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

Academic Year 2025/2026 September 2025 Start

Campus Aberystwyth

Single Honours scheme - available from 2019/2020

Duration 3 years

Award Eligiblity
Standard Awards Excellence 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 (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

Students must take 40 credits of optional modules offered by DIS and the Department of History and Welsh History.

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: T?f 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