Course programme
Introduction to American Studies (Core,20 Credits)
Contemporary America (Core,20 Credits)
Introduction to Literary Studies (Core,20 Credits)
Representing the US: From Slavery to Terrorism (Core,20 Credits)
Concepts in Criticism and Culture (Core,20 Credits)
Talking Texts (Core,20 Credits)
Humanities Study Abroad (40 credit) (Optional,40 Credits)
The San Francisco Bay Area (Explorations in American Studies II) (Core,20 Credits)
American Studies Extended Essay (Core,20 Credits)
Early Modern Cultures (Core,20 Credits)
Modernism and Modernity (Core,20 Credits)
Literary Revolutions, Eighteenth Century to Romanticism (Core,20 Credits)
Affluence and Anxiety: The US from 1920 to 1960 (Optional,20 Credits)
America in the 1960s (Optional,20 Credits)
Foreign Policy Analysis (Optional,20 Credits)
Hollywood Cinema (Optional,20 Credits)
Humanities Work Placement Year (Optional,120 Credits)
Humanities Study Abroad Year (Optional,120 Credits)
States of Nature: An Environmental History of the Americas (Explorations in American Studies III) (Core,20 Credits)
Alternative Worlds: Utopian Dreams and Dystopian Nightmares (Optional,20 Credits)
Vamps and Virgins: Gothic Sexualities (Optional,20 Credits)
Travel Writing (Optional,20 Credits)
Romantic Politics: British Literary Responses to the French Revolution (Optional,20 Credits)
Sin, Sex, and Violence: Marlowe in Context (Optional,20 Credits)
Hacks, harlots & highwaymen: the origins of the literary marketplace, 1660-1730 (Optional,20 Credits)
Romanticism and Childhood (Optional,20 Credits)
Violent Femmes: Women in Post-war Popular Culture (Optional,20 Credits)
Neo-Victorianism: Contemporary Literature and Culture (Optional,20 Credits)
History, Myth, Narrative: Prose Writing about the First World War (Optional,20 Credits)
The Black Atlantic: Literature, Slavery and Race (Optional,20 Credits)
Writing the Body 1800-1900 (Optional,20 Credits)
Boxing with Byron: Romanticism and Popular Culture (Optional,20 Credits)
Shaking up Shakespeare (Optional,20 Credits)
Entertaining Satan (Optional,20 Credits)
Postwar US Writing (Optional,20 Credits)
Political Drama in Early Modern England (Optional,20 Credits)
Twenty First Century Literature: Writing in the Present (Optional,20 Credits)
From Jane Austen to Austenland: Representing the Regency in Literature and Film (Optional,20 Credits)
Making Books (Optional,20 Credits)
Contemporary Genre Fiction (Optional,20 Credits)
Writing Women: Aphra Behn in Focus (Optional,20 Credits)
The Golden State: California (Optional,20 Credits)
The African American Freedom Struggle Since 1945 (Optional,20 Credits)
Civil War and Reconstruction (Optional,20 Credits)
Joint Honours Dissertation (Core,40 Credits)
Terrorism (Optional,20 Credits)
Popular Music on Film and Television (Optional,20 Credits)
Cult Film and Television (Optional,20 Credits)
Introduction to American Studies (Core,20 Credits)
Contemporary America (Core,20 Credits)
Introduction to Literary Studies (Core,20 Credits)
Representing the US: From Slavery to Terrorism (Core,20 Credits)
Concepts in Criticism and Culture (Core,20 Credits)
Talking Texts (Core,20 Credits)
Humanities Study Abroad (40 credit) (Optional,40 Credits)
The San Francisco Bay Area (Explorations in American Studies II) (Core,20 Credits)
American Studies Extended Essay (Core,20 Credits)
Early Modern Cultures (Core,20 Credits)
Modernism and Modernity (Core,20 Credits)
Literary Revolutions, Eighteenth Century to Romanticism (Core,20 Credits)
Affluence and Anxiety: The US from 1920 to 1960 (Optional,20 Credits)
America in the 1960s (Optional,20 Credits)
Foreign Policy Analysis (Optional,20 Credits)
Hollywood Cinema (Optional,20 Credits)
Humanities Work Placement Year (Optional,120 Credits)
Humanities Study Abroad Year (Optional,120 Credits)
States of Nature: An Environmental History of the Americas (Explorations in American Studies III) (Core,20 Credits)
Alternative Worlds: Utopian Dreams and Dystopian Nightmares (Optional,20 Credits)
Vamps and Virgins: Gothic Sexualities (Optional,20 Credits)
Travel Writing (Optional,20 Credits)
Romantic Politics: British Literary Responses to the French Revolution (Optional,20 Credits)
Sin, Sex, and Violence: Marlowe in Context (Optional,20 Credits)
Hacks, harlots & highwaymen: the origins of the literary marketplace, 1660-1730 (Optional,20 Credits)
Romanticism and Childhood (Optional,20 Credits)
Violent Femmes: Women in Post-war Popular Culture (Optional,20 Credits)
Neo-Victorianism: Contemporary Literature and Culture (Optional,20 Credits)
History, Myth, Narrative: Prose Writing about the First World War (Optional,20 Credits)
The Black Atlantic: Literature, Slavery and Race (Optional,20 Credits)
Writing the Body 1800-1900 (Optional,20 Credits)
Boxing with Byron: Romanticism and Popular Culture (Optional,20 Credits)
Shaking up Shakespeare (Optional,20 Credits)
Entertaining Satan (Optional,20 Credits)
Postwar US Writing (Optional,20 Credits)
Political Drama in Early Modern England (Optional,20 Credits)
Twenty First Century Literature: Writing in the Present (Optional,20 Credits)
From Jane Austen to Austenland: Representing the Regency in Literature and Film (Optional,20 Credits)
Making Books (Optional,20 Credits)
Contemporary Genre Fiction (Optional,20 Credits)
Writing Women: Aphra Behn in Focus (Optional,20 Credits)
The Golden State: California (Optional,20 Credits)
The African American Freedom Struggle Since 1945 (Optional,20 Credits)
Civil War and Reconstruction (Optional,20 Credits)
Joint Honours Dissertation (Core,40 Credits)
Terrorism (Optional,20 Credits)
Popular Music on Film and Television (Optional,20 Credits)
Cult Film and Television (Optional,20 Credits)