Columbia and LSE introducing new MA in History

[Ester Murdukhayeva]

Dear friends,

Please see the information below about the fantastic new Columbia  
University/London School of Economics MA dual degree program.

Best,

Ester Murdukhayeva
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Dear Colleagues:

I would like to tell you about a new initiative that Columbia and the
London School of Economics is launching in international and world
history. This spring we are accepting applications for the first class
of a two-year dual master's program. Students will spend the first
year in New York and the second year in London and receive degrees
from both institutions.

As you know, most graduate studies in history are still defined by
national and regional boundaries. This program will provide an
important alternative. It will build on the growing interest in
academia and beyond for historical studies on the nature and scope of
globalization. Students will explore the world by studying the forces
that have been remaking it: migration, trade, technological
revolutions, epidemic disease, environmental change, wars and
diplomacy. The program also responds to the American Historical
Association's recent call for revaluing the master's degree in
history, The Education of Historians for the Twenty-first Century
(2004).

The dual degree will provide students with the opportunity to work in
distinct but complementary intellectual environments. Such an
expansion of perspective is invaluable, perhaps even indispensable,
for students of international and world history. The relatively close
cultural relationship between Britain and the U.S. - and their common
language - allows students to make the necessary adjustments quickly
and maximize the advantages of a two-year program.

You can find more information about the program at
www.worldhistory.columbia.edu. We hope you will encourage promising
students to seek further information about our program. Prospective
applicants should contact the program coordinator, Line Lillevik, at
worldhistory at columbia.edu or call (212) 854-3860.

Sincerely,

Matt Connelly
Director, MA in International and World History

623 Fayerweather Hall
Department of History
Mail Code 2508
1180 Amsterdam Avenue
Columbia University
New York, NY 10027

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