BA Politics and Modern History [V135]
Academic Year 2025/2026 September 2025 Start
Campus Aberystwyth
Single Honours scheme - available from 2000/2001
Duration 3 years
Award Eligiblity
Standard Awards
The Coleg Lead Scholarship;
Aberystwyth University Standard Awards
- Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
- Sports Bursary
- Music Bursary
- International Excellence Scholarship
- Residential Bursary
- Aberystwyth Bursary
- Care Leaver Bursary
Part 1 Rules
Year 1 Core (20 Credits)
Year 1 Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Year 1 Options
In addition to the core/compulsory modules, Politics students must take 20 credits (1 module) of optional modules from the list below.
Year 1 Options
Part 2 Rules
Year 2 Core (20 Credits)
Year 2 Core (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Year 2 Options
Students MUST take a further 40 credits worth of modules in the Department of History & Welsh History from the SKILLS (semester two) and/or OPTION modules listed. Students may take one skills module and one option module OR two option modules. Skills modules are:
Beirdd a Noddwyr: Llen a Hanes c.1300-1500
Image Wars in Southeast Asia: Studying 20th Century Propaganda
Memory, Myth and History: Investigating Medieval Chronicles, c. 1000-1250
Victorian Visions: Exploring Nineteenth-Century Exhibitions
The Sound of History: the Civil Rights Movement in Post-War America
Year 2 Options
Students may take 40 credits (2 modules) of International Politics modules from the following list.
Gwleidyddiaeth y Deyrnas Unedig Heddiw: Undeb Dan Straen?
Cenedlaetholdeb mewn Theori a Realiti
The Strategy and Politics of Nuclear Weapons
The Arab-Israeli Wars
NATO: From Cold War to Hybrid War
EU Simulation
Britain and Ireland in War and Peace since 1800
International Politics and Global Development
Nationalism in Theory and Practice
UK Politics Today: A Union Under Strain?
Knowing about Violent Conflict in International Politics
Strategy, Intelligence and Security in International Politics
Cysylltiadau Rhyngwladol: Safbwyntiau a Thrafodaethau
Cyfiawnder Byd-Eang: Dehongli a Gwireddu ein Dyletswyddau i'r Dieithryn Pell
International Relations: Perspectives and Debates
Women and Military Service
The Governance of Climate Change: Simulation Module
Warfare after Waterloo: Military History 1815-1918
The Past and Present of US Intelligence
Women and Global Development
From Mincemeat to Cyberwars: A Global Perspective on Covert Operations since 1945
Justice, Order, Human Rights
Capitalism and International Politics
Fear, Cooperation and Trust in World Politics
Economic Diplomacy and Leadership
Year 2 Options
Year Two OPTION modules in the Department of History & Welsh History:
Diwylliant, Cymdeithas a'r Fictoriaid
Cymru a'r Tuduriaid
Kingship and political culture in high medieval England and Norway, 1066-1263
Environmental History of the Neotropics (Latin America and the Caribbean) in the Capitalocene
Culture, Society and the Victorians
Modern Japan: From Samurai to Salary Men
Wales under the Tudors
Concro'r Byd: Twf a Chwymp Ymerodraethau Prydain a Ffrainc
Stori America, 1607-1867, ar Ffilm a Theledu
Famine in Medieval England
The European Reformation
Reforging the Union: The Reconstruction Era in US History, 1863-1896
From the Second Empire to the Third Reich: Weimar Germany 1914-1933
Wales and the Kings of Britain: Conflict, Power and Identities in the British Isles 1039-1417
Final Year Options
Students should take the DISSERTATION module in either the Department of International Politics or the Department of History and Welsh History
Final Year Options
DISSERTATION in International Politics (If choosing IP/GW dissertation you must take 20 credits of IP options with EITHER 40 credits of HWH (2 x 20 credit co-requisite) 'Special Subject' AND 20 credits of 'Option' modules, OR 60 credits of HWH 'Option' modules)
Final Year Options
DISSERTATION in History and Welsh History (If choosing HA/HY dissertation you must take 20 credits from the HWH option list AND 60 credits from the IP options list)
Final Year Options
Optional modules in the Department of International Politics.
Gwleidyddiaeth y Deyrnas Unedig Heddiw: Undeb Dan Straen?
Cenedlaetholdeb Mewn Theori a Realiti
The Strategy and Politics of Nuclear Weapons
The Arab-Israeli Wars
NATO: From Cold War to Hybrid War
EU Simulation
Britain and Ireland in War and Peace since 1800
Nationalism in Theory and Practice
UK Politics Today: A Union Under Strain?
Knowing about Violent Conflict in International Politics
Cyfiawnder Byd-Eang: Dehongli a Gwireddu ein Dyletswyddau i'r Dieithryn Pell
Women and Military Service
The Past and Present of US Intelligence
Women and Global Development
From Mincemeat to Cyberwars: A Global Perspective on Covert Operations since 1945
Justice, Order, Human Rights
Capitalism and International Politics
Fear, Cooperation and Trust in World Politics
Economic Diplomacy and Leadership
Final Year Options
OPTION modules in the Department of History & Welsh History
Diwylliant, Cymdeithas a'r Fictoriaid
Cymru a'r Tuduriaid
Kingship and political culture in high medieval England and Norway, 1066-1263
Environmental History of the Neotropics (Latin America and the Caribbean) in the Capitalocene
Culture, Society and the Victorians
Modern Japan: From Samurai to Salary Men
Wales under the Tudors
Concro'r Byd: T?f a Chwymp Ymerodraethau Prydain a Ffrainc
Stori America, 1607-1867, ar Ffilm a Theledu
Famine in Medieval England
The European Reformation
Reforging the Union: The Reconstruction Era in US History, 1863-1896
From the Second Empire to the Third Reich: Weimar Germany 1914-1933
Wales and the Kings of Britain: Conflict, Power and Identities in the British Isles 1039-1417
Final Year Options
SPECIAL SUBJECT modules in the Department of History & Welsh History
Bywyd a Gwaith ym Meysydd Glo Prydain, 1842-1914 (Rhan 1)
The reign of Edward II, 1307-27 (Part 1)
The English Reformation, 1520-58: Revolution and Counter Revolution
The Invisible Empires: The First Ku Klux Klan and American Society, 1865-1915
Colombian Republican History (1820-2020): 200 years of solitude Part1 (1820-1950)
Bywyd a Gwaith ym Meysydd Glo Prydain, 1914-1948 (Rhan 2)
The Reign of Edward II, 1307-27 (Part 2): Sources
The English Reformation, 1558-1648: Consolidation and Conflict
The Invisible Empires: The Second Ku Klux Klan and American Society, 1915-1944
Colombian Republican History (1820-2020): 200 years of solitude Part 2 (1950-2020)
History and Welsh History,Aberystwyth University, International Politics Building, Penglais, Aberystwyth, SY23 3FE
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