BA German / History [RV21]
Academic Year 2025/2026
Campus Aberystwyth
Joint Honours scheme - available from 2000/2001
Duration 4 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 (20 Credits)
Year 1 Timetable Core/Student Option
GERMAN ADVANCED: you must take:
Year 1 Timetable Core/Student Option
GERMAN BEGINNERS: you must take:
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
Year 1 Options
GERMAN ADVANCED: you must take GE10810 and must also choose an additional 20 credits of the following or other Level 1 content modules:
Year 1 Options
Part 2 Rules
Year 2 Core (20 Credits)
Year 2 Core (30 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
Choose 30 credits of the following GE or EL modules:
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)
Year 3 Core (60 Credits)
You must take these modules during your year Abroad:
Year 3 Core (60 Credits)
Final Year Core (30 Credits)
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)
Final Year Options
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