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Master in International History

 

Programme information

  
 
Degree: Master in International History  
 
Mode of Study: Full-time  
 
Duration: 2 years  
 
Start date: September  
 
Language of instruction: English and French  
 
Location: Geneva, Switzerland  
     

 

 

Overview

The Master in International History is a rigorous two-year degree exploring various dimensions of international history and historiography. It provides students with up-to-date critical, analytical and methodological tools and encourages historically-informed approaches to current policy, politics, economics and culture. Courses, seminars and research projects in the Department cluster around the intersecting themes of international relations, institutions and movements; global/world and transnational history; history and policy; the history of ideas; the Global South and postcoloniality; and the histories of individual regions – the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, East Asia and South Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Key features

  • This Master combines coursework, workshops, research and a thesis.
  • It encourages direct contact, debates and exchange with faculty and fellow students.
  • Compulsory courses introduce the aims, substance and criticisms of the various approaches to international, transnational and global/world history.
  • Research training is focused on individual and collective work based on primary and secondary sources.
  • Students take elective courses in anthropology and sociology, economics, international law and international relations taught in the departments concerned.

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