BA Drama and Theatre / History [WV41]
Academic Year 2025/2026 September 2025 Start
Campus Aberystwyth
Joint 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)
Year 1 Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Year 1 Options
Joint Honours Drama and Theatre students must choose one of the following modules
Year 1 Options
Students MUST take a further 40 credits in the Department of History & Welsh History:
Year 1 Options
Part 2 Rules
Year 2 Core (20 Credits)
Year 2 Options
Joint Honours Drama and Theatre students must take at least 40 credits and, subject to the demands of their other scheme, may take up to 80 credits of the following TP modules in their second year:
Year 2 Options
Students MUST take a further 40 credits worth of modules in the Department of History & Welsh History from the SKILLS (semester two) and/or OPTION modules listed. Students may choose one skills module and an option module OR two option modules.
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
OPTION modules in the Department of History & Welsh History:
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 Options
Joint Honours Drama and Theatre students must take at least 20 credits from the following modules:
Final Year Options
Joint Honours Drama and Theatre students may take up to 40 credits from the following modules:
Final Year Options
Students MUST take 60 credits worth of modules in the Department of History & Welsh History from the OPTION modules listed below:
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
Theatre, Film and Television Studies,Aberystwyth University, Parry-Williams Building, Penglais, Aberystwyth, SY23 3AJ
Telephone Department: +44 01970 622828 Admissions: +44 (0)1970 622021
Email: tfts@aber.ac.uk