Global History
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Two-year programme focusing on connections and comparisons across different parts of the world in the early modern and modern eras. Students study for one year at both King’s and Georgetown, and choose from an exceptional range of options that cover all regions of the globe and a variety of transnational themes. Leads to further research or careers in education, journalism, finance, politics and cultural sectors.
KEY BENEFITS
- Unrivalled access to the research and cultural resources of the capital cities of the United States and the United Kingdom.
- An enormous range of optional modules covering almost every region of the globe and a variety of transnational themes.
- Research seminars combinin…
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Two-year programme focusing on connections and comparisons
across different parts of the world in the early modern and modern
eras. Students study for one year at both King’s and Georgetown,
and choose from an exceptional range of options that cover all
regions of the globe and a variety of transnational themes. Leads
to further research or careers in education, journalism, finance,
politics and cultural sectors.
KEY BENEFITS
- Unrivalled access to the research and cultural resources of the capital cities of the United States and the United Kingdom.
- An enormous range of optional modules covering almost every region of the globe and a variety of transnational themes.
- Research seminars combining opportunities for independent, primary-source-based research with close contact with instructors and constructive critique by peers.
- Provides access to the combined talents of two world-class History departments, with strengths in modern and early modern British, Imperial, and continental European history (King's) as well as Middle Eastern, Russian & East European, East and South Asian, Latin American, African, US and Environmental History (Georgetown).
- Gives students scope for independent research exploring specific connections and rigorous comparisons that creatively link various regional and national histories.
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PURPOSEThe Global, International & Comparative History MA is
designed to engage ambitious students who have completed an
undergraduate degree in History (or adjacent discipline) and are
keen to broaden and deepen their studies. The overall focus of the
MA is making connections and pursuing comparisons across different
parts of the globe in the early modern and modern eras.
DESCRIPTIONThe degreeThe Georgetown-King’s Joint Master’s
Degree in Global, International & Comparative History is a
two-year programme involving one academic year of study at each
institution. The degree offers students access to the combined
talents of two-world class History departments, as well as the
unrivalled research resources of Washington DC and London. King’s
existing strengths in Modern and Early Modern British, Imperial,
and continental European History complement Georgetown’s expertise
in Middle Eastern, Russian & East European, East and South
Asian, Latin American, African, US and Global Environmental
History. This range of coverage provides students with an
extraordinarily rich array of thematic, geographic, and cultural
perspectives on the past. But Global History, as pursued in this
joint master’s degree, is more than a roomy container for diverse
interests. In both taught courses and their independent research,
students will explore specific connections and rigorous comparisons
that creatively link together various local and national
histories.
The second yearIn the second year of study, whether at
Georgetown or at King’s, each Global, International &
Comparative History MA student will write an 8000-word thesis in
the framework of a two-semester research seminar. Along with
fostering discussion of shared historiographical and methodological
challenges, the seminars will provide faculty support and peer
critique to students as they formulate questions, develop research
strategies, and write up findings. Students in the Global,
International & Comparative History MA will also be able to
participate in other departmental and extra-departmental forums,
including thematic research workshops at Georgetown focusing on
Early Modern Global, International, and 19th-century American
history and the lively, wide-ranging seminars of the University of
London’s Institute for Historical Research, as well as the King’s
History Department’s own regular staff-student research seminars.
With an extraordinary variety of source material in easy
reach—including the national archives and depository libraries of
the United States and the United Kingdom—students at Georgetown and
King’s will find resources to pursue almost any intellectual
project that captures their imagination.
And after
The Global, International & Comparative History MA is designed
to provide an excellent grounding for students interested in going
on to a PhD in History or adjacent discipline. But it also
cultivates research, writing, and analytical skills that can be
applied to a broad range of careers after graduation.
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