Master in International History

An outline for students seeking entry in September 2012

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This two-year degree combines coursework, workshops, and researching and writing a thesis. The programme is organized in three parts. You take a total of 15 courses (each counting for 6 credits) and write a thesis (30 credits).
 

1. Compulsory courses
a) Two courses on ‘histories between and beyond the nation’, introducing the aims, substance and criticisms of the various approaches to international, transnational and global or world history.
b) A research training workshop followed by the Master’s Research Workshop.
 

2.Optional courses
Eleven one-semester courses, chosen from three menus:
a) Options in ‘Histories beyond the individual nation’.
b) Options focussed on individual world regions or continent-sized countries.
c) Options taught in other departments of the Graduate Institute.
 

3. A thesis
Researched and written mainly during the second year: independent work but guided by a professor.
 

Courses, seminars and supervision in the Department cluster around the intersecting themes of international relations, institutions and movements; global/world and transnational history, history and policy, the Global South and postcoloniality, and individual regions – currently the Americas, Europe (including Russia), the Middle East, East Asia, South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa (especially West Africa).

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