BA International Politics / History [LVF1]
Academic Year 2026/2027 September 2026 Start
Campus Aberystwyth
Joint Honours scheme - available from 2014/2015
Last intake year is 2020/2021
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
All students must take 20 credits (1 module) of optional modules from the list below.
The Making of the Modern World: War Peace and Revolution since 1789
Year 1 Options
Part 2 Rules
Year 2 Core (20 Credits)
Year 2 Core (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
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.
Gwrando ar Hanes: Y mudiad Hawliau Sifil yn America
(Re)writing the past: Medieval chronicles and sagas c. 1000-1300
Interdisciplinary and decolonial history
Victorian Visions: Exploring Nineteenth-Century Exhibitions
Recounting Racism: Oral History and Modern American Race Relations.
Year 2 Options
Students must take 40 credits (2 modules) of International Politics optional modules from the list of those made available at pre-registration.
Y Meddwl Cymreig mewn Syniadaeth Ryngwladol
Gwleidyddiaeth mewn Cymdeithasau Amrywiaethol
Pobl a Grym: Deall Gwleidyddiaeth Gymharol Heddiw
The Governance of Climate Change: Simulation Module
Terrorism & Counter Terrorism in the Modern World: Policing, Intelligence & War
The Second World War in Europe
Questions of International Politics
China From the Opium War to the Present
Intervention and Humanitarianism
The BRICS in World Politics
Total War, Total Peace
Politics in Diverse Societies
People and Power: Understanding Comparative Politics Today
Strategy, Intelligence and Security in International Politics
Datganoli a Chymru
Russian Security in the 21st Century
Political Theory
Science, Technology, and International Relations
Devolution and Wales
Warfare after Waterloo: Military History 1815-1918
America at War: A Military History of the United States
A War on the Mind: Propaganda and Secret Intelligence from the Great War to the 21st Century
Contemporary Latin America
Trade Wars and the Liberal Order
The Century of the Superpowers and the Global Cold War
Year 2 Options
OPTION modules in the Department of History & Welsh History:
Stori yr Unol Daleithiau ar Ffilm a Theledu, 1865-2008
Crefydd, Hud a Gwyddoniaeth
The Tudors: A European Dynasty?
European Society and the Medieval Mind 1200-1500
African-American History, 1808 to the Present
Science, Religion and Magic
Twentieth-Century Latin America and the Caribbean through its arts and traditions
Cymru a Brenhinoedd Prydain: Gwrthdaro, Grym a Hunaniaeth yn Ynysoedd Prydain, 1039-1417
Y Rhyfel Mawr trwy Lygaid y Cymry
Chivalry and courtliness: Elite culture in high medieval England, 1066-1300
Between Revolution and Reform: China since 1800
The Nazi Dictatorship: Regime and Society in Germany 1933-1945
The Atlantic World, 1492-1825
Crime, Riot and Morality in Wales 1750-1850
Final Year Options
Final year students must take 60 credits in the Department of International Politics.
Y Meddwl Cymreig Mewn Syniadaeth Ryngwladol
Gwleidyddiaeth mewn Cymdeithasau Amrywiaethol
Dulliau Ymchwil + Traethawd Estynedig
Dissertation
Climate Change and International Politics in the Anthropocene
Terrorism & Counter Terrorism in the Modern World: Policing, Intelligence & War
The Second World War in Europe
Questions of International Politics
Intervention and Humanitarianism
The BRICS in World Politics
Total War, Total Peace
Politics in Diverse Societies
Dulliau Ymchwil + Traethawd Estynedig
Datganoli a Chymru
Dissertation
Russian Security in the 21st Century
Political Theory
Science, Technology, and International Relations
Devolution and Wales
America At War: a Military History of the United States
A War on the Mind: Propaganda and Secret Intelligence from the Great War to the 21st Century
Contemporary Latin America
Trade Wars and the Liberal Order
Final Year Options
Students MUST take 60 credits worth of modules in the Department of History & Welsh History from the OPTION modules listed below:
Stori yr Unol Daleithiau ar Ffilm a Theledu, 1865-2008
Crefydd, Hud a Gwyddoniaeth
The Tudors: A European Dynasty?
European Society and the Medieval Mind 1200-1500
African-American History, 1808 to the Present
Science, Religion and Magic
Twentieth-Century Latin America and the Caribbean through its arts and traditions
Cymru a Brenhinoedd Prydain: Gwrthdaro, Grym a Hunaniaeth yn Ynysoedd Prydain, 1039-1417
Y Rhyfel Mawr trwy Lygaid y Cymry
Chivalry and courtliness: Elite culture in high medieval England, 1066-1300
Between Revolution and Reform: China since 1800
The Nazi Dictatorship: Regime and Society in Germany 1933-1945
The Atlantic World, 1492-1825
Crime, Riot and Morality in Wales 1750-1850
International Politics,Aberystwyth University, International Politics Building, Penglais, Aberystwyth, SY23 3FE
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