American Studies and Film Studies (with a study abroad year)
University of Sussex
American Studies and Film Studies (with a study abroad year)
Course Summary
**About the course**
By combining American Studies and Film Studies, you’ll link together a wide range of interesting topics – from the birth of celebrity culture to Hollywood as an industry. You'll benefit from specialised resources including our expansive film library and the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts.
You’ll learn from leading experts about challenging works ranging from DW Griffiths’s Birth of a Nation to Andy Warhol’s Blow Job. And you’ll have access to dedicated media laboratories, film and sound studios, and an in-house DVD library of over 5,000 films and TV programmes.
Plus, by spending a year abroad, you’ll not only study America, but you’ll experience it too. We’re proud to have more prestigious American partner institutions – including UC Berkeley and Georgetown – than any other programme in England.
**About Sussex**
Sussex graduates change the world. Our students become the leaders of the future, making discoveries, improving lives and changing things for the better.
Study with us to join a welcoming and inspiring community of staff and students from more than 140 countries.
**Location**
We shape the world from a fantastic campus on the UK’s beautiful south coast.
We are the only UK university surrounded by a national park, so you can step off campus to explore the hills and woodlands of the South Downs. The vibrant, colourful and creative seaside city of Brighton & Hove is just nine minutes away.
With Brighton voted the happiest city in England for students, (Student Living Survey, Sodexo, 2018) there can be few better places to study.
Course Details - Modules
See the modules you will study by year by going to the 'view course details' link.
Course Details – Assessment Method
Assessment Methods are not listed for this Course.
Course Details – Professional Bodies
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How to Apply
26 January This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.
Application Codes
Course code:
TP73
Institution code:
S90
Campus Name:
Main Site
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Points of Entry
The following entry points are available for this course:
Year 1
Year 2
Entry Requirements for Advanced Entry (Year 2 and Beyond)
Entry Requirements for Advanced Entry are not listed for this Course.
International applicants
Standard Qualification Requirements
You should have a broad range of GCSEs 9-4 (A*-C), including good grades in relevant subjects.
If you are taking Advanced Highers we would normally expect you to have at least BBB.
Pass Diploma with at least 39 level 3 credits at Merit or above including 21-24 credits at Distinction.
The Access to HE Diploma should be in the humanities or social sciences.
We take the EPQ into account when considering your application and it can be useful in the summer when your results are released if you have narrowly missed the conditions of your offer. We do not routinely include the EPQ in the conditions of your offer but we sometimes offer alternative conditions that include the EPQ. If you wish to discuss this further please contact Admissions at ug.applicants@sussex.ac.uk
You should have a broad range of GCSEs 9-4 (A*-C), including good grades in relevant subjects.
Please click the following link to find out more about qualification requirements for this course
Minimum Qualification Requirements
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English language requirements
Test
Grade
AdditionalDetails
IELTS (Academic)
6.0
Including at least 5.5 in each component.
PTE Academic
59.0
Including at least 59 in all four skills.
TOEFL (iBT)
80.0
TOEFL (iBT), including at least 17 in Listening, 18 in Reading, 20 in Speaking, 17 in Writing.
