English BA (Hons)

• Critical Approaches 1
• Thinking Literature 1

• Critical Approaches 2
• Thinking Literature 2

• Acts of Writing 1

• Acts of Writing 2

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

• For Love: Taste, Evaluation, and Aesthetics in Criticism and Culture
• Inner Worlds: Literature, 800-1750
• Modernism and Childhood
• 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

• 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
• Transatlantic Rhetoric: Public Speech and Anglo-American Writing 1750-1900
• Victorian Things
• Word & Image
• Writing Poetry

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.

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Year 3 at sussex

• Research Dissertation (English)

• Capital Culture: Money, Commerce and Writing
• Experimental Writing
• Islam, Literature and the 'West'
• 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

• Decolonising the Curriculum: Literature and Theory of the Global South
• Documentary America: Non-Fiction Writing
• School Placement Project