Module Catalogue
Throughout your time at Hull you can study the history,
literature, politics, film, culture and visual arts of the United
States from the 1600s to the present day. Our approach is diverse,
interdisciplinary and multicultural. After first year, you can
construct your own study program, with a free choice of the modules
you take, enabling you to play to your strengths. You can
specialize in literature if you want to, or film, or history, or
keep it as varied as you like.
Classes range from explorations of the African-American
experience in Black Power and The Civil Rights Movement, to the
gendered construction of American culture in 20th
Century Women's Writing or Postmodernism and Sexuality in postwar
America. You can examine the United States' roles in the two World
Wars and in Vietnam, the explosive history of the 1960s, the
literature of the 1930s, or Hollywood in the 1950s.
Our cultural modules range from the ‘high' Modernist movement of
American Art to the escapist entertainment of Hollywood Musicals
(and everything in between, even The Simpsons and
Roseanne). And although our emphasis is on modern America,
modules like The American Presidency, American Biography, Mexican
Americans, Race and Mixed Race, American History on Film and
our historical and literary survey modules enable you to understand
the ways in which America came to be the country it is today.
The following provides a listing of modules currently available
to students. Note, however, that with new modules introduced
every year, this listing is always subject to change.
Students interested in Joint degrees (or ‘with' degree programmes)
should also consult the website of the 2nd discipline to
see the additional range of modules on offer to them through that
subject area.
Please follow the links below to see modules in the
catalogue.
Year One
Year Two
Final Year