BA Drama and Theatre / History [WV41]

Academic Year 2024/2025

Campus Aberystwyth

Joint Honours scheme - available from 2000/2001

Duration 3 years

Award Eligiblity
Standard Awards

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)

Semester 1
HY12120

Introduction to History

or
HA12120

Cyflwyno Hanes

Year 1 Core (40 Credits)

Semester 1
TP11020

Theatre in Context 1

Semester 2
TP11320

Theatre in Context 2

Year 1 Options

Choose one of the following

Semester 1
TP11120

Studio Theatre Project

Semester 2
TP11420

Site-Specific Performance Project

Year 1 Options

Students MUST take a further 40 credits in the Department of History & Welsh History:

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
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

Year 1 Options

Students may, subject to the demands of their other scheme, choose one of the following modules:

Semester 1
TP10120

Body, Voice, Perception

Semester 2
TP10220

Body, Voice, Expression.

Part 2 Rules

Year 2 Core (20 Credits)

Semester 1
HY20120

Making History

or
HA20120

Llunio Hanes

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:

Semester 1
TP23820

New Media Performance

TP25920

Acting for Camera

TP21820

Directors' Theatre

TP21220

Acting: Process and Performance

TP22620

Design Project

TP21620

Devised Performance Project

Semester 2
TP20820

Theatre and Contemporary Society

TP23220

Shakespeare in Performance

TP24940

Theatre Production Project

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.

Semester 2
HY24120

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

HY24620

Victorian Visions: Exploring Nineteenth-Century Exhibitions

HA24720

Gwrando ar Hanes: Y mudiad Hawliau Sifil yn America

HY25020

Recounting Racism: Oral History and Modern American Race Relations.

HY24320

Interdisciplinary and decolonial history

Year 2 Options

OPTION modules in the Department of History & Welsh History:

Semester 1
HA28120

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

HY28320

African-American History, 1808 to the Present

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

HY27520

Media and Society in Twentieth Century Britain

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 Options

Joint Honours Drama and Theatre students must take at least 20 credits from the following modules:

Semester 1
TP30020

Contemporary Drama

TP32820

Place, Space and Landscape

TP30320

Performance and Disability

Semester 2
TP33420

Performance and Architecture

TP39020

Musical Theatre Dramaturgies

Final Year Options

Joint Honours Drama and Theatre students may take up to 40 credits from the following modules:

Semester 1
TP36000

Independent Research Project

TP33300

Playwriting

TP35520

Ensemble Performance Project

Semester 2
TP36040

Independent Research Project

TP33340

Playwriting

Final Year Options

Students MUST take 60 credits worth of modules in the Department of History & Welsh History from the OPTION modules listed below:

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:

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