B.A. History with Welsh History
Bachelor's degree
In Cardiff
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Bachelor's degree
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Location
Cardiff (Wales)
Cardiff, as capital city of Wales, is the most appropriate site for the study of Welsh History. This degree offers a unique opportunity to specialise in aspects of Waless past alongside the study of wider themes and periods. It allows you to place Wales in context, but also to reflect upon Waless contributions to broader historical developments.
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Subjects
- Welsh
- Politics
- Skills and Training
Course programme
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 18701968
- 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 18701945
- 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: Britains 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
B.A. History with Welsh History