BA International Relations / History [1FVL]
Academic Year 2025/2026
Campus Aberystwyth
Joint Honours scheme - available from 2021/2022
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
All students must take 20 credits (1 module) of optional modules in International Politics.
The Making of the Modern World: War Peace and Revolution since 1789
Year 1 Options
Students MUST take a further 40 credits in the Department of History & Welsh History:
The Modern World, 1789 to the present
Medieval and Early Modern Britain and Europe, 1000-1800
Concwest, Uno a Hunaniaeth yng Nghymru 1200-1800
Part 2 Rules
Year 2 Core (20 Credits)
Year 2 Core (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
Gwrando ar Hanes: Y mudiad Hawliau Sifil yn America
Victorian Visions: Exploring Nineteenth-Century Exhibitions
Recounting Racism: Oral History and Modern American Race Relations.
Interdisciplinary and decolonial history
Year 2 Options
Students must take 40 credits (2 modules) of International Politics optional modules from the list of those made available at pre-registration.
People and Power: Understanding Comparative Politics Today
International Politics and Global Development
Strategy, Intelligence and Security in International Politics
The BRICS in World Politics
Science, Technology, and International Relations
Y Meddwl Cymreig mewn Syniadaeth Ryngwladol
Climate Change and International Politics in the Anthropocene
Gwleidyddiaeth mewn Cymdeithasau Amrywiaethol
The Second World War in Europe
The European Union: Politics, Policies, Problems
Climate Change Politics
Gwleidyddiaeth mewn Cymdeithasau Amrywiaethol
Total War, Total Peace
Intervention and Humanitarianism
Pobl a Grym: Deall Gwleidyddiaeth Gymharol Heddiw
Russian intelligence from Lenin to Putin
Questions of International Politics
Trade Wars and the Liberal Order
Political Theory
Devolution and Wales
Militaries and Crisis: Where Strategy Meets Society
The Governance of Climate Change: Simulation Module
Warfare after Waterloo: Military History 1815-1918
War Crimes
Datganoli a Chymru
A War on the Mind: Propaganda and Secret Intelligence from the Great War to the 21st Century
Terrorism & Counter Terrorism in the Modern World: Policing, Intelligence & War
Contemporary Latin America
Capitalism and International Politics
Year 2 Options
OPTION modules in the Department of History & Welsh History:
Stori yr Unol Daleithiau ar Ffilm a Theledu, 1865-2008
Science, Religion and Magic
African-American History, 1808 to the Present
Magic in the Middle Ages: From Antiquity to the Eve of the Witch Craze
Media and Society in Twentieth Century Britain
Rhyfel Cartref America
The Tudors: A European Dynasty?
The Making of Europe: Christendom and beyond, c. 1000-1300
The Atlantic World, 1492-1825
Germany since 1945
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
Southeast Asia at the crossroads (c.1400 to the present)
Final Year Options
Final year students must take 60 credits in the Department of International Politics.
Y Meddwl Cymreig Mewn Syniadaeth Ryngwladol
The BRICS in World Politics
Gwleidyddiaeth mewn Cymdeithasau Amrywiaethol
The European Union: Politics, Policies, Problems
Russian intelligence from Lenin to Putin
The Second World War in Europe
Climate Change Politics
Total War, Total Peace
Intervention and Humanitarianism
Dulliau Ymchwil + Traethawd Estynedig
Science, Technology, and International Relations
Devolution and Wales
Political Theory
Trade Wars and the Liberal Order
A War on the Mind: Propaganda and Secret Intelligence from the Great War to the 21st Century
Questions of International Politics
Datganoli a Chymru
Militaries and Crisis: Where Strategy Meets Society
Capitalism and International Politics
Dulliau Ymchwil + Traethawd Estynedig
War Crimes
Terrorism & Counter Terrorism in the Modern World: Policing, Intelligence & War
Contemporary Latin America
Final Year Options
Students MUST take 60 credits worth of modules in the Department of History & Welsh History from the OPTION modules listed below:
The Tudors: A European Dynasty?
Media and Society in Twentieth Century Britain
Rhyfel Cartref America
African-American History, 1808 to the Present
Science, Religion and Magic
Stori yr Unol Daleithiau ar Ffilm a Theledu, 1865-2008
Magic in the Middle Ages: From Antiquity to the Eve of the Witch Craze
Germany since 1945
Cymru a Brenhinoedd Prydain: Gwrthdaro, Grym a Hunaniaeth yn Ynysoedd Prydain, 1039-1417
The Making of Europe: Christendom and beyond, c. 1000-1300
Trosedd, Terfysg a Moesoldeb yng Nghymru 1750-1850
The Atlantic World, 1492-1825
Southeast Asia at the crossroads (c. 1400 to the present)
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