BA Modern and Contemporary History [V191]
Academic Year 2025/2026 September 2025 Start
Campus Aberystwyth
Single Honours scheme - available from 2002/2003
Duration 3 years
Award Eligiblity
Standard Awards
The Coleg Lead Scholarship;
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)
Year 1 Options
Part 2 Rules
Year 2 Core (20 Credits)
Year 2 Options
Students MUST take one 20 credit SKILLS module in semester two:
Beirdd a Noddwyr: Llen a Hanes c.1300-1500
Image Wars in Southeast Asia: Studying 20th Century Propaganda
Memory, Myth and History: Investigating Medieval Chronicles, c. 1000-1250
Victorian Visions: Exploring Nineteenth-Century Exhibitions
The 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):
Diwylliant, Cymdeithas a'r Fictoriaid
Cymru a'r Tuduriaid
Kingship and political culture in high medieval England and Norway, 1066-1263
Environmental History of the Neotropics (Latin America and the Caribbean) in the Capitalocene
Culture, Society and the Victorians
Modern Japan: From Samurai to Salary Men
Wales under the Tudors
Concro'r Byd: Twf a Chwymp Ymerodraethau Prydain a Ffrainc
Stori America, 1607-1867, ar Ffilm a Theledu
Famine in Medieval England
The European Reformation
Reforging the Union: The Reconstruction Era in US History, 1863-1896
From the Second Empire to the Third Reich: Weimar Germany 1914-1933
Wales and the Kings of Britain: Conflict, Power and Identities in the British Isles 1039-1417
Final Year Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
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):
Bywyd a Gwaith ym Meysydd Glo Prydain, 1842-1914 (Rhan 1)
The reign of Edward II, 1307-27 (Part 1)
The English Reformation, 1520-58: Revolution and Counter Revolution
The Invisible Empires: The First Ku Klux Klan and American Society, 1865-1915
Colombian Republican History (1820-2020): 200 years of solitude Part1 (1820-1950)
Bywyd a Gwaith ym Meysydd Glo Prydain, 1914-1948 (Rhan 2)
The Reign of Edward II, 1307-27 (Part 2): Sources
The English Reformation, 1558-1648: Consolidation and Conflict
The Invisible Empires: The Second Ku Klux Klan and American Society, 1915-1944
Colombian 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):
Diwylliant, Cymdeithas a'r Fictoriaid
Cymru a'r Tuduriaid
Kingship and political culture in high medieval England and Norway, 1066-1263
Environmental History of the Neotropics (Latin America and the Caribbean) in the Capitalocene
Culture, Society and the Victorians
Modern Japan: From Samurai to Salary Men
Wales under the Tudors
Concro'r Byd: T?f a Chwymp Ymerodraethau Prydain a Ffrainc
Stori America, 1607-1867, ar Ffilm a Theledu
Famine in Medieval England
The European Reformation
Reforging the Union: The Reconstruction Era in US History, 1863-1896
From the Second Empire to the Third Reich: Weimar Germany 1914-1933
Wales and the Kings of Britain: Conflict, Power and Identities in the British Isles 1039-1417
History and Welsh History,Aberystwyth University, International Politics Building, Penglais, Aberystwyth, SY23 3FE
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