Study Schemes

BA Modern and Contemporary History [V191]

Academic Year: 2025/2026Single Honours scheme - available from 2002/2003

Duration (studying Full-Time): 3 years

Award Eligibility:Standard Awards;

Part 1 Rules

Year 1 Core (20 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1

Introduction to History

Cyflwyno Hanes

Year 1 Options

Choose 100 credits of modules (of which at least 60 must be taken in the History & Welsh History department):

Semester 1

Concwest, Uno a Hunaniaeth yng Nghymru 1200-1800

Medieval and Early Modern Britain and Europe, 1000-1800

The Modern World, 1789 to the present

Semester 2

Cydio mewn Hanes: Ffynonellau a'u Haneswyr

Ewrop a'r Byd, 1000-2000

Cymdeithas, Pobl a Gwleidyddiaeth: Cymru, 1800-1999

'Hands on' History: Sources and their Historians

Europe and the World, 1000-2000

People, Power and Identity: Wales 1200-1999

Part 2 Rules

Year 2 Core (20 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1

Making History

Llunio Hanes

Year 2 Options

Students MUST take one 20 credit SKILLS module in semester two:

Semester 2

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

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):

Semester 1

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

Semester 2

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).

Semester 1

Dissertation

Traethawd Estynedig

Semester 2

Dissertation

Traethawd Estynedig

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):

Semester 1

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

Semester 2

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):

Semester 1

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

Semester 2

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

Aberystwyth University Standard Awards

Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
Sports Bursary
Music Bursary
International Excellence Scholarship
Residential Bursary
Aberystwyth Bursary
Care Leaver Bursary