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).

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  Options

Choose 80 credits of modules (of which at least 40 must be taken in the History & Welsh History department):

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  Options

MUST take one 20 credit SKILLS module in semester two:

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

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):

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

Year 3  Core (120 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
HYS0000

Abroad Year Credits

HYS0100

Abroad Year Credits

Semester 2
HYS0060

Abroad Year Credits

HYS0160

Abroad Year Credits

Final Year  Core (40 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
HY30300

Dissertation

or
HA30300

Traethawd Estynedig

Semester 2
HY30340

Dissertation

or
HA30340

Traethawd Estynedig

Final Year  Options

MUST take two co-requisite 20-credit SPECIAL SUBJECT modules (first part runs semester one and complementary module in semester two):

Semester 1
HP37420

Bywyd a Gwaith ym Meysydd Glo Prydain, 1842-1914 (Rhan 1)

HQ33120

Ritual, kingship and power in Norman and Angevin England: methods, sources & actors (Part 1)

HQ35020

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

HQ35420

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

HQ37520

Britain at War 1939-45 (Part 1)

HQ39620

The Invisible Empires: The First Ku Klux Klan and American Society, 1865-1915

Semester 2
HP37520

Bywyd a Gwaith ym Meysydd Glo Prydain, 1914-1948 (Rhan 2)

HQ33220

Ritual, kingship and power in Norman and Angevin England: methods, sources & actors (Part 2)

HQ35520

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

HQ35620

The English Reformation, 1558-1648: Consolidation and Conflict

HQ37620

Britain at War 1939-45 (Part 2)

HQ39720

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):

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

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