LSE-Columbia University Double MA Degree in International and World History

Twenty-two month programme. Students take the first year at Columbia University, and the second year at the LSE as follows:
Optional courses to the value of three full units, a dissertation and a language course as shown:

Paper

Course number and title

1

HY458

LSE-Columbia University Double Degree Dissertation

2, 3, & 4

Courses to the value of three full units from the following:

 

International History:

HY400

Crisis Decision-Making in War and Peace, 1914-2003

HY411

European Integration in the Twentieth Century

 

HY422

Presidents, Public Opinion, and Foreign Policy: From Roosevelt to Reagan, 1933-1989

 

HY423

Empire, Colonialism and Globalisation

HY424

The Napoleonic Empire: The Making of Modern Europe?

HY426

The European Enlightenment, c.1680-1799

 

HY429

Anglo-American Relations from World War to Cold War, 1939-91

HY432

From Cold Warriors to Peacemakers: The End of the Cold War Era, 1979-1999

 

HY434

The Rise and Fall of Communism in Europe, 1917-1990

HY435

Political Islam: From Mohamed Abduh to Osama bin Laden

HY436

Race, Violence and Colonial Rule in Africa

HY438

Western Intellectuals and the Challenge of Totalitarianism (n/a 14/15)

HY439

War Cultures, 1890-1945

HY440

The Emergence of Modern Iran: State, Society and Diplomacy

HY441

Islam, State and Rebellion in the Indonesian Archipelago

HY442

Secret Intelligence in the 20th Century

HY444

The Cold War in Latin America

HY461

East Asia in the Age of Imperialism, 1839-1945  (n/a 14/15)

HY463

The Origins of the Cold War, 1917-1962

HY465

The International History of the Balkans since 1939: State Projects, Wars, and Social Conflict

HY469

Maps, History and Power: The Spaces and Cultures of the Past

HY470

What is international about the 'International'?

 

Economic History:

 

EH404

India and the World Economy (H)

EH408

International Migration, 1500-2000: from Slavery to Asylum (H) (n/a 14/15)

EH413

African Economic Development in Historical Perspective (H)

 

EH428

History of Economics: Making Political Economy into a Social Science (H) (n/a 14/15)

EH429

History of Economics: Ideas, Policy and Performativity (H)

EH451

Latin American Development: political economy of growth (H) (n/a 14/15)

EH452

Latin American Development and Economic History (H)

EH466

Labour and Work in Preindustrial Europe (H) (n/a 14/15)

EH467

Epidemics: epidemic disease in history, 1348-2000 (H) (n/a 14/15)

 

EH486

Shipping and Sea Power in Asian Waters, c1600-1860 (H)

 

Regarding Economic History (EH) courses only: it may be possible to take further options among EH courses with the agreement of the course teacher responsible and the Academic Coordinator of the Double Degree.
One of the above may be replaced by a further course from other LSE departments (subject to agreement with tutor and teacher responsible for the course).

5

Compulsory Language Requirement
Students can fulfil the language requirement of the dual Master's degree in three different ways:
1) By taking two years of language training while at Columbia and the London School of Economics.
2) By taking, and passing, two translation exams. (Both translation exams must be taken at Columbia. See sample translation exams on the CU History Department website).
3) By taking, and passing, one translation exam and studying a language for one year, either at Columbia or at the LSE Language Centre.

Notes

Students can also take HY447 Hacking the Archive (in 2014/15), a non-assessed course taken in addition to the required four full-units as detailed above.