BA
History (with integrated year studying abroad)
[V102]
Academic Year: 2024/2025Single Honours scheme - available from 2017/2018
Duration (studying Full-Time): 4 years
Part 1 Rules
Year 1
Core (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Year 1
Options
Choose 100 credits of modules (of which at least 60 must be taken in the History & Welsh History department):
Semester 1
HC11120Concwest, Uno a Hunaniaeth yng Nghymru 1200-1800
HY11420Medieval and Early Modern Britain and Europe, 1000-1800
HY11820The Modern World, 1789 to the present
Semester 2
HA10420Cydio mewn Hanes: Ffynonellau a'u Haneswyr
HC11820Cymdeithas, Pobl a Gwleidyddiaeth: Cymru, 1800-1999
HY10420'Hands on' History: Sources and their Historians
HY12420Europe and the World, 1000-2000
WH11720People, Power and Identity: Wales 1200-1999
Part 2 Rules
Year 2
Core (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Year 2
Options
MUST take one 20 credit SKILLS module in semester two:
Semester 2
HA24720Gwrando ar Hanes: Y mudiad Hawliau Sifil yn America
HY24120Memory, Myth and History: Investigating Medieval Chronicles, c. 1000-1250
HY24320Interdisciplinary and decolonial history
HY24620Victorian Visions: Exploring Nineteenth-Century Exhibitions
HY25020Recounting Racism: Oral History and Modern American Race Relations.
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):
Semester 1
HA28120Stori yr Unol Daleithiau ar Ffilm a Theledu, 1865-2008
HY20920The Tudors: A European Dynasty?
HY25920Magic in the Middle Ages: From Antiquity to the Eve of the Witch Craze
HY27520Media and Society in Twentieth Century Britain
HY28320African-American History, 1808 to the Present
Semester 2
HC20120Cymru a Brenhinoedd Prydain: Gwrthdaro, Grym a Hunaniaeth yn Ynysoedd Prydain, 1039-1417
HC23420Trosedd, Terfysg a Moesoldeb yng Nghymru 1750-1850
HY25720The Making of Europe: Christendom and beyond, c. 1000-1300
HY29720The Atlantic World, 1492-1825
HY29920Southeast Asia at the crossroads (c.1400 to the present)
WH23420Crime, Riot and Morality in Wales 1750-1850
Year 3
Core (120 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Final Year
Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Final Year
Options
MUST take two co-requisite 20-credit SPECIAL SUBJECT modules (first part runs semester one and complementary module in semester two):
Semester 1
HP33120Gwrthryfel Glyndŵr 1: Hynt a Helynt y Gwrthryfel
HQ33320Cathedrals in Medieval England and Wales Part 1
HQ35020The English Reformation, 1520-58: Revolution and Counter Revolution
HQ39220From Burma to Myanmar (Part I): colonial Burma under British rule (1824-1941)
HQ39620The Invisible Empires: The First Ku Klux Klan and American Society, 1865-1915
Semester 2
HP33220Gwrthryfel Glyndŵr 2: Cwestiynau Allweddol
HQ33420Cathedrals in Medieval England and Wales Part 2
HQ35620The English Reformation, 1558-1648: Consolidation and Conflict
HQ39320From Burma to Myanmar (Part II): Challenges for a young nation state since 1942
HQ39720The Invisible Empires: The Second Ku Klux Klan and American Society, 1915-1944
Final Year
Options
Take 40 credits of OPTION modules (choose one 20 credit module from each semester):
Semester 1
HA38120Stori yr Unol Daleithiau ar Ffilm a Theledu, 1865-2008
HY30920The Tudors: A European Dynasty?
HY35920Magic in the Middle Ages: From Antiquity to the Eve of the Witch Craze
HY37520Media and Society in Twentieth Century Britain
HY38820African-American History, 1808 to the Present
Semester 2
HC30120Cymru a Brenhinoedd Prydain: Gwrthdaro, Grym a Hunaniaeth yn Ynysoedd Prydain, 1039-1417
HC33420Trosedd, Terfysg a Moesoldeb yng Nghymru 1750-1850
HY35720The Making of Europe: Christendom and beyond, c. 1000-1300
HY39720The Atlantic World, 1492-1825
HY39920Southeast Asia at the crossroads (c. 1400 to the present)
WH33420Crime, Riot and Morality in Wales 1750-1850
Aberystwyth University Standard Awards
- Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
- Sports Bursary
- Music Bursary
- International Excellence Scholarship
- Residential Bursary
- Aberystwyth Bursary
- Care Leaver Bursary
