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)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
HY12120

Introduction to History

or
HA12120

Cyflwyno Hanes

Year 1 Core (40 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
IP12420

Exploring the International 1: Central Concepts and Core Skills

or
GW12420

Cyflwyniad i Wleidyddiaeth Ryngwladol 1: Cysyniadau Canolog a Sgiliau Craidd

Semester 2
IP12920

Politics in the 21st Century

or
GW12920

Gwleidyddiaeth yn yr Unfed Ganrif ar Hugain

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.

Semester 1
GW12620

Y Tu ol i'r Penawdau

IP12620

Behind the Headlines

IP12820

The Making of the Modern World: War Peace and Revolution since 1789

Semester 2
GW12520

Globaleiddio a Datblygiad Byd-eang

IP10320

War, Strategy and Intelligence

IP12520

Globalization and Global Development

Year 1 Options

Students must take a further 40 credits in the Department of History & Welsh History:

Semester 1
HC11120

Concwest, Uno a Hunaniaeth yng Nghymru 1200-1800

HY11420

Medieval and Early Modern Britain and Europe, 1000-1800

HY11820

The Modern World, 1789 to the present

Semester 2
HA10420

Cydio mewn Hanes: Ffynonellau a'u Haneswyr

HA11420

Ewrop a'r Byd, 1000-2000

HC11820

Cymdeithas, Pobl a Gwleidyddiaeth: Cymru, 1800-1999

HY10420

'Hands on' History: Sources and their Historians

HY12420

Europe and the World, 1000-2000

WH11720

People, Power and Identity: Wales 1200-1999

Part 2 Rules

Year 2 Core (20 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
HY20120

Making History

or
HA20120

Llunio Hanes

Year 2 Core (20 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
IQ23920

People and Power: Understanding Comparative Politics Today

or
GQ23920

Pobl a Grym: Deall Gwleidyddiaeth Gymharol Heddiw

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:

Semester 2
CY20720

Beirdd a Noddwyr: Llen a Hanes c.1300-1500

HY23720

Image Wars in Southeast Asia: Studying 20th Century Propaganda

HY24120

Memory, Myth and History: Investigating Medieval Chronicles, c. 1000-1250

HY24620

Victorian Visions: Exploring Nineteenth-Century Exhibitions

HY24720

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.

Semester 1
GQ23820

Gwleidyddiaeth y Deyrnas Unedig Heddiw: Undeb Dan Straen?

GW29920

Cenedlaetholdeb mewn Theori a Realiti

IP20420

The Strategy and Politics of Nuclear Weapons

IP21320

The Arab-Israeli Wars

IP23320

NATO: From Cold War to Hybrid War

IP24020

EU Simulation

IP28820

Britain and Ireland in War and Peace since 1800

IP29220

International Politics and Global Development

IP29920

Nationalism in Theory and Practice

IQ23820

UK Politics Today: A Union Under Strain?

IQ24420

Knowing about Violent Conflict in International Politics

IQ25120

Strategy, Intelligence and Security in International Politics

Semester 2
GW20120

Cysylltiadau Rhyngwladol: Safbwyntiau a Thrafodaethau

GW25820

Cyfiawnder Byd-Eang: Dehongli a Gwireddu ein Dyletswyddau i'r Dieithryn Pell

IP20120

International Relations: Perspectives and Debates

IP21620

Women and Military Service

IP22320

The Governance of Climate Change: Simulation Module

IP25320

Warfare after Waterloo: Military History 1815-1918

IP26020

The Past and Present of US Intelligence

IP29620

Women and Global Development

IQ20520

From Mincemeat to Cyberwars: A Global Perspective on Covert Operations since 1945

IQ21720

Justice, Order, Human Rights

IQ22820

Capitalism and International Politics

IQ22920

Fear, Cooperation and Trust in World Politics

IQ24320

Economic Diplomacy and Leadership

Year 2 Options

Year Two OPTION modules in the Department of History & Welsh History:

Semester 1
HA29320

Diwylliant, Cymdeithas a'r Fictoriaid

HC23520

Cymru a'r Tuduriaid

HY22120

Kingship and political culture in high medieval England and Norway, 1066-1263

HY29120

Environmental History of the Neotropics (Latin America and the Caribbean) in the Capitalocene

