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BA Cultural Heritage Studies: Libraries, Archives and Museums

Aberystwyth University

Institution
Aberystwyth University
Level
undergraduate
Subject
Cultural Heritage Studies: Libraries, Archives and Museums
Duration
3 years
UCAS code
V700
Typical offer
A-level BBB

Entry requirements

A level: BBB-CCC IB: 30-26

About this course

BA in Cultural Heritage Studies: Libraries, Archives and Museums. Core topics include research methods. The programme is offered jointly by the Department of History and Welsh History and the Department of Information Studies. Students complete a dissertation and have access to resources including the National Library of Wales, one of five UK copyright libraries.

Modules

  • Effective Communication
  • Foundations of Information Studies
  • The Archival Inheritance
  • The Cultural Heritage Landscape
  • Introduction to History
  • 'Hands on' History: Sources and their Historians
  • Europe and the World, 1000-2000
  • People, Power and Identity: Wales 1200-1999
  • Making History
  • Information in a Changing World
  • Museums in the 21st Century
  • Research Methodology
  • Resource Discovery and Digital Information Management
  • (Re)writing the past: Medieval chronicles and sagas c. 1000-1300
  • Between Revolution and Reform: China since 1800
  • Chivalry and courtliness: Elite culture in high medieval England, 1066-1300
  • Crime, Riot and Morality in Wales 1750-1850
  • Interdisciplinary and decolonial history
  • Recounting Racism: Oral History and Modern American Race Relations.
  • The Atlantic World, 1492-1825
  • The Nazi Dictatorship: Regime and Society in Germany 1933-1945
  • Victorian Visions: Exploring Nineteenth-Century Exhibitions
  • Collection Management and Development in Heritage Organisations
  • Dissertation
  • Local Studies and Community Heritage
  • African-American History, 1808 to the Present
  • Between Revolution and Reform: China since 1800
  • Chivalry and courtliness: Elite culture in high medieval England, 1066-1300
  • Crime, Riot and Morality in Wales 1750-1850
  • European Society and the Medieval Mind 1200-1500
  • Science, Religion and Magic
  • The Atlantic World, 1492-1825
  • The Nazi Dictatorship: Regime and Society in Germany 1933-1945
  • The Tudors: A European Dynasty?
  • Twentieth-Century Latin America and the Caribbean through its arts and traditions