LSE-PKU students currently in their year 1 at PKU will receive visa invitations to the UK (including the CAS code) and information regarding registration at LSE only after LSE has received the progression list from SIS/PKU in mid-July. This list will have the names of students who have successfully passed all required exams at PKU to qualify for progression to year 2 at LSE.
Students will take a core course in the Department of International History, then choose their other two taught options from a range of courses in the Departments of International Relations and International History, before completing the programme with a research dissertation on a relevant topic from the history of international affairs.
* The LSE does not have a credit system. To complete the second year study at the LSE, you must successfully pass the four compulsory papers listed below.
Paper 1
Paper 2: IR Options
Choose one course from the following list
NB. All IR courses are Controlled Access, which means that students will be required to complete the Student Statement box on the online application form, accessible from course selection page/s on LSE for You, indicating why you wish to take the course. Further guidance will be provided at the Programme Induction at the start of term.
Paper 3: Options
Choose an additional full unit or two half units from the International Relations courses listed above or one of the full units listed below
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GV479: Nationalism (subject to availability)
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HY411: European Integration in the Twentieth Century
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HY422: Presidents, Public Opinion and Foreign Policy: From Roosevelt to Reagan, 1933-89
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HY423: Empire, Colonialism and Globalization
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HY424: The Napoleonic Empire: The Making of Modern Europe?
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HY429: Anglo-American Relations from World War to Cold War, 1939-91
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HY432: From Cold Warriors to Peacemakers: the End of the Cold War Era, 1979- 1997
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HY434: The Rise and Fall of Communism in Europe, 1917-1990
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HY435: Political Islam: From Ibn Taymiyya to ISIS [Not Available 2016-17]
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HY436: Race, Violence and Colonial Rule in Africa
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HY439: War Cultures 1890-1945
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HY440: The Emergence of Modern Iran: State, Society, and Diplomacy [Not Available 2016-17]
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HY441: Islam, State and Rebellion in the Indonesian Archipelago [Not Available 2016-17]
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HY444: The Cold War in Latin America
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HY445: The Holocaust as Global History
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HY448: Living with the Bomb: An International History of Nuclear Weapons and the Arms Race from the Second World War to the End of the Cold War
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HY459: The Ottoman Empire and its Legacy, 1299-1950
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HY461: East Asia in the Age of Imperialism, 1839-1945
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HY463: The Origins of the Cold War, 1917-1962
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HY464: Crises and Détente in the Cold War, 1962-1979
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HY465: The International History of the Balkans since 1939: State Projects, Wars and Social Conflict
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HY469: Maps, History and Power: The Spaces and Cultures of the Past
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HY471: European Empires and Global Conflict, 1935-1948
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HY472: China and the External World, 1711-1839
Paper 4: Dissertation
The Dissertation will be supervised within the Department of International History at LSE and will be on a historical aspect of international affairs.