Study Schemes
BA Politics and Modern History [V135]
Academic Year: 2023/2024Single Honours scheme - available from 2000/2001
Duration (studying Full-Time): 3 years
Part 1 Rules
Year 1 Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Year 1 Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Year 1 Options
In addition to the core/compulsory modules, Politics students must take 20 credits (1 module) of optional modules from the list below..
Year 1 Options
Students must take a further 20 credits in the Department of History & Welsh History:
Part 2 Rules
Year 2 Core (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Year 2 Core (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
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 take one skills module and one option module OR two option modules. Skills modules are:
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
Students may take 40 credits (2 modules) of International Politics modules from the list of those made available at pre-registration.
Gwleidyddiaeth y Deyrnas Unedig Heddiw: Undeb Dan Straen?
Cyfiawnder Byd-Eang: Dehongli a Gwireddu ein Dyletswyddau i'r Dieithryn Pell
Climate Change and International Politics in the Anthropocene
European Security in 21st Century
Warfare after Waterloo: Military History 1815-1918
The Past and Present of US Intelligence
Gender, Conflict and Security
International Politics and Global Development
Women and Global Development
The British Army's Image in Battle, from the Crimean to the Present
Britain and World Politics from Global Empire to Brexit: The Diplomacy of Decline
UK Politics Today: A Union Under Strain?
Economic Diplomacy and Leadership
Global Politics and the Refugee Regime
The Politics and Paradoxes of International Organisations
Cysylltiadau Rhyngwladol: Safbwyntiau a Thrafodaethau
Cenedlaetholdeb mewn Theori a Realiti
International Relations: Perspectives and Debates
International Politics and the Nuclear Age
The Arab-Israeli Wars
Russian Security in the 21st Century
The Governance of Climate Change: Simulation Module
The Long Shadow of the Second World War
Britain and Ireland in War and Peace since 1800
China From the Opium War to the Present
Nationalism in Theory and Practice
Race in Global Politics
Knowing about Violent Conflict in International Politics
Strategy, Intelligence and Security in International Politics
Refugee Simulation
Middle Powers in the Global Political Economy
Year 2 Options
Year Two OPTION modules in the Department of History & Welsh History:
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
Final Year Options
Final year students must take 20 credits of optional module in the Department of International Politics if taking the dissertation in International Politics OR 60 credits of optional modules in International Politics if taking the dissertation in the Department of History and Welsh History.
Gwleidyddiaeth y Deyrnas Unedig Heddiw: Undeb Dan Straen?
Cyfiawnder Byd-Eang: Dehongli a Gwireddu ein Dyletswyddau i'r Dieithryn Pell
Climate Change and International Politics in the Anthropocene
European Security in the 21st Century
The Past and Present of US Intelligence
Gender, Conflict and Security
Women and Global Development
The British Army's Image in Battle, from the Crimean to the Present
Britain and World Politics from Global Empire to Brexit: the Diplomacy of Decline:
UK Politics Today: A Union Under Strain?
Economic Diplomacy and Leadership
Global Politics and the Refugee Regime
The Politics and Paradoxes of International Organisations
Cenedlaetholdeb Mewn Theori a Realiti
International Politics and the Nuclear Age
The Arab-Israeli Wars
Russian Security in the 21st Century
The Long Shadow of the Second World War
Britain and Ireland in War and Peace since 1800
China From the Opium War to the Present
Nationalism in Theory and Practice
Race in Global Politics
Knowing about Violent Conflict in International Politics
Refugee Simulation
Middle Powers in the Global Political Economy
Final Year Options
Final Year students should take the dissertation module (through the medium of English or Welsh) in either the Department of International Politics or the Department of History and Welsh History.
Final Year Options
Students should take the DISSERTATION module in either the Department of History and Welsh History or the other named Department:
Final Year Options
Students MUST take 60 credits in the Department of History and Welsh History therefore a further 20 credits worth of History/Welsh History option modules (if taking the HA/HY Dissertation) OR 60 credits worth of History/Welsh History option modules (if taking the Dissertation module from the other named Department) from the OPTION module list below:
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
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Aberystwyth University Standard Awards
- Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
- Sports Bursary
- Music Bursary
- International Excellence Scholarship
- Residential Bursary
- Aberystwyth Bursary
- Care Leaver Bursary