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History (with integrated year studying abroad)

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Key Facts

V102

  • UCAS Tariff

    120 - 96

  • Course duration

    4 years

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Our BA in History with an Integrated Year Studying Abroad (V102) builds on the international research and teaching partnerships of the Department of History and Welsh History to offer you a unique learning experience across two different universities and national cultures during your degree studies. As a student on this scheme you will spend your first and second years studying History at Aberystwyth, then for your third year will enrol at one of our partner universities overseas. This year abroad will enable you to deepen and broaden your historical studies, study subjects in addition to History should you wish, and immerse yourself in another culture for a full year. You will then return to Aberystwyth to complete your final year of studies, boosted by new skills, new experiences and new areas of historical expertise.  

Course Overview

Why study History with an Integrated Year Studying Abroad?

  • The studying abroad component of this course will give you the opportunity to spend a year studying in a leading international university, developing your historical knowledge and cultural understanding, and other valuable skills that are highly sought after by employers.
  • You will keep in touch with us during your year abroad, and have access to all our online facilities as well as those of your host university while you are away.
  • Our teaching is innovative, research-based, and designed to develop your transferable skills in areas such as analysis, interpretation and communication, which will prepare you for a wide range of careers.
  • Our subject specialisms enable you to follow your historical interests from the medieval period to the present day, ranging across four continents, and embracing political, social, economic and cultural history.
  • As an Aber History student you will have full use of the National Library of Wales, one of the five Copyright Libraries of the UK and Wales’s leading archive repository.
Our Staff

Staff in the Department of History and Welsh History are active researchers and experts in their field of History. Most are qualified to PhD level and hold PGCHE. To find out more about our staff, please visit our departmental staff page.

Modules September start - 2024

Please note: The modules listed below are those currently intended for delivery during the next academic year and may be subject to change. They are included here to give an indication of how the course is structured.

Core

Module Name Module Code Credit Value
'Hands on' History: Sources and their Historians HY10420 20
Introduction to History * HY12120 20

Options

Module Name Module Code Credit Value
Europe and the World, 1000-2000 HY12420 20
Medieval and Early Modern Britain and Europe, 1000-1800 HY11420 20
People, Power and Identity: Wales 1200-1999 WH11720 20
The Modern World, 1789 to the present HY11820 20

Core

Module Name Module Code Credit Value
Making History * HY20120 20

Options

Module Name Module Code Credit Value
History as myth-Making: the 'Myth of the Blitz' HY23420 20
Interdisciplinary and decolonial history HY24320 20
Memory, Myth and History: Investigating Medieval Chronicles, c. 1000-1250 HY24120 20
Reading a Building HY23120 20
Recounting Racism: Oral History and Modern American Race Relations. HY25020 20
Seals in Their Context in Medieval England and Wales HY24420 20
Victorian Visions: Exploring Nineteenth-Century Exhibitions HY24620 20
African-American History, 1808 to the Present HY28320 20
Between Revolution and Reform: China since 1800 HY28520 20
Crime, Riot and Morality in Wales 1750-1850 WH23420 20
Culture, Society and the Victorians HY29320 20
Environmental History of the Neotropics (Latin America and the Caribbean) in the Capitalocene HY29120 20
Famine in Medieval England HY25520 20
From Poor Law to Welfare State: Poverty and Welfare in Modern Britain, 1815-1948 HY29220 20
Germany since 1945 HY29620 20
Magic in the Middle Ages: From Antiquity to the Eve of the Witch Craze HY25920 20
Media and Society in Twentieth Century Britain HY27520 20
Medieval England and Germany, c. 1050-1250 HY25620 20
Roads to Modernity: Germany and Japan in the Age of Empires, 1860s-1930s HY28920 20
Science, Religion and Magic HY28620 20
Southeast Asia at the crossroads (c.1400 to the present) HY29920 20
The Atlantic World, 1492-1825 HY29720 20
The British Isles in the Long Eighteenth Century HY22020 20
The European Reformation HY26520 20
The Making of Europe: Christendom and beyond, c. 1000-1300 HY25720 20
The Nazi Dictatorship: Regime and Society in Germany 1933-1945 HY29420 20
The Tudors: A European Dynasty? HY20920 20
Wales and the Kings of Britain: Conflict, Power and Identities in the British Isles 1039-1417 WH20120 20
Wales under the Tudors WH23520 20
War, Politics and People: England in Context in the Fourteenth Century HY26720 20

