Study Schemes

BA  International Politics / History [LVF1]

Academic Year: 2023/2024Joint Honours scheme - available from 2014/2015 (Last intake year is 2020/2021)

Duration (studying Full-Time): 3 years

Part 1 Rules

Year 1  Core (40 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
HY12120

Introduction to History

or
HA12120

Cyflwyno Hanes

Semester 2
HY10420

'Hands on' History: Sources and their Historians

or
HA10420

Cydio mewn Hanes: Ffynonellau a'u Haneswyr

Year 1  Core (40 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
IP12420

Exploring the International 1: Central Concepts and Core Skills

or
GW12420

Cyflwyniad i Wleidyddiaeth Ryngwladol 1: Cysyniadau Canolog a Sgiliau Craidd

IP12620

Behind the Headlines

or
GW12620

Y Tu ôl i'r Penawdau

Year 1  Options

All students must take 20 credits (1 module) of optional modules in International Politics.

Semester 1
IP12820

The Making of the Modern World: War Peace and Revolution since 1789

Semester 2
GW12520

Globaleiddio a Datblygiad Byd-eang

GW12920

Gwleidyddiaeth yn yr Unfed Ganrif ar Hugain

IP10320

War, Strategy and Intelligence

IP12520

Globalization and Global Development

IP12920

Politics in the 21st Century

Year 1  Options

Students MUST take a further 20 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
HA11420

Ewrop a'r Byd, 1000-2000

HC11820

Cymdeithas, Pobl a Gwleidyddiaeth: Cymru, 1800-1999

HY12420

Europe and the World, 1000-2000

WH11720

People, Power and Identity: Wales 1200-1999

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)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 2
IP20120

International Relations: Perspectives and Debates

or
GW20120

Cysylltiadau Rhyngwladol: Safbwyntiau a Thrafodaethau

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
CY20720

Beirdd a Noddwyr: Llên a Hanes c.1300-1500

HY23120

Reading a Building

HY23420

History as myth-Making: the 'Myth of the Blitz'

HY24320

Interdisciplinary and decolonial history

HY24420

Seals in Their Context in Medieval England and Wales

HY24620

Victorian Visions: Exploring Nineteenth-Century Exhibitions

HY25020

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.

Semester 1
GQ23820

Gwleidyddiaeth y Deyrnas Unedig Heddiw: Undeb Dan Straen?

GW25820

Cyfiawnder Byd-Eang: Dehongli a Gwireddu ein Dyletswyddau i'r Dieithryn Pell

IP20720

Climate Change and International Politics in the Anthropocene

IP23620

European Security in 21st Century

IP25320

Warfare after Waterloo: Military History 1815-1918

IP26020

The Past and Present of US Intelligence

IP26720

Gender, Conflict and Security

IP29220

International Politics and Global Development

IP29620

Women and Global Development

IQ20920

The British Army's Image in Battle, from the Crimean to the Present

IQ22620

Britain and World Politics from Global Empire to Brexit: The Diplomacy of Decline

IQ23820

UK Politics Today: A Union Under Strain?

IQ24320

Economic Diplomacy and Leadership

IQ25520

Global Politics and the Refugee Regime

IQ26020

The Politics and Paradoxes of International Organisations

Semester 2
GQ23920

Pobl a Grym: Deall Gwleidyddiaeth Gymharol Heddiw

GW29920

Cenedlaetholdeb mewn Theori a Realiti

IP20420

International Politics and the Nuclear Age

IP21320

The Arab-Israeli Wars

IP21820

Russian Security in the 21st Century

IP22320

The Governance of Climate Change: Simulation Module

IP22720

The Long Shadow of the Second World War

IP28820

Britain and Ireland in War and Peace since 1800

IP29820

China From the Opium War to the Present

IP29920

Nationalism in Theory and Practice

IQ20020

Race in Global Politics

IQ23920

People and Power: Understanding Comparative Politics Today

IQ24420

Knowing about Violent Conflict in International Politics

IQ25120

Strategy, Intelligence and Security in International Politics

IQ25620

Refugee Simulation

IQ27120

Middle Powers in the Global Political Economy

Year 2  Options

OPTION modules in the Department of History & Welsh History:

