Paper

Course number, title (unit value)

Paper 1

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

Papers 2, 3 & 4

Courses to the value of 3.0 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)

HY423 Empire, Colonialism and Globalisation (1.0) ^#

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)

HY434 The Rise and Fall of Communism in Europe 1917-1990 (1.0)

HY435 Political Islam: From Ibn Taymiyya to ISIS (1.0)

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

HY439 War Cultures, 1890-1945 (1.0) ^#  (withdrawn 2018/19)

HY440 The Emergence of Modern Iran: State, Society and Diplomacy (1.0)

HY441 Islam, State and Conflict in Southeast Asia (1.0)

HY444 The Cold War in Latin America (1.0)

HY448 Living with the Bomb: An International History of Nuclear Weapons and the Arms Race from the Second World War to the end of the Cold War (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) ^#

HY463 The Origins 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)

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

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

HY472 China and the External World, 1711-1839 (1.0)

HY473 The GDR and Communist Parties in Europe 1949-1990 (1.0)  (withdrawn 2018/19)

HY477 Race, Gender and Reproduction in the Caribbean, 1860s-1980s (1.0)

HY478 The Origins of the Modern World: Europe, China and India, 1600-1800 (1.0)

Economic History:

EH404 India and the World Economy (0.5)

EH408 International Migration, 1500-2000: from slavery to asylum (0.5)

EH413 African Economic Development in Historical Perspective (0.5)

EH428 History of Economics: Making Political Economy into a Social Science (0.5)

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

EH451 Latin American Development: Political Economy of Growth (0.5)  (withdrawn 2017/18)

EH452 Latin American Development and Economic History (0.5)

EH486 Shipping and Sea Power in Asian Waters, c 1600-1860 (0.5)

Regarding Economic History (EH) courses only: it may be possible to take further options among EH courses with the agreement of the course teacher responsible and the Academic Coordinator of the Double Degree.

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.