English and Media 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

• Questioning the Media A

• Thinking Literature 1

Spring teaching

• Debates in Media Studies A

• 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

• News, Politics and Power A

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

• Capital Culture: Money, Commerce and Writing

• Celebrity, Media and Culture

• Globalisation and Communication

• Islam, Literature and the 'West'

• Media and Communications Dissertation Preparation

• Media, War and Terrorism

• Posthuman/Premodern

• Questioning the Digital

• Social Media and Critical Practice

• Special Author: Samuel Beckett

• Special Author: Virginia Woolf

• Special Author: William Blake

• Technologies of Capture: Photography and Nineteenth Century Literature

• The Politics of Representation

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

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

Spring teaching

• Championing Literacy Placement

• Class, Culture and Contemporary Writing

• Crisis, Revolution, Modernity

• Decolonisation, Pedagogy and Praxis in the Global South

• Dissertation (ENGLISH)

• Feminism and Digital Culture

• Gender, Race and Society in Early Modern Drama

• Media and Communications Dissertation

• Novel Theory

• Queer Literatures

• Revolutionary Media

• School Placement Project

• Urban Multiculture: Postcolonialism, Politics, Sound and the City

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: £22,500 per year

Studying English and Media Studies at Sussex means you develop transferable skills in critical analysis, verbal and written communication, independent thinking and creativity. 

Sussex hosts tailored careers events, including workshops, talks and regular drop-in sessions. You continue to receive careers support after graduation.

You can go on to further study, or use your degree for a career in:

• the arts, libraries and museums

• media, journalism and advertising

• civil service, teaching and higher education.