English and Art History BA (Hons)

at University of Sussex

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

• Researching, Creating and Communicating in the Humanities 1

• Stories of Art I: Shaping Art

• Thinking Literature 1

Spring teaching

• Researching, Creating and Communicating in the Humanities 2

• Stories of Art II: Who Is Art For?

• 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

• Art and the City I

• Reading Art History: Critical Texts

Spring teaching

• Art and the City II

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

• Islam, Literature and the 'West'

• Mediterranean Fantasies: Revivals and Utopias, 1919-1939

• Posthuman/Premodern

• Special Author: Samuel Beckett

• Special Author: Virginia Woolf

• Special Author: William Blake

• Technologies of Capture: Photography and Nineteenth Century Literature

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

• The Order of Things: The Museum and its Objects

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

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

Spring teaching

• Art and Place: Sites, Spaces and Identities

• Championing Literacy Placement

• Class, Culture and Contemporary Writing

• Crisis, Revolution, Modernity

• Decolonisation, Pedagogy and Praxis in the Global South

• Dissertation (ENGLISH)

• From Decorative Arts to Material Culture

• Gender, Race and Society in Early Modern Drama

• Novel Theory

• Queer Literatures

• Representing Women

• School Placement Project

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

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

English is multidisciplinary and flexible. Art History is a practical humanities subject. Studying them together gives you transferable skills in critical analysis, research, communication, independent thinking and problem-solving. You’ll also understand how visual culture works – an essential skill in an image-saturated society.

You can use your English and Art History degree to go on to postgraduate study, or for careers in fields such as:

• the arts, libraries and archives

• PR, media and journalism

• teaching and higher education.