Year 2 at LSE

Paper 1

HY4A4 Dissertation with an Asian focus (1.0)

Paper 2

International History

Courses to the value of 1 unit(s) from the following:

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

HY411 European Integration in the Twentieth Century (1.0) #

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

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)

HY432 From Cold Warriors to Peacemakers: the End of the Cold War Era, 1979-1999 (1.0) (suspended 2026/27)

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

HY444 Latin America in the Cold War (1.0)

HY459 The Ottoman Empire and its Legacy, 1299-1950 (1.0) (suspended 2026/27)

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 2026/27)

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

HY471 European Empires and Global Conflict, 1935-1948 (1.0)

HY483 Land and Conflict in Latin America (1.0)

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

HY488 European Empires and Global Conflict, 1935-1948 (0.5) (withdrawn 2026/27)

HY491 Race, Gender and Reproduction in the Caribbean, 1860s-1930s (0.5) (withdrawn 2026/27)

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

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

HY4B3A Citizenship in 20th century political thought: intellectual history in case studies (0.5) (withdrawn 2026/27)

HY4B3W Citizenship in 20th century political thought: intellectual history in case studies (0.5)

HY4C1 Fighting and Experiencing the Greater War c. 1912-23 (1.0)

HY4C3 Spaces of Democracy in 20th Century Germany (1.0) (withdrawn 2026/27)

Paper 3

Asian History, Politics and Society

Courses to the value of 1 unit(s) from the following:

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

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

HY487 Islam, State and Conflict in Southeast Asia (0.5) (withdrawn 2026/27)

HY489 China and the External World, 1644-1839 (0.5) (withdrawn 2026/27)

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

HY4B4 Maritime Asia in Transition, 1405-1839 (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)

HY4B7 Asian Borderlands (1.0)

HY4B9 China and the United States Since 1949 (1.0) (withdrawn 2026/27)

HY4C2 Defining the Nation: South Asian History within a Global Perspective (1.0)

AN420 The Anthropology of Southeast Asia (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)

AN447 China in Comparative Perspective (1.0) #

DV432 China in Developmental Perspective (0.5) # (withdrawn 2026/27)

EH404 India and the World Economy (0.5)

EH409 Chinese Economic History: Culture, Institutions and Economic Growth (0.5) #

EH434 Economic Development of East and Southeast Asia (0.5)

EH468 A Long Road to Capitalism? The Medieval Origins of Modern Economies (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)

GY438 Urban Asia: Cities and Social Change (0.5)

GY480 Remaking China: Geographical aspects of Development and Disparity (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)

Paper 4

Courses to the value of 1 unit(s) from the following:

A course from another LSE department (subject to approval by the Masters Programmes Tutor and the Teacher Responsible for the Course)

Or another course from papers 2 or 3:

Paper 2 options list

Paper 3 options list