Study Schemes

BA  Drama and Theatre / History [WV41]

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

Duration (studying Full-Time): 3 years

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
TP11020

Theatre in Context 1

Semester 2
TP11320

Theatre in Context 2

Year 1  Options

Choose one of the following

Semester 1
TP11120

Studio Theatre Project

Semester 2
TP11420

Site-Specific Performance Project

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

Students may, subject to the demands of their other scheme, choose one of the following modules:

Semester 1
TP10120

Body, Voice, Perception

Semester 2
TP10220

Body, Voice, Expression.

Part 2 Rules

Year 2  Core (20 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
HY20120

Making History

or
HA20120

Llunio Hanes

Year 2  Options

Joint Honours Drama and Theatre students must take at least 40 credits and, subject to the demands of their other scheme, may take up to 80 credits of TP modules in their 2nd year:

Semester 1
TP21220

Acting: Process and Performance

TP21620

Devised Performance Project

TP21820

Directors' Theatre

TP22620

Design Project

TP23820

New Media Performance

TP25920

Acting for Camera

Semester 2
TP20820

Theatre and Contemporary Society

TP23220

Shakespeare in Performance

TP24940

Theatre Production Project

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

Final Year  Options

Joint Honours Drama and Theatre students must take at least 20 credits from the following modules:

Semester 1
TP30020

Contemporary Drama

TP30320

Performance and Disability

TP32820

Place, Space and Landscape

Semester 2
TP33420

Performance and Architecture

TP39020

Music Theatre Dramaturgies

Final Year  Options

Joint Honours Drama and Theatre students may take up to 40 credits from the following modules:

Semester 1
TP33300

Playwriting

TP35520

Ensemble Performance Project

TP36000

Independent Research Project

Semester 2
TP33340

Playwriting

TP36040

Independent Research Project

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

Aberystwyth University Standard Awards

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  • Music Bursary
  • International Excellence Scholarship
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