Changes to English and Art History BA (including with a study abroad year)
We’ve listened to feedback and we have updated the curriculum for the academic year 2022/23 for English and Art History BA and English and Art History (with a study abroad year) BA.
You can review the changes below. By accepting your offer to study at Sussex, we will infer that you are happy with these changes but if you would like to discuss them please feel free to contact us at studyinmah@sussex.ac.uk.
Course changes
Take a look at how the new modules compare to the old structure of the course in the table below.
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
Year 1, Semester 1
| Old structure | New structure | Comment |
|---|---|---|
|
Stories of Art I: Shaping Art (core) |
Stories of Art I: Shaping Art (core) |
Change from 30 to 15 credit module |
|
Thinking Literature 1 (core) |
Humanities Skills I (core) |
New core module |
|
|
Thinking Literature 1 (core) |
No change |
Year 1, Semester 2
| Old structure | New structure | Comment |
|---|---|---|
|
Stories of Art II: Making Modernity (core) |
Stories of Art II: Who Is Art For? (core) |
Module title change and change from 30 to 15 credit module |
|
Thinking Literature 2 (core) |
Humanities Skills II (core) |
New core module |
|
|
Thinking Literature 2 (core) |
|
Year 2, Semester 1
| Old structure | New structure | Comment |
|---|---|---|
|
Art & the City (Rome) (core) |
Art & the City (Rome) (core) |
No change |
|
Reading Art History (core) |
Reading Art History (core) |
No change |
|
Inner Worlds (option) |
Inner Worlds (option) |
No change |
|
Outer Worlds (option) |
Outer Worlds (option) |
No change |
|
Humans and Animals (option) |
Humans and Animals (option) |
No change |
|
Science and Literature (option) |
Science and Literature (option) |
No change |
|
The Novel (option) |
The Novel (option) |
No change |
|
Romanticism (option) |
Romanticism (option) |
No change |
|
The Art of Short Fiction (option) |
The Art of Short Fiction (option) |
No change |
|
Lyric Poetry (option) |
Lyric Poetry (option) |
No change |
|
Reading Post-Colonial Texts (option) |
Reading Post-Colonial Texts (option) |
No change |
Year 2, Semester 2
| Old structure | New structure | Comment |
|---|---|---|
|
Art & the City (Rome) (core) |
Art & the City (Rome) (core) |
No change |
|
Selling Yourself (option) |
Selling Yourself (option) |
No change |
|
Pop Life: After Modern Art (option) |
Pop Life: After Modern Art (option) |
No change |
|
Victorian Visions: Art, Industry, Modernity (option) |
Victorian Visions: Art, Industry, Modernity (option) |
No change |
|
Contemporary Literature and Culture (option) |
Contemporary Literature and Culture (option) |
No change |
|
Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain (option) |
Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain (option) |
No change |
|
Modernisms (option) |
Modernisms (option) |
No change |
|
Sense and Sexuality: Women and Writing (option) |
Sense and Sexuality: Women and Writing (option) |
No change |
|
The 19th Century American Short Story (option) |
The 19th Century American Short Story (option) |
No change |
|
Literature and Philosophy (option) |
Literature and Philosophy (option) |
No change |
|
Staging the Renaissance: Shakespeare (option) |
Staging the Renaissance: Shakespeare (option) |
No change |
|
B Word and Image (option) |
B Word and Image (option) |
No change |
|
Arts and Literature of Satire (option) |
Arts and Literature of Satire (option) |
No change |
Year 3, Semester 1
| Old structure | New structure | Comment |
|---|---|---|
|
Sex and the City: Origins of Modernism (option) |
Sex and the City: Origins of Modernism (option) |
No change |
|
The Order of Things: The Museum and its Objects (option) |
The Order of Things: The Museum and its Objects (option) |
No change |
|
The Golden State: Art in California, 1945-1981 (option) |
The Golden State: Art in California, 1945-1981 (option) |
No change |
|
Mediterranean Fantasies: Revivals and Utopias 1919-1939 (option) |
Mediterranean Fantasies: Revivals and Utopias 1919-1939 (option) |
No change |
|
Wollstonecraft and After (option) |
Wollstonecraft and After (option) |
No change |
|
Special Author: Samuel Beckett (option) |
Special Author: Samuel Beckett (option) |
No change |
|
Class, Culture & Contemporary Writing (option) |
Class, Culture & Contemporary Writing (option) |
No change |
|
Literature and the Environment (option) |
Literature and the Environment (option) |
No change |
|
Writing Race, Gender & the Social (option) |
Writing Race, Gender & the Social (option) |
No change |
|
Technologies of Capture (option) |
Technologies of Capture (option) |
No change |
|
Posthuman/Premodern (option) |
Posthuman/Premodern (option) |
No change |
|
Virginia Woolf (option) |
Virginia Woolf (option) |
No change |
Year 3, Semester 2
| Old structure | New structure | Comment |
|---|---|---|
|
From Decorative Arts to Material Culture (option) |
From Decorative Arts to Material Culture (option) |
No change |
|
Commemorative Art: Images, Monuments, Memory (option) |
Commemorative Art: Images, Monuments, Memory (option) |
No change |
|
Art and Place: Sites, Spaces and Identities (option) |
Art and Place: Sites, Spaces and Identities (option) |
No change |
|
Representing Women (option) |
Representing Women (option) |
No change |
|
Dissertation (option) |
Dissertation (option) |
No change |
|
Queer Literatures (option) |
Queer Literatures (option) |
No change |
|
Spectacular Imaginings (option) |
Spectacular Imaginings (option) |
No change |
|
School Placement Project (option) |
School Placement Project (option) |
No change |
|
Decolonising the Curriculum (option) |
Decolonising the Curriculum (option) |
No change |
|
Championing Literacy Placement (option) |
Championing Literacy Placement (option) |
No change |
|
Novel Theory (option) |
Novel Theory (option) |
No change |
|
Crisis, Revolution, Modernity (option) |
Crisis, Revolution, Modernity (option) |
No change |