BA Heritage, Archaeology And History
Entry requirements
Offers are tariff based, 104 - 128 tariff points from a Level 3 qualification* 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 to Higher Education: 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 and Archaeology and Cultural and Creative Industries. Core topics include Research Methods, Fieldwork, Historical Research, and Critical & Analytical Thinking. Practical fieldwork takes place at the University's Henfaes Research Centre, and there is the option to undertake a work placement year or study abroad.
Modules
- Introduction to History and Heritage
- The archaeology of the British Isles
- The Archaeologist’s Toolkit: Methods and Skills for Unveiling the Past
- Principles of Politics: Studying the political world
- The Six Lives of Henry VIII
- Britain: Blitz to Brexit, UK Politics and the Post-war World
- Wales in the Modern World
- Introduction to Modern History, 1815-1914
- Introduction to Modern History
- Wales: Princes to Tudors
- Wales: From the Princes to the Tudors
- 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
- 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
- Britain in the Jazz Age
- The Jazz Age: Culture, Scandal and Poverty
- Holy Wars, 1095-1197
- The Holy Wars of 1095-1197
- Victorian Britain, 1837-1901
- Victorian Britain
- Work Placement
- 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
- Dark Tourism: Death, Disaster and Heritage
- Heritage and Identity
- The Material Culture of Ritual and Magic
- Making History
- The Craft of the Historian
- The United States, 1877-1945
- The Tudors: Politics, Society, and Culture in Britain and Ireland, 1485-1603
- Europe, 1945-1992
- The Great War through the Eyes of the Welsh
- 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
- Marking Space and Time: Contextualising Graffiti through the Ages
- The Prehistoric Archaeology of Coastal and Maritime Communities
- Geoarchaeology
- Museums: Management, Curation, Exhibition Design
- Re-igniting the Dragon: Wales since 1939
- Reawakening the Dragon
- Under the Hammer: Edward I
- Edward the Conqueror
- Work Placement
- The Age of Reform: Britain 1770-1835
- The Age of Reform, 1770-1835
- The Guardians of Heritage
- School of History, Philosophy and Social Sciences BA Dissertation
- BA Dissertation School of History, Philosophy and Social Sciences
- Anarchism in Europe: Movements, Activism, and Political Thought in an Age of Centralised Authority