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LSE-PKU Double Degree in MSc International Affairs

Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations

Classification scheme for the award of a taught master's degree (four units)
Exam sub-board local rules

Two-year programme. Students take the first year at Peking University, and the second year at LSE as follows.

Please note that places are limited on some optional courses. Admission onto any particular course is not guaranteed and may be subject to timetabling constraints and/or students meeting specific prerequisite requirements.

Programme Code: TMINAF

Department: International History

For students starting this programme of study in 2020/21

Paper 1

The following compulsory course:

 

HY400 Crisis Decision-Making in War and Peace 1914-2003 (1.0) #

Paper 2

Courses to the value of 1.0 unit(s) from the following:

 

IR411 Foreign Policy Analysis III (1.0) #

 

IR412 International Institutions (1.0)

 

IR415 Strategic Aspects of International Relations (1.0) #  (not available 2021/22)

 

IR416 The EU in the World (1.0) #

 

IR418 International Politics: Asia & the Pacific (1.0)  (not available 2021/22)

 

IR419 International Relations of the Middle East (1.0) #

 

IR422 Conflict and Peacebuilding (1.0) #

 

IR429 Economic Diplomacy (1.0)  (not available 2021/22)

 

IR433 The International Politics of EU Enlargement (0.5)  (not available 2021/22)

 

IR434 European Defence and Security (0.5)

 

IR447 Political Economy of International Labour Migration (0.5) #  (withdrawn 2021/22)

 

IR466 Genocide (0.5)

 

IR467 Global Environmental Politics (0.5)

 

IR468 The Political Economy of Trade (0.5)

 

IR469 Politics of Money in the World Economy (0.5) # * A

 

IR471 Critical International Law (0.5)

 

IR479 Russia in World Politics (0.5) #

 

IR480 The Politics of Inequality, Development and the State (0.5)

Paper 3

Courses to the value of 1.0 unit from the list below, not already taken under Paper 2:

 

HY411 European Integration in the Twentieth Century (1.0) #

 

HY422 Presidents, Public Opinion, and Foreign Policy, from Roosevelt to Reagan, 1933-89 (1.0)

 

HY429 Anglo-American Relations from World War to Cold War, 1939-91 (1.0)

 

HY432 From Cold Warriors to Peacemakers: the End of the Cold War Era, 1979-1999 (1.0)

 

HY434 The Rise and Fall of Communism in Europe 1917-1990 (1.0)

 

HY435 Political Islam: From Ibn Taymiyya to ISIS (1.0)

 

HY436 Race, Violence and Colonial Rule in Africa (1.0)

 

HY440 The Iranian Revolution (1.0)

 

HY441 Islam, State and Conflict in Southeast Asia (1.0)  (not available 2021/22)

 

HY444 The Cold War in Latin America (1.0)

 

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 (1.0)  (not available 2021/22)

 

HY459 The Ottoman Empire and its Legacy, 1299-1950 (1.0)

 

HY461 East Asia in the Age of Imperialism, 1839-1945 (1.0) #

 

HY463 The Origins of the Cold War, 1917-1962 (1.0)

 

HY465 The International History of the Balkans since 1939: State Projects, Wars, and Social Conflict (1.0)  (not available 2021/22)

 

HY469 Maps, History and Power: The Spaces and Cultures of the Past (1.0)

 

HY471 European Empires and Global Conflict, 1935-1948 (1.0)  (not available 2021/22)

 

HY472 China and the External World, 1711-1839 (1.0)  (not available 2021/22)

 

HY474 Slavery and Emancipation in the British World (1.0)  (withdrawn 2020/21)

 

HY477 Race, Gender and Reproduction in the Caribbean, 1860s-1980s (1.0)  (withdrawn 2021/22)

 

HY478 Genesis of the Modern World: Europe, China and India, 1550-1840 (1.0)

 

HY479 Environmental History in a Global Context (1.0)  (withdrawn 2020/21)

 

HY482 National Socialism. Old theories and new research approaches (1.0)  (withdrawn 2020/21)

 

HY483 Land and Conflict in Latin America since 1750 (1.0)

 

HY484L Empire, Colonialism and Globalisation (0.5) 1

 

HY484M Empire, Colonialism and Globalisation (0.5) 2

 

HY485 Germanness in the 20th century: Identity, Politics, and Violence in Germany from the First World War to Re-Unification (1.0)  (withdrawn 2021/22)

 

HY486 Practicing Abolition in the Atlantic World, c. 1807-1870 (1.0)  (not available 2021/22)

 

HY491 Race, Gender and Reproduction in the Caribbean, 1860s-1930s (0.5)

 

IR411 Foreign Policy Analysis III (1.0) #

 

IR412 International Institutions (1.0)

 

IR415 Strategic Aspects of International Relations (1.0) #  (not available 2021/22)

 

IR416 The EU in the World (1.0) #

 

IR418 International Politics: Asia & the Pacific (1.0)  (not available 2021/22)

 

IR419 International Relations of the Middle East (1.0) #

 

IR422 Conflict and Peacebuilding (1.0) #

 

IR429 Economic Diplomacy (1.0)  (not available 2021/22)

 

IR433 The International Politics of EU Enlargement (0.5)  (not available 2021/22)

 

IR434 European Defence and Security (0.5)

 

IR447 Political Economy of International Labour Migration (0.5) #  (withdrawn 2021/22)

 

IR466 Genocide (0.5)

 

IR467 Global Environmental Politics (0.5)

 

IR468 The Political Economy of Trade (0.5)

 

IR469 Politics of Money in the World Economy (0.5) # * B

 

IR471 Critical International Law (0.5)

 

IR479 Russia in World Politics (0.5) #

 

IR480 The Politics of Inequality, Development and the State (0.5)

Paper 4

HY498 Dissertation: LSE-PKU Double Degree MSc in International Affairs; MSc Theory and History of International Relations (1.0)

Prerequisite Requirements and Mutually Exclusive Options

* means available with permission

1 : HY484L can not be taken with HY484M

2 : HY484M can not be taken with HY484L

Footnotes

A : With permission of the course teacher.

B : With permission of the course teacher.


Note for prospective students:
For changes to graduate course and programme information for the next academic session, please see the graduate summary page for prospective students. Changes to course and programme information for future academic sessions can be found on the graduate summary page for future students.