MSc in Economic History (Research)

Programme code: TMEHRE

Department: Economic History

This information is for the 2017/18 session.

Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations
Classification scheme for the award of a taught master's degree (five units)
Exam sub-board local rules

Full-year, five unit programme. Students must take two compulsory half-unit courses, optional courses to the value of two units and a dissertation (which counts as two units) as shown. 

Paper

Course number and title

1a

EH401

Historical Analysis of Economic Change (H)

1b

One of the following:

EH402

Research Design and Quantitative Methods in Economic History (H)

EH426

Quantitative Topics in Economic History I: Cross-section and Panel Data (H) **

EH427

Quantitative Topics in Economic History II: Time Series and Economic Dynamics (H) **

2

Courses to the value of one unit from the following:

 

EH422

Topics in Quantitative Economic History 

EH446

Economic Development of East and Southeast Asia (not available 2017/18)

EH454

Human Health in History

EH476

The Economic History of War (not available 2017/18)

EH482

Pre-Modern Paths of Growth: Europe and the Wider World, 11th to 19th Centuries

EH483

The Development and Integration of the World Economy in the 19th and 20th Centuries

3

Either another paper from Paper 2 above or two half-units from below:

 

EH404

India and the World Economy (H)

EH408

International Migration, 1500-2000: from slavery to asylum (H)

EH409

Chinese Economy in Transition: 1850-1950 (H) (not available 2017/18)

EH413

African Economic Development in Historical Perspective (H) (not available 2017/18)

EH421

Economic History of Colonialism (H)

EH423

Japan and Korea as Developing Economics (H)

EH426

Quantitative Topics in Economic History I: Cross-section and Panel Data (H) **

EH427

Quantitative Topics in Economic History II: Time Series and Economic Dynamics (H) **

EH428

History of Economics: making Political Economy into a Social Science (H)

EH429

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

EH451

Latin American Development: Political Economy of Growth (H) (withdrawn 2017/18)

EH452

Latin American Development and Economic History (H)

EH463

The Long-Run Analysis of Firms and Industries (H)

EH464

The Historical Context of Business (H)

EH476

The Economic History of War (not available 2017/18)

EH486

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

LL4CB

Modern Legal History: Private Law and the Economy 1750-1950 (H)

4 & 5

Dissertation which is assessed as:

 

EH496

Research Dissertation A: Contextualisation, Theory and Research Design and

 

EH497

Research Dissertation B: Implementation: Evidence, Analysis and Contribution

** These courses cannot be combined with EH422

Note for prospective students:
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