Modules for course V104 | BA/WHAR
BA Welsh History and Archaeology
These are the modules currently offered on this course in the 2019–20 academic year.
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Year 1 Modules
Compulsory Modules
Semester 1
Semester 2
60 credits from:
- HXA-1005: Archaeological Principles&Tech (20) (Semester 1)
- HXH-1005: Intro to History and Heritage (20) (Semester 1)
- HXA-1006: Intro. to British Prehistory (20) (Semester 2)
- HXA-1008: Intro. to Historic Archaeology (20) (Semester 2)
Optional Modules
20 credits from:
- HAC-1001: Y Wladwriaeth Les (20) (Semester 2)
- HPS-1002: Power, Freedom & the State (20) (Semester 2)
- HPS-1004: Death of God (20) (Semester 2)
- HPS-1005: Existentialism (20) (Semester 1)
- HXA-1005: Archaeological Principles&Tech (20) (Semester 1)
- HXH-1005: Intro to History and Heritage (20) (Semester 1)
- HPS-1006: Ess. Skills for Ac. Success (20) (Semester 1) or
HAC-1006: Ess. Skills for Ac. Success (20) (Semester 1) - HXA-1006: Intro. to British Prehistory (20) (Semester 2)
- HXA-1008: Intro. to Historic Archaeology (20) (Semester 2)
Year 2 Modules
Compulsory Modules
Semester 2
- HGW-2003: Re-igniting the Dragon (20) or
HGC-2003: Ail Danio'r Ddraig (20) - HTA-2120: Rethinking Archaeology (20)
20 credits from:
- HPS-2001: Work Placement - Semester 1 (20) (Semester 1) or
HAC-2001: Lleoliad Gwaith - Semester 1 (20) (Semester 1) - HPS-2005: Work Placement - Semester 2 (20) (Semester 2) or
HAC-2005: Lleoliad Gwaith - Semester 2 (20) (Semester 2)
Optional Modules
20 credits from:
- HTA-2111: Ancestral Landscapes (20) (Semester 1)
- HTA-2114: Experimental Archaeology (20) (Semester 2)
- HTA-2117: Roman Frontier Society (20) (Semester 2)
- HTA-2118: Field Archaeology in Britain (20) (Semester 1)
- HTH-2124: Heritage and Identity (20) (Semester 2)
40 credits from:
- HAC-2002: Addysg yn y Gymru Gyfoes (20) (Semester 1)
- HAC-2009: Cymdeithas, Iaith a Phrotest (20) (Semester 2)
- HCG-2011: Dehongli'r Gorffennol (20) (Semester 1) or
HCH-2050: Debating History (20) (Semester 1) - HGH-2112: Civil War: Eng & Wal 1558-1660 (20) (Semester 2)
- HTA-2117: Roman Frontier Society (20) (Semester 2)
- HGH-2118: The United States, 1877-1945 (20) (Semester 1)
- HGH-2127: Europe, Early Middle Ages (20) (Semester 1)
- HTC-2128: Cestyll a Chymdeithas (20) (Semester 2) or
HTH-2157: The Age of the Castle (20) (Semester 2) - HGH-2135: Victorian Britain 1837-1901 (20) (Semester 2)
- HGH-2138: Europe 1945-1992 (20) (Semester 1)
- HTH-2142: Americanisation (20) (Semester 2)
- HTH-2149: Britannia Rule the Waves (20) (Semester 1)
- HTC-2156: Rhyfel Cartref America (20) (Semester 1)
- HTH-2163: Nazi Germany 1933-1945 (20) (Semester 1)
- HTH-2164: Violence in Early Mod Britain (20) (Semester 1)
Year 3 Modules
Compulsory Modules
40 credits from:
- HPS-3006: Dissertation (40) (Semester 2) or
HAC-3006: Traethawd Hir (40) (Semester 2) - Students choose to take their dissertation either from Welsh History or Archaeology.
Optional Modules
20 to 60 credits from:
- HTA-3111: Ancestral Landscapes (20) (Semester 1)
- HTA-3114: Experimental Archaeology (20) (Semester 2)
- HTA-3117: Roman Frontier Society (20) (Semester 2)
- HTA-3118: Field Archaeology in Britain (20) (Semester 1)
- HSH-3139: Nationalism in the UK 1916-97 (40) (Semester 2)
- Students taking the Welsh History Dissertation take 60 credits from this section. Students taking the Archaeology dissertation take 20 credits from this section.
20 to 60 credits from:
- HAC-3002: Addysg yn y Gymru Gyfoes (20) (Semester 1)
- HGW-3003: Re-igniting the Dragon (20) (Semester 2) or
HGC-3003: Ail Danio'r Ddraig (20) (Semester 2) - HGH-3112: Civil War: Eng & Wal 1558-1660 (20) (Semester 2)
- HGH-3118: The United States, 1877-1945 (20) (Semester 1)
- HTC-3123: Owain Glyndwr a'i Fudiad (20) (Semester 2)
- HGH-3127: Europe Early Middle Ages (20) (Semester 1)
- HGH-3135: Victorian Britain 1837-1901 (20) (Semester 2)
- HSH-3139: Nationalism in the UK 1916-97 (40) (Semester 2)
- HTH-3142: Americanisation (20) (Semester 2)
- HTH-3143: The Reign of King Stephen (20) (Semester 2)
- HSH-3144: The Norman Conquest (40) (Semester 2)
- HSH-3146: Sex&Power in Early Mod England (40) (Semester 2)
- HSH-3147: Politics&Culture in the 1960s (40) (Semester 2)
- HTH-3149: Britannia Rule the Waves (20) (Semester 1)
- HTC-3156: Rhyfel Cartref America (20) (Semester 1)
- HTH-3157: The Age of the Castle (20) (Semester 2) or
HTC-3128: Cestyll a Chymdeithas (20) (Semester 2) - HTH-3163: Nazi Germany 1933-1945 (20) (Semester 1)
- HTH-3164: Violence in Early Mod. Britain (20) (Semester 1)
- Student taking the Archaeology dissertation must take HSH-3139 and another 20 credits from this section. Students taking the Welsh History dissertation take 20 credits from this section.