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) ^#  (not available 2023/24)

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, 1939-91 (1.0)

HY432 From Cold Warriors to Peacemakers: the End of the Cold War Era, 1979-1999 (1.0)  (not available 2023/24)

HY434 The Rise and Fall of Communism in Europe 1917-1990 (1.0)  (withdrawn 2023/24)

HY435 Ideology, State, Jihad: 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)

HY441 Islam, State and Conflict in Southeast Asia (1.0)  (not available 2023/24)

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International History of Nuclear Weapons and the Arms Race from the Second World War to the end of the Cold War (1.0)  (withdrawn 2022/23)

HY459 The Ottoman Empire and its Legacy, 1299-1950 (1.0)  (not available 2023/24)

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) ^#

HY469 Maps, History and Power: The Spaces and Cultures of the Past (1.0)  (not available 2023/24)

HY471 European Empires and Global Conflict, 1935-1948 (1.0)  (not available 2023/24)

HY472 China and the External World, 1711-1839 (1.0)  (not available 2023/24)

HY474 Slavery and Emancipation in the British World (1.0)  (withdrawn 2020/21)

HY477 Race, Gender and Reproduction in the Caribbean, 1860s-1980s (1.0)  (withdrawn 2021/22)

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

HY479 Environmental History in a Global Context (1.0)  (withdrawn 2020/21)

HY482 National Socialism. Old theories and new research approaches (1.0)  (withdrawn 2020/21)

HY483 Land and Conflict in Latin America since 1750 (1.0)

HY484L Empire, Colonialism and Globalisation (0.5) ¹  (withdrawn 2023/24)

HY484M Empire, Colonialism and Globalisation (0.5) ²  (withdrawn 2023/24)

HY485 Germanness in the 20th century: Identity, Politics, and Violence in Germany from the First World War to Re-Unification (1.0)  (withdrawn 2021/22)

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

HY491 Race, Gender and Reproduction in the Caribbean, 1860s-1930s (0.5)  (not available 2023/24)

Economic History:

EH404 India and the World Economy (0.5)  (not available 2023/24)

EH408 International Migration, 1500-2000: from slavery to asylum (0.5)  (withdrawn 2020/21)

EH413 African Economic Development in Historical Perspective (0.5)  (not available 2023/24)

EH428 History of Economics: Making Political Economy into a Social Science (0.5)  (not available 2023/24)

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

EH452 Latin American Development and Economic History (0.5)

EH486 Shipping and Sea Power in Asian Waters, c 1600-1860 (0.5)  (withdrawn 2023/24)

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.