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MSc in History of International Relations

Programme Code: TMHYIRS

Department: International History

For students starting this programme of study in 2021/22

Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations


Full-year programme. Students take courses to the value of three full units (only one of which can be an outside option i.e. a course not listed below) and a dissertation.

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.

Paper

Course number, title (unit value)

Papers 1, 2 & 3

Courses to the value of 3.0 unit(s) from the following:

 

EH452 Latin American Development and Economic History (0.5)

 

EU475 Racial Diversity and Conflict in Europe: Identities, Religion, and Culture (0.5)

 

EU476 Emotions and Memory in European Politics (0.5)

 

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)  (not available 2021/22)

 

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)

 

HY440 The Iranian Revolution (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)  (not available 2021/22)

 

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)  (not available 2021/22)

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

HY484L Empire, Colonialism and Globalisation (0.5) 1

 

HY484M Empire, Colonialism and Globalisation (0.5) 2

 

HY486 Practicing Abolition in the Atlantic World, c. 1807-1870 (1.0)  (not available 2021/22)

 

HY487 Islam, State and Conflict in Southeast Asia (0.5)  (not available 2021/22)

 

HY488 European Empires and Global Conflict, 1935-1948 (0.5)

 

HY489 China and the External World, 1711-1839 (0.5)  (not available 2021/22)

 

HY491 Race, Gender and Reproduction in the Caribbean, 1860s-1930s (0.5)

 

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

 

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

 

HY4A7 Islam, Power and Culture in Mughal India (0.5)

 

HY4A8 Asian Borderlands (0.5)

 

HY4A9 China and the United States Since 1949 (0.5)

 

Or a HY course from another MSc programme run by the Department of International History (subject to approval by the programme director). Or a related course from another department (outside option) (subject to approval by the programme director).

Paper 4

HY499 Dissertation (1.0)

Prerequisite Requirements and Mutually Exclusive Options

1 : HY484L can not be taken with HY484M

2 : HY484M can not be taken with HY484L

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

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