B.A. History with Welsh History

The First Year provides a graduated transition to studying history at degree level, and offers instruction in the skills, techniques and arguments that you will use in your other courses.

Year One - Core modules

• History in Practice
• Early Modern England & Wales
• Modern Wales

In addition, you can take further courses in History or from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, thereby developing the range of skills and knowledge required of the historian.

Options include

• Ancient Greece
• Ancient Rome
• Medieval Europe
• Making of the Modern World

Year Two - core modules

• Approaches to History
• Exploring Historical Debate

Year Two – optional history modules

• History & ICT: A Guided Study Migrant Wales
• France 1870–1968
• Managing the Mind: Psychiatry, Psychology and British Culture, 1800-2000
• A Great Leap Forward: China Transformed, 1840-present
• Llafur, Sosialaeth a Chymru, 1918-1975
• From King Coal to Cool Cymru: Society and Culture in Wales, 1939-2000
• India & the Raj 1857-1947
• A Warfare State? Britain, Science and Policy, 1900-1970
• Europe East and West
• The Soviet Union 1917-1991: A new civilisation?
• British Expansion Overseas 1870-1945
• Radicalism, Anti-Capitalism and Chartism
• The Soviet Union and the Cold War, 1945-1991
• Into the Vortex: Britain & the First World War
• Medicine and Society

Year Two – optional Welsh history modules

• The Normans in Britain 1050 – 1200
• Blood and Honour: The Viking Age in the West
• Migrant Wales
• Llafur, Sosialaeth a Chymru
• From King to Coal to Cool Cymru: Society and Culture in Wales, 1939 - 2000

In your Final Year, you take three advanced option modules, and may, if you wish, choose to specialise in terms of period, approach or geographical area. You also write a dissertation based on original sources. The Dissertation represents, in many ways, the culmination of the experience of "doing history" at Cardiff, and enables you to gain genuine research experience and develop the skills needed to research an historical problem and present your findings in a critical, analytical and coherent study.

Year Three – optional history modules

• From Bismarck to Goebbels: Biography and German History 1870–1945
• German's New Order
• Britain and the Integration of Europe, 1940-1970
• Conflict, Coercion, and Mass Mobilisation in Republican China, 1911-1945
• Politics, Economics and Strategy: Britain’s European dilemma 1951-75
• Fascism and Antifascism in France
• Race, Sex & Empire: India 1757-1929
• Socialism, Society and Politics in Britain 1880-1918
• Sosialaeth, Cymdeithas a Gwleidyddiaeth ym Mhrydain 1880-1918
• Culture, Society and Identity in Wales 1847-1914
• Class, Protest and Politics: South Wales, 1918-39
• British Social History, 1918-1951
• From Lenin to Stalin: The Rise and Fall of the Comintern 1919-43
• Britain and Empire
• The Soviet Union and the Third World, 1955-85
• War, Liberation and Reconstruction: Europe, 1939-51
• Joseph Goebbels and National Socialism
• Women, Health and Medicine in Britain 1870-1980
• The Dangerous City? Urban Society & Culture 1800-1914

Year Three – optional Welsh history modules

• Culture, Society and Identity in Wales 1847 – 1914
• Class, Protest and Politics: South Wales, 1918 – 39
• Identity and the British State: Wales, 1485 - 1660