History (MPhil)

历史与文化研究, 法学与社会类
英国, 欧洲
硕士
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The MPhil in History is an umbrella programme, comprising nine specific strands:

While all students will apply for and follow a specific strand, they will share common courses – Theory and Methods and Writing History – and they will also have a free choice of options. In this way, the course gives access to a wide range of both general and specialised training within the field of history.

You can find more information on the course webpage and on each strand’s webpage. 

The MPhil is open to students with interests in any period of British, European or American history (which may also include non-European elements, eg European expansion, Empire building or emigration). Those primarily interested in other parts of the world may like to consider the MSt in Global and Imperial History. The course will encourage you to develop practical and intellectual familiarity with advanced research in British, American and/or continental European history.

It can serve either as free-standing master’s course or as comprehensive preparation for DPhil research in the fields of history within its scope.

Teaching will comprise:

  • Core courses in Sources and Historiography, and Theory and Methods taught in weekly classes during Michaelmas term of the first year, complemented by your work with your supervisor on the individual research element of the programme
  • An optional subject taught in six weekly classes during Hilary term of the first year
  • Core course in Writing History course taught in weekly classes in Trinity term of the first year, complementing previous work done on historiography, sources and methods by exploring the challenges faced by historians regarding the framing, structuring and presentation of their work
  • Core course in Historical Concepts, Methods and Controversies taught in weekly classes in Hilary term of the second year, during which you are invited to relate your own dissertation research to wider historiographical, theoretical and methodological issues
  • Auxiliary skills. Up to 40 hours of lectures, classes, or tutorials in Michaelmas and Hilary terms in the first year. 

Full details of core and optional papers are available on the department’s website. Please note that not every optional subject listed may be on offer every year.

The summer vacation between the two years and the Michaelmas term of the second year is dedicated to archival research, providing the basis of a dissertation which is written up for submission in week six of Trinity term of the second year.

If you wish to apply for the DPhil you will be encouraged to develop your doctoral proposal in consultation with your supervisor during the first few months of your second year, so that you will be well placed to make a doctoral application.

You will have access to a comprehensive menu of skills training for graduate students, as well as a systematic schedule of introductions to the unrivalled research facilities of the University of Oxford. If necessary for your project, you will be encouraged to develop your knowledge of a foreign language in parallel to your course work.

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