BA Drama and Theatre / History [WV41]
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
Choose one of the following
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 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:
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
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
Joint Honours Drama and Theatre students must take at least 20 credits from the following modules:
Final Year Options
Joint Honours Drama and Theatre students may take up to 40 credits from the following modules:
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
Telephone Department: +44 01970 621917 Admissions: +44 (0)1970 622021
Email: history-enquiries@aber.ac.uk