Your year abroad in North America is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to learn first-hand about the place you are studying and, perhaps more importantly, also the beginning of lifelong professional and personal attachments in America.
Although the United States and the United Kingdom share the same language, American Studies majors need to understand and come to terms with the 'foreign-ness' of American life as well as to have an opportunity to study their subject on its home territory and acquire a closer knowledge of American society and its culture.
For these reasons, all American Studies majors, and joint-degree majors, spend their third year at a North American university that has been carefully selected for academic standard, levels of pastoral and administrative support, and cultural and geographical environment. Your journey will be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to learn first-hand about the place you are studying and, perhaps more importantly, also the beginning of lifelong professional and personal attachments in America.
For these reasons, all American Studies majors, and joint-degree majors, spend their third year at a North American university that has been carefully selected for academic standard, levels of pastoral and administrative support, and cultural and geographical environment. Your journey will be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to learn first-hand about the place you are studying and, perhaps more importantly, also the beginning of lifelong professional and personal attachments in America.
As an American Studies major, you will study at one of our US or Canadian partners’ campuses that together represent every facet of the American experience from the Atlantic coast to the shores of the Pacific. Some of our students study at the Ivy League University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, others attend one of the University of California campuses, including UC Berkeley. Those interested in the American South can study at Tulane University in New Orleans or the University of North Carolina, while politics specialists might choose Georgetown University or George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Whether you are interested in Native American culture, environmental history, or American modernist poetry, Sussex offers you a unique and unsurpassed experience while studying in North America that will, as returning students perennially attest, 'change your life'.
The map below allows you to explore the full range of Sussex’s North American partnerships and contains links to each institution’s website.
Visit a larger version of this map and a full list of partner institutions
View University of Sussex American partnerships in a larger map
For more information on the year abroad in North America, refer to Study abroad for Sussex students.