BA Cymraeg (Welsh) and History
Entry requirements
Offers are tariff based, 104 - 128 tariff points from a Level 3 qualification e.g.: A Levels: including grade B in Welsh (or a grade B in a humanities subject studies through the medium of Welsh - e.g. History, Geography, Religious Studies); History preferred but not required; General Studies and Key Skills not normally accepted BTEC National Extended Diploma**: DMM-DDM Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma**: DMM-DDM City & Guilds Advanced Technical Extended Diploma (1080): considered on a case-by-case basis International Baccalaureate Diploma: including grade H5 in Welsh** Access**: pass required Welsh Baccalaureate: We will accept this qualification in conjunction with other level 3 qualifications T Levels: T Levels in a relevant subject considered on a case-by-case basis Extended Project Qualification: Points can include a relevant Extended Project (EPQ) but must include a minimum 2 full A-levels, or equivalent.
About this course
BA (Hons) in Cymraeg (Welsh) and History, exploring Welsh language, literature, and history from the medieval period to the present day. Core topics include Research Methods, Historical Research, and Critical & Analytical Thinking. As a joint honours programme, half of the modules each year are taken in Welsh and half in History, with a focus on developing professional Welsh language skills.
Modules
- Defnyddio'r Gymraeg
- Writing Skills
- Practical Spoken Welsh
- Early Modern Literature
- The Literary Tradition 1
- Literature and Visual Culture
- Literature Today
- Creative Writing
- Modern European Theatre
- Scriptwriting for TV
- Literary Criticism
- The Middle Ages
- Principles of Politics: Studying the political world
- Britain: Blitz to Brexit, UK Politics and the Post-war World
- Introduction to Modern History, 1815-1914
- Introduction to Modern History
- Wales in the Modern World
- The Six Lives of Henry VIII
- Wales: Princes to Tudors
- Wales: From the Princes to the Tudors
- Professional Writing Skills
- History of the Holocaust in 10 primary sources (1939-1945)
- The World Turned Upside Down: Civil War, Regicide, and Revolution in England and Wales, 1600 - 1700
- History Through Objects
- Twentieth Century Dictatorships
- Twentieth Century Ideas and Movements
- A (dis)United Kingdom? Early Modern Perspectives On The Makeup Of Britain, 1485-1707
- The Story of America, 1607-1867: On Film and Television
- Hot Wars of the Cold War: Korea and Vietnam
- War, Colonialism, and Resistance: European Empires in the Early Modern World
- Rethinking Archaeology: Theory and Interpretation in Archaeology
- Geoarchaeology: Using Earth Sciences to Understand the Archaeological Record
- Victorian Britain, 1837-1901
- Victorian Britain
- Making History
- The Craft of the Historian
- Holy Wars, 1095-1197
- The Holy Wars of 1095-1197
- Britain in the Jazz Age
- The Jazz Age: Culture, Scandal and Poverty
- The Novel
- Welsh America
- The Mabinogion
- Professional Welsh
- Modern Poetry
- Writing Prose
- Cultures of Protest and Rebellion
- The Small Screen
- Scriptwriting
- Modern Poetry
- Professional Writing
- Dissertation
- Professional Translation
- Writing Prose
- Welsh America
- The Mabinogion
- The Novel
- Literature of Protest and Rebellion
- Scriptwriting
- The Small Screen
- The United States, 1877-1945
- The Tudors: Politics, Society, and Culture in Britain and Ireland, 1485-1603
- Europe, 1945-1992
- Anarchism in Europe: Movements, Activism, and Political Thought in an Age of Centralised Authority
- Geoarchaeology
- Emperors, Shoguns, and Trading Companies: Early Modern Asia and the British Empire, 1600 - 1800
- Wales and Europe in the Renaissance: Image, Language, Identity and the Role of the Gentry, c.1450-1630
- Under the Hammer: Edward I
- Edward the Conqueror
- The Age of Reform: Britain 1770-1835
- The Age of Reform, 1770-1835
- Re-igniting the Dragon: Wales since 1939
- Reawakening the Dragon
- School of History, Philosophy and Social Sciences BA Dissertation
- BA Dissertation School of History, Philosophy and Social Sciences