BA Liberal Arts (Full-time) (
University of Wales Trinity Saint David
Entry requirements
96-112 UCAS tariff points and an Interview
About this course
BA Hons in History, covering ancient, medieval, and modern periods across multiple civilisations. Core topics include Fieldwork, Social & Cultural Analysis, and Global & Comparative Perspective. The first two years follow a Basic Studies model introducing a wide range of subjects, while the third year focuses on two chosen strands for in-depth study.
Modules
- Exploring the Humanities
- The Modern World
- Hieroglyphs 1
- Into the Field
- Death, Burial and the Afterlife
- Myths and Mythology: How Stories Shape the World
- From Egypt to the Near East: phenomena of the Mediterranean
- An Introduction to Ethics
- Ancient Philosophy
- Crusading in the Middle Ages
- Doing History: Past in Practice
- Everyday Life in Athens and Rome
- Historicising Texts
- Introduction to the Craft of Writing
- Popular Fiction
- The Medieval World
- The Study of Literature: Text and Theory
- What makes civilisation?
- Introduction to Archaeology
- Anthropology Today
- Approaches to form
- Doing Archaeology: The Past in Practice
- People's Worlds: Interaction with the Environment
- Hieroglyphs 2
- Ancestors, Death and Burial
- Armies and Navies: Studies in Ancient Warfare
- The Life and Times of Caesar and Cicero
- Hieroglyphs 1
- Thinking With Things
- Activism, Protest and Campaigning for Global Justice
- Family, Gender and Sexuality
- Animals in Archaeology
- Excavation and Fieldwork
- (Re)presenting and (Re)constructing the Past
- Celtic Sanctity and Spirituality: Hagiography and Saints' Cults
- Error and Sweet Violence: Shakespeare and Renaissance Comedy and Tragedy
- Greek 1
- Difficult Heritage/ Dark Tourism
- Identity and Myth: The Normans and their World
- Medicine and Miracles: Health, Illness, and Cure
- The Irish Question 1886-1998: from Charles Parnell to the Good Friday Agreement
- From Desert Myths to Sheep Tales: The Cistercians in the Middle Ages
- Free-Market Environmentalism, Big Business and Global Politics
- Confessing with Saint Augustine: God and Religion in the Twilight of the Roman Empire
- Ancient Lives in Death
- Britain and the Great War
- Classical Mythology and Legends in Roman and Medieval Times
- Cold war, hot wars. Global perspectives on post-war history
- Entanglements: Exploring Interactions between the Aegean and the Near East
- Exhibiting the Past: Ancient Egypt, death and modern representation
- Green to the very door: Ecocriticism and Romanticism
- Gwlad, gwlad: Aspects of Welsh History 1200 to the present
- Heritage & Archaeology of Conflict
- Households in the ancient world
- Latin 1
- Make it New: Aspects of 20th and 21st Century Writing
- Materialities in Anthropology
- Medieval Prose in Wales
- Pompeii: The life, death and rediscovery of a Roman town
- Sparta: An Extraordinary City
- Special Collections Research: The Roderic Bowen Library and Archives
- Speculative Fiction: Sci-fi, fantasy, magic realism and other imagined worlds
- The Art of the Pitch: Writing as a Career
- The Book, the Body, and the World: Renaissance Humanism, Medicine, and Exploration
- Women and Religion
- Writing for Theatre
- Writing for TV, Film and Radio
- Philosophy of Mind: Humans, Animals and Machines
- Religions in Africa
- Rome Transformed: The World of Late Antiquity
- Art and Ancient Egypt 4000BC to the 2020ies: Exhibiting artistic representations
- The World of Han China (206 BCE to 220 CE)
- Medieval Britain from Edward the Confessor to Richard II, 1042 -1399
- Medieval Europe from Charlemagne to the Hundred Years War, 800 -1453
- Approaches to Economic Relations
- A troubled unity: Philosophy, Society and Civil War in the Literature of the Seventeenth Century
- Glancingly from the side: Writing the Short story
- Novel writing
- Off the Page: Performance Poetry
- Psyche, Text, and Society: Critical and Cultural Theory
- Museums, Heritage and Representation
- Professional Placement
- Global Genocides
- The Well-Tempered Reader: Renaissance Poetics
- Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Understanding the Enlightenment
- Hieroglyphs 2
- African Modernities
- Gender, Violence and Empire, 1800-2020
- Ancient Chinese Philosophy
- Heritage Project
- Independent Project
- Ancestors, Death and Burial
- Armies and Navies: Studies in Ancient Warfare
- The Life and Times of Caesar and Cicero
- Hieroglyphs 1
- Confessing with Saint Augustine: God and Religion in the Twilight of the Roman Empire
- Thinking With Things
- Activism, Protest and Campaigning for Global Justice
- Family, Gender and Sexuality
- Animals in Archaeology
- Excavation and Fieldwork
- (Re)presenting and (Re)constructing the Past
- Celtic Sanctity and Spirituality: Hagiography and Saints' Cults
- Error and Sweet Violence: Shakespeare and Renaissance Comedy and Tragedy
- Difficult Heritage/ Dark Tourism
- Identity and Myth: The Normans and their World
- Medicine and Miracles: Health, Illness, and Cure
- The Irish Question 1886-1998: from Charles Parnell to the Good Friday Agreement
- From Desert Myths to Sheep Tales: The Cistercians in the Middle Ages
- Free-Market Environmentalism, Big Business and Global Politics
- Ancient Lives in Death
- Britain and the Great War
- Classical Mythology and Legends in Roman and Medieval Times
- Cold war, hot wars. Global perspectives on post-war history
- Entanglements: Exploring Interactions between the Aegean and the Near East
- Exhibiting the Past: Ancient Egypt, death and modern representation
- Green to the very door: Ecocriticism and Romanticism
- Gwlad, gwlad: Aspects of Welsh History 1200 to the present
- Heritage & Archaeology of Conflict
- Households in the ancient world
- Latin 1
- Make it New: Aspects of 20th and 21st Century Writing
- Materialities in Anthropology
- Medieval Prose in Wales
- Pompeii: The life, death and rediscovery of a Roman town
- Sparta: An Extraordinary City
- Special Collections Research: The Roderic Bowen Library and Archives
- Speculative Fiction: Sci-fi, fantasy, magic realism and other imagined worlds
- The Art of the Pitch: Writing as a Career
- The Book, the Body, and the World: Renaissance Humanism, Medicine, and Exploration
- Women and Religion
- Writing for Theatre
- Writing for TV, Film and Radio
- Philosophy of Mind: Humans, Animals and Machines
- Religions in Africa
- Rome Transformed: The World of Late Antiquity
- Art and Ancient Egypt 4000BC to the 2020ies: Exhibiting artistic representations
- The World of Han China (206 BCE to 220 CE)
- Medieval Britain from Edward the Confessor to Richard II, 1042 -1399
- Medieval Europe from Charlemagne to the Hundred Years War, 800 -1453
- Approaches to Economic Relations
- A troubled unity: Philosophy, Society and Civil War in the Literature of the Seventeenth Century
- Glancingly from the side: Writing the Short story
- Novel writing
- Off the Page: Performance Poetry
- Psyche, Text, and Society: Critical and Cultural Theory
- Museums, Heritage and Representation
- Global Genocides
- The Well-Tempered Reader: Renaissance Poetics
- Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Understanding the Enlightenment
- Hieroglyphs 2
- African Modernities
- Gender, Violence and Empire, 1800-2020
- Ancient Chinese Philosophy