BA
History and Welsh History
[VVC2]
Academic Year: 2025/2026Single Honours scheme - available from 2000/2001
Duration (studying Full-Time): 3 years
Aberystwyth University Standard Awards
- Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
- Sports Bursary
- Music Bursary
- International Excellence Scholarship
- Residential Bursary
- Aberystwyth Bursary
- Care Leaver Bursary
Part 1 Rules
Year 1
Core (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Semester 1
HY12120Introduction to History
Module in Welsh▼Module in Welsh▲
Year 1
Options
Choose 100 credits, at least 60 must be taken in History & Welsh History department and should include WH11720:
Semester 1
HC11120Concwest, Uno a Hunaniaeth yng Nghymru 1200-1800
HY11420Medieval and Early Modern Britain and Europe, 1000-1800
HY11820The Modern World, 1789 to the present
Semester 2
HA10420Cydio mewn Hanes: Ffynonellau a'u Haneswyr
HC11820Cymdeithas, Pobl a Gwleidyddiaeth: Cymru, 1800-1999
HY10420'Hands on' History: Sources and their Historians
HY12420Europe and the World, 1000-2000
WH11720People, Power and Identity: Wales 1200-1999
Part 2 Rules
Year 2
Core (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Semester 1
HY20120Making History
Module in Welsh▼Module in Welsh▲
Year 2
Options
Students MUST take one 20 credit SKILLS module in semester two:
Semester 2
CY20720Beirdd a Noddwyr: Llên a Hanes c.1300-1500
HY23720Image Wars in Southeast Asia: Studying 20th Century Propaganda
HY24120Memory, Myth and History: Investigating Medieval Chronicles, c. 1000-1250
HY24620Victorian Visions: Exploring Nineteenth-Century Exhibitions
HY24720The Sound of History: the Civil Rights Movement in Post-War America
Year 2
Options
Students should choose 80 credits worth of OPTION modules in the Department of History & Welsh History (though students may opt to take up to 20 credits outside the department if they wish):
Semester 1
HA29320Diwylliant, Cymdeithas a'r Fictoriaid
HY22120Kingship and political culture in high medieval England and Norway, 1066-1263
HY29120Environmental History of the Neotropics (Latin America and the Caribbean) in the Capitalocene
HY29320Culture, Society and the Victorians
HY29820Modern Japan: From Samurai to Salary Men
Semester 2
HA21820Concro'r Byd: Twf a Chwymp Ymerodraethau Prydain a Ffrainc
HA24520Stori America, 1607-1867, ar Ffilm a Theledu
HY27720Reforging the Union: The Reconstruction Era in US History, 1863-1896
HY28420From the Second Empire to the Third Reich: Weimar Germany 1914-1933
WH20120Wales and the Kings of Britain: Conflict, Power and Identities in the British Isles 1039-1417
Final Year
Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Semester 1
HY30300Dissertation
Module in Welsh▼Module in Welsh▲
Semester 2
HY30340Dissertation
Module in Welsh▼Module in Welsh▲
Final Year
Options
Students MUST take two co-requisite 20-credit SPECIAL SUBJECT modules (the first part running in semester one and the complementary module in semester two):
Semester 1
HP37420Bywyd a Gwaith ym Meysydd Glo Prydain, 1842-1914 (Rhan 1)
HQ34520The reign of Edward II, 1307-27 (Part 1)
HQ35020The English Reformation, 1520-58: Revolution and Counter Revolution
HQ39620The Invisible Empires: The First Ku Klux Klan and American Society, 1865-1915
HQ39820Colombian Republican History (1820-2020): 200 years of solitude Part1 (1820-1950)
Semester 2
HP37520Bywyd a Gwaith ym Meysydd Glo Prydain, 1914-1948 (Rhan 2)
HQ34620The Reign of Edward II, 1307-27 (Part 2): Sources
HQ35620The English Reformation, 1558-1648: Consolidation and Conflict
HQ39720The Invisible Empires: The Second Ku Klux Klan and American Society, 1915-1944
HQ39920Colombian Republican History (1820-2020): 200 years of solitude Part 2 (1950-2020)
Final Year
Options
Students should take 40 credits of OPTION modules (taking one 20-credit option module in each semester):
Semester 1
HA39320Diwylliant, Cymdeithas a'r Fictoriaid
HY32120Kingship and political culture in high medieval England and Norway, 1066-1263
HY39120Environmental History of the Neotropics (Latin America and the Caribbean) in the Capitalocene
HY39320Culture, Society and the Victorians
HY39820Modern Japan: From Samurai to Salary Men
Semester 2
HA31820Concro'r Byd: Tŵf a Chwymp Ymerodraethau Prydain a Ffrainc
HA34520Stori America, 1607-1867, ar Ffilm a Theledu
HY37720Reforging the Union: The Reconstruction Era in US History, 1863-1896
HY38420From the Second Empire to the Third Reich: Weimar Germany 1914-1933
WH30120Wales and the Kings of Britain: Conflict, Power and Identities in the British Isles 1039-1417
Aberystwyth University Standard Awards
- Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
- Sports Bursary
- Music Bursary
- International Excellence Scholarship
- Residential Bursary
- Aberystwyth Bursary
- Care Leaver Bursary
