BA History and Welsh History [VVC2]

Academic Year 2024/2025 September 2024 Start

Campus Aberystwyth

Single Honours scheme - available from 2000/2001

Duration 3 years

Award Eligiblity
Standard Awards The Coleg Lead 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 (20 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
HY12120

Introduction to History

or
HA12120

Cyflwyno Hanes

Year 1 Options

Choose 100 credits, at least 60 must be taken in History & Welsh History department and should include WH11720:

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

Part 2 Rules

Year 2 Core (20 Credits)

Students WILL take a minimum of 80 credits across Part Two in Welsh History. Students will be expected to write a final-year dissertation (40 credits) on a topic relevant to Welsh History and MUST take a minimum of an additional 40 credits across Part Two in Welsh History. As well as the dissertation, credits gained from option modules, skills modules and the Special Subject will count towards this requirement.

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
HY20120

Making History

or
HA20120

Llunio Hanes

Year 2 Options

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

Semester 2
HA24720

Gwrando ar Hanes: Y mudiad Hawliau Sifil yn America

HY24120

Memory, Myth and History: Investigating Medieval Chronicles, c. 1000-1250

HY24320

Interdisciplinary and decolonial history

HY24620

Victorian Visions: Exploring Nineteenth-Century Exhibitions

HY25020

Recounting Racism: Oral History and Modern American Race Relations.

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
HA26820

Rhyfel Cartref America

HA28120

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

HY20920

The Tudors: A European Dynasty?

HY25920

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

HY27520

Media and Society in Twentieth Century Britain

HY28320

African-American History, 1808 to the Present

HY28620

Science, Religion and Magic

Semester 2
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

HY29620

Germany since 1945

HY29720

The Atlantic World, 1492-1825

HY29920

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

WH23420

Crime, Riot and Morality in Wales 1750-1850

Final Year Core (40 Credits)

Students WILL take a minimum of 80 credits across Part Two in Welsh History. Students will be expected to write a final-year dissertation (40 credits) on a topic relevant to Welsh History and MUST take a minimum of an additional 40 credits across Part Two in Welsh History. As well as the dissertation, credits gained from option modules, skills modules and the Special Subject will count towards this requirement.

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
HY30300

Dissertation

or
HA30300

Traethawd Estynedig

Semester 2
HY30340

Dissertation

or
HA30340

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
HP33120

Gwrthryfel Glynd?r 1: Hynt a Helynt y Gwrthryfel

HQ33320

Cathedrals in Medieval England and Wales Part 1

HQ35020

The English Reformation, 1520-58: Revolution and Counter Revolution

HQ39220

From Burma to Myanmar (Part I): colonial Burma under British rule (1824-1941)

HQ39620

The Invisible Empires: The First Ku Klux Klan and American Society, 1865-1915

Semester 2
HP33220

Gwrthryfel Glynd?r 2: Cwestiynau Allweddol

HQ33420

Cathedrals in Medieval England and Wales Part 2

HQ35620

The English Reformation, 1558-1648: Consolidation and Conflict

HQ39320

From Burma to Myanmar (Part II): Challenges for a young nation state since 1942

HQ39720

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
HA36820

Rhyfel Cartref America

HA38120

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

HY30920

The Tudors: A European Dynasty?

HY35920

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

HY37520

Media and Society in Twentieth Century Britain

HY38620

Science, Religion and Magic

HY38820

African-American History, 1808 to the Present

Semester 2
HC30120

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

HC33420

Trosedd, Terfysg a Moesoldeb yng Nghymru 1750-1850

HY35720

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

HY39620

Germany since 1945

HY39720

The Atlantic World, 1492-1825

HY39920

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

WH33420

Crime, Riot and Morality in Wales 1750-1850