BA History / Mathematics [GV11]

Academic Year 2025/2026

Campus Aberystwyth

Joint Honours scheme - available from 2000/2001

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
MP10610

Calculus

or
MT10610

Calcwlws

MA10510

Algebra

Semester 2
MA11110

Mathematical Analysis

or
MT11110

Dadansoddi Mathemategol

MP11010

Further Algebra and Calculus

or
MT11010

Algebra a Chalcwlws Pellach

Year 1 Core (20 Credits)

Semester 1
HY12120

Introduction to History

or
HA12120

Cyflwyno Hanes

Year 1 Options

Choose 20 credits

Semester 1
MA10110

Coordinate and Vector Geometry

or
MT10110

Geometreg Gyfesurynnol a Fectoraidd

MT10310

Tebygoleg

MT10110

Geometreg Gyfesurynnol a Fectoraidd

MA10310

Probability

or
MT10310

Tebygoleg

Semester 2
MA11210

Differential Equations

or
MT11210

Hafaliadau Differol

MA11310

Statistics

or
MT11310

Ystadegaeth

MT11310

Ystadegaeth

MT11210

Hafaliadau Differol

Year 1 Options

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

Semester 1
HY11820

The Modern World, 1789 to the present

HY11420

Medieval and Early Modern Britain and Europe, 1000-1800

HC11120

Concwest, Uno a Hunaniaeth yng Nghymru 1200-1800

Semester 2
HC11820

Cymdeithas, Pobl a Gwleidyddiaeth: Cymru, 1800-1999

WH11720

People, Power and Identity: Wales 1200-1999

HA10420

Cydio mewn Hanes: Ffynonellau a'u Haneswyr

HA11420

Ewrop a'r Byd, 1000-2000

HY10420

'Hands on' History: Sources and their Historians

or
HA10420

Cydio mewn Hanes: Ffynonellau a'u Haneswyr

HY12420

Europe and the World, 1000-2000

or
HA11420

Ewrop a'r Byd, 1000-2000

Part 2 Rules

Year 2 Core (20 Credits)

Semester 1
HY20120

Making History

or
HA20120

Llunio Hanes

Year 2 Core (20 Credits)

Semester 2
MA21510

Complex Analysis

or
MT21510

Dadansoddiad Cymhlyg

MA21410

Linear Algebra

or
MT21410

Algebra Llinol

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

HA24720

Gwrando ar Hanes: Y mudiad Hawliau Sifil yn America

HY24620

Victorian Visions: Exploring Nineteenth-Century Exhibitions

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

HY28620

Science, Religion and Magic

HY28320

African-American History, 1808 to the Present

HY25920

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

HY27520

Media and Society in Twentieth Century Britain

HA26820

Rhyfel Cartref America

HY20920

The Tudors: A European Dynasty?

Semester 2
HY25720

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

HY29720

The Atlantic World, 1492-1825

HY29620

Germany since 1945

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

HY29920

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

Year 2 Options

Choose 40 credits of optional mathematics modules, EITHER from Block A, OR BLOCK B. (BLOCK A listed below):

Semester 1
MA26600

Applied Statistics

MA26010

Distributions and Estimation

MA20310

Introduction to Abstract Algebra

MA20110

Real Analysis

or
MT20110

Dadansoddiad Real

MT20110

Dadansoddiad Real

Semester 2
MA26620

Applied Statistics

Year 2 Options

Choose 40 credits of optional mathematics modules, EITHER from Block A, OR BLOCK B. (BLOCK B listed below):

Semester 1
MA25200

Introduction to Numerical Analysis and its applications

or
MT25200

Cyflwyniad i Ddadansoddiad Rhifiadol a'i Gymwysiadau

MT20110

Dadansoddiad Real

MA20110

Real Analysis

or
MT20110

Dadansoddiad Real

MT25200

Cyflwyniad i Ddadansoddiad Rhifiadol a'i Gymwysiadau

MA20310

Introduction to Abstract Algebra

Semester 2
MA25220

Introduction to Numerical Analysis and its applications

or
MT25220

Cyflwyniad i Ddadansoddiad Rhifiadol a'i Gymwysiadau

MT25610

Hydrodynameg 1

MA25610

Hydrodynamics 1

or
MT25610

Hydrodynameg 1

MA25710

Advanced Dynamics

MT25220

Cyflwyniad i Ddadansoddiad Rhifiadol a'i Gymwysiadau

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
HY30920

The Tudors: A European Dynasty?

HY37520

Media and Society in Twentieth Century Britain

HA36820

Rhyfel Cartref America

HY38820

African-American History, 1808 to the Present

HY38620

Science, Religion and Magic

HA38120

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

HY35920

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

Semester 2
HY39620

Germany since 1945

HC30120

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

HY35720

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

HC33420

Trosedd, Terfysg a Moesoldeb yng Nghymru 1750-1850

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

or
HC33420

Trosedd, Terfysg a Moesoldeb yng Nghymru 1750-1850

Final Year Electives

Choose 60 credits (level 3) from mathematics as advised by the department, subject to pre-requisites

Contact for this page:

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Telephone Department: +44 01970 622802 Admissions: +44 (0)1970 622021

Email: maths@aber.ac.uk