Study Schemes

BA Medieval and Early Modern History [V190]

Academic Year: 2025/2026Single Honours scheme - available from 2002/2003

Duration (studying Full-Time): 3 years

Award Eligibility:Standard Awards;

Part 1 Rules

Year 1 Core (20 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1

Introduction to History

Cyflwyno Hanes

Year 1 Options

Choose 100 credits of modules (of which at least 60 must be taken in the History & Welsh History department):

Semester 1

Concwest, Uno a Hunaniaeth yng Nghymru 1200-1800

Medieval and Early Modern Britain and Europe, 1000-1800

The Modern World, 1789 to the present

Semester 2

Cydio mewn Hanes: Ffynonellau a'u Haneswyr

Ewrop a'r Byd, 1000-2000

Cymdeithas, Pobl a Gwleidyddiaeth: Cymru, 1800-1999

'Hands on' History: Sources and their Historians

Europe and the World, 1000-2000

People, Power and Identity: Wales 1200-1999

Part 2 Rules

Year 2 Core (20 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1

Making History

Llunio Hanes

Year 2 Options

Students MUST take one 20 credit SKILLS module in semester two:

Semester 2

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

Year 2 Options

Students should choose 80 credits worth of OPTION modules in the Department of History & Welsh History (though students may opt to take up to 20 credits outside the department if they wish):

Semester 1

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

Semester 2

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

Final Year Core (40 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1

Dissertation

Traethawd Estynedig

Semester 2

Dissertation

Traethawd Estynedig

Final Year Options

Students MUST take two co-requisite 20-credit SPECIAL SUBJECT modules (the first part running in semester one and the complementary module in semester two):

Semester 1

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

Semester 2

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

Final Year Options

Students should take 40 credits of OPTION modules (taking one 20-credit option module in each semester):

Semester 1

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

Semester 2

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

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