📖Program Curriculum
During your degree you will learn through a variety of small-group seminar classes fieldtrips practical workshops one-to-one tuition and lectures of between 10 and 50 students. With key historic and World heritage sites on the doorstep our location gives access to a rich resource of local heritage sites monuments and museums. From prehistorical burial mounds to stately homes and castles this tremendous resource is an integral part of the course and used in our teaching through field trips practical workshops and excavations.
In the first year of your Medieval and Early Modern History degree you will choose from a selection of modules that are intended to provide a flavour of the period before 1750 as a whole. In the second and third year you will have a wide choice of more specialist and thematic modules with close consideration of original sources. This allows you to tailor your degree to your own interests. You will also research and write a dissertation on a topic of your choice in Year 3.
Alongside classroom teaching and fieldtrips you will also benefit from a range of other academic and social activities in the School. These include student conferences and School journal quizzes and social occasions student-led trips and talks. Our students are also able to benefit from University schemes such as ‘Languages for All’ and ‘Welsh for Adults’ (free languages classes in French German Italian Mandarin Chinese Spanish and Welsh) and the Study Skill Centre.
Outside this time you will prepare for seminars carry out research and complete assignments. Assessment is a mixture of essays projects presentations and examinations. The dissertation is an important part of the final assessment. Throughout the course you will be supported by our expert and enthusiastic teaching staff.
Modules for the current academic year
Module listings are for guide purposes only and are subject to change. Find out what our students are currently studying on the Medieval and Early Modern History Modules page.
Course content is for guidance purposes only and may be subject to change.
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