Bachelor of Arts in American Studies (United States) with Film (With Foundation Year and Year Abroad)

University of Essex - Colchester Campus

UK,England

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60 Months

Duration

CAD 17,700/year

Tuition Fee

CAD 0 FREE

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UK, England

Type: University

Location Type: Semi-Urban

Founded: 1965

Total Students: 17,800 +

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Wivenhoe Park, Colchester CO4 3SQ, United Kingdom

Bachelor of Arts in American Studies (United States) with Film (With Foundation Year and Year Abroad)

Program Overview

Our five-year BA American Studies (United States) with Film (including foundation year and year abroad), will be suitable for you if your academic qualifications do not yet meet our entrance requirements for the four-year version of this course and you want a programme that increases your subject knowledge as well as improves your academic skills in order to support your academic performance.

This five-year course includes a foundation year (Year Zero), followed by a further three years of study, plus a study abroad year or term. During your Year Zero, you study three academic subjects relevant to your chosen course as well as a compulsory academic skills module, with additional English language for non-English speakers.

You are an Essex student from day one, a member of our global community based at the most internationally diverse campus university in the UK.

After successful completion of Year Zero in our Essex Pathways Department, you progress to complete your course with our Interdisciplinary Studies Centre.

Our multidisciplinary course enables you to assess American contributions to our understanding of political, historical, social and cultural perspectives of the world. You combine studies of the US with a number of options in film studies offered by our Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies, Department of History, and School of Philosophy and Art History.

Crucially, you also spend either a term or a full academic year studying in the United States, so you can explore and become immersed in American culture.

The degree is built to be extremely flexible and student-led, and as you progress through the course you can choose from an enormous range of options from across the humanities and social sciences including:

  • Contemporary social issues, such as the struggles for racial justice
  • The legacies of slavery and the civil rights movement
  • Environmental protection of the ‘wilderness’ of the Far West
  • Native American histories and rights

Study abroad

Your education extends beyond our University campus. In your third year, you spend either one term or one year at one of the American universities with whom we have an exchange agreement, depending on whether you take the four-year variant of this course.

Your fourth year is spent studying abroad, while otherwise remaining identical to the three and four-year courses.

We have exchange partners with fifteen excellent academic institutions across the United States, from New Mexico to Massachusetts, including upstate New York, the Deep South, Miami and California.

Studying abroad allows you to explore and become immersed in American culture, to broaden your degree socially and academically, and to demonstrate to employers that you are mature, adaptable, and organised.

If you spend a full year abroad you'll only pay 15% of your usual tuition fee to Essex for that year. You won't pay any tuition fees to your host university

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 Program Level: Bachelor's Degree
 Duration: 60 months
 Tuition Fee: CAD 17,700

 Application Fee: CAD 0 FREE

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