Study Schemes
BA History (with integrated year studying abroad) [V102]
Academic Year: 2023/2024Single Honours scheme - available from 2017/2018
Duration (studying Full-Time): 4 years
Part 1 Rules
Year 1 Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Year 1 Options
Choose 80 credits of modules (of which at least 40 must be taken in the History & Welsh History department):
Part 2 Rules
Year 2 Core (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Year 2 Options
MUST take one 20 credit SKILLS module in semester two:
Beirdd a Noddwyr: Llên a Hanes c.1300-1500
Reading a Building
History as myth-Making: the 'Myth of the Blitz'
Interdisciplinary and decolonial history
Seals in Their Context in Medieval England and Wales
Victorian Visions: Exploring Nineteenth-Century Exhibitions
Recounting Racism: Oral History and Modern American Race Relations.
Year 2 Options
Choose 80 credits of OPTION modules in the Department of History & Welsh History (students may opt to take up to 20 credits outside the department):
Diwylliant, Cymdeithas a'r Fictoriaid
Cymru a'r Tuduriaid
Famine in Medieval England
War, Politics and People: England in Context in the Fourteenth Century
Between Revolution and Reform: China since 1800
Roads to Modernity: Germany and Japan in the Age of Empires, 1860s-1930s
Environmental History of the Neotropics (Latin America and the Caribbean) in the Capitalocene
Culture, Society and the Victorians
Wales under the Tudors
Concro'r Byd: Twf a Chwymp Ymerodraethau Prydain a Ffrainc
Stori America, 1607-1867, ar Ffilm a Theledu
The British Isles in the Long Eighteenth Century
Medieval England and Germany, c. 1050-1250
The European Reformation
From Poor Law to Welfare State: Poverty and Welfare in Modern Britain, 1815-1948
The Nazi Dictatorship: Regime and Society in Germany 1933-1945
Wales and the Kings of Britain: Conflict, Power and Identities in the British Isles 1039-1417
Year 3 Core (120 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Final Year Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Final Year Options
MUST take two co-requisite 20-credit SPECIAL SUBJECT modules (first part runs semester one and complementary module in semester two):
Bywyd a Gwaith ym Meysydd Glo Prydain, 1842-1914 (Rhan 1)
Ritual, kingship and power in Norman and Angevin England: methods, sources & actors (Part 1)
The English Reformation, 1520-58: Revolution and Counter Revolution
The Irish in Britain, c.1815-70 (Part 1): Migration and Settlement
Britain at War 1939-45 (Part 1)
The Invisible Empires: The First Ku Klux Klan and American Society, 1865-1915
Bywyd a Gwaith ym Meysydd Glo Prydain, 1914-1948 (Rhan 2)
Ritual, kingship and power in Norman and Angevin England: methods, sources & actors (Part 2)
The Irish in Britain, c. 1850-1922 (Part 2): Community and Conflict
The English Reformation, 1558-1648: Consolidation and Conflict
Britain at War 1939-45 (Part 2)
The Invisible Empires: The Second Ku Klux Klan and American Society, 1915-1944
Final Year Options
Take 40 credits of OPTION modules (choose one 20 credit module from each semester):
Diwylliant, Cymdeithas a'r Fictoriaid
Cymru a'r Tuduriaid
Famine in Medieval England
War, Politics and People: England in Context in the Fourteenth Century
Between Revolution and Reform: China since 1800
Roads to Modernity: Germany and Japan in the Age of Empires, 1860s-1930s
Environmental History of the Neotropics (Latin America and the Caribbean) in the Capitalocene
Culture, Society and the Victorians
Wales under the Tudors
Concro'r Byd: Tŵf a Chwymp Ymerodraethau Prydain a Ffrainc
Stori America, 1607-1867, ar Ffilm a Theledu
The British Isles in the Long Eighteenth Century
Medieval England and Germany, c. 1050-1250
The European Reformation
From Poor Law to Welfare State: Poverty and Welfare in Modern Britain, 1815-1948
The Nazi Dictatorship: Regime and Society in Germany 1933-1945
Wales and the Kings of Britain: Conflict, Power and Identities in the British Isles 1039-1417
Department of History & Welsh History, International Politics Building, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, SY23 3FE
Tel: Department: +44 (01970 621537 Admissions: +44 (0)1970 622021 Fax: 01970 622676 Email: history-enquiries@aber.ac.uk
Aberystwyth University Standard Awards
- Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
- Sports Bursary
- Music Bursary
- International Excellence Scholarship
- Residential Bursary
- Aberystwyth Bursary
- Care Leaver Bursary