BA History

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BA History

Key Facts

• UCAS Tariff: 120 - 96
• Course duration: 3 years
• Available for September start 2025

Course Overview

The History degree course at Aberystwyth University combines your passion for learning about the past with skills that will equip you for a successful future. This degree course, offered by our Department of History and Welsh History, gives you the flexibility to study the medieval through to the contemporary period and a broad range of themes such as power, violence, migration, gender, and ideas, amongst others.

Modules

Year 1

• Core:
  • Introduction to History (HY12120, 20 credits)
• Options:
  • 'Hands on' History: Sources and their Historians (HY10420, 20 credits)
  • Europe and the World, (HY12420, 20 credits)
  • Medieval and Early Modern Britain and Europe, (HY11420, 20 credits)
  • People, Power and Identity: Wales (WH11720, 20 credits)
  • The Modern World, 1789 to the present (HY11820, 20 credits)

Year 2

• Core:
  • Making History (HY20120, 20 credits)
• Options:
  • Image Wars in Southeast Asia: Studying 20th Century Propaganda (HY23720, 20 credits)
  • Interdisciplinary and decolonial history (HY24320, 20 credits)
  • Memory, Myth and History: Investigating Medieval Chronicles, c. (HY24120, 20 credits)
  • Recounting Racism: Oral History and Modern American Race Relations. (HY25020, 20 credits)
  • The Sound of History: the Civil Rights Movement in Post-War America (HY24720, 20 credits)
  • Victorian Visions: Exploring Nineteenth-Century Exhibitions (HY24620, 20 credits)
  • African-American History, 1808 to the Present (HY28320, 20 credits)
  • Crime, Riot and Morality in Wales (WH23420, 20 credits)
  • Culture, Society and the Victorians (HY29320, 20 credits)
  • Environmental History of the Neotropics (Latin America and the Caribbean) in the Capitalocene (HY29120, 20 credits)
  • Famine in Medieval England (HY25520, 20 credits)
  • From the Second Empire to the Third Reich: Weimar Germany (HY28420, 20 credits)
  • Germany since 1945 (HY29620, 20 credits)
  • Kingship and political culture in high medieval England and Norway, (HY22120, 20 credits)
  • Magic in the Middle Ages: From Antiquity to the Eve of the Witch Craze (HY25920, 20 credits)
  • Media and Society in Twentieth Century Britain (HY27520, 20 credits)
  • Modern Japan: From Samurai to Salary Men (HY29820, 20 credits)
  • Reforging the Union: The Reconstruction Era in US History, (HY27720, 20 credits)
  • Science, Religion and Magic (HY28620, 20 credits)
  • Southeast Asia at the crossroads (c.1400 to the present) (HY29920, 20 credits)
  • The Atlantic World, (HY29720, 20 credits)
  • The European Reformation (HY26520, 20 credits)
  • The Making of Europe: Christendom and beyond, c. (HY25720, 20 credits)
  • The Tudors: A European Dynasty? (HY20920, 20 credits)
  • Wales and the Kings of Britain: Conflict, Power and Identities in the British Isles (WH20120, 20 credits)
  • Wales under the Tudors (WH23520, 20 credits)

Year 3

• Core:
  • Dissertation (HY30340, 40 credits)
• Options:
  • African-American History, 1808 to the Present (HY38820, 20 credits)
  • Bywyd a Gwaith ym Meysydd Glo Prydain, (Rhan 1) (HP37420, 20 credits)
  • Bywyd a Gwaith ym Meysydd Glo Prydain, (Rhan 2) (HP37520, 20 credits)
  • Cathedrals in Medieval England and Wales Part 1 (HQ33320, 20 credits)
  • Cathedrals in Medieval England and Wales Part 2 (HQ33420, 20 credits)
  • Colombian Republican History ): 200 years of solitude Part ) (HQ39920, 20 credits)
  • Colombian Republican History ): 200 years of solitude Part) (HQ39820, 20 credits)
  • Crime, Riot and Morality in Wales (WH33420, 20 credits)
  • Culture, Society and the Victorians (HY39320, 20 credits)
  • Environmental History of the Neotropics (Latin America and the Caribbean) in the Capitalocene (HY39120, 20 credits)
  • Famine in Medieval England (HY35520, 20 credits)
  • From Burma to Myanmar (Part I): colonial Burma under British rule ) (HQ39220, 20 credits)
  • From Burma to Myanmar (Part II): Challenges for a young nation state since 1942 (HQ39320, 20 credits)
  • From the Second Empire to the Third Reich: Weimar Germany (HY38420, 20 credits)
  • Germany since 1945 (HY39620, 20 credits)
  • Gwrthryfel Glyndŵr 1: Hynt a Helynt y Gwrthryfel (HP33120, 20 credits)
  • Gwrthryfel Glyndŵr 2: Cwestiynau Allweddol (HP33220, 20 credits)
  • Kingship and political culture in high medieval England and Norway, (HY32120, 20 credits)
  • Magic in the Middle Ages: From Antiquity to the Eve of the Witch Craze (HY35920, 20 credits)
  • Media and Society in Twentieth Century Britain (HY37520, 20 credits)
  • Modern Japan: From Samurai to Salary Men (HY39820, 20 credits)
  • Reforging the Union: The Reconstruction Era in US History, (HY37720, 20 credits)
  • Science, Religion and Magic (HY38620, 20 credits)
  • Southeast Asia at the crossroads (c. 1400 to the present) (HY39920, 20 credits)
  • The Atlantic World, (HY39720, 20 credits)
  • The English Reformation, : Revolution and Counter Revolution (HQ35020, 20 credits)
  • The English Reformation, : Consolidation and Conflict (HQ35620, 20 credits)
  • The European Reformation (HY36520, 20 credits)
  • The Invisible Empires: The First Ku Klux Klan and American Society, (HQ39620, 20 credits)
  • The Invisible Empires: The Second Ku Klux Klan and American Society, (HQ39720, 20 credits)
  • The Making of Europe: Christendom and beyond, c. (HY35720, 20 credits)
  • The Reign of Edward II, (Part 2): Sources (HQ34620, 20 credits)
  • The Tudors: A European Dynasty? (HY30920, 20 credits)
  • The reign of Edward II, (Part 1) (HQ34520, 20 credits)
  • Wales and the Kings of Britain: Conflict, Power and Identities in the British Isles (WH30120, 20 credits)
  • Wales under the Tudors (WH33520, 20 credits)

Careers

Our graduates have been successful in securing professions in many different fields, including:

• Education
• Academic scholarship and research
• Archive curation and management
• Law
• Publishing
• National, regional, and local politics
• The Civil Service
• The Police
• The armed forces
• Media and the creative industries
• Business and entrepreneurship

Teaching & Learning

Our wide variety of different learning, teaching, and assessment modes will enable you to develop skills in formal writing, small group presentation, constructing informed arguments under time pressure, independent research, and working as part of a team, using the most up-to-date resources and digital platforms.

Student Testimonials

I love History (V100) because it's the perfect course for people who enjoy history, but don’t know what area of History that they prefer most. I came to university in this position, but this course offers you a chance to study many different periods. During my time on V100 I have studied many different eras and events, from the Black Death and Medieval Wales, right up British Politics in the twentieth century. I love V100 because it does not constrain you like other courses and allows you discover your true inner Historian.

• Christopher Pines

Studying History at Aberystwyth has been brilliant. The ability to pick modules and cater to your tastes has allowed me to pursue what I want. If I want to study Russia I can. Alongside this the great teaching staff have a wealth of experience and knowledge who provide excellent teaching. I can approach them very easily and they are willing to give me the time and support I need. I can ask for help with essays and advice on what to read and research. Reading is key as a historian and the Library is a great resource for getting books. It has nearly all the books you need and should the book be out you can go to the National Library of Wales. In my two years of studying history I have not once regretted my choice, and going into my third year I cannot wait.

• Connor Lambert

What I love about studying History at Aberystwyth is everything! It is such a great degree scheme, with a wide range of modules to choose from in each year of study. The tutors are fantastic and always helpful and knowledgeable. Everyone within the department is friendly - staff and students alike - which creates a lovely working atmosphere. We have a fantastic resource just down the road, the National Library of Wales, which not only contains every book published in the UK after 1911 but is also a beautiful building to study in and commands the best view over the whole of Aberystwyth town. Studying History at Aberystwyth was the best decision I have ever made!

• Rachel Twomey

Typical Entry Requirements

• UCAS Tariff: 120 - 96
• A Levels: BBB-CCC
• GCSE requirements (minimum grade C/4): English or Welsh
• BTEC National Diploma: DDM-MMM
• International Baccalaureate: 30-26
• European Baccalaureate: 75%-65% overall
• English Language Requirements: See our Undergraduate English Language Requirements for this course. Pre-sessional English Programmes are also available for students who do not meet our English Language Requirements.

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