University of Sussex

This course addresses some of the major problems of economic development in low- and middle-income economies: the relationship between poverty, inequality, and economic growth; long-run growth and structural change; microeconomic issues in agricultural development, including theories of peasant resource allocation and farm size and efficiency; market performance in the rural and informal sectors of less developed countries; industrialization and trade policy; the roles of monetary policy and foreign aid in resource mobilization; stabilization and structural adjustment; and investment in human capital.

This calculus-based course provides a firm foundation in physical concepts and principles, covering kinematics and dynamics, fluids, elasticity, wave motion, sound, ideal gases, and heat and thermodynamics. Applications of physical concepts are stressed, particularly those related to biological and medical phenomena as well as those forming the basis of much of modern technology. Students gain further insight into the physics taught by carrying out a series of laboratory experiments and learning how to analyze and interpret the data. This is an intensive module requiring good mathematical skills, including algebra and trigonometry and a knowledge of vectors and of differential and integral calculus.

This course gives students an insight into aetiology, assessment, treatment, and service provision in clinical psychology in the UK. Selected topics covering adult psychological disorders, child and adolescent problems, the neuropsychology of psychological disorders, and learning disabilities are presented mainly by practicing clinical psychologists with expertise in these areas. 

This course introduces students to the structure and core elements of criminal liability. It engages with aspects of criminal law theory, and requires students to think critically about the types of conduct that should be criminalised and the circumstances in which individuals should be held criminally responsible for their actions.

This course explores representations of adolescence from the early 20th through to the early 21st century in literature, film, and popular culture. Students read texts that range across history, psychology, and writings about juvenile delinquency, but the focus is on reading novels, short stories, films, and graphic novels that represent the paradoxes of adolescence from the turn of the 20th century. This may include such works as: Back to the Future, Ghost World, Spring Breakers, The Hate U Give, and more. The course looks at the ways in which the adolescent morphs into the teenage consumer in the 1950s in novels such as Colin MacInnes’s Absolute Beginners. The course considers the adolescent as a site of cultural fantasy and cultural fears in relation to class, race, gender, and sexuality and the adolescent’s relationship to radical politics, subculture, suburbia, and nostalgia. On this experiential course, students explore how Brighton has been central for pushing boundaries and creating new waves in the medium of literature and film. Students also develop a deeper understanding of the construction of the categories of the adolescent and the teenagers in literature, film, and theory. This course may include a field trip to Brighton, following the trail of cult movie Quadrophenia.

This course provides an introduction to regional variation in the English language. The course is divided between an overview of the types of variation found and a practical part in which students have the opportunity to explore an aspect of variation and/or change in an original research project. The first part discusses aspects of accent variation, looking at major parameters of phonological differences and introducing some key accents in greater detail, and also explores grammatical and lexical differences between different regional varieties. Attention is also given to "new" Englishes and creoles and their phonological, lexical and grammatical features. The second part provides students with the tools to conduct their own empirical analysis, including methods of data collection and an introduction to phonetic analysis software.