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).
Year 1 Timetable Core/Student Option
GERMAN ADVANCED: you must take:
Year 1 Timetable Core/Student Option
GERMAN BEGINNERS: you must take:
Year 1 Options
Students MUST take a further 40 credits in the Department of History & Welsh History:
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:
Year 1 Options
GERMAN BEGINNERS: you must choose 20 credits of the following or other Level 1 content modules:
Part 2 Rules
Year 2 Core (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Year 2 Core (30 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Year 2 Options
Choose 30 credits of the following GE or EL modules:
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.
Kingship and political culture in high medieval England and Norway, 1066-1263
Year 2 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: Twf a Chwymp Ymerodraethau Prydain a Ffrainc
Stori America, 1607-1867, ar Ffilm a Theledu
Famine in Medieval England
The European Reformation
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
Year 3 Core (60 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Year 3 Core (60 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Final Year Core (30 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Final Year Options
Students MUST take 60 credits worth of modules in the Department of History & Welsh History from the OPTION modules listed below:
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: Tŵf a Chwymp Ymerodraethau Prydain a Ffrainc
Stori America, 1607-1867, ar Ffilm a Theledu
Famine in Medieval England
The European Reformation
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
Choose 30 credits of the following GE or EL modules:
Department of History & Welsh History, International Politics Building, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, SY23 3FE
Tel: Department: +44 (01970 621537 Admissions: +44 (0)1970 622021 Fax: 01970 622676 Email: history-enquiries@aber.ac.uk
Aberystwyth University Standard Awards
- Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
- Sports Bursary
- Music Bursary
- International Excellence Scholarship
- Residential Bursary
- Aberystwyth Bursary
- Care Leaver Bursary