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

Academic Year: 2025/2026Single Honours scheme - available from 2019/2020

Duration (studying Full-Time): 3 years

Award Eligibility:Standard Awards; Excellence Scholarship;

Part 1 Rules

Year 1  Core (80 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
IL10120

Foundations of Information Studies

IL10320

The Cultural Heritage Landscape

Semester 2
IL10520

Effective Communication

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
IL20620

Resource Discovery and Digital Information Management

IL20720

Research Methodology

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.

Semester 2
HA21820

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

HA24520

Stori America, 1607-1867, ar Ffilm a Theledu

HY25520

Famine in Medieval England

HY26520

The European Reformation

HY27720

Reforging the Union: The Reconstruction Era in US History, 1863-1896

HY28420

From the Second Empire to the Third Reich: Weimar Germany 1914-1933

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).

Semester 1
IL30120

Collection Management and Development in Heritage Organisations

IL30300

Dissertation

Semester 2
IL30340

Dissertation

IL33920

Local Studies and Community Heritage

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

HY32120

Kingship and political culture in high medieval England and Norway, 1066-1263

HY39120

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

HY39320

Culture, Society and the Victorians

HY39820

Modern Japan: From Samurai to Salary Men

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

HY35520

Famine in Medieval England

HY36520

The European Reformation

HY37720

Reforging the Union: The Reconstruction Era in US History, 1863-1896

HY38420

From the Second Empire to the Third Reich: Weimar Germany 1914-1933

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.

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