BA History / English Literature [QV31]
Academic Year 2024/2025
Campus Aberystwyth
Joint Honours scheme - available from 2000/2001
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
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
Year 1 Options
Part 2 Rules
Year 2 Core (20 Credits)
Year 2 Core (20 Credits)
Literary Theory: Debates and Dialogues
Year 2 Options
Choose 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
Choose 20 credits
In the Olde Dayes: Medieval Texts and Their World
Classical Drama and Myth
Writing Women for the Public Stage, 1670-1780
Place and Self
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
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
Final Year Options
Choose 60 credits
Reading Theory / Reading Text
Romantic Eroticism
Undergraduate Dissertation
The Mark of the Beast: Animals in Literature from the 1780s to the 1920s
Remix: Chaucer In The Then and Now
Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2
Literatures of Surveillance
Undergraduate Dissertation
Writing in the Margins: Twentieth-Century Welsh Poetry in English
TESOL Materials Development and Application of Technologies
Haunting Texts
Victorian Childhoods
Ali Smith and 21st Century fiction(s)
Effective Academic and Professional Communication 2
Contact for this page:
English and Creative Writing, Aberystwyth University, Hugh Owen Building, Penglais, Aberystwyth, SY23 3DY
Telephone Department: +44 01970 622534 Admissions: +44 (0)1970 622021
Email: english@aber.ac.uk