Core

Module Name Module Code Credit Value
Dissertation HY30340 40

Options

Module Name Module Code Credit Value
African-American History, 1808 to the Present HY38820 20
Between Revolution and Reform: China since 1800 HY38520 20
Britain at War 1939-45 (Part 1) HQ37520 20
Britain at War 1939-45 (Part 2) HQ37620 20
Bywyd a Gwaith ym Meysydd Glo Prydain, 1842-1914 (Rhan 1) HP37420 20
Bywyd a Gwaith ym Meysydd Glo Prydain, 1914-1948 (Rhan 2) HP37520 20
Cathedrals in Medieval England and Wales Part 1 HQ33320 20
Cathedrals in Medieval England and Wales Part 2 HQ33420 20
Crime, Riot and Morality in Wales 1750-1850 WH33420 20
Culture, Society and the Victorians HY39320 20
Environmental History of the Neotropics (Latin America and the Caribbean) in the Capitalocene HY39120 20
Famine in Medieval England HY35520 20
From Burma to Myanmar (Part I): colonial Burma under British rule (1824-1941) HQ39220 20
From Burma to Myanmar (Part II): Challenges for a young nation state since 1942 HQ39320 20
From Poor Law to Welfare State: Poverty and Welfare in Modern Britain, 1815-1948 HY39220 20
Germany since 1945 HY39620 20
Gwrthryfel Glyndŵr 1: Hynt a Helynt y Gwrthryfel HP33120 20
Gwrthryfel Glyndŵr 2: Cwestiynau Allweddol HP33220 20
Magic in the Middle Ages: From Antiquity to the Eve of the Witch Craze HY35920 20
Media and Society in Twentieth Century Britain HY37520 20
Medieval England and Germany, c. 1050-1250 HY35620 20
Ritual, kingship and power in Norman and Angevin England: methods, sources & actors (Part 1) HQ33120 20
Ritual, kingship and power in Norman and Angevin England: methods, sources & actors (Part 2) HQ33220 20
Roads to Modernity: Germany and Japan in the Age of Empires, 1860s-1930s HY38920 20
Science, Religion and Magic HY38620 20
Southeast Asia at the crossroads (c. 1400 to the present) HY39920 20
The Atlantic World, 1492-1825 HY39720 20
The British Isles in the Long Eighteenth Century HY30120 20
The English Reformation, 1520-58: Revolution and Counter Revolution HQ35020 20
The English Reformation, 1558-1648: Consolidation and Conflict HQ35620 20
The European Reformation HY36520 20
The Invisible Empires: The First Ku Klux Klan and American Society, 1865-1915 HQ39620 20
The Invisible Empires: The Second Ku Klux Klan and American Society, 1915-1944 HQ39720 20
The Irish in Britain, c. 1850-1922 (Part 2): Community and Conflict HQ35520 20
The Irish in Britain, c.1815-70 (Part 1): Migration and Settlement HQ35420 20
The Making of Europe: Christendom and beyond, c. 1000-1300 HY35720 20
The Nazi Dictatorship: Regime and Society in Germany 1933-1945 HY39420 20
The Tudors: A European Dynasty? HY30920 20
Wales and the Kings of Britain: Conflict, Power and Identities in the British Isles 1039-1417 WH30120 20
Wales under the Tudors WH33520 20
War, Politics and People: England in Context in the Fourteenth Century HY36720 20

* Also available partially or entirely through the medium of Welsh

Careers

What career prospects exist with a History degree with an integrated year abroad?

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

  • education
  • academic scholarship and research
  • archive curation and management
  • law
  • national, regional and local politics
  • the Civil Service
  • the Police
  • the Military
  • media and the creative industries
  • business and entrepreneurship.

