• The Bachelor of Arts in Modern and Contemporary History at Aberystwyth University is a full-time 3 years program.

    • History has been taught in Aberystwyth since 1872, making our department the most established in Wales and one of the foremost in Britain.
    • Their teaching is innovative, research-based, and designed to develop students’ transferable skills in areas such as analysis, interpretation, and communication, which prepares them for a wide range of careers.
    • They will be taught by experts who specialize in a wide range of modern and contemporary topics, from Asian migration in the modern world and Media and Society in twentieth-century Britain to Weimar Germany and the Third Reich.
    • As an Aberystwyth History student, one will have full use of the National Library of Wales, one of the five Copyright Libraries of the UK and Wales’s leading archive repository.
    • As part of this degree, students will have the opportunity to study abroad at a partner university, to undertake Heritage sector work placements and to plan for their future career.