MA Global Studies: A European Perspective

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Two-year programme. Students attend LSE for either their first or second year and also attend, for a year, one of the following participating institutions: Leipzig, Roskilde, Vienna, or Wroclaw. Students follow the MSc Global History programme at the LSE:

MSc Global History

Programme code: TMGLHY2

Department: Economic History

This information is for the 2016/17 session.

Full-year programme. Students must take compulsory courses to the value of 2.5 units, a dissertation and optional courses.  Students taking year one of the programme at LSE will need to complete EH479 (6,000 word dissertation) and take one unit of options; students taking year two at LSE will complete EH480 (10,000 word dissertation) and 0.5 units of options.

Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations

Paper

Course number and title

1

EH481

Economic Change in Global History: Approaches and Analysis (H)

2 & 3

Two of the following:

 

EH482

Pre-Modern Paths of Growth: Europe and the Wider World, 11th to 19th Centuries

EH483

The Development and Integration of the World Economy in the 19th and 20th centuries

 

HY423

Empire, Colonialism and Globalization

4

Either

 

EH479

Dissertation: Global History (H) and courses to the value of one full unit from the following (if not already taken under Paper 2)

Or

 

EH480

Dissertation: MSc Global History and courses to the value of 0.5 units from the following (if not already taken under Paper 2):

EH402

Research Design and Quantitative Methods in Economic History (H)

EH404

India and the World Economy (H)

EH408

International Migration, 1500-2000: From Slavery to Asylum (H) (n/a 16/17)

EH409

Chinese Economy in Transition: 1850-1950 (H)

EH413

African Economic Development in Historical Perspective (H)

EH422

Topics in Quantitative Economic History

EH423

Japan and Korea as Developing Economics (H) (n/a 16/17)

EH424

The British Economy in Global Perspective, 1000-2000 (H) (withdrawn 16/17)

EH426

Quantitative Topics in Economic History I: Cross-section and Panel Data (H)**

EH427

Quantitative Topics in Economic History II: Time Series and Economic Dynamics (H)**

EH428

History of Economics: Making Political Economy into a Social Science (H) (n/a 16/17)

EH429

History of Economics: Ideas, Policy and Performativity (H)

EH446

Economic Development of East and Southeast Asia

EH447

Great Depressions in Economic History (H) (withdrawn 16/17)

EH451

Latin American Development: Political Economy of Growth (H) (n/a 16/17)

EH452

Latin American Development and Economic History (H)

 

EH463

The Long-Run Analysis of Firms and Industries (H)

EH464

The Historical Context of Business (H)

EH467

Epidemics: Epidemic Disease in History, 1348-2000 (H) (withdrawn 16/17)

 

EH476

The Economic History of War

EH482

Pre-Modern Paths of Growth: Europe and the Wider World, 11th to 19th Centuries

 

EH483

The Development and Integration of the World Economy in the 19th and 20th Centuries

 

EH486

Shipping and Sea Power in Asian Waters, c1600-1860 (H) (n/a 16/17)

 

EH487

International Economic Institutions since World War I (H) (withdrawn 16/17)

Notes    ** These courses cannot be combined with EH422