BA Education / History [VX14]

Academic Year 2025/2026 September 2025 Start

Campus Aberystwyth

Joint Honours scheme - available from 2025/2026

Duration 3 years

Award Eligiblity
Standard Awards

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)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
HY12120

Introduction to History

or
HA12120

Cyflwyno Hanes

Year 1 Core (20 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
ED14520

Children's Development and Learning

or
AD14520

Datblygiad a Dysgu Plant

Year 1 Options

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

Semester 1
HC11120

Concwest, Uno a Hunaniaeth yng Nghymru 1200-1800

HY11420

Medieval and Early Modern Britain and Europe, 1000-1800

HY11820

The Modern World, 1789 to the present

Semester 2
HA10420

Cydio mewn Hanes: Ffynonellau a'u Haneswyr

HA11420

Ewrop a'r Byd, 1000-2000

HC11820

Cymdeithas, Pobl a Gwleidyddiaeth: Cymru, 1800-1999

HY10420

'Hands on' History: Sources and their Historians

HY12420

Europe and the World, 1000-2000

WH11720

People, Power and Identity: Wales 1200-1999

Year 1 Options

Choose 40 credits

Semester 1
ED10320

Education, Sustainability and Ethical Citizenship

ED14620

Health and Wellbeing in the Early Years

Semester 2
AD14320

Datblygiad Iaith yn y Blynyddoedd Cynnar

ED10020

Professional Practice

ED13720

Play Matters: Understanding and Supporting Learning and Play

ED14320

Language Development in the Early Years

Part 2 Rules

Year 2 Core (20 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
HY20120

Making History

or
HA20120

Llunio Hanes

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.

Semester 2
CY20720

Beirdd a Noddwyr: Llen a Hanes c.1300-1500

HY23720

Image Wars in Southeast Asia: Studying 20th Century Propaganda

HY24120

Memory, Myth and History: Investigating Medieval Chronicles, c. 1000-1250

HY24620

Victorian Visions: Exploring Nineteenth-Century Exhibitions

HY24720

The Sound of History: the Civil Rights Movement in Post-War America

Year 2 Options

Choose 40 credits from:

Semester 1
AD24320

Diogelu ac Ymarfer Proffesiynol

ED24320

Safeguarding and Professional Practice

Semester 2
AD20320

Dulliau Ymchwil

ED20320

Research Methods

ED22420

Discourses Language and Education

Year 2 Options

OPTION modules in the Department of History & Welsh History:

Semester 1
HA29320

Diwylliant, Cymdeithas a'r Fictoriaid

HC23520

Cymru a'r Tuduriaid

HY22120

Kingship and political culture in high medieval England and Norway, 1066-1263

HY29120

Environmental History of the Neotropics (Latin America and the Caribbean) in the Capitalocene

HY29320

Culture, Society and the Victorians

HY29820

Modern Japan: From Samurai to Salary Men

WH23520

Wales under the Tudors

Semester 2
HA21820

Concro'r Byd: Twf a Chwymp Ymerodraethau Prydain a Ffrainc

HA24520

Stori America, 1607-1867, ar Ffilm a Theledu

HY25520

Famine in Medieval England

HY26520

The European Reformation

HY27720

Reforging the Union: The Reconstruction Era in US History, 1863-1896

HY28420

From the Second Empire to the Third Reich: Weimar Germany 1914-1933

WH20120

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:

Semester 1
HA39320

Diwylliant, Cymdeithas a'r Fictoriaid

HC33520

Cymru a'r Tuduriaid

HY32120

Kingship and political culture in high medieval England and Norway, 1066-1263

HY39120

Environmental History of the Neotropics (Latin America and the Caribbean) in the Capitalocene

HY39320

Culture, Society and the Victorians

HY39820

Modern Japan: From Samurai to Salary Men

WH33520

Wales under the Tudors

Semester 2
HA31820

Concro'r Byd: T?f a Chwymp Ymerodraethau Prydain a Ffrainc

HA34520

Stori America, 1607-1867, ar Ffilm a Theledu

HY35520

Famine in Medieval England

HY36520

The European Reformation

HY37720

Reforging the Union: The Reconstruction Era in US History, 1863-1896

HY38420

From the Second Empire to the Third Reich: Weimar Germany 1914-1933

WH30120

Wales and the Kings of Britain: Conflict, Power and Identities in the British Isles 1039-1417

Final Year Options

Choose 40 credits from:

Semester 1
AD30620

Hawliau Plant

AD33600

Traethawd Hir

ED30420

Special Educational Needs

ED30620

Children's Rights

ED33600

Major dissertation

Semester 2
AD30320

Datblygiad Mathemategol yn y Blynyddoedd Cynnar

AD33640

Traethawd Hir

ED30320

Mathematical Development in the Early Years

ED33640

Major dissertation

ED34820

Emotional and Social Development