HY29320

Culture, Society and the Victorians

HY29820

Modern Japan: From Samurai to Salary Men

WH23520

Wales under the Tudors

Semester 2
HA21820

Concro'r Byd: Twf a Chwymp Ymerodraethau Prydain a Ffrainc

HA24520

Stori America, 1607-1867, ar Ffilm a Theledu

HY25520

Famine in Medieval England

HY26520

The European Reformation

HY27720

Reforging the Union: The Reconstruction Era in US History, 1863-1896

HY28420

From the Second Empire to the Third Reich: Weimar Germany 1914-1933

WH20120

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)

Semester 1
GW30000

Dulliau Ymchwil + Traethawd Estynedig

IP30000

Dissertation

Semester 2
GW30040

Dulliau Ymchwil + Traethawd Estynedig

IP30040

Dissertation

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)

Semester 1
HA30300

Traethawd Estynedig

HY30300

Dissertation

Semester 2
HA30340

Traethawd Estynedig

HY30340

Dissertation

Final Year Options

Optional modules in the Department of International Politics.

Semester 1
GQ33820

Gwleidyddiaeth y Deyrnas Unedig Heddiw: Undeb Dan Straen?

GW39920

Cenedlaetholdeb Mewn Theori a Realiti

IP30420

The Strategy and Politics of Nuclear Weapons

IP31320

The Arab-Israeli Wars

IP33320

NATO: From Cold War to Hybrid War

IP34020

EU Simulation

IP38820

Britain and Ireland in War and Peace since 1800

IP39920

Nationalism in Theory and Practice

IQ33820

UK Politics Today: A Union Under Strain?

IQ34420

Knowing about Violent Conflict in International Politics

Semester 2
GW35820

Cyfiawnder Byd-Eang: Dehongli a Gwireddu ein Dyletswyddau i'r Dieithryn Pell

IP31620

Women and Military Service

IP36020

The Past and Present of US Intelligence

IP39620

Women and Global Development

IQ30520

From Mincemeat to Cyberwars: A Global Perspective on Covert Operations since 1945

IQ31720

Justice, Order, Human Rights

IQ32820

Capitalism and International Politics

IQ32920

Fear, Cooperation and Trust in World Politics

IQ34320

Economic Diplomacy and Leadership

Final Year Options

OPTION modules in the Department of History & Welsh History

Semester 1
HA39320

Diwylliant, Cymdeithas a'r Fictoriaid

HC33520

Cymru a'r Tuduriaid

HY32120

Kingship and political culture in high medieval England and Norway, 1066-1263

HY39120

Environmental History of the Neotropics (Latin America and the Caribbean) in the Capitalocene

HY39320

Culture, Society and the Victorians

HY39820

Modern Japan: From Samurai to Salary Men

WH33520

Wales under the Tudors

Semester 2
HA31820

Concro'r Byd: T?f a Chwymp Ymerodraethau Prydain a Ffrainc

HA34520

Stori America, 1607-1867, ar Ffilm a Theledu

HY35520

Famine in Medieval England

HY36520

The European Reformation

HY37720

Reforging the Union: The Reconstruction Era in US History, 1863-1896

HY38420

From the Second Empire to the Third Reich: Weimar Germany 1914-1933

WH30120

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

Semester 1
HP37420

Bywyd a Gwaith ym Meysydd Glo Prydain, 1842-1914 (Rhan 1)

HQ34520

The reign of Edward II, 1307-27 (Part 1)

HQ35020

The English Reformation, 1520-58: Revolution and Counter Revolution

HQ39620

The Invisible Empires: The First Ku Klux Klan and American Society, 1865-1915

HQ39820

Colombian Republican History (1820-2020): 200 years of solitude Part1 (1820-1950)

Semester 2
HP37520

Bywyd a Gwaith ym Meysydd Glo Prydain, 1914-1948 (Rhan 2)

HQ34620

The Reign of Edward II, 1307-27 (Part 2): Sources

HQ35620

The English Reformation, 1558-1648: Consolidation and Conflict

HQ39720

The Invisible Empires: The Second Ku Klux Klan and American Society, 1915-1944

HQ39920

Colombian Republican History (1820-2020): 200 years of solitude Part 2 (1950-2020)