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American Studies and English (with a study abroad year) BA (Hons)
American Studies and English (with a study abroad year) BA (Hons)

American Studies and English (with a study abroad year) BA (Hons)

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  • Level:4-Year Bachelor's Degree
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Admission Requirements

Entry Requirement

International Baccalaureate

Typical offer: 32-34 points overall from the full IB Diploma.

Subjects:  Higher Level subjects must include English, with a final grade of 6.

European Baccalaureate

Typical offer: Overall result of at least 77% to 80%.

Additional requirements: You will need to achieve a final mark of at least 8/10 in English.

English requirements

IELTs: 6.5 overall, including at least 6.0 in each component

PTE: 62 overall, including at least 56 in all four skills.

Cambridge Advanced Certificate in English (CAE): 176 overall, including at least 169 in each skill

Orther Requirement

No

Course Information

Our American Studies programme takes an interdisciplinary approach to studying America. By examining the history, politics, literature and culture of a nation that has been pivotal in shaping the 20th and 21st centuries, you’ll better understand the world we live in today.

You'll learn from one of the largest groups of experts dedicated to American Studies in the UK. Our faculty’s broad research interests are also reflected in our module options. You can tailor your course according to the areas that interest you. You also have the opportunity to study for a year at a university in North America, building your confidence and expanding your horizons. 

At Sussex you’ll be part of an active student community. Activities include an undergraduate seminar series featuring international speakers. Our graduates have used the skills developed at Sussex to forge successful careers in everything from public relations and marketing to business, research and the civil service. 

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Year 1:

Core modules

Autumn teaching

  • Introduction to American Studies

  • Thinking Literature 1

Spring teaching

  • Modern America

  • Thinking Literature 2

Options

Autumn teaching

  • American Political Culture

  • Roots of America: From Colonial Settlement to the Civil War and Reconstruction

  • Writing Early America: Literature to 1800

Spring teaching

  • American Humour

  • The Look of America

  • Writing the New Nation: 1800-1900

Year 2:

Core modules

Autumn teaching

  • Theoretical Concepts for American Studies

Options

Autumn teaching

  • American Identities

  • American Literature in the Long Twentieth Century

  • Film Musicals

  • For Love: Taste, Evaluation, and Aesthetics in Criticism and Culture

  • Humans and Animals

  • Inner Worlds: Literature, 800-1750

  • Lyric Poetry

  • Outer Worlds: Literature, 800-1750

  • Picasso to Kahlo: Transatlantic Dialogues

  • Reading Post-Colonial Texts

  • Romanticism

  • Science and Literature

  • The African American Experience

  • The Art of Short Fiction

  • The Novel

Spring teaching

  • American Arts

  • American Cinema: Historical Approaches B

  • American Cities

  • American Popular Music

  • Contemporary Literature and Culture

  • English in the United States

  • Literature and Philosophy

  • Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain

  • Modernisms

  • Politics of Governance: USA

  • Queer America

  • Romance

  • Staging the Renaissance: Shakespeare

  • The Arts and Literature of Satire

  • The Nineteenth-Century American Short Story

  • Time and Place: 1861: The Coming of the American Civil War

  • Victorian Things

  • Writing Poetry

Study Abroad:

You spend your third year studying at one of our US or Canadian partners’ campuses. Our range of partner institutions represents every facet of the American experience, and includes:

  • UC Berkeley and UCLA

  • Tulane University in New Orleans and the University of North Carolina

  • Georgetown University and George Washington University, Washington, DC.

Whether you are interested in Native American culture, the Civil Rights movement, or American modernist poetry, Sussex offers you a unique experience while studying in North America.

Options

Autumn teaching

  • American Culture and Consumption

  • American Studies Dissertation

  • Capital Culture: Money, Commerce and Writing

  • Class, Culture and Contemporary Writing

  • Current Themes in the Anthropology of Latin America

  • Islam, Literature and the 'West'

  • Posthuman/Premodern

  • Psychoanalysis and Modernism

  • Special Author(s): Jean Rhys, Jamaica Kincaid and the Postcolonial Caribbean

  • Special Author: Mary Wollstonecraft

  • Special Author: Salman Rushdie

  • Special Author: Samuel Beckett

  • Special Author: Virginia Woolf

  • Special Author: Vladimir Nabokov

  • Special Author: Vladimir Nabokov

  • Special Author: William Blake

  • Special Subject: The Civil Rights Movement Part 1

  • The Golden State: Art in California, 1945-1981

  • Writing Race, Gender, and the Social: Experiments Beyond Representation

Spring teaching

  • America in the 21st Century

  • American Teen Cinema: Coming of Age on Screen

  • Arts and Community

  • Championing Literacy Placement

  • Decolonising the Curriculum: Literature and Theory of the Global South

  • Dissertation (ENGLISH)

  • Documentary America: Non-Fiction Writing

  • Hollywood Industry and Imaginary

  • Novel Theory

  • Queer Literatures

  • School Placement Project

  • Special Subject: The Civil Rights Movement Part 2

  • Spectacular Imaginings: Renaissance Drama and the Stage 1580-1640

  • Technologies of Capture: Photography and Nineteenth Century Literature

  • The United States in the World

  • Topic(s) in American Literature and Culture

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Career Opportunity

Career Opportunity

You learn a range of analytical and communication skills, and how to think critically across disciplines. On your year abroad you’ll gain invaluable cultural and social perspectives. As a result, you will be in demand in fields such as:

  • journalism and marketing

  • TV and film production

  • finance and industry. 

Ability to settle

Overseas Student Health Cover

Insurance - Single

NHS: 300 GBP

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