History 'History' at Oxford encompasses the history of the wider European and Mediterranean world since circa 300 AD, and of most of the rest of the world from the early modern period. Some of the topics included within it border on other fields of study: In that context, History recruits some students and borrows some staff from other disciplinary backgrounds. The Faculty administers and contributes to the teaching of a number of explicitly interdisciplinary Master's programmes in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies and Medieval Studies. Research programmes DPhil and MLitt in History Course Code | 000871 DPhil and MLitt in History (History of Science and Medicine & Economics and Social History) Course Code | 003950 The whole range of the Faculty's research interests is covered including History of Science, History of Medicine and Economic History. The DPhil entails the writing of a thesis of up to 100,000 words which may involve either the finding of new or re-examination of known sources. The DPhil programme is normally undertaken on a full-time basis but the History Faculty is able to accept a limited number of doctoral applicants as part-time students if their profession or employment arrangements allow for the necessary commitment of time, and if they do not require a visa for studying in the United Kingdom. The MLitt involves writing a thesis of up to 50,000 words which is usually based on original sources, printed or manuscript. During the first one or two years candidates for either degree pursue a mixed