Teaches you to think (University of Sussex in general)

Member Name: loopytiger

Product:	University of Sussex in general
Date:	24/05/04 (257 review reads)
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Advantages: Teaches postmodernism and critical thinking, Brighton is fantastic

Disadvantages: Not much atmosphere

I did English at Sussex from 1996-99 and had a great time (largely due to hanging round Brighton: I couldn't recommend the campus as a fun place to be). I didn't appreciate the teaching at the time, but now I can see that I got a slightly different educational experience to my friends who went to other universities. Sussex is very hot on critical thinking and all aspects of postmodernism. I reckon you can tell a Sussex student because they'll be the one deconstructing the telly advert or criticising the cultural hegemony in a newspaper article. Which I think is brilliant.
However, if your priority is career and money, I?d suggest you go elsewhere. No-one I know from uni has got a decent job (and half of us are happy enough with that situation). This is partly to do with Sussex?s philosophy, and partly to do with Brighton?s slacker atmosphere.
Sussex has definitely lost the radical political atmosphere it had in its early decades. I don?t think it attracts the most intelligent or interesting students, and there?s not much of an atmosphere. But if you believe that ?the unexamined life is not worth living?, then studying an arts subject at Sussex will teach you to see alternative perspectives, and think critically about the culture surrounding you.

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