Study Schemes

BA Historical and Archival Studies [VP31]

Academic Year: 2013/2014Joint Honours scheme - available from 2003/2004 (Last intake year is 2012/2013)

Duration (studying Full-Time): 3 years

Award Eligibility:Standard Awards;

Part 1 Rules

Year 1 Options

You must take and pass one of these modules

Semester 1
HA12120

Cyflwyno Hanes

HY12120

Introduction To History

Semester 2

Year 1 Options

You must take a minimum of 2 of these modules

Semester 1
HA10820

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

HC11220

Grym, Protest A Chymdeithas Yng Nghymru Fodern 1850 -1997

HY10820

The Global Economy Since 1850

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

Year 1 Core (20 Credits)

The following module is core and must be taken

Semester 1
IL11120

The Archival Inheritance

Semester 2

Year 1 Options

You must choose 40 credits from the following modules

Semester 1
IL10110

Foundations Of Information Studies

IL10720

Computers Tools For An Information Age

IL11510

Skills For Information Studies

IL11810

Social Contexts Of Information Studies

Semester 2
IL11420

Database Design And Management

IL11620

Foundations Of Information Organisation And Retrieval

Part 2 Rules

Year 2 Options

Path A: Students must take either HY 30020 or HA 30020 and one History 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

Path B: Students must take either HA or HY 30510 OR HA or HY 30610, one History Survey module and 1 x 30 credit 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 B: Students must take either HA or HY 30510 OR HA or HY 30610, one History Skills module and 1 x 30 credit 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

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

HY34720

The Sound Of History: The Civil Rights Movement In Post-war America

HY34820

Early Modernity In Film

Year 2 Options

Option modules

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

HY37030

The Domestic Politics Of Us Foreign Policy

HY37930

Enterprise: The History Of Business Since 1850

HY38630

European Society In The Cold War Era, 1945-1989

WH35230

The Growth Of An Urban Society: Wales 1750-2000

Year 2 Core (20 Credits)

The following module is core and must be taken

Semester 2
IL33920

Local History In Wales:sources And Services

Year 2 Options

You must take 20 credits of the following modules

Semester 1
IL34320

Archives And Local Studies

Semester 2
IL35120

Records Management In An Electronic Age

Year 2 Options

You must take a further 20 credits of option modules approved by the Department

Year 3 Options

Path I: students must choose either HA or HY 30340 & a Survey module OR HY 30230 and a 30 credit option module

Semester 1
HA30300

Traethawd Estynedig

HY30300

Dissertation

Semester 2
HA30340

Traethawd Estynedig

HY30340

Dissertation

Both Semesters
HY30230

Special Subject

Final Year Core (40 Credits)

The following modules are core and must be taken

Semester 1
IL30720

Work Placement

Semester 2
IL33920

Local History In Wales:sources And Services

Final Year Options

You must take 20 credits of the following modules

Semester 1
IL34320

Archives And Local Studies

Semester 2
IL35120

Records Management In An Electronic Age

Aberystwyth University Standard Awards

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