BA International Politics / History [LVF1]
Academic Year 2024/2025
Campus Aberystwyth
Joint Honours scheme - available from 2014/2015
Last intake year is 2020/2021
Duration 3 years
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)
Year 1 Core (40 Credits)
Year 1 Options
All students must take 20 credits (1 module) of optional modules in International Politics.
The Making of the Modern World: War Peace and Revolution since 1789
Year 1 Options
Students MUST take a further 40 credits in the Department of History & Welsh History:
Concwest, Uno a Hunaniaeth yng Nghymru 1200-1800
Medieval and Early Modern Britain and Europe, 1000-1800
The Modern World, 1789 to the present
Part 2 Rules
Year 2 Core (20 Credits)
Year 2 Core (20 Credits)
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.
Memory, Myth and History: Investigating Medieval Chronicles, c. 1000-1250
Victorian Visions: Exploring Nineteenth-Century Exhibitions
Gwrando ar Hanes: Y mudiad Hawliau Sifil yn America
Recounting Racism: Oral History and Modern American Race Relations.
Interdisciplinary and decolonial history
Year 2 Options
Students must take 40 credits (2 modules) of International Politics optional modules from the list of those made available at pre-registration.
Y Meddwl Cymreig mewn Syniadaeth Ryngwladol
Gwleidyddiaeth mewn Cymdeithasau Amrywiaethol
The Second World War in Europe
Intervention and Humanitarianism
The European Union: Politics, Policies, Problems
Pobl a Grym: Deall Gwleidyddiaeth Gymharol Heddiw
Gwleidyddiaeth mewn Cymdeithasau Amrywiaethol
International Politics and Global Development
Climate Change and International Politics in the Anthropocene
People and Power: Understanding Comparative Politics Today
Total War, Total Peace
Strategy, Intelligence and Security in International Politics
People and Power: Understanding Comparative Politics Today
The BRICS in World Politics
Science, Technology, and International Relations
Climate Change Politics
Russian intelligence from Lenin to Putin
War Crimes
Datganoli a Chymru
The Governance of Climate Change: Simulation Module
Trade Wars and the Liberal Order
Political Theory
Devolution and Wales
Warfare after Waterloo: Military History 1815-1918
Terrorism & Counter Terrorism in the Modern World: Policing, Intelligence & War
Questions of International Politics
A War on the Mind: Propaganda and Secret Intelligence from the Great War to the 21st Century
Contemporary Latin America
Militaries and Crisis: Where Strategy Meets Society
Capitalism and International Politics
Year 2 Options
OPTION modules in the Department of History & Welsh History:
Stori yr Unol Daleithiau ar Ffilm a Theledu, 1865-2008
African-American History, 1808 to the Present
Magic in the Middle Ages: From Antiquity to the Eve of the Witch Craze
The Tudors: A European Dynasty?
Rhyfel Cartref America
Media and Society in Twentieth Century Britain
Science, Religion and Magic
Crime, Riot and Morality in Wales 1750-1850
Cymru a Brenhinoedd Prydain: Gwrthdaro, Grym a Hunaniaeth yn Ynysoedd Prydain, 1039-1417
Trosedd, Terfysg a Moesoldeb yng Nghymru 1750-1850
The Making of Europe: Christendom and beyond, c. 1000-1300
The Atlantic World, 1492-1825
Germany since 1945
Southeast Asia at the crossroads (c.1400 to the present)
Final Year Options
Final year students must take 60 credits in the Department of International Politics.
Total War, Total Peace
The BRICS in World Politics
Climate Change Politics
Dulliau Ymchwil + Traethawd Estynedig
Science, Technology, and International Relations
Russian intelligence from Lenin to Putin
Intervention and Humanitarianism
Gwleidyddiaeth mewn Cymdeithasau Amrywiaethol
The European Union: Politics, Policies, Problems
Y Meddwl Cymreig Mewn Syniadaeth Ryngwladol
The Second World War in Europe
Datganoli a Chymru
A War on the Mind: Propaganda and Secret Intelligence from the Great War to the 21st Century
Trade Wars and the Liberal Order
Terrorism & Counter Terrorism in the Modern World: Policing, Intelligence & War
Contemporary Latin America
Political Theory
Capitalism and International Politics
Devolution and Wales
War Crimes
Militaries and Crisis: Where Strategy Meets Society
Dulliau Ymchwil + Traethawd Estynedig
Questions of International Politics
Final Year Options
Students MUST take 60 credits worth of modules in the Department of History & Welsh History from the OPTION modules listed below:
Stori yr Unol Daleithiau ar Ffilm a Theledu, 1865-2008
Science, Religion and Magic
The Tudors: A European Dynasty?
African-American History, 1808 to the Present
Rhyfel Cartref America
Magic in the Middle Ages: From Antiquity to the Eve of the Witch Craze
Media and Society in Twentieth Century Britain
Southeast Asia at the crossroads (c. 1400 to the present)
Germany since 1945
Crime, Riot and Morality in Wales 1750-1850
The Atlantic World, 1492-1825
The Making of Europe: Christendom and beyond, c. 1000-1300
Cymru a Brenhinoedd Prydain: Gwrthdaro, Grym a Hunaniaeth yn Ynysoedd Prydain, 1039-1417
Trosedd, Terfysg a Moesoldeb yng Nghymru 1750-1850
Contact for this page:
History and Welsh History, Aberystwyth University, International Politics Building, Penglais, Aberystwyth, SY23 3FE
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