BA Education / History [VX13]

Academic Year 2026/2027 September 2026 Start

Campus Aberystwyth

Joint Honours scheme - available from 2000/2001

Last intake year is 2024/2025

Duration 3 years

Award Eligiblity
Standard Awards

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 Core (40 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
ED14520

Children's Development and Learning

or
AD14520

Datblygiad a Dysgu Plant

Semester 2
ED14420

Partnerships in Principle and Practice

Year 1 Options

Students MUST take a further 40 credits in the Department of History & Welsh History:

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

Year 1 Options

Choose one module (20 credits)

Semester 1
ED13620

Key Skills for University

ED14620

Health and Wellbeing in the Early Years

Semester 2
AD14320

Datblygiad Iaith yn y Blynyddoedd Cynnar

ED13720

Play Matters: Understanding and Supporting Learning and Play

ED14320

Language Development in the Early Years

Part 2 Rules

Year 2 Core (20 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
HY20120

Making History

or
HA20120

Llunio Hanes

Year 2 Core (20 Credits)

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.

Semester 2
HA24720

Gwrando ar Hanes: Y mudiad Hawliau Sifil yn America

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.

Year 2 Options

OPTIONAL MODULES : You must take 20/40-60 credits, ensuring a total of 100-140 credits over the 2nd and final years, from:

Semester 1
AD20220

Llythrennedd Mewn Plant Ifanc

AD24320

Diogelu ac Ymarfer Proffesiynol

ED20220

Literacy in Young Children

ED24320

Safeguarding and Professional Practice

Semester 2
AD20320

Dulliau Ymchwil

ED20320

Research Methods

ED22420

Discourses of Education and Childhood

Year 2 Options

OPTION modules in the Department of History & Welsh History:

Semester 1
HA28120

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

HA28620

Crefydd, Hud a Gwyddoniaeth

HY20920

The Tudors: A European Dynasty?

HY25820

European Society and the Medieval Mind 1200-1500

HY28320

African-American History, 1808 to the Present

HY28620

Science, Religion and Magic

HY29020

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

Semester 2
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

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 (20 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
ED30120

Assessment and Education

or
AD30120

Asesu ac Addysg

Final Year Options

Students MUST take 60 credits worth of modules in the Department of History & Welsh History from the OPTION modules listed below:

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

Final Year Options

OPTIONAL MODULES : You must take 20/40-60 credits, ensuring a total of 100-140 credits over the 2nd and final years. You must only take either the AD or the ED module

Semester 1
AD30620

Hawliau Plant

AD33600

Traethawd Hir

ED30420

Special Educational Needs

ED30620

Children's Rights

ED33600

Major dissertation

Semester 2
AD30320

Datblygiad Mathemategol yn y Blynyddoedd Cynnar

AD33640

Traethawd Hir

AD34720

Cyfathrebu

AD34820

Datblygiad Emosiynol a Chymdeithasol

ED30320

Mathematical Development in the Early Years

ED33640

Major dissertation

ED34720

Communication

ED34820

Emotional and Social Development