Study Schemes
BA History [V10F]
Academic Year: 2025/2026Single Honours scheme - available from 2019/2020
Duration (studying Full-Time): 4 years
Award Eligibility:Standard Awards; Excellence Scholarship;
Part 1 Rules
Year 1 Core (100 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Year 1 Options
Year 2 Core (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Year 2 Options
Students must take a further 100 credits of modules (of which at least 60 must be taken in the History & Welsh History department):
Part 2 Rules
Year 3 Core (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Year 3 Options
Students MUST take one 20 credit SKILLS module in semester two:
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 3 Options
Students should choose 80 credits worth of OPTION modules in the Department of History & Welsh History (though students may opt to take up to 20 credits outside the department if they wish):
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
Final Year Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Final Year Options
Students MUST take two co-requisite 20-credit SPECIAL SUBJECT modules (the first part running in semester one and the complementary module in semester two):
Gwrthryfel Glyndŵr 1: Hynt a Helynt y Gwrthryfel
Cathedrals in Medieval England and Wales Part 1
The English Reformation, 1520-58: Revolution and Counter Revolution
From Burma to Myanmar (Part I): colonial Burma under British rule (1824-1941)
The Invisible Empires: The First Ku Klux Klan and American Society, 1865-1915
Gwrthryfel Glyndŵr 2: Cwestiynau Allweddol
Cathedrals in Medieval England and Wales Part 2
The English Reformation, 1558-1648: Consolidation and Conflict
From Burma to Myanmar (Part II): Challenges for a young nation state since 1942
The Invisible Empires: The Second Ku Klux Klan and American Society, 1915-1944
Final Year Options
Students should take 40 credits of OPTION modules (taking one 20-credit option module in each semester):
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
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