Study Schemes

BA History (with integrated year studying abroad) [V102]

Academic Year: 2020/2021Single Honours scheme - available from 2017/2018

Duration (studying Full-Time): 4 years

Award Eligibility:Standard Awards;

Part 1 Rules

Year 1 Timetable Core/Student Option

All Part One students MUST take the Department's Part One core modules (through medium of English or Welsh):

Semester 1

Cyflwyno Hanes

Introduction to History

Semester 2

Cydio mewn Hanes: Ffynonellau a'u Haneswy

‘Hands on’ History: Sources and their Historians

Year 1 Options

Part One students must take a further 80 credits of modules (of which at least 40 must be taken in the History & Welsh History department):

Semester 1

Concwest, Uno a Hunaniaeth yng Nghymru 1250-1800

Medieval and Early Modern Britain and Europe, 1000-1800

The Modern World, 1789 to the present

Semester 2

Ewrop a’r Byd, 1000-2000

Cymdeithas, Pobl a Gwleidyddiaeth: Cymru, 1800-1999

Europe and the World, 1000-2000

People, Power and Identity: Wales 1200-1999

Part 2 Rules

Year 2 Timetable Core/Student Option

Year Two students MUST take the CORE module (through medium of English or Welsh):

Semester 1

Llunio Hanes

Making History

Semester 2

Year 2 Options

Year Two students MUST take one 20 credit SKILLS module in semester two:

Semester 2

Gwrando ar Hanes: Y mudiad Hawliau Sifil yn America

Crime and Daily Life in Early Modern England and Wales

Writing about war in high medieval Scandinavia c.1050-1264

Dread and Despair? : Living with Disability in the Middle Ages

Image Wars in Southeast Asia: Studying 20th Century Propaganda

Exploring Nineteenth-Century Exhibitions

Year 2 Options

Year Two students should choose 80 credits worth of OPTION modules in the Department of History & Welsh History (though students may opt to take up to 20 credits outside the department if they wish):

Semester 1

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

Cymdeithas Cymru Fodern 1868-1950

The Tudors: A European Dynasty?

Famine in Medieval England

Asian Migration in the Modern World

The Rise of Modern Medicine, c.1750-2000

Media and Society in Twentieth Century Britain

Semester 2

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

Trosedd, Terfysg a Moesoldeb yng Nghymru 1750-1850

European Society and the Medieval Mind 1200-1500

From the Second Empire to the Third Reich: Weimar Germany 1914-1933

Science, Religion and Magic

The Atlantic World, 1492-1825

Crime, Riot and Morality in Wales 1750-1850

Year 3 Core (120 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1

Abroad Year Credits

Abroad Year Credits

Semester 2

Abroad Year Credits

Abroad Year Credits

Final Year Timetable Core/Student Option

FINAL YEAR single honours students MUST take the DISSERTATION module which runs over semesters one and two (through the medium of English or Welsh):

Semester 1

Traethawd Estynedig

Dissertation

Semester 2

Traethawd Estynedig

Dissertation

Final Year Options

Final Year students MUST take two co-requisite 20-credit SPECIAL SUBJECT modules (the first part running in semester one and the complementary module in semester two):

Semester 1

Milwyr, Myfyrwyr a Masnachwyr: Teithio a Symudedd yn Ewrop Ganoloesol (Rhan 1)

The Norwegian civil wars: 1174-1263 Part 1

The English Reformation, 1520-58: Revolution and Counter Revolution

The Irish in Britain, c.1815-70 (Part 1): Migration and Settlement

The Third Reich (Part 1): Building the Dictatorship. Regime and Society in Nazi Germany, 1933-1939

Semester 2

Milwyr, Myfyrwyr a Masnachwyr: Teithio a Symudedd yn Ewrop Ganoloesol (Rhan 2)

The Norwegian civil wars: 1174-1263 Part 2

The Irish in Britain, c. 1850-1922 (Part 2): Community and Conflict

The English Reformation, 1558-1648: Consolidation and Conflict

The Third Reich (Part 2): War and the Holocaust, 1939-1945

Final Year Options

Final Year students should take 40 credits of OPTION modules (taking one 20-credit option module in each semester):

Semester 1

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

Cymdeithas Cymru Fodern 1868-1950

The Tudors: A European Dynasty?

Famine in Medieval England

Asian Migration in the Modern World

The Rise of Modern Medicine, c.1750-2000

Media and Society in Twentieth Century Britain

Semester 2

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

Trosedd, Terfysg a Moesoldeb yng Nghymru 1750-1850

European Society and the Medieval Mind 1200-1500

From the Second Empire to the Third Reich: Weimar Germany 1914-1933

Science, Religion and Magic

The Atlantic World, 1492-1825

Crime, Riot and Morality in Wales 1750-1850

Aberystwyth University Standard Awards

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