Study Schemes

BA  German / History [RV21]

Academic Year: 2025/2026Joint Honours scheme - available from 2000/2001

Duration (studying Full-Time): 4 years

Award Eligibility:Standard Awards; Excellence Scholarship;

Part 1 Rules

Year 1  Core (20 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
HY12120

Introduction to History

or
HA12120

Cyflwyno Hanes

Year 1  Timetable Core/Student Option

GERMAN ADVANCED: you must take:

Semester 1
GE19900

German Language Advanced

Semester 2
GE19930

German Language Advanced

Year 1  Timetable Core/Student Option

GERMAN BEGINNERS: you must take:

Semester 1
GE11120

Beginners German 1

Semester 2
GE11020

Beginners German 2

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

Year 1  Options

GERMAN ADVANCED: you must take GE10810 and must also choose an additional 20 credits of the following or other Level 1 content modules:

Semester 1
EL10500

Introduction to European Film

EL10700

Brazilian Portuguese (Basic)

EL10800

Language, Culture, and Identity in Europe

Semester 2
EL10520

Introduction to European Film

EL10720

Brazilian Portuguese (Basic)

EL10820

Language, Culture, and Identity in Europe

GE10810

Exploring German Cultural Identity

Year 1  Options

GERMAN BEGINNERS: you must choose 20 credits of the following or other Level 1 content modules:

Semester 1
EL10500

Introduction to European Film

EL10700

Brazilian Portuguese (Basic)

EL10800

Language, Culture, and Identity in Europe

Semester 2
EL10520

Introduction to European Film

EL10720

Brazilian Portuguese (Basic)

EL10820

Language, Culture, and Identity in Europe

Part 2 Rules

Year 2  Core (20 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
HY20120

Making History

or
HA20120

Llunio Hanes

Year 2  Core (30 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
GE20100

German Language

Semester 2
GE20130

German Language

Year 2  Options

Choose 30 credits of the following GE or EL modules:

Semester 1
EL20500

Extended Essay Module

EL20700

Brazilian / Portuguese Language II

GE22820

Children's Literature in German

GE26020

Die Wende: Representations of Division and Unification in German Film

GE27110

Short Prose in German

Semester 2
EL20510

Extended Essay Module

EL20720

Brazilian / Portuguese Language II

GE27220

German-speaking Refugees from National Socialism in the UK

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 choose one skills module and an option module OR two option modules.

Semester 1
HY22120

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

Semester 2
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

Year 2  Options

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

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

Year 3  Core (60 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
HYS0000

Abroad Year Credits

Semester 2
HYS0060

Abroad Year Credits

Year 3  Core (60 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
GES0000

Intercalary Year Dissertation

Semester 2
GES0060

Year Abroad Assessment

Final Year  Core (30 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
GE30100

German Language

Semester 2
GE30130

German Language

Final Year  Options

Students MUST take 60 credits worth of modules in the Department of History & Welsh History from the OPTION modules listed below:

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: Tŵf a Chwymp Ymerodraethau Prydain a Ffrainc

HA34520

Stori America, 1607-1867, ar Ffilm a Theledu

HY35520

Famine in Medieval England

HY36520

The European Reformation

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

Choose 30 credits of the following GE or EL modules:

Semester 1
EL30100

Dissertation

EL30500

Extended Essay Module

EL30700

Brazilian / Portuguese Language III

GE32820

Children's Literature in German

GE36120

Die Wende: Representations of Division and Unification in German Film

Semester 2
EL30120

Dissertation

EL30510

Extended Essay Module

EL30720

Brazilian / Portuguese Language III

GE31110

Contemporary German Politics

GE37220

German-speaking Refugees from National Socialism in the UK

Aberystwyth University Standard Awards

  • Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
  • Sports Bursary
  • Music Bursary
  • International Excellence Scholarship
  • Residential Bursary
  • Aberystwyth Bursary
  • Care Leaver Bursary