BA Modern And Contemporary History
Entry requirements
Offers are tariff based, 104 - 128 tariff points from Lefel 3 qualifications* e.g.: A Levels: History or Archaeology 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: accepted 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 History, covering the period from the Industrial Revolution to the present day across Welsh, British, European and American contexts. Core topics include Research Methods, Fieldwork, and Historical Research. The Making History module prepares students for a third-year dissertation. Study abroad and work placement opportunities are available.
Modules
- The archaeology of the British Isles
- The Archaeologist’s Toolkit: Methods and Skills for Unveiling the Past
- Introduction to History and Heritage
- 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
- Making History
- The Craft of the Historian
- The World Turned Upside Down: Civil War, Regicide, and Revolution in England and Wales, 1600 - 1700
- A (dis)United Kingdom? Early Modern Perspectives On The Makeup Of Britain, 1485-1707
- Life of the Edge: Frontier Society in Roman Britain
- Rethinking Archaeology: Theory and Interpretation in Archaeology
- Geoarchaeology: Using Earth Sciences to Understand the Archaeological Record
- The Story of America, 1607-1867: On Film and Television
- The Holy Wars of 1095-1197
- Dark Tourism: Death, Disaster and Heritage
- Heritage and Identity
- Holy Wars, 1095-1197
- War, Colonialism, and Resistance: European Empires in the Early Modern World
- The Material Culture of Ritual and Magic
- History of the Holocaust in 10 primary sources (1939-1945)
- History Through Objects
- Twentieth Century Dictatorships
- Twentieth Century Ideas and Movements
- Hot Wars of the Cold War: Korea and Vietnam
- Victorian Britain, 1837-1901
- Victorian Britain
- Britain in the Jazz Age
- The Jazz Age: Culture, Scandal and Poverty
- Work Placement
- School of History, Philosophy and Social Sciences BA Dissertation
- BA Dissertation School of History, Philosophy and Social Sciences
- The Tudors: Politics, Society, and Culture in Britain and Ireland, 1485-1603
- Marking Space and Time: Contextualising Graffiti through the Ages
- The Prehistoric Archaeology of Coastal and Maritime Communities
- Geoarchaeology
- The Guardians of Heritage
- Museums: Management, Curation, Exhibition Design
- 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
- The United States, 1877-1945
- Europe, 1945-1992
- Anarchism in Europe: Movements, Activism, and Political Thought in an Age of Centralised Authority
- The Great War through the Eyes of the Welsh
- Work Placement
- 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