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LSE-Columbia University Double MA Degree in International and World History

Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations

Classification scheme for the award of a taught master's degree (four units)
Exam sub-board local rules

Twenty-two month programme. Students take the first year at Columbia University, and the second year at the LSE as follows:

Optional courses to the value of three full units, a dissertation and a language course as shown below.

Please note that places are limited on some optional courses. Admission onto any particular course is not guaranteed and may be subject to timetabling constraints and/or students meeting specific prerequisite requirements.

Programme Code: TMINWOHY

Department: International History

For students starting this programme of study in 2021/22

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 2024/25)

 

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)

 

HY434 The Rise and Fall of Communism in Europe 1917-1990 (1.0)  (withdrawn 2023/24)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

 

HY444 Latin America in the Cold War (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International History of Nuclear Weapons and the Arms Race from the Second World War to the end of the Cold War (1.0)  (withdrawn 2022/23)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 2024/25)

 

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)

 

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

 

HY483 Land and Conflict in Latin America since 1750 (1.0)  (not available 2024/25)

 

HY484L Empire, Colonialism and Globalisation (0.5) 1  (withdrawn 2023/24)

 

HY484M Empire, Colonialism and Globalisation (0.5) 2  (withdrawn 2023/24)

 

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

 

HY487 Islam, State and Conflict in Southeast Asia (0.5)  (not available 2024/25)

 

HY488 European Empires and Global Conflict, 1935-1948 (0.5)  (not available 2024/25)

 

HY489 China and the External World, 1644-1839 (0.5)

 

HY491 Race, Gender and Reproduction in the Caribbean, 1860s-1930s (0.5)  (not available 2024/25)

 

HY4A5 Women as Weapons: The Conservative Political Tradition in the Cold War (0.5)  (withdrawn 2023/24)

 

HY4A6 Technocracy, Social Engineering and Politics in the Era of the World Wars, 1914-1945 (0.5)  (withdrawn 2022/23)

 

HY4A7 Islam, Power and Culture in Mughal India (0.5)  (withdrawn 2023/24)

 

HY4A8 Asian Borderlands (0.5)  (not available 2024/25)

 

HY4A9L China and the United States Since 1949 (0.5) 3  (withdrawn 2023/24)

 

HY4A9M China and the United States Since 1949 (0.5) 4  (withdrawn 2023/24)

 

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

 

HY4B2 The Afterlives of Empires in the Neo-Colonial Caribbean (0.5)  (not available 2024/25)

 

HY4B3 Citizenship in 20th century political thought: intellectual history in case studies (0.5)

 

HY4B4 Maritime Asia in Transition, 1405-1839 (0.5)

 

HY4B5 Queer Early Modernities (0.5)  (withdrawn 2023/24)

 

HY4B6 German Transformations since 1990 (0.5)  (withdrawn 2023/24)

 

Economic History:

 

EH404 India and the World Economy (0.5)

 

EH413 African Economic Development in Historical Perspective (0.5)  (not available 2024/25)

 

EH428 History of Economics: Making Political Economy into a Social Science (0.5)  (withdrawn 2024/25)

 

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

 

EH452 Latin American Development and Economic History (0.5)  (not available 2024/25)

 

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.

Prerequisite Requirements and Mutually Exclusive Options

# means there may be prerequisites for this course. Please view the course guide for more information.

1 : HY484L can not be taken with HY484M

2 : HY484M can not be taken with HY484L

3 : HY4A9L can not be taken with HY4A9M

4 : HY4A9M can not be taken with HY4A9L


Note for prospective students:
For changes to graduate course and programme information for the next academic session, please see the graduate summary page for prospective students. Changes to course and programme information for future academic sessions can be found on the graduate summary page for future students.