English and Film Studies BA (Hons)

at University of Sussex

Program structure

Year 1 Core modules

Core modules are taken by all students on the course. They give you a solid grounding in your chosen subject and prepare you to explore the topics that interest you most.

Autumn teaching

• Analysing Film B

• European Cinema

• Thinking Literature 1

Spring teaching

• Exploring Film Studes B

• Global Cinema

• Thinking Literature 2

Year 2 Core modules

Core modules are taken by all students on the course. They give you a solid grounding in your chosen subject and prepare you to explore the topics that interest you most.

Autumn teaching

• Film Theory B

Year 3 Options

You choose options to broaden your horizons and tailor your course to your interests. This list gives you a flavour of our options, which are kept under review and may change, for example in response to student feedback or the latest research.

While it’s our aim for students to take their preferred combinations of options, this can’t be guaranteed and will be subject to timetabling. Options may be grouped and if so, students will be able to choose a set number of options from the selection available in any particular group.

Autumn teaching

• American Teen Cinema: Coming of Age on Screen

• Animals and Screen Media

• Capital Culture: Money, Commerce and Writing

• Cinema and Migration

• Islam, Literature and the 'West'

• Posthuman/Premodern

• Race and Ethnicity in Popular Cinema

• Special Author: Samuel Beckett

• Special Author: Virginia Woolf

• Special Author: William Blake

• Technologies of Capture: Photography and Nineteenth Century Literature

• Wollstonecraft and After: Gender, Writing and the Public Sphere

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

Spring teaching

• Championing Literacy Placement

• Cinema and Sexualities

• Class, Culture and Contemporary Writing

• Crisis, Revolution, Modernity

• Decolonisation, Pedagogy and Praxis in the Global South

• Dissertation (ENGLISH)

• Film and Revolution

• Film Studies Dissertation

• Gender, Race and Society in Early Modern Drama

• Hollywood Industry and Imaginary

• Novel Theory

• Queer Literatures

• School Placement Project

• Viewing Women

International Baccalaureate

Typical offer    

30 -32 points overall from the full IB Diploma.

European Baccalaureate

Typical offer    

Overall result of at least 75% to 77%.

Other international qualifications

India

Typical offer    

Standard XII results

• 80% from ISC Indian School certificate of Education (CISCE)  

• 80% from SSC All India Senior School Certificate Examination (CBSE)

• 80% HSC Higher Secondary Certificate ( Maharashtra )

English language requirements

IELTS (Academic)

6.0 overall, including at least 5.5 in each component

Home students: £9,250 per year

Channel Islands and Isle of Man students: £9,250 per year

International students: £18,500 per year

You graduate from our English and Film Studies BA as an intellectually agile and critically rigorous communicator. You develop transferable careers skills in independent thought, teamwork and research. 

At Sussex, you can attend careers events tailored to your subject. These include workshops, drop-in sessions and talks from industry professionals. Access to careers support continues after graduation.

You can use your English and Film Studies degree for a career in:

• advertising and journalism

• media and the arts

• education and the Civil Service.