Semester 1
HA29320

Diwylliant, Cymdeithas a'r Fictoriaid

HC23520

Cymru a'r Tuduriaid

HY25520

Famine in Medieval England

HY26720

War, Politics and People: England in Context in the Fourteenth Century

HY28520

Between Revolution and Reform: China since 1800

HY28920

Roads to Modernity: Germany and Japan in the Age of Empires, 1860s-1930s

HY29120

Environmental History of the Neotropics (Latin America and the Caribbean) in the Capitalocene

HY29320

Culture, Society and the Victorians

WH23520

Wales under the Tudors

Semester 2
HA21820

Concro'r Byd: Twf a Chwymp Ymerodraethau Prydain a Ffrainc

HA24520

Stori America, 1607-1867, ar Ffilm a Theledu

HY22020

The British Isles in the Long Eighteenth Century

HY25620

Medieval England and Germany, c. 1050-1250

HY26520

The European Reformation

HY29220

From Poor Law to Welfare State: Poverty and Welfare in Modern Britain, 1815-1948

HY29420

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

WH20120

Wales and the Kings of Britain: Conflict, Power and Identities in the British Isles 1039-1417

Final Year  Options

Final year students must take 60 credits in the Department of International Politics.

Semester 1
GQ33820

Gwleidyddiaeth y Deyrnas Unedig Heddiw: Undeb Dan Straen?

GW30000

Dulliau Ymchwil + Traethawd Estynedig

GW35820

Cyfiawnder Byd-Eang: Dehongli a Gwireddu ein Dyletswyddau i'r Dieithryn Pell

IP30000

Dissertation

IP30720

Climate Change and International Politics in the Anthropocene

IP33620

European Security in the 21st Century

IP36020

The Past and Present of US Intelligence

IP36720

Gender, Conflict and Security

IP39620

Women and Global Development

IQ30920

The British Army's Image in Battle, from the Crimean to the Present

IQ32620

Britain and World Politics from Global Empire to Brexit: the Diplomacy of Decline:

IQ33820

UK Politics Today: A Union Under Strain?

IQ34320

Economic Diplomacy and Leadership

IQ35520

Global Politics and the Refugee Regime

IQ36020

The Politics and Paradoxes of International Organisations

Semester 2
GW30040

Dulliau Ymchwil + Traethawd Estynedig

GW39920

Cenedlaetholdeb Mewn Theori a Realiti

IP30040

Dissertation

IP30420

International Politics and the Nuclear Age

IP31320

The Arab-Israeli Wars

IP31820

Russian Security in the 21st Century

IP32720

The Long Shadow of the Second World War

IP38820

Britain and Ireland in War and Peace since 1800

IP39820

China From the Opium War to the Present

IP39920

Nationalism in Theory and Practice

IQ30020

Race in Global Politics

IQ34420

Knowing about Violent Conflict in International Politics

IQ35620

Refugee Simulation

IQ37120

Middle Powers in the Global Political Economy

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
HA39320

Diwylliant, Cymdeithas a'r Fictoriaid

HC33520

Cymru a'r Tuduriaid

HY35520

Famine in Medieval England

HY36720

War, Politics and People: England in Context in the Fourteenth Century

HY38520

Between Revolution and Reform: China since 1800

HY38920

Roads to Modernity: Germany and Japan in the Age of Empires, 1860s-1930s

HY39120

Environmental History of the Neotropics (Latin America and the Caribbean) in the Capitalocene

HY39320

Culture, Society and the Victorians

WH33520

Wales under the Tudors

Semester 2
HA31820

Concro'r Byd: Tŵf a Chwymp Ymerodraethau Prydain a Ffrainc

HA34520

Stori America, 1607-1867, ar Ffilm a Theledu

HY30120

The British Isles in the Long Eighteenth Century

HY35620

Medieval England and Germany, c. 1050-1250

HY36520

The European Reformation

HY39220

From Poor Law to Welfare State: Poverty and Welfare in Modern Britain, 1815-1948

HY39420

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

WH30120

Wales and the Kings of Britain: Conflict, Power and Identities in the British Isles 1039-1417

Aberystwyth University Standard Awards

  • Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
  • Sports Bursary
  • Music Bursary
  • International Excellence Scholarship
  • Residential Bursary
  • Aberystwyth Bursary
  • Care Leaver Bursary