The MSc Empires, Colonialism and Globalisation focuses on the phenomenon of imperialism and related issues, including technologies and ideologies of empire, notions of race, ethnicity and gender, economic development and underdevelopment, and trans-regional flows and interactions. Students will take a compulsory course designed to provide you with knowledge of the history and historiography of empires since the fifteenth century, and their legacy for our world today. This will be complemented by a wide range of specialist options from the Departments of International Development, Government, Economic History, International History and Geography, as well as the European Institute and the Gender Institute. You will engage at an advanced level with the latest academic research in the field, and undertake your own term papers and a research-based dissertation. Students develop highly transferable skills valued by employers and go on to work in the foreign service, the EU, political think tanks, risk assessment, journalism, the NGO sector, or stay on to take a research degree.