MA in Modern History
Programme Code: TMHYMH
Department: International History
For students starting this programme of study in 2025/26
Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations
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Course number, title (unit value) | |
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Year 1 |
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Paper 1 |
Courses to the value of 1.0 unit(s) from the following: | |
EH404 India and the World Economy (0.5) (suspended 2025/26) |
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EH468 A Long Road to Capitalism? The Medieval Origins of Modern Economies (0.5) |
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GV4G7 Marx and Marxism (0.5) |
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HY424 The Napoleonic Empire: The Making of Modern Europe (1.0) |
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HY459 The Ottoman Empire and its Legacy, 1299-1950 (1.0) (suspended 2025/26) |
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HY469 Maps, History and Power: The Spaces and Cultures of the Past (1.0) |
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HY478 Genesis of the Modern World: Europe, China & India, 1550-1840 (1.0) (suspended 2025/26) |
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HY483 Land and Conflict in Latin America since 1750 (1.0) |
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HY486 The Anti-Slave-Trade Atlantic World, c. 1807-1870 (1.0) |
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HY489 China and the External World, 1644-1839 (0.5) |
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HY4B4 Maritime Asia in Transition, 1405-1839 (0.5) |
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SO426 Classical Social Thought (0.5) |
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Paper 2 |
Courses to the value of 1.0 unit(s) from the following: | |
EH429 History of Economics: Ideas, Policy and Performativity (0.5) |
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EH469 The Development and Integration of the World Economy in the 19th and 20th Centuries (0.5) |
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EU476 Emotions and Memory in European Politics (0.5) |
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HY400 Crisis Decision-Making in War and Peace 1914-2003 (1.0) # |
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HY422 Presidents, Public Opinion, and Foreign Policy, from Roosevelt to Reagan, 1933-89 (1.0) (suspended 2025/26) |
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HY429 Anglo-American Relations from World War to Cold War and Beyond, 1939-2003 (1.0) (suspended 2025/26) |
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HY432 From Cold Warriors to Peacemakers: the End of the Cold War Era, 1979-1999 (1.0) |
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HY435 Political Islam from Ibn Taymiyya to ISIS (1.0) |
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HY436 Race, Violence and Colonial Rule in Africa (1.0) |
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HY440 The Iranian Revolution (1.0) |
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HY444 Latin America in the Cold War (1.0) |
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HY461 East Asia in the Age of Imperialism, 1839-1945 (1.0) # |
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HY463 The Roots, Origins and Dynamics of the Cold War, 1917-1962 (1.0) |
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HY465 The International History of the Balkans since 1939: State Projects, Wars, and Social Conflict (1.0) # (suspended 2025/26) |
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HY471 European Empires and Global Conflict, 1935-1948 (1.0) |
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HY487 Islam, State and Conflict in Southeast Asia (0.5) |
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HY488 European Empires and Global Conflict, 1935-1948 (0.5) (suspended 2025/26) |
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HY491 Race, Gender and Reproduction in the Caribbean, 1860s-1930s (0.5) |
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HY4B1 The Vietnam Wars, 1930-75: Regional and International Perspectives (1.0) |
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HY4B2 The Afterlives of Empires in the Neo-Colonial Caribbean (0.5) (suspended 2025/26) |
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HY4B3A Citizenship in 20th century political thought: intellectual history in case studies (0.5) |
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HY4B3W Citizenship in 20th century political thought: intellectual history in case studies (0.5) |
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HY4B7 Asian Borderlands (1.0) |
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HY4B9 China and the United States Since 1949 (1.0) |
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HY4C1 Fighting and Experiencing the Greater' War c. 1912-23 (1.0) |
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HY4C2 Defining the Nation: South Asian History within a Global Perspective (1.0) |
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HY4C3 Spaces of Democracy in 20th Century Germany (1.0) |
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SO407 Politics and Society (1.0) |
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SO427 Modern Social Thought (0.5) (suspended 2025/26) |
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Paper 3 |
Any course(s) to the value of 1.0 unit(s) listed under Papers 1 and 2 AND not previously selected: | |
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AN420 The Anthropology of Southeast Asia (0.5) (suspended 2025/26) |
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AN424 The Anthropology of Melanesia (0.5) (suspended 2025/26) |
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AN447 China in Comparative Perspective (1.0) |
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AN451 Politics and Power: Debates in Anthropology (0.5) |
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AN467 The Anthropology of South Asia (0.5) # (suspended 2025/26) |
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AN469 The Anthropology of Amazonia (0.5) (suspended 2025/26) |
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AN477 Topics in the Anthropology of sub-Saharan Africa (0.5) # (suspended 2025/26) |
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AN488 Gender, Sexuality and Kinship (0.5) |
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AN489 Anthropology of the Body (0.5) (suspended 2025/26) |
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AN490 Anthropology and Religion (0.5) |
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AN492 Anthropological Entanglements in the Middle East (0.5) |
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AN4A1 Understanding Religion in the Contemporary World (0.5) |
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EU432 The Philosophy of Europe (0.5) |
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EU447 Democracy, Ideology and the European State (0.5) |
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GI422 Transnational Sexual Politics (1.0) |
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PH416 Philosophy, Morals and Politics (1.0) |
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SO4D3 Culture and Society (0.5) |
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SO4D4 Cultural Theory and Cultural Forms (0.5) |
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Paper 4 |
HY490 MA in Modern History Dissertation (1.0) |
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Papers 1 & 2 options list
EH404 India and the World Economy (0.5) (suspended 2025/26) | |
EH429 History of Economics: Ideas, Policy and Performativity (0.5) | |
EH468 A Long Road to Capitalism? The Medieval Origins of Modern Economies (0.5) | |
EH469 The Development and Integration of the World Economy in the 19th and 20th Centuries (0.5) | |
EU476 Emotions and Memory in European Politics (0.5) | |
GV4G7 Marx and Marxism (0.5) | |
HY400 Crisis Decision-Making in War and Peace 1914-2003 (1.0) # | |
HY422 Presidents, Public Opinion, and Foreign Policy, from Roosevelt to Reagan, 1933-89 (1.0) (suspended 2025/26) | |
HY424 The Napoleonic Empire: The Making of Modern Europe (1.0) | |
HY429 Anglo-American Relations from World War to Cold War and Beyond, 1939-2003 (1.0) (suspended 2025/26) | |
HY432 From Cold Warriors to Peacemakers: the End of the Cold War Era, 1979-1999 (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) | |
HY444 Latin America in the Cold War (1.0) | |
HY459 The Ottoman Empire and its Legacy, 1299-1950 (1.0) (suspended 2025/26) | |
HY461 East Asia in the Age of Imperialism, 1839-1945 (1.0) # | |
HY463 The Roots, Origins and Dynamics 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) # (suspended 2025/26) | |
HY469 Maps, History and Power: The Spaces and Cultures of the Past (1.0) | |
HY471 European Empires and Global Conflict, 1935-1948 (1.0) | |
HY478 Genesis of the Modern World: Europe, China & India, 1550-1840 (1.0) (suspended 2025/26) | |
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) (suspended 2025/26) | |
HY489 China and the External World, 1644-1839 (0.5) | |
HY491 Race, Gender and Reproduction in the Caribbean, 1860s-1930s (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) (suspended 2025/26) | |
HY4B3A Citizenship in 20th century political thought: intellectual history in case studies (0.5) | |
HY4B3W Citizenship in 20th century political thought: intellectual history in case studies (0.5) | |
HY4B4 Maritime Asia in Transition, 1405-1839 (0.5) | |
HY4B7 Asian Borderlands (1.0) | |
HY4B9 China and the United States Since 1949 (1.0) | |
HY4C1 Fighting and Experiencing the Greater' War c. 1912-23 (1.0) | |
HY4C2 Defining the Nation: South Asian History within a Global Perspective (1.0) | |
HY4C3 Spaces of Democracy in 20th Century Germany (1.0) | |
SO407 Politics and Society (1.0) | |
SO426 Classical Social Thought (0.5) | |
SO427 Modern Social Thought (0.5) (suspended 2025/26) |
Footnotes
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