Our former students include:

  • Glanmor Williams, Historian
  • Alun Lewis, Second World War poet
  • Tim Brain, former Chief Constable of Gloucestershire
  • Guto Bebb, Member of Parliament
  • Joanne Cayford, BBC
  • Berwyn Davies, Head of the Welsh Higher Education Office, Brussels
  • Iwan Griffiths, Sports reporter for S4C.

Your year abroad:

Your year abroad will both enhance the key skills developed through your degree studies and demonstrate to employers your initiative, self-reliance, responsibility and adaptability to new environments and challenges.

A recent Erasmus Impact survey showed that 64% of employers considered international experience important for recruitment and that studying or working abroad will increase your chances of finding employment by up to 41% compared to students who do not study or work abroad.

Alumni mentoring and graduate talks 

The eMentoring Scheme will enable you to make contact with past graduates in a range of careers within a safe and supportive environment, offering you the chance to find out how they progressed into their current roles and what insights they can offer you as you think about your next steps. The Department of History & Welsh History collaborates with the Careers Service with the aim of arranging talks from alumni at different stages of their careers, such as the successful ‘From university to a career in cultural heritage: first steps’, presented by a recent graduate who secured a place on a prestigious Tate Gallery traineeship.

What work experience opportunities exist while studying? 

Click here to find out about the various opportunities that our Aberystwyth University Careers team offer.

Enhance your employability prospects with GO Wales and YES (Year in Employment Scheme) managed by our Careers department. 

Teaching & Learning

What will I learn?

During your four years of study you will develop your historical interests by choosing option modules from the full range of subject areas taught by our department and your overseas host institution. You will also be learning and applying research approaches and methods that will ready you for your final year dissertation.

In your first year you will be introduced to:

  • new historical skills and concepts, and a comprehensive introduction to university-level study skills, through our Year 1 core module Introduction to History
  • new historical periods, themes and subject areas, through our wide choice of Year 1 option modules.

In your second year you will explore:

  • the ways in which the meaning, methods and writing of history have changed over time, through our Year 2 core module Making History
  • insights into the historian’s craft, through practice-based seminar classes
  • different topics and periods from our extensive list of Year 2 option modules.

In your third year you will undertake your study year abroad in a European or International country:

  • choose your destination based on culture, location or historical interests
  • study new historical subjects or gain more expertise in the subjects that interest you most
  • all courses taught in English
  • if you wish, take modules in other subjects useful to historians (a foreign language, international studies, media and communications, etc.)
  • develop and demonstrate transferable employability skills such as self-reliance, cultural awareness, independence and initiative
  • Your studies abroad will not formally count to your final Aberystwyth degree result but will be acknowledged through a separate transcript from the partner university that you can attach to your CV.

In your final year back in Aber you will study:

  • two option modules of your choice
  • a Special Subject, in which you undertake in-depth research, using original sources and engaging with cutting-edge scholarship
  • your History Dissertation, independently researched by you on a subject of your choice, supervised by an expert historian in the department.

How will I be taught and assessed?

Our wide variety of different learning, teaching and assessment modes will enable you to develop skills in formal writing, small group presentations, 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. The Department of History & Welsh History also maintains individual essay tutorials for all students - rare outside Oxbridge - and has a supportive system of personal tutors, providing unrivalled one-to-one contact throughout your degree.

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.

Country Specific Entry Requirements:
International students whose qualification is not listed on this page, can check our Country Specific Entry Requirements for further information.

The University welcomes undergraduate applications from students studying the Access to Higher Education Diploma or T-level qualifications, provided that relevant subject content and learning outcomes are met. We are not able to accept Access to Higher Education Diplomas or T-levels as a general qualification for every undergraduate degree course.
Our inclusive admissions policy values breadth as well as depth of study. Applicants are selected on their own individual merits and offers can vary. If you would like to check the eligibility of your qualifications before submitting an application, please contact the Undergraduate Admissions Office for advice and guidance.

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