Satellite image of Europe at night
The undergraduate programme in Contemporary European Studies (CES) offers you the chance to explore and understand better how Europe is changing, economically, politically and socially. The programme builds on a long standing tradition of interdisciplinarity at the University of Sussex and takes a broad and inclusive approach both to analysing the way in which Europe has developed and to examining the challenges it faces. The programme covers Europe in its historical and its current contexts, as an idea and a reality and in terms of its relations with its neighbours and the wider world.
Staff teaching on the programme are drawn from the Departments of Anthropology, Economics, Geography, History, International Relations, Sociology as well as the Department of Politics and Contemporary European Studies in which the programme is based.
Students can take Contemporary European Studies in combination with a wide range of subjects including many of the above as well as languages, law and business studies. The programme is available as both a joint major and a minor, depending on the course of study chosen. In these pages you can find out more about the courses we offer and the ways in which we teach CES.
For all postgraduate study and European research in the Department follow the link to our postgraduate and research institute (SEI).