Study Schemes

BA  Cultural Heritage Studies: Libraries, Archives and Museums [V700]

Academic Year: 2023/2024Single Honours scheme - available from 2019/2020

Duration (studying Full-Time): 3 years

Award Eligibility:Standard Awards; Excellence Scholarship;

Part 1 Rules

Year 1  Core (40 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
IL10120

Foundations of Information Studies

Semester 2
IL10520

Effective Communication

Year 1  Core (40 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
IL10320

The Cultural Heritage Landscape

Semester 2
IL11120

The Archival Inheritance

Year 1  Core (20 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
HY12120

Introduction to History

or
HA12120

Cyflwyno Hanes

Year 1  Options

Choose 20 credits

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

Part 2 Rules

Year 2  Core (80 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
IL20220

Information in a Changing World

IL20320

Museums in the 21st Century

Semester 2
IL20420

Record Revolutions: A Cultural History of Record Keeping

IL20620

Resource Discovery and Digital Information Management

Year 2  Core (20 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
HY20120

Making History

or
HA20120

Llunio Hanes

Year 2  Options

Choose 20 credits offered by the Department of History and Welsh History. Optional choices may also be available in other departments e.g. GS28520 Placing Culture

Semester 1
HA29320

Diwylliant, Cymdeithas a'r Fictoriaid

HC23520

Cymru a'r Tuduriaid

HY25520

Famine in Medieval England

HY26720

War, Politics and People: England in Context in the Fourteenth Century

HY28520

Between Revolution and Reform: China since 1800

HY28920

Roads to Modernity: Germany and Japan in the Age of Empires, 1860s-1930s

HY29120

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

HY29320

Culture, Society and the Victorians

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

HY22020

The British Isles in the Long Eighteenth Century

HY25620

Medieval England and Germany, c. 1050-1250

HY26520

The European Reformation

HY29220

From Poor Law to Welfare State: Poverty and Welfare in Modern Britain, 1815-1948

HY29420

The Nazi Dictatorship: Regime and Society in Germany 1933-1945

WH20120

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

Final Year  Core (80 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Final Year  Options

Options in the Department of History and Welsh History

Semester 1
HA39320

Diwylliant, Cymdeithas a'r Fictoriaid

HC33520

Cymru a'r Tuduriaid

HY35520

Famine in Medieval England

HY36720

War, Politics and People: England in Context in the Fourteenth Century

HY38520

Between Revolution and Reform: China since 1800

HY38920

Roads to Modernity: Germany and Japan in the Age of Empires, 1860s-1930s

HY39120

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

HY39320

Culture, Society and the Victorians

WH33520

Wales under the Tudors

Semester 2
HA31820

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

HA34520

Stori America, 1607-1867, ar Ffilm a Theledu

HY30120

The British Isles in the Long Eighteenth Century

HY35620

Medieval England and Germany, c. 1050-1250

HY36520

The European Reformation

HY39220

From Poor Law to Welfare State: Poverty and Welfare in Modern Britain, 1815-1948

HY39420

The Nazi Dictatorship: Regime and Society in Germany 1933-1945

WH30120

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

Final Year  Options

Students must take 40 credits of optional modules offered by DIS and the Department of History and Welsh History.

Aberystwyth University Standard Awards

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