Study Schemes

BA History / English Literature [QV31]

Academic Year: 2013/2014Joint Honours scheme - available from 2000/2001

Duration (studying Full-Time): 3 years

Award Eligibility:Standard Awards;

Part 1 Rules

Year 1 Core (40 Credits)

You must take the following modules:

Semester 1
EN10020

Encountering Texts

Semester 2
EN10220

Ancestral Voices

Year 1 Options

You should take further level 1 modules totalling 80 credits from the list of modules approved by the Faculty of Arts. This may include further modules offered by the English Dept, listed below:

Semester 1
CL10120

Greek And Roman Epic And Drama

EN10120

Re-writing, Re-visioning Texts

EN11220

Introduction To American Literature And Culture

Semester 2
CL10320

History Of Greek And Roman Ideas

EN10520

Contemporary Writing

Year 1 Options

You must take one of these modules

Semester 1
HA12120

Cyflwyno Hanes

HY12120

Introduction To History

Semester 2

Year 1 Options

Students must take a minimum of two options

Semester 1
HA10820

Argyfwng, Gwrthryfel A Ffydd Yn Ewrop C.1000-1540

HC11220

Grym, Protest A Chymdeithas Yng Nghymru Fodern 1850 -1997

HY12720

Three Queens And Their Subjects

HY14020

The Making Of The American Nation 1783-2000

WH11420

Wales In An Age Of Revolution, 1770-1850

Semester 2
HA10620

Y Dirwasgiad Mawr: Hanes Cymharol America A Phrydain

HA13820

Oes Y Fictoriaid

HC11120

Concwest, Uno A Hunaniaeth Yng Nghymru 1250-1800

HY11920

Stuart England: War, Political Crisis And Social Change 1629-1714

HY13220

Britain And The First World War

WH11120

Conquest, Union And Identity In Wales 1250-1800

Part 2 Rules

Year 2 Options

Path A. 60 credits of the History Options List

Year 2 Options

Path B. You must take HA or HY30510 OR HA or HY 30610, one 20 credit History Survey Module and one 30 credit History Option module

Semester 1
HA30510

Haneswyr Ac Ysgrifennu Hanes Ia

HY30510

Historians And The Writing Of History 1

Semester 2
HA30610

Haneswyr Ac Ysgrifennu Hanes Ib

HY30610

Historians & The Writing Of History 1b

Year 2 Options

Path C. You must take HY30020 or HA30020, one 20 credit History Survey Module and one 20 credit History Skills Module.

Semester 1
HA30000

Haneswyr Ac Ysgrifennu Hanes

HY30000

Historians And The Writing Of History 2

Semester 2
HA30020

Haneswyr Ac Ysgrifennu Hanes

HY30020

Historians And The Writing Of History 2

Year 2 Options

SURVEY MODULES

Semester 1
HA31820

Concro’r Byd: TŴf A Chwymp Ymerodraethau Prydain A Ffrainc

HY31620

War & Society In History

HY32020

The British Isles In The Long Eighteenth Century

Semester 2

Year 2 Options

SKILLS MODULES

Semester 2
HA33320

Hanes Ar Y Teledu

HY32220

The Ottoman Empire And Early Modern Travel Writing

HY32320

Studying Cuban History Through Film

HY32520

Oral History: The Past In The Present

HY32720

Investigating Georgian And Victorian Landscapes

HY32820

Myth & History In The Viking Age: Saga & Society In Medieval Iceland

HY33320

History On Television

HY33420

History As Myth-making: The 'myth Of The Blitz'

HY33520

Germans And Nazism Since 1933: Reading Public Opinion Surveys, Diaries And Memoirs

HY34020

Medieval Chronicles: Historical Writing In The British Isles 540-1300

HY34620

Exploring Nineteenth-century Exhibitions

HY34820

Early Modernity In Film

Year 2 Core (20 Credits)

ENGLISH - You must take the following module

Semester 1
EN20120

Reading Theory/reading Text 1

Semester 2

Year 2 Options

You MUST take two of the following modules

Semester 1
EN20520

Medieval And Renaissance Writing

EN20720

Nineteenth Century Literature

Semester 2
EN20620

Restoration & Eighteenth Century Literature

EN20820

Twentieth Century British Literature

Final Year Options

Final year students must take two History Option modules

Final Year Core (30 Credits)

ENGLISH - You must take the following module

Semester 1
EN30930

Reading Theory/ Reading Text

Semester 2

Final Year Options

ENGLISH - You should choose one module from the list below..

Semester 1
EN31000

Undergraduate Dissertation

EN31430

Elizabethan Drama: Hieronimo To Hamlet

EN32830

The Years Between: Women's Fiction, 1918-1939

EN36330

Heroes+dragon Slayers:literature At End Of First Millennium

Semester 2
EN31030

Undergraduate Dissertation

EN31830

Haunting Texts: Victorian And Modern Ghost Stories

EN34030

Poetry But Not As We Know It-uk Poetry Since 70s-remapping

EN34730

Detective And Crime Fiction

Available both years Options

OPTIONS LIST

Semester 1
HA37430

Diwylliant, Cymdeithas A'r Fictoriaid: Bywydau Cyhoeddus A Phreifat

HC34230

Hunaniaethau Cenedlaethol Yn Ynysoedd Prydain 1801-1914

HC35230

Twf Cymdeithas Drefol: Cymru 1750 - 2000

HY35430

Community And Identity In Late Medieval England, 1200-1500

HY35930

The Atlantic World, 1500 -1800

HY36430

From Black Death To The Great Fire: The British Town 1349-1700

HY37430

Culture, Society And The Victorians: Public And Private Lives

HY38230

Weimar Germany:making+breaking Of German Democracy,1914-1933

WH33330

Crime, Riot And Morality In Wales, 1750-1850

Semester 2
HA35130

Cymdeithas Ewrop A'r Meddwl Canoloesol 1200-1500

HC33330

Trosedd, Terfysg A Moesoldeb 1750-1850

HY35230

Age Of The Crusades:west & East 1070-1291

HY36230

The British Isles And The 'english' Revolution

HY38630

European Society In The Cold War Era, 1945-1989

WH32130

Conflict & Coexistence: From The Normans To Owain Glyn Dwr

WH35230

The Growth Of An Urban Society: Wales 1750-2000

Aberystwyth University Standard Awards

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  • Aberystwyth Bursary
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