Program Overview

BA Cultural Heritage Studies: Libraries, Archives and Museums

Key Facts

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

Course Overview

The BA in Cultural Heritage Studies at Aberystwyth University seeks to introduce you to the cultural heritage aspects of the library, archive and heritage professions. If you are interested in any aspects of library, archive or museum work, including looking for information, helping others in information seeking, and how our heritage and knowledge is stored, shared and preserved - then this degree at Aberystwyth University is for you.

The Cultural Heritage Studies degree has received professional accreditation from CILIP: the library and information association.

Modules

Year 1

• Effective Communication
• Foundations of Information Studies
• The Archival Inheritance
• The Cultural Heritage Landscape
• Introduction to History

Year 2

• Making History
• Information in a Changing World
• Museums in the 21st Century
• Record Revolutions: A Cultural History of Record Keeping
• Research Methodology
• Resource Discovery and Digital Information Management

Year 3

• Collection Management and Development in Heritage Organisations
• Dissertation
• Local Studies and Community Heritage

Careers

Graduates of this degree will be well prepared for a career within a cultural organisation, or in an administrative position which would include responsibility for record keeping. It would also be relevant to those considering work as a graduate archive assistant or postgraduate professional training in archive administration and records management, to name a few examples.

Teaching & Learning

• What will I learn?
• The breakdown below will provide you with an illustration of what you may study during the three year degree scheme.
• In your first year you will discover:
  • Foundations of Information Studies
  • The Cultural Heritage Landscape
  • Human Communication
  • The Archival Inheritance
  • Introduction to History.
• In your second and third years you will explore:
  • Information in a Changing World
  • A cultural history of record keeping
  • Resource discovery and digital information management
  • Collection management and heritage organisations
  • Making History
  • Local studies and community heritage.

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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Student Satisfaction

• 95% of students were satisfied overall with their course.
• 97% of students say teaching staff have supported their learning well.
• 85% in work or doing further study 15 months after the course.