BA Politics and Modern History [V135]
Academic Year 2026/2027 September 2026 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)
Year 1 Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Year 1 Options
In addition to the core/compulsory modules, Politics students must take 20 credits (1 module) of optional modules from the list below.
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 take one skills module and one option module OR two option modules. Skills modules are:
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 may take 40 credits (2 modules) of International Politics modules from the following list.
Y Meddwl Cymreig mewn Syniadaeth Ryngwladol
Gwleidyddiaeth mewn Cymdeithasau Amrywiaethol
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
Strategy, Intelligence and Security in International Politics
Cysylltiadau Rhyngwladol: Safbwyntiau a Thrafodaethau
Datganoli a Chymru
International Relations: Perspectives and Debates
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
Year Two 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
Students should take the DISSERTATION module in either the Department of International Politics or the Department of History and Welsh History
Final Year Options
DISSERTATION in International Politics (If choosing IP/GW dissertation you must take 20 credits of IP options with EITHER 40 credits of HWH (2 x 20 credit co-requisite) 'Special Subject' AND 20 credits of 'Option' modules, OR 60 credits of HWH 'Option' modules)
Final Year Options
DISSERTATION in History and Welsh History (If choosing HA/HY dissertation you must take 20 credits from the HWH option list AND 60 credits from the IP options list)
Final Year Options
Optional modules in the Department of International Politics.
Y Meddwl Cymreig Mewn Syniadaeth Ryngwladol
Gwleidyddiaeth mewn Cymdeithasau Amrywiaethol
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
Datganoli a Chymru
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
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
SPECIAL SUBJECT modules in the Department of History & Welsh History
Gwrthryfel Glynd?r 1: Hynt a Helynt y Gwrthryfel
The reign of Edward II, 1307-27 (Part 1)
The English Reformation, 1520-58: Revolution and Counter Revolution
Life and Work in the British Coalfields, 1842-1914 (Part 1)
From Burma to Myanmar (Part I): colonial Burma under British rule (1824-1941)
Gwrthryfel Glynd?r 2: Cwestiynau Allweddol
The Reign of Edward II, 1307-27 (Part 2): Sources
The English Reformation, 1558-1648: Consolidation and Conflict
Life and Work in the British coalfields, 1914-1948 (Part 2)
From Burma to Myanmar (Part II): Challenges for a young nation state since 1942
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