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

Academic Year 2026/2027 September 2026 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
HA24720

Gwrando ar Hanes: Y mudiad Hawliau Sifil yn America

HC20120

Cymru a Brenhinoedd Prydain: Gwrthdaro, Grym a Hunaniaeth yn Ynysoedd Prydain, 1039-1417

HC22320

Y Rhyfel Mawr trwy Lygaid y Cymry

HY20420

Chivalry and courtliness: Elite culture in high medieval England, 1066-1300

HY24120

(Re)writing the past: Medieval chronicles and sagas c. 1000-1300

HY24320

Interdisciplinary and decolonial history

HY24620

Victorian Visions: Exploring Nineteenth-Century Exhibitions

HY25020

Recounting Racism: Oral History and Modern American Race Relations.

HY28520

Between Revolution and Reform: China since 1800

HY29420

The Nazi Dictatorship: Regime and Society in Germany 1933-1945

HY29720

The Atlantic World, 1492-1825

WH23420

Crime, Riot and Morality in Wales 1750-1850

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
HA38120

Stori yr Unol Daleithiau ar Ffilm a Theledu, 1865-2008

HA38620

Crefydd, Hud a Gwyddoniaeth

HY30920

The Tudors: A European Dynasty?

HY35820

European Society and the Medieval Mind 1200-1500

HY38320

African-American History, 1808 to the Present

HY38620

Science, Religion and Magic

HY39020

Twentieth-Century Latin America and the Caribbean through its arts and traditions

Semester 2
HC30120

Cymru a Brenhinoedd Prydain: Gwrthdaro, Grym a Hunaniaeth yn Ynysoedd Prydain, 1039-1417

HC32320

Y Rhyfel Mawr trwy Lygaid y Cymry

HY30420

Chivalry and courtliness: Elite culture in high medieval England, 1066-1300

HY38520

Between Revolution and Reform: China since 1800

HY39420

The Nazi Dictatorship: Regime and Society in Germany 1933-1945

HY39720

The Atlantic World, 1492-1825

WH33420

Crime, Riot and Morality in Wales 1750-1850