This Master's programme combines Global Studies and Economic History. During their first year, students are trained in Leipzig and combine perspectives from history and international studies with training in critical methods in the social sciences and humanities and on different world regions (Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe and Middle East). In their second year, students build on this multidisciplinary understanding of processes of globalization to specialize in Global Economic History and its embedding into political and cultural history at LSE.
Year 1 of the Programme is based at Leipzig in Germany. Students will be expected to complete all requirements of the Degree programme in Global Studies at Leipzig, as per the regulations for Year 1 of the Programme at Leipzig which are listed on the website at: gesi.sozphil.uni-leipzig.de/masters/globalstudies/program/
Students must take courses to the value of 60 ECTS.
Core modules (40 ECTS)
- Introduction to Global History
- Introduction to International Studies
- Methods in Global Studies
- Global Studies Colloquium
Elective modules (20 ECTS)
- Regions in Globalisation Processes: Africa and the Near East
- Regions in Globalisation Processes: The Americas
- Regions in Globalisation Processes: Asia and the Middle East
- Regions in Globalisation Processes: Europe
Year 2 of the Programme is based in LSE’s Department of Economic History. During their year at LSE students will be required to take the MSc in Global Economic History. Students will be expected to complete all requirements of the MSc at LSE, as per the regulations for Year 2 of the Programme at LSE which are listed on the website at: www.lse.ac.uk/resources/calendar2020-2021/programmeRegulations/taughtMasters/2020/MScGlobalEconomicHistoryErasmusMundus.htm
Students must take compulsory courses to the value of 2 units (30 ECTS), optional courses to the value of one unit (15 ECTS), and a full-unit dissertation (15 ECTS).
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 1: Courses to the value of 1.0 unit(s) from the following:
EH482 The Origins of the World Economy: Europe and Asia, 1000-1800 (1.0) or
EH483 The Development and Integration of the World Economy in the 19th and 20th Centuries (1.0)
Paper 2: Courses to the value of 1.0 unit(s) from the following:
EH482 The Origins of the World Economy: Europe and Asia, 1000-1800 (1.0)
EH483 The Development and Integration of the World Economy in the 19th and 20th Centuries (1.0)
OR any HY400-level course(s), subject to availability, timetabling and the approval of the
Paper 3: Courses to the value of 1.0 unit(s) from the following:
- EH402 Quantitative Analysis in Economic History I (0.5)
- EH404 India and the World Economy (0.5)
- EH409 Chinese Economy in Transition: 1850-1950 (0.5) (not available 2021/22)
- EH413 African Economic Development in Historical Perspective (0.5)
- EH421 Economic History of Colonialism (0.5)
- EH423 Japan and Korea as Developing Economies (0.5) (not available 2021/22)
- EH426L Quantitative Analysis in Economic History II (0.5) (not available 2021/22)
- EH426M Quantitative Analysis in Economic History II (0.5)
- EH427 Topics in Quantitative Analysis in Economic History (0.5)
- EH428 History of Economics: Making Political Economy into a Social Science (0.5)
- EH429 History of Economics: Ideas, Policy and Performativity (0.5)
- EH430 Monetary and Financial History (1.0)
- EH431 Women in Economic History
- EH436 Economic History of the Early Modern New World (The Americas) (0.5)
- EH446 Economic Development of East and Southeast Asia (1.0)
- EH452 Latin American Development and Economic History (0.5)
- EH454 Human Health in History (1.0) (not available 2021/22)
- EH457 Living Standards since the Industrial Revolution: The British experience c.1750-2000 (0.5)
- EH463 The Long-Run Analysis of Firms and Industries (0.5)
- EH476 The Economic History of War (1.0) (not available 2021/22)
- EH482 The Origins of the World Economy: Europe and Asia, 1000-1800 (1.0)
- EH483 The Development and Integration of the World Economy in the 19th and 20th Centuries (1.0)
- EH486 Shipping and Sea Power in Asian Waters, c 1600-1860 (0.5)