BA English and Film Studies
About this course
BA (Hons) in English and Film Studies, focusing on narrative forms across literature and cinema. Core topics include Research Methods. Students can undertake optional placements and engage with local cinemas and cultural organisations.
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Entry requirements
A level: BBB IB: 32 points
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What students say
Based on about 15 final-year students who answered (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Teaching on my course: 95%
- Learning opportunities: 88%
- Assessment and feedback: 89%
- Academic support: 98%
- Organisation and management: 93%
- Learning resources: 90%
- Student voice: 79%
Do students stay on the course?
Based on about 10 students who started (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Continued on course: 90%
- Left higher education: 10%
What graduates do next
Based on about 6 graduates who answered (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Working: 75%
- Working and studying: 10%
- Unemployed: 10%
Most common jobs
- Business and public service associate professionals: 20%
- Elementary occupations: 15%
- Administrative occupations: 10%
- Media Professionals: 5%
- Managers, directors and senior officials: 5%
- Find their work meaningful: 65%
- Feel on track for their future plans: 55%
- Use what they learnt on the course: 25%
Where graduates work (5 years on)
Based on about 135 graduates, across similar courses at this university
- East Midlands: 1%
- East of England: 10%
- London: 48%
- South East: 34%
- South West: 6%
- Wales: 1%
Who gets in
Based on about 15 students who started (a small group: a rough guide only)
- A levels: 100%
Accreditation & quality ratings
TEF 2023 (whole university): Silver overall, Bronze for student experience, Silver for student outcomes.
Modules
- Analysing Film: Forms and Contexts B
- Burning to Read
- European Cinema
- Analysing Film: Authorship and Genre B
- Global Cinema
- World Making
- Debates in Screen Documentary
- Adaptation: Filming Fiction
- Exploring Local Film Cultures
- Film Musicals
- 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
- British Cinema
- Chinese Cinema
- Global Modernisms
- Latin American Cinema: Contemporary Trends and Movements
- Right Here! Right Now! Twenty-First Century Literature and Culture
- Romance
- Sexuality and the Rise of Fiction
- Staging the Renaissance: Shakespeare
- Writing Poetry
- English Literature Dissertation
- Film Studies Dissertation
- Cinema and Migration
- Pop Soundtrack Cinema
- Posthuman/Premodern
- Psychoanalysis and Literature
- Race and Ethnicity in Popular Cinema
- Serial Fictions
- Topics in African American Literature
- Viewing Women
- Virginia Woolf
- Wollstonecraft and After: Gender, Writing and the Public Sphere
- Writing Race, Gender, and the Social: Experiments Beyond Representation
- American Teen Cinema: Coming of Age on Screen
- Championing Literacy Placement
- Cinema and Sexualities
- Decolonial Literature, Politics, Writing
- Film and Revolution
- Gender, Race and Society in Early Modern Drama
- Hollywood Industry and Imaginary
- Modern Nature
- Queer Fictions
- Sussex Modernism
Questions about this course
How much do graduates of BA English and Film Studies at University of Sussex earn?
The median salary is £26,000 after 15 months, £24,000 after 3 years, £30,500 after 5 years. After five years the middle half of graduates earn between £25,000 and £38,500. The £30,500 median after five years is £1,500 more than the UK median for English studies.
What do graduates of BA English and Film Studies at University of Sussex do next?
80% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing (Graduate Outcomes 2023-24).
Are students happy with the teaching on BA English and Film Studies 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 Film Studies at University of Sussex?
The typical offer is BBB at A level, or 32 points in the IB. The average entrant had 117 UCAS points.
Does BA English and Film Studies 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 Film Studies at University of Sussex?
90% of students continued into their second year, and 10% left higher education.