BA Education / History [VX14]
Academic Year 2025/2026 September 2025 Start
Campus Aberystwyth
Joint Honours scheme - available from 2025/2026
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 (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Year 1 Options
Students MUST take a further 40 credits in the Department of History & Welsh History:
Year 1 Options
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.
Beirdd a Noddwyr: Llen a Hanes c.1300-1500
Image Wars in Southeast Asia: Studying 20th Century Propaganda
Memory, Myth and History: Investigating Medieval Chronicles, c. 1000-1250
Victorian Visions: Exploring Nineteenth-Century Exhibitions
The Sound of History: the Civil Rights Movement in Post-War America
Year 2 Options
Choose 40 credits from:
Year 2 Options
OPTION modules in the Department of History & Welsh History:
Diwylliant, Cymdeithas a'r Fictoriaid
Cymru a'r Tuduriaid
Kingship and political culture in high medieval England and Norway, 1066-1263
Environmental History of the Neotropics (Latin America and the Caribbean) in the Capitalocene
Culture, Society and the Victorians
Modern Japan: From Samurai to Salary Men
Wales under the Tudors
Concro'r Byd: Twf a Chwymp Ymerodraethau Prydain a Ffrainc
Stori America, 1607-1867, ar Ffilm a Theledu
Famine in Medieval England
The European Reformation
Reforging the Union: The Reconstruction Era in US History, 1863-1896
From the Second Empire to the Third Reich: Weimar Germany 1914-1933
Wales and the Kings of Britain: Conflict, Power and Identities in the British Isles 1039-1417
Final Year Core (20 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:
Diwylliant, Cymdeithas a'r Fictoriaid
Cymru a'r Tuduriaid
Kingship and political culture in high medieval England and Norway, 1066-1263
Environmental History of the Neotropics (Latin America and the Caribbean) in the Capitalocene
Culture, Society and the Victorians
Modern Japan: From Samurai to Salary Men
Wales under the Tudors
Concro'r Byd: T?f a Chwymp Ymerodraethau Prydain a Ffrainc
Stori America, 1607-1867, ar Ffilm a Theledu
Famine in Medieval England
The European Reformation
Reforging the Union: The Reconstruction Era in US History, 1863-1896
From the Second Empire to the Third Reich: Weimar Germany 1914-1933
Wales and the Kings of Britain: Conflict, Power and Identities in the British Isles 1039-1417
Final Year Options
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