BA History and Welsh History [VVC2]

Academic Year 2025/2026 September 2025 Start

Campus Aberystwyth

Single Honours scheme - available from 2000/2001

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)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
HY12120

Introduction to History

or
HA12120

Cyflwyno Hanes

Year 1 Options

Choose 100 credits, at least 60 must be taken in History & Welsh History department and should include WH11720:

Semester 1
HC11120

Concwest, Uno a Hunaniaeth yng Nghymru 1200-1800

HY11420

Medieval and Early Modern Britain and Europe, 1000-1800

HY11820

The Modern World, 1789 to the present

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 (20 Credits)

Students WILL take a minimum of 80 credits across Part Two in Welsh History. Students will be expected to write a final-year dissertation (40 credits) on a topic relevant to Welsh History and MUST take a minimum of an additional 40 credits across Part Two in Welsh History. As well as the dissertation, credits gained from option modules, skills modules and the Special Subject will count towards this requirement.

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
HY20120

Making History

or
HA20120

Llunio Hanes

Year 2 Options

Students MUST take one 20 credit SKILLS module in semester two:

Semester 2
CY20720

Beirdd a Noddwyr: Llen a Hanes c.1300-1500

HY23720

Image Wars in Southeast Asia: Studying 20th Century Propaganda

HY24120

Memory, Myth and History: Investigating Medieval Chronicles, c. 1000-1250

HY24620

Victorian Visions: Exploring Nineteenth-Century Exhibitions

HY24720

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):

Semester 1
HA29320

Diwylliant, Cymdeithas a'r Fictoriaid

HC23520

Cymru a'r Tuduriaid

HY22120

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

HY29120

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

HY29320

Culture, Society and the Victorians

HY29820

Modern Japan: From Samurai to Salary Men

WH23520

Wales under the Tudors

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 (40 Credits)

Students WILL take a minimum of 80 credits across Part Two in Welsh History. Students will be expected to write a final-year dissertation (40 credits) on a topic relevant to Welsh History and MUST take a minimum of an additional 40 credits across Part Two in Welsh History. As well as the dissertation, credits gained from option modules, skills modules and the Special Subject will count towards this requirement.

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
HY30300

Dissertation

or
HA30300

Traethawd Estynedig

Semester 2
HY30340

Dissertation

or
HA30340

Traethawd Estynedig

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
HP37420

Bywyd a Gwaith ym Meysydd Glo Prydain, 1842-1914 (Rhan 1)

HQ34520

The reign of Edward II, 1307-27 (Part 1)

HQ35020

The English Reformation, 1520-58: Revolution and Counter Revolution

HQ39620

The Invisible Empires: The First Ku Klux Klan and American Society, 1865-1915

HQ39820

Colombian Republican History (1820-2020): 200 years of solitude Part1 (1820-1950)

Semester 2
HP37520

Bywyd a Gwaith ym Meysydd Glo Prydain, 1914-1948 (Rhan 2)

HQ34620

The Reign of Edward II, 1307-27 (Part 2): Sources

HQ35620

The English Reformation, 1558-1648: Consolidation and Conflict

HQ39720

The Invisible Empires: The Second Ku Klux Klan and American Society, 1915-1944

HQ39920

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):

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