International Relations and Modern History, BA (Hons)

Year 1 (Level 4)

FHEQ 4 Degree / HECert

Students choose 120 credits from the following:

Compulsory Modules:

• Making History
• War and Peace in the Nuclear Age
• What is Politics and International Relations?

Optional Modules - International Relations

Choose Exactly 20 credits from the following Modules:

NOTE : Select 1 x 20cr module in TB2

• The American Experience 1492-2000
• American Politics and Society
• Introduction to American Literature and Culture
• Introduction to Ancient Philosophy and Rhetoric
• Statws y Gymraeg
• Theories of War
• War and Warfare in the Modern World
• The Fundamental Questions of Philosophy
• Ethics, Justice, and Society
• Public Relations: Strategic Communications

AND

Compulsory Selective - History

Choose Exactly 40 credits from the following Modules:

NOTE : Select 40 credits in total. EITHER select TWO 20 credits modules OR select any ONE 20 credit module plus a Languages for All Module pair (2 x 10 credits)

Languages for All – Welsh 1

• Languages for All - Welsh 2
• Medieval Europe: an introduction
• Early Modern World, 1500-1800
• Europe of Extremes: 1789 – 1989
• Modern British History
• Languages for All - Arabic 1
• Languages for All - Arabic 2
• Languages for All - French 1
• Languages for All - French 2
• Languages for All - German 1
• Languages for All - German 2
• Languages for All - Italian 1
• Languages for All - Italian 2
• Languages for All - Spanish 1
• Languages for All - Spanish 2
• Languages for All - Mandarin 1
• Languages for All - Mandarin 2
• Year 2 (Level 5)
• FHEQ 5 Degree / HEDip
• Students choose 120 credits from the following:
• Compulsory Modules
• The Practice of History
• Anarchy and Order: Theories in International Relations
• Moralities of War and Peace
• Optional Modules
• Optional Module Choices - International Relations
• Choose Exactly 20 credits from the following Modules:
• NOTE : Select 1 x 20cr module to fulfill your 60 credits for Internation Relations
• John F. Kennedy and America
• America in Crisis: Political Culture and Society from the Tet Offensive to Trump
• New York City: History and Culture since 1945
• Hawliau Iaith yn y Cyd-destun Rhyngwladol
• Amlddiwylliannedd a'r Gymraeg
• Contemporary Wars and Conflicts
• The First world War: Politics, Society and culture in Europe 1870 – 1933
• Founders of Modern Philosophy: Descartes to Kant
• Studying Digital Media
• Global Political Economy: From Mercantilism to Neoliberalism
• Moralities of War and Peace
• Genocide
• British Politics and Public Policy
• AND
• Optional Module Choices - History
• Choose Exactly 40 credits from the following Modules:
• NOTE : Students must select 2 modules from the list below
• New York City: History and Culture since 1945
• Hawliau Iaith yn y Cyd-destun Rhyngwladol
• Amlddiwylliannedd a'r Gymraeg
• Ancient and Historic Places (Study-Trip/Field project: History)
• America in a Nutshell, A History of Pennsylvania from William Penn to Donald Trump 1631-2016
• Gendering the Middle Ages: Power and Exclusion
• Credoau'r Cymry: Astudio Athroniaeth ac Athrawiaeth Gymreig o Safbwynt Rhyngwladol
• The Crusades and the Making of Latin Christendom, 1050-1300
• Revolutionary and Napoleonic Europe, 1789-1815
• Post-War Reconstruction: Europe 1945 – 1956
• The Golden Age of Spain and Portugal, 1450 – 1700
• Europe 1500-1650: Renaissance, Reformation and Religious War
• The Enlightenment and the Eighteenth-Century World
• The Welsh Century: Politics, Nationality and Religion, 1847-1947
• Beyond Blood and Guts: Medicine from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern Period
• The Cold War
• Deformity, Deviance and Difference: Exploring Disability History
• Conflict & Memory: Europe in the Twentieth Century
• Making Modern Medicine: Doctors, Patients, and Society, 1800-2000
• Anglo-Saxon and Viking-Age England
• Whose Past Is It Anyway? Exploring the Heritage Industry
• Revolutionary America, 1760 – 1791
• Contemporary Wars and Conflicts
• Business & Entrepreneurship
• The First world War: Politics, Society and culture in Europe 1870 – 1933
• Genocide

Year 3 (Level 6)

FHEQ 6 Degree / Honours

Students choose 120 credits from the following:

Compulsory Modules

• Researching Politics 1
• Researching Politics 2

Optional Modules

Dissertation

Choose Minimum Of 20 credits from the following Modules:

NOTE : You must select ONE of the following. If you select PO-3000 or PO-395, you must then select a History Special Subject in the following box.

The National Assembly for Wales

AND

History Special Subjects

Choose Maximum Of 40 credits from the following Modules:

NOTE : Select either HIH3300 or a special subject module pair (part 1 and 2 of the same subject). If you have select HIH3000, you do not need to select a special subject pair.

• The Medieval Natural World: Environments, Explorations and Encounters
• The Medieval Natural World: Environments, Explorations and Encounters (ii)
• Devotion Piety & Power: The First Crusade & the Worlds of Latin Christendom, Byzantium & the Islamic Near East, Part 1
• Devotion Piety & Power: The First Crusade & the Worlds of Latin Christendom, Byzantium & the Islamic Near East, Part 2
• The Reign of King John 1199-1216: Misrule and Magna Carta (I)
• The Reign of King John 1199-1216: Misrule and Magna Carta (II)
• Merchants & Marvels. Long-Distance Trade in the Early Modern World, 1500-1800 (I)
• Merchants & Marvels. Long-Distance Trade in the Early Modern World, 1500-1800 (II)
• Science, Magic, and Medicine in Early Modern Europe (i)
• Science , Magic and Medicine in Early Modern Europe (ii)
• The Great War for Empire, 1754-1764: The Americas and India
• The Great War for Empire II, 1754-1764: Europe
• Internationalism, War and Peace: Europe 1900-1933, Part I
• Internationalism, War and Peace: Europe, 1900-1933, Part II
• Fear, Conformity and Oppression in Fascist Italy (I)
• Fear, Conformity and Oppression in Fascist Italy (II)
• Sport and British Society (i)
• Sport and British Society (II)
• Britain at War, 1939-45: The Home Front (I)
• Britain at War, 1939-45: The Home Front (II)
• War, Photography and Visual Culture: Britain, 1914-89 (Part 1)
• War, Photography and Visual Culture: Britain, 1990-2008 (Part 2)
• The Hungry World 1
• The Hungry World 2
• New Deal America, 1933-1939 (Part 1)
• New Deal America, 1933-1939 (Part 2)
• The Long 1968: Protest in a Global Perspective, 1960-1980 (I)
• The Long 1968: Protest in a Global Perspective, 1960-1980 (II)

Optional Module Choices - International Relations

Choose Maximum Of 20 credits from the following Modules:

NOTE : select 1 x 20cr module if PO-395 (dissertation) or PO-3000 (National Assembly of Wales).

• Language in the Media
• Clear and Present Danger: Terrorism and America
• Popular Music and the City
• Y Gymraeg, Datganoli a'r Gyfraith
• The Rise of Brazil
• Gunfighter Nation: the West in History, Mythology and Fiction
• The Spanish Civil War - Its Origins, Course and Legacy
• The Aftermaths of War
• Real War, Imagined War: War in Literature, Art, Cinema and Music
• The Russian Civil Wat
• Religion, Science, and Superstition
• Philosophy and the Social Sciences
• Visions of Democracy
• The International Politics of Space
• Politics and International Development
• Shadow Wars: US Presidents and covert action from the Cold War to Obama
• Contemporary Political Economy: Competing Perspectives on Global Capitalism
• Contemporary Security

AND

Optional Module Choices - History

Choose Exactly 20 credits from the following Modules:

NOTE : Select 1 x 20cr module Students must have A Level French to take MLF325 or MLF325W

• Cyfraith Hywel
• Concro'r Byd: Twf a Chwymp Ymerodraethau Prydain a Ffrainc
• Y Rhyfel Mawr trwy lygaid y Cymry
• European Empires in the East. A comparative analysis
• The Cathars and the Albigensian Crusades
• Prisoners of War in Twentieth Century Conflict
• Britain at War, 1939-45: The Home Front (I)
• Britain since 1945
• Infections in Global History, 1500-2000
• The British Atlantic World c.1550-1760
• Mapping Medieval Landscapes
• Changed Utterly? The Irish Revolution, 1912-23
• Vikings, Monks and Conquest: Britain in Europe, 1000-1200
• Cultural Encounters, Globalism and Identities From 1945
• From Machiavelli to Mussolini: Government and society in Western political thought
• The Rise of Brazil
• Gunfighter Nation: the West in History, Mythology and Fiction
• The Spanish Civil War - Its Origins, Course and Legacy
• The Aftermaths of War
• The Russian Civil War
• France and the Second World War: Legacies of the Dark Years
• Ffrainc a'r Ail Ryfel Byd: Hanes yr Oesoedd Tywyll