Global History

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Global History

King's College London
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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.

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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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