BA History (with integrated year studying abroad) [V102]
Academic Year 2025/2026
Campus Aberystwyth
Single Honours scheme - available from 2017/2018
Duration 4 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 Options
Choose 100 credits of modules (of which at least 60 must be taken in the History & Welsh History department):
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 Options
MUST take one 20 credit SKILLS module in semester two:
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 80 credits of OPTION modules in the Department of History & Welsh History (students may opt to take up to 20 credits outside the department):
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 Core (40 Credits)
Final Year Options
MUST take two co-requisite 20-credit SPECIAL SUBJECT modules (first part runs semester one and complementary module in semester two):
Cathedrals in Medieval England and Wales Part 1
From Burma to Myanmar (Part I): colonial Burma under British rule (1824-1941)
The English Reformation, 1520-58: Revolution and Counter Revolution
Gwrthryfel Glynd?r 1: Hynt a Helynt y Gwrthryfel
The Invisible Empires: The First Ku Klux Klan and American Society, 1865-1915
From Burma to Myanmar (Part II): Challenges for a young nation state since 1942
Gwrthryfel Glynd?r 2: Cwestiynau Allweddol
The English Reformation, 1558-1648: Consolidation and Conflict
The Invisible Empires: The Second Ku Klux Klan and American Society, 1915-1944
Cathedrals in Medieval England and Wales Part 2
Final Year Options
Take 40 credits of OPTION modules (choose one 20 credit module from each semester):
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)
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History and Welsh History, Aberystwyth University, International Politics Building, Penglais, Aberystwyth, SY23 3FE
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