American Studies at Sussex 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.
In English, we offer a bold, forward-thinking curriculum that allows you to study a thousand years of literature in new and progressive ways. We offer you a distinctive approach to a radical breadth of literary texts.
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.
Language Proficiency Test -IELTS/TOEFL/PTE
American Political Culture
Roots of America: From Colonial Settlement to the Civil War and Reconstruction
Writing Early America: Literature to 1800
Critical Approaches 2
The Look of America
Writing the New Nation: 1800-1900
Critical Approaches 2
The Look of America
Writing the New Nation: 1800-1900
American Popular Music
Contemporary Literature and Culture
English in the United States
Humans and Animals
Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain
Lyric Poetry
Modernisms
Picasso to Kahlo: Transatlantic Dialogues
Picasso to Kahlo: Transatlantic Dialogues
Politics of Governance: USA
Pop Life: After Modern Art
Pop Life: After Modern Art
Romance
Romanticism
Sense and Sexuality: Women and Writing in the Eighteenth Century
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American Studies and English (with a study abroad year) BA (Hons)
