BA Cultural Heritage Studies: Libraries, Archives and Museums [V700]

Academic Year 2024/2025

Campus Aberystwyth

Single Honours scheme - available from 2019/2020

Duration 3 years

Award Eligiblity
Standard Awards Excellence Scholarship;

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 (40 Credits)

Semester 1
IL10120

Foundations of Information Studies

Semester 2
IL10520

Effective Communication

Year 1 Core (40 Credits)

Semester 1
IL10320

The Cultural Heritage Landscape

Semester 2
IL11120

The Archival Inheritance

Year 1 Core (20 Credits)

Semester 1
HY12120

Introduction to History

or
HA12120

Cyflwyno Hanes

Year 1 Options

Choose 20 credits

Semester 2
HY10420

'Hands on' History: Sources and their Historians

or
HA10420

Cydio mewn Hanes: Ffynonellau a'u Haneswyr

HA10420

Cydio mewn Hanes: Ffynonellau a'u Haneswyr

HC11820

Cymdeithas, Pobl a Gwleidyddiaeth: Cymru, 1800-1999

WH11720

People, Power and Identity: Wales 1200-1999

HY12420

Europe and the World, 1000-2000

or
HA11420

Ewrop a'r Byd, 1000-2000

HA11420

Ewrop a'r Byd, 1000-2000

Part 2 Rules

Year 2 Core (80 Credits)

Semester 1
IL20320

Museums in the 21st Century

IL20220

Information in a Changing World

Semester 2
IL20420

Record Revolutions: A Cultural History of Record Keeping

IL20620

Resource Discovery and Digital Information Management

Year 2 Core (20 Credits)

Semester 1
HY20120

Making History

or
HA20120

Llunio Hanes

Year 2 Options

Choose 20 credits offered by the Department of History and Welsh History. Optional choices may also be available in other departments e.g. GS28520 Placing Culture

Semester 1
HY27520

Media and Society in Twentieth Century Britain

HY25920

Magic in the Middle Ages: From Antiquity to the Eve of the Witch Craze

HY20920

The Tudors: A European Dynasty?

HA26820

Rhyfel Cartref America

HY28620

Science, Religion and Magic

Semester 2
WH23420

Crime, Riot and Morality in Wales 1750-1850

or
HC23420

Trosedd, Terfysg a Moesoldeb yng Nghymru 1750-1850

HC20120

Cymru a Brenhinoedd Prydain: Gwrthdaro, Grym a Hunaniaeth yn Ynysoedd Prydain, 1039-1417

HC23420

Trosedd, Terfysg a Moesoldeb yng Nghymru 1750-1850

HY25720

The Making of Europe: Christendom and beyond, c. 1000-1300

HY29720

The Atlantic World, 1492-1825

HY29620

Germany since 1945

HY29920

Southeast Asia at the crossroads (c.1400 to the present)

Final Year Core (80 Credits)

Semester 1
IL30120

Collection Management and Development in Heritage Organisations

IL30300

Dissertation

Semester 2
IL33920

Local Studies and Community Heritage

IL30340

Dissertation

Final Year Options

Students must take 40 credits of optional modules offered by DIS and the Department of History and Welsh History.

Final Year Options

Options in the Department of History and Welsh History

Semester 1
HA38120

Stori yr Unol Daleithiau ar Ffilm a Theledu, 1865-2008

HY38620

Science, Religion and Magic

HY30920

The Tudors: A European Dynasty?

HY38820

African-American History, 1808 to the Present

HA36820

Rhyfel Cartref America

HY35920

Magic in the Middle Ages: From Antiquity to the Eve of the Witch Craze

HY37520

Media and Society in Twentieth Century Britain

Semester 2
HY39920

Southeast Asia at the crossroads (c. 1400 to the present)

HY39620

Germany since 1945

WH33420

Crime, Riot and Morality in Wales 1750-1850

or
HC33420

Trosedd, Terfysg a Moesoldeb yng Nghymru 1750-1850

HY39720

The Atlantic World, 1492-1825

HY35720

The Making of Europe: Christendom and beyond, c. 1000-1300

HC30120

Cymru a Brenhinoedd Prydain: Gwrthdaro, Grym a Hunaniaeth yn Ynysoedd Prydain, 1039-1417

HC33420

Trosedd, Terfysg a Moesoldeb yng Nghymru 1750-1850

Contact for this page:

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Email: history-enquiries@aber.ac.uk