(Statutes and Ordinances, p. 294)
The titles of Section II and Paper 3 for Part I and the detail for the subject 'Modern Foreign Languages' in Parts I and II have been amended. The Faculty Board are satisfied that no student's preparation for the examination in 2009 will be disadvantaged by these amendments.
Regulation 11.
Section II. Current issues in education
The titles of this Section and of Paper 3 have been amended to 'Globalization, modernity, and education'.
The arrangements for candidates undertaking a year abroad have been amended. Regulations 15-17 have been amended by deleting Regulation 16, renumbering Regulation 17 as 16, and amending Regulation 15 so as to read:
Regulation 15.
15. Candidates intending to offer papers in Modern and Medieval Languages at Part II shall during the academical year next before the year of the examination be required to spend a period studying abroad under the conditions specified for the year abroad in the regulations of Part II of the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos, including all conditions relating to the submission of evidence of, and reports on, the period of study abroad and applications for the approval of the candidates' plans.
The title of, and the assessment requirements for, the subject area currently known as 'Modern Foreign Languages' have been amended so as to read:
All candidates shall offer the following paper:
Translation into the foreign language, and test in the foreign language through audio-visual media (Paper B3 from Part IB of the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos), all in the language which he or she has previously offered in the Preliminary Examination for Part I of the Education Tripos
and
one or two additional papers taken from Schedule IB to the regulations for the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos.
The title of the subject area 'Modern Foreign Languages' has been renamed 'Modern and Medieval Languages' and the