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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 2022/23

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)

 

IR416 The EU in the World (1.0) #  (not available 2022/23)

 

IR418 International Politics: Asia & the Pacific (1.0)  (not available 2022/23)

 

IR419 International Relations of the Middle East (1.0) #

 

IR422 Conflict and Peacebuilding (1.0) #

 

IR433 The International Politics of EU Enlargement (0.5)  (not available 2022/23)

 

IR434 European Defence and Security (0.5)

 

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 and Development (0.5)

 

IR488 International Politics of Southeast Asia (0.5)

 

IR489 Economic Diplomacy (0.5)

 

IR490 The Strategy of Conflict in International Relations (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)  (not available 2022/23)

 

HY440 The Iranian Revolution (1.0)  (not available 2022/23)

 

HY444 The Cold War in Latin America (1.0)  (not available 2022/23)

 

HY459 The Ottoman Empire and its Legacy, 1299-1950 (1.0)  (not available 2022/23)

 

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)

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

HY486 The Anti-Slave-Trade Atlantic World, c. 1807-1870 (1.0)

 

HY487 Islam, State and Conflict in Southeast Asia (0.5)

 

HY488 European Empires and Global Conflict, 1935-1948 (0.5)

 

HY489 China and the External World, 1644-1839 (0.5)

 

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

 

HY4A5 Women as Weapons: The Conservative Political Tradition in the Cold War (0.5)  (not available 2022/23)

 

HY4A7 Islam, Power and Culture in Mughal India (0.5)

 

HY4A8 Asian Borderlands (0.5)

 

HY4A9L China and the United States Since 1949 (0.5) 3

 

HY4A9M China and the United States Since 1949 (0.5) 4

 

HY4B1 The Vietnam Wars, 1930-75: Regional and International Perspectives (1.0)

 

HY4B2 The Afterlives of Empires in the Neo-Colonial Caribbean (0.5)  (not available 2022/23)

 

HY4B3 Citizenship in 20th century political thought: intellectual history in case studies (0.5)

 

HY4B4 Maritime Asia in Transition, 1405-1839 (0.5)

 

HY4B5 Queer Early Modernities (0.5)

 

HY4B6 German Transformations since 1990 (0.5)

 

IR411 Foreign Policy Analysis III (1.0) #

 

IR412 International Institutions (1.0)

 

IR416 The EU in the World (1.0) #  (not available 2022/23)

 

IR418 International Politics: Asia & the Pacific (1.0)  (not available 2022/23)

 

IR419 International Relations of the Middle East (1.0) #

 

IR422 Conflict and Peacebuilding (1.0) #

 

IR433 The International Politics of EU Enlargement (0.5)  (not available 2022/23)

 

IR434 European Defence and Security (0.5)

 

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 and Development (0.5)

 

IR488 International Politics of Southeast Asia (0.5)

 

IR489 Economic Diplomacy (0.5)

 

IR490 The Strategy of Conflict in International Relations (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

# means there may be prerequisites for this course. Please view the course guide for more information.

1 : HY484L can not be taken with HY484M

2 : HY484M can not be taken with HY484L

3 : HY4A9L can not be taken with HY4A9M

4 : HY4A9M can not be taken with HY4A9L

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.