Media and film studies
Whether you're studying abroad at Sussex for a semester or year, you can browse our media and film modules below. Immerse yourself in our photographic and video studio, production labs and facilities*.
Browse our modules
You can see our full list of media and film modules below.
Year 1
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Autumn Semester
- Analysing Film
- Analysing Film B
- Audiovisual Practices
- Creative Practice: Ideas and Exploration
- Creative Video
- Digital Media and Culture: Theories, Investigations, Practices
- Digital Technology, Media and Society
- European Cinema
- Questioning the Media A
- Questioning the Media E
- Sonic Narratives
- Writing the Short Film
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Spring Semester
- Communication Design
- Creative Practice: Producing and Curating
- Culture and the Everyday
- Debates in Media Studies A
- Debates in Media Studies B
- Digital Histories, Objects and Processes
- Exploring Film Studies
- Exploring Film Studies B
- Global Cinema
- Introduction to Fiction Filmmaking
- Photography: Practice and Theory
Year 2
- All Year Teaching
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Autumn Semester
- Adaptation: Filming Fiction
- Box Set TV: Contemporary Serial Television
- Creative Systems and Computational Art
- Debates in Screen Documentary B
- Film Musicals
- Film Theory
- Film Theory B
- Interactive Design
- Intermediate Fiction Filmmaking
- Law, Regulation and Governance B
- Media, Memory, History
- Media and Crisis
- News, Politics and Power A
- News, Politics and Power B
- Photography: Critical Narratives
- Professional Practice
- Questioning the Digital B
- Screenwriting
- Sound, Culture & Society
- Theory, Taste and Trash
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Spring Semester
- Advanced Screenwriting
- Advertising (E)
- AI, Culture and Society
- Animation
- British Cinema A
- British Cinema B
- Cinema and Climate
- Digital Culture and Algorithmic Society
- Documentary Video
- Gender, Space and Culture
- Indian Cinema: Popular Hindi Film
- Latin American Cinema: Contemporary Trends and Movements
- Latin American Cinema: Contemporary Trends and Movements
- Playable Media
- Podcasting
- Researching Media and Communication
- Screenwriting
- TV: Fictions and Entertainments
- Understanding Race and Culture in the Media
Year 3
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Autumn Semester
- Advertising and Social Change
- American Teen Cinema: Coming of Age on Screen
- Celebrity, Media and Culture
- Cinema and Migration
- Cities, Capital, Culture
- Digital Media Project Preparation
- Journalism, Politics and Society
- Pop Soundtrack Cinema
- Questioning the Digital
- Race and Ethnicity in Popular Cinema
- Social Media and Critical Practice B
- Theorising Media Practice
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Spring Semester
- Cinema and Sexualities
- Digital Methods Project
- Dissertation (Digital Media and Culture)
- Everyday Life and Technology
- Film and Revolution
- Hollywood Industry and Imaginary
- Humanitarian Communication
- Media, Publics and Protest
- Media Studies Spring Option
- Public Relations
- Revolutionary Media
- Urban Multiculture: Postcolonialism, Politics, Sound and the City
- Viewing Women
Not sure how to choose?
Follow our top tips for choosing your modules. You can also find out about our teaching structure, assessment process and how your credits transfer back to your home institution.
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Which school will I study in?
Depending on the modules you choose, you'll study in either the Department of Media or Film Studies which is part of the School of Media, Arts and Humanities.
Our academics are publishing books and articles, producing award-winning documentaries and films and influencing policy.
Our students are also producing high-quality productions.
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Contact us
If you are studying at Sussex for a semester or year and have questions, email sussexabroad@sussex.ac.uk.
*Access to facilities dependent on modules studied **(Our campus is nine minutes by train from Brighton & Hove) survey by accommodation providers Student Living by Sodexo. Rankings based on full undergraduate degree at Sussex.