MA/MSc History of International Relations

Full-year programme. Students take courses to the value of four full units including the dissertation as shown below:

Paper

Course number and title

1

One course from the following list:
HY400
 Crisis Decision-Making in War and Peace, 1914-1991
HY422 Presidents, Public Opinion and Foreign Policy: from Roosevelt to Reagan, 1933-1989
HY426 The European Enlightenment, c 1680-1830 
HY429 Anglo-American Relations from World War to Cold War, 1939-1991
HY433 Cultural Encounters from the Renaissance to the Modern World
HY435 Political Islam: From Ibn Taymiyya to Osama Bin Laden
HY436 Race, Violence and Colonial Rule in Africa (n/a 08/09)
HY451 Persecution in Europe: From Witch-Hunts to Ethnic Cleansing
HY456 Sex, Race and Slavery: The Western Experience
HY475 International History Since 1900

2 & 3

Two courses from the following list:
HY409 Origins and Conduct of the Second World War, 1935-1945 (n/a 08/09)
HY411 European Integration in the Twentieth Century (n/a 08/09)
HY412 Spain and the Great Powers, 1936-1953: Civil War, World War, Cold War
HY424 The Napoleonic Empire: The Making of Modern Europe?  
HY432 From Cold Warriors to Peacemakers: the End of the Cold War Era, 1979-1997
HY434 The Rise and Fall of Communism in Europe 1917-1990
HY461 East Asia in the Age of Imperialism, 1839-1945
HY462 From Nationalism to Fascism: Europe, 1890-1939
HY463 The Origins of the Cold War, 1917-1962
HY464 Crises and Detente in the Cold War, 1962-1979
Or: 
A further course from the paper 1 selection list (subject to approval by the programme director)
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 (subject to approval by the programme director)

4

HY499 Dissertation

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