Study Schemes
BA German / History [RV21]
Academic Year: 2025/2026Joint Honours scheme - available from 2000/2001
Duration (studying Full-Time): 4 years
Award Eligibility:Standard Awards; Excellence Scholarship;
Part 1 Rules
Year 1 Core (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
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:
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
GERMAN BEGINNERS: you must choose 20 credits of the following or other Level 1 content modules:
Part 2 Rules
Year 2 Core (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Year 2 Core (30 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Year 2 Options
Choose 30 credits of the following GE or EL modules:
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.
Gwrando ar Hanes: Y mudiad Hawliau Sifil yn America
Memory, Myth and History: Investigating Medieval Chronicles, c. 1000-1250
Interdisciplinary and decolonial history
Victorian Visions: Exploring Nineteenth-Century Exhibitions
Recounting Racism: Oral History and Modern American Race Relations.
Year 2 Options
OPTION modules in the Department of History & Welsh History:
Rhyfel Cartref America
Stori yr Unol Daleithiau ar Ffilm a Theledu, 1865-2008
The Tudors: A European Dynasty?
Magic in the Middle Ages: From Antiquity to the Eve of the Witch Craze
Media and Society in Twentieth Century Britain
African-American History, 1808 to the Present
Science, Religion and Magic
Cymru a Brenhinoedd Prydain: Gwrthdaro, Grym a Hunaniaeth yn Ynysoedd Prydain, 1039-1417
Trosedd, Terfysg a Moesoldeb yng Nghymru 1750-1850
The Making of Europe: Christendom and beyond, c. 1000-1300
Germany since 1945
The Atlantic World, 1492-1825
Southeast Asia at the crossroads (c.1400 to the present)
Crime, Riot and Morality in Wales 1750-1850
Year 3 Core (60 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Year 3 Core (60 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Final Year Core (30 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Final Year Options
Students MUST take 60 credits worth of modules in the Department of History & Welsh History from the OPTION modules listed below:
Rhyfel Cartref America
Stori yr Unol Daleithiau ar Ffilm a Theledu, 1865-2008
The Tudors: A European Dynasty?
Magic in the Middle Ages: From Antiquity to the Eve of the Witch Craze
Media and Society in Twentieth Century Britain
Science, Religion and Magic
African-American History, 1808 to the Present
Cymru a Brenhinoedd Prydain: Gwrthdaro, Grym a Hunaniaeth yn Ynysoedd Prydain, 1039-1417
Trosedd, Terfysg a Moesoldeb yng Nghymru 1750-1850
The Making of Europe: Christendom and beyond, c. 1000-1300
Germany since 1945
The Atlantic World, 1492-1825
Southeast Asia at the crossroads (c. 1400 to the present)
Crime, Riot and Morality in Wales 1750-1850
Final Year Options
Choose 30 credits of the following GE or EL modules:
Department of History & Welsh History, International Politics Building, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, SY23 3FE
Tel: Department: +44 (01970 621537 Admissions: +44 (0)1970 622021 Fax: 01970 622676 Email: history-enquiries@aber.ac.uk
Aberystwyth University Standard Awards
- Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
- Sports Bursary
- Music Bursary
- International Excellence Scholarship
- Residential Bursary
- Aberystwyth Bursary
- Care Leaver Bursary