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MSc in Empires, Colonialism and Globalisation

Programme Code: TMHYEMCOGL

Department: International History

For students starting this programme of study in 2024/25

Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations

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

Full year programme. Students must take courses to the value of four full units, comprising a compulsory dissertation and optional courses as shown.

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.

Paper

Course number, title (unit value)

Papers 1, 2 & 3

Either courses to the value of 3 units from List A:

List A

 

OR

Courses to the value of 2 units from List A and courses to the value of 1.0 unit from List B: A

List A

List B

Paper 4

HY499 Dissertation (1.0)

List A

HY424 The Napoleonic Empire: The Making of Modern Europe (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)

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

HY440 The Iranian Revolution (1.0)

HY444 The Cold War in Latin America (1.0)

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

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

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)

HY4A8 Asian Borderlands (0.5)

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

HY4B2 The Afterlives of Empires in the Neo-Colonial Caribbean (0.5)

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

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

HY4B8 On German Memory Politics: From the Cold War to New Global Challenges (1.0)

HY4B9 China and the United States Since 1949 (1.0)

HY4C1 Fighting and Enduring the Great War (1.0)


List B

AN484 Anthropological Approaches to Race, Racism, and Decolonisation (0.5)

DV400 Development: History, Theory and Policy (1.0) #

EH404 India and the World Economy (0.5)

EH413 African Economic Development in Historical Perspective (0.5)

EH421 Economic History of Colonialism (0.5)

EH436 Economic History of the Early Modern New World (The Americas) (0.5)

EH443 The History of Premodern Money (0.5)

EH446 Economic Development of East and Southeast Asia (1.0) #

EH452 Latin American Development and Economic History (0.5)

EH482 The Origins of the World Economy: Europe and Asia, 1000-1800 (1.0)

EH483 The Development and Integration of the World Economy in the 19th and 20th Centuries (1.0)

EU475 Religion and Secularism, Diversity and Conflict in Europe: Identities, Religion, and Culture (0.5)

GI409 Conceptual Foundations in Gender, Development and Globalization (0.5)

GI411 Gender, Post/coloniality and Development: Critical Perspectives and New Directions (0.5) #

GI429 Archival Interventions: Feminist, Queer and Decolonial Approaches (0.5) #

A course from another Masters programme taught at LSE which is complementary with the other courses chosen, is suitably timetabled and has the approval of the teacher concerned and the Programme Director.


Prerequisite Requirements and Mutually Exclusive Options

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

Footnotes

A : EH408, EH413, EH482, EH483, and GV442 are subject to space.

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