Study Schemes
BA Economic and Social History / German [RV23]
Academic Year: 2013/2014Joint Honours scheme - available from 2000/2001 (Last intake year is 2011/2012)
Duration (studying Full-Time): 4 years
Part 1 Rules
Year 1 Options
You must take two modules
Semester 1 HY10820 The Global Economy Since 1850
HY12720 Three Queens And Their Subjects
Semester 2 HA10620 Y Dirwasgiad Mawr: Hanes Cymharol America A Phrydain
Year 1 Options
GERMAN ADVANCED: you must take:
Year 1 Options
GERMAN BEGINNERS: you must take:
Semester 1 GE10700 German Language (beginners)
Semester 2 GE10740 German Language (beginners)
Year 1 Options
GERMAN ADVANCED: you must take either GE10910 or EL10610 and must also choose an additional 20 credits of the following or other Level 1 content modules:
Semester 1 EL10500 Introduction To European Film
EL10610 Language In Society: An Introduction To Sociolinguistics
EL10800 Language, Culture, And Identity In Europe
EL10900 Images Of Europe: The European Imagination
GE10910 Ways Of Reading German Literature
Semester 2 EL10520 Introduction To European Film
EL10820 Language, Culture, And Identity In Europe
EL10920 Images Of Europe: The European Imagination
Year 1 Options
GERMAN BEGINNERS: you must choose 20 credits of the following or other Level 1 content modules:
Semester 1 EL10500 Introduction To European Film
EL10610 Language In Society: An Introduction To Sociolinguistics
EL10800 Language, Culture, And Identity In Europe
EL10900 Images Of Europe: The European Imagination
Semester 2 EL10520 Introduction To European Film
EL10820 Language, Culture, And Identity In Europe
EL10920 Images Of Europe: The European Imagination
Part 2 Rules
Year 2 Options
Path A - You must take two Social & Economic History Option modules
Semester 1 HY36430 From Black Death To The Great Fire: The British Town 1349-1700
HY37430 Culture, Society And The Victorians: Public And Private Lives
Semester 2 HY37930 Enterprise: The History Of Business Since 1850
Year 2 Options
Path B - You must take HA or HY30510 OR HA or HY 30610 and one Survey module and one Economic & Social 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 and one Survey module and one 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
SKILLS MODULES
Semester 2 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
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
Year 2 Core (30 Credits)
You must take:
Year 2 Options
You must choose 30 credits of the following Level 2 GE or EL modules but note that you cannot take both EL31900/20 and EL20500/10 in combination:
Semester 1 EL31900 Teaching English As A Foreign Language
GE20420 An Introduction To Variation In German
Semester 2 EL31920 Teaching English As A Foreign Language
GE27220 German-speaking Refugees In Literature And Culture
Year 3 Core (60 Credits)
You must take these modules during your year Abroad
Year 3 Core (60 Credits)
On your compulsory year abroad your registration will be:
Final Year Options
You must take two Economic & Social History Option modules
Final Year Core (30 Credits)
You must take:
Final Year Options
You must choose 30 credits of the following Level 3 GE or EL modules but note that you cannot take both EL31900/20 and EL30500/10 in combination:
Semester 1 EL31900 Teaching English As A Foreign Language
GE30420 Language And Society In German-speaking Countries
GE31010 The Language Of German Politics
Semester 2 EL31920 Teaching English As A Foreign Language
GE37020 Autobiography And Life Writing In German
Available both years Options
OPTION MODULES
Semester 1 HY36430 From Black Death To The Great Fire: The British Town 1349-1700
HY37430 Culture, Society And The Victorians: Public And Private Lives
Semester 2 HY37930 Enterprise: The History Of Business Since 1850
Available both years Options
SURVEY MODULES
Semester 1 HA31820 Concro’r Byd: TŴf A Chwymp Ymerodraethau Prydain A Ffrainc
HY32020 The British Isles In The Long Eighteenth Century
Aberystwyth University Standard Awards
- Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
- Sports Bursary
- Music Bursary
- International Excellence Scholarship
- Residential Bursary
- Aberystwyth Bursary
- Care Leaver Bursary