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

Year 1:

Core modules

Autumn teaching

• Introduction to American Studies

• The Early Modern World

Spring teaching

• Modern America

• The Making of the Modern World

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

• Ideas of History

• Theoretical Concepts for American Studies

Spring teaching

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

Options

Autumn teaching

• American Identities

• American Literature in the Long Twentieth Century

• Film Musicals

• History Short Period: Austria and 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

• Picasso to Kahlo: Transatlantic Dialogues

• The African American Experience

Spring teaching

• American Arts

• American Cinema: Historical Approaches B

• American Cities

• American Popular Music

• Politics of Governance: USA

• Queer America

• 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: 1453: The European Renaissance

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

• Time and Place: 1942: Holocaust

• Time and Place: 1948: The Arab-Israeli Conflict

• Time and Place: 1953: Monarchs and Murders

• Time and Place: 1984: Thatcher's Britain (Observing the 1980s)

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.

Year 3:

Options

Autumn teaching

• American Culture and Consumption

• American Studies Dissertation

• Current Themes in the Anthropology of Latin America

• From the Beat Generation to the Black Arts Movement: Dissident American Literature After WW2

• Hollywood Comedian Comedy

• Special Author: Vladimir Nabokov

• Special Author: Vladimir Nabokov

• Special Subject: Archiving Power - Empire to Windrush Part A

• Special Subject: End of Empire: Nationalism, Decolonisation and the British Raj in India 1937-1950 Part 1

• Special Subject: Genocide

• Special Subject: Global Darwinisms Part 1

• Special Subject: Palestine in Transition, 1900-1948: Everyday Life in Times of Change Part 1

• Special Subject: Post-Rave Britain, 1988 - present Part 1

• Special Subject: The Civil Rights Movement Part 1

• Special Subject: The European Experience of the First World War Part 1

• Special Subject: Witches and Witch-Hunts Part 1

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

Autumn and spring teaching

• History Special Dissertation: Archiving Power - Empire to Windrush

Spring teaching

• America in the 21st Century

• American Popular Music

• American Teen Cinema: Coming of Age on Screen

• Documentary America: Non-Fiction Writing

• Hollywood Industry and Imaginary

• Queer Literatures

• Special Subject: Archiving Power - Empire to Windrush Part B

• Special Subject: End of Empire: Nationalism, Decolonisation and the British Raj in India 1937-1950 Part 2

• Special Subject: Genocide

• Special Subject: Global Darwinisms Part 2

• Special Subject: Palestine in Transition, 1900-1948: Everyday Life in Times of Change Part 2

• Special Subject: Post-Rave Britain, 1988 - present Part 2

• Special Subject: The Civil Rights Movement Part 2

• Special Subject: The European Experience of the First World War Part 2

• Special Subject: Witches and Witch-Hunts Part 2

• The United States in the World

• Topic(s) in American Literature and Culture