**2nd in the UK for American Studies (The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2023)**
**4th in the UK for American Studies (Complete University Guide 2024)**
**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. Youll 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 rangin...
**2nd in the UK for American Studies (The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2023)**<br/><br/>**4th in the UK for American Studies (Complete University Guide 2024)**<br/><br/>**About the course**<br/><br/>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. Youll benefit from specialised resources including our expansive film library and the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts. <br/><br/>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. <br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>**About Sussex**<br/><br/>Sussex graduates change the world. Our students become the leaders of the future, making discoveries, improving lives and changing things for the better.<br/><br/>Study with us to join a welcoming and inspiring community of staff and students from more than 140 countries.<br/><br/>**Location**<br/><br/>We shape the world from a fantastic campus on the UK’s beautiful south coast.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>With Brighton voted the happiest city in England for students, (Student Living Survey, Sodexo, 2018) there can be few better places to study.
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Course Details
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Study Mode
Full-time
Duration
4 Years
Start Date
22/09/2025
Campus
Main Site
Application deadline
Provider Details
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Course Code
TP73
Institution Code
S90
Points of Entry
Year 1, Year 2
A levelA,B,B You should have a broad range of GCSEs 9-4 (A*-C), including good grades in relevant subjects. Scottish HigherA,A,B,B,B Access to HE DiplomaPass Diploma with at least 39 level 3 credits at Merit or above including 24 credits at Distinction. The Access to HE Diploma should be in the Humanities or Social sciences. International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme32 Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)DDD You should have a broad range of GCSEs 9-4 (A*-C), including good grades in relevant subjects. Extended ProjectWe 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 |
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