BA English and Art History
About this course
BA (Hons) in English and History of Art. Core topics include Research Methods. Students complete an English Literature Dissertation in the final year.
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Entry requirements
A level: ABB IB: 32 points
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What students say
Based on about 25 final-year students who answered, across similar courses at this university (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Teaching on my course: 95%
- Learning opportunities: 93%
- Assessment and feedback: 92%
- Academic support: 97%
- Organisation and management: 94%
- Learning resources: 97%
- Student voice: 91%
Do students stay on the course?
Based on about 30 students who started, across similar courses at this university
- Continued on course: 95%
- Left higher education: 5%
What graduates do next
Based on about 8 graduates who answered, across similar courses at this university (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Working: 60%
- Working and studying: 5%
- Further study: 25%
- Unemployed: 5%
Most common jobs
- Administrative occupations: 15%
- Teaching Professionals: 10%
- Artistic, literary and media occupations: 10%
- Skilled trades occupations: 5%
- Teaching and Childcare Support Occupation: 5%
Where graduates work (5 years on)
Based on about 35 graduates, across similar courses at this university
- North West: 5%
- East of England: 5%
- London: 50%
- South East: 25%
- South West: 10%
- Scotland: 5%
Who gets in
Based on about 15 students who started, across similar courses at this university (a small group: a rough guide only)
- A levels: 95%
- Other qualifications: 5%
Accreditation & quality ratings
TEF 2023 (whole university): Silver overall, Bronze for student experience, Silver for student outcomes.
Modules
- Burning to Read
- Stories of Art: Writing and Seeing
- Sights and Sites
- World Making
- Art & the City: International Study Trip
- Reading in Detail: Critical Texts
- In the Embers of Empire: Reading Postcolonial Texts Today
- Language for Life
- Liberty and Horror
- Literature and Philosophy
- Novels (how to read them and why)
- The Art of Short Fiction
- Word & Image
- (Re)thinking Civilization
- Global Modernisms
- Picasso to Kahlo: Transatlantic Dialogues
- Pop Life: After Modern Art
- Right Here! Right Now! Twenty-First Century Literature and Culture
- Romance
- Sexuality and the Rise of Fiction
- Staging the Renaissance: Shakespeare
- Victorian Visions: Art, Industry, Modernity
- Writing Poetry
- Commemorative Art: Images, Monuments, Memory
- English Literature Dissertation
- From Decorative Arts to Material Culture
- Art and Politics in Britain 2008-Now
- Mediterranean Fantasies: Revivals and Utopias, 1919-1939
- Posthuman/Premodern
- Serial Fictions
- Sex and the City: The Origins of Modernism in Britain 1870-1910
- Topics in African American Literature
- Virginia Woolf
- Writing Race, Gender, and the Social: Experiments Beyond Representation
- Art and Place: Sites, Spaces and Identities
- Championing Literacy Placement
- Decolonial Literature, Politics, Writing
- Gender, Race and Society in Early Modern Drama
- Modern Nature
- Queer Fictions
- Sussex Modernism
Questions about this course
How much do graduates of BA English and Art History at University of Sussex earn?
The median salary is £25,000 after 3 years, £25,000 after 5 years. After five years the middle half of graduates earn between £20,500 and £33,000. The £25,000 median after five years is £4,000 less than the UK median for English studies.
What do graduates of BA English and Art History at University of Sussex do next?
90% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing (Graduate Outcomes 2023-24).
Are students happy with the teaching on BA English and Art History at University of Sussex?
95% of final-year students were positive about the teaching in the National Student Survey 2025-26.
What grades do I need for BA English and Art History at University of Sussex?
The typical offer is ABB at A level, or 32 points in the IB. The average entrant had 125 UCAS points.
Does BA English and Art History at University of Sussex include a placement year or year abroad?
The course has an optional placement year and an optional year abroad.
How many students continue on BA English and Art History at University of Sussex?
95% of students continued into their second year, and 5% left higher education.