Paper 1

HY458 LSE-Columbia University Double Degree Dissertation (1.0) #

Papers 2, 3 & 4

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Courses to the value of 3 unit(s) from the following:

International History:

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)

HY435 Political Islam from Ibn Taymiyya to ISIS (1.0) (suspended 2026/27)

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 2026/27)

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 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)

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

HY483 Land and Conflict in Latin America (1.0)

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

HY487 Islam, State and Conflict in Southeast Asia (0.5) (withdrawn 2026/27)

HY488 European Empires and Global Conflict, 1935-1948 (0.5) (withdrawn 2026/27)

HY489 China and the External World, 1644-1839 (0.5) (withdrawn 2026/27)

HY491 Race, Gender and Reproduction in the Caribbean, 1860s-1930s (0.5) (withdrawn 2026/27)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HY4B3A Citizenship in 20th century political thought: intellectual history in case studies (0.5) (withdrawn 2026/27)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)

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HY4B9 China and the United States Since 1949 (1.0) (withdrawn 2026/27)

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) (withdrawn 2026/27)

HY4C4 Crises and Reforms in Modern History (1.0)

HY4C5 Britain's Secret State: Intelligence and Power since 1900 (1.0)

HY4C6 Women of the World Unite: Transnational Feminisms and Decolonisation in the long Twentieth Century (1.0)

HY4C7 Interwar Internationalism Reconsidered (1.0)

Economic History:

EH404 India and the World Economy (0.5)

EH413 African Economic Development in Historical Perspective (0.5)

EH429 History of Economics: Ideas, Policy and Performativity (0.5)

EH452 Latin American Development and Economic History (0.5) (suspended 2026/27)

One of the above may be replaced by a further course from other LSE departments (subject to agreement with tutor and teacher responsible for the course).

Paper 5

Compulsory Language Requirement Students can fulfil the language requirement of the dual Master's degree in three different ways: 1) By taking two years of language training while at Columbia and the London School of Economics. 2) By taking, and passing, two translation exams. (Both translation exams must be taken at Columbia. See sample translation exams on the CU History Department website). 3) By taking, and passing, one translation exam and studying a language for one year, either at Columbia or at the LSE Language Centre.