthetics in Criticism and Culture
• Globalisation and Communication
• Inner Worlds: Literature, 800-1750
• Media, War and Terrorism
• Modernism and Childhood
• Other Worlds: Literature, 800-1750
• Reading Post-Colonial Texts
• Science and Literature
• Social Media and Critical Practice
• Sound, Culture & Society B
• The Art of Short Fiction
• The Languages of Racisms in Literature and Art
• The Politics of Representation
• Word & Image

• Advertising and Social Change B
• Contemporary Literature and Culture
• Debates in Screen Documentary B
• Digital Cultures B
• Journalism in Crisis B
• Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain
• Modernisms
• Primitivism at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century
• Researching Media and Communication
• Romance
• 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
• TV: Fictions and Entertainments B
• Victorian Things
• Word & Image
• Writing Poetry

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Year 3 at sussex

• Capital Culture: Money, Commerce and Writing
• Cities, Capital, Culture
• Class and Popular Culture
• Consuming Passions
• Documentary, Reality TV and 'Real Lives'
• Experimental Writing
• Globalisation and Communication
• Islam, Literature and the 'West'
• Media and Communications Dissertation Preparation
• Media, War and Terrorism
• Queer Literatures
• Revolutionary Media
• Social Media and Critical Practice
• 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 Politics of Representation
• The Uncanny
• Utopias and Dystopias
• Ways of Seeing: Early Modern Drama and Visual Culture

• Celebrity, Media and Culture
• Comedy and Cultural Belonging
• Decolonising the Curriculum: Literature and Theory of the Global South
• Digital Industries and Internet Cultures
• Everyday Life and Technology
• Media and Communications Dissertation
• Media, Publics and Protest
• Performing the Urban: postcolonial perspectives
• Research Dissertation (English)
• School Placement Project
• Writing Lives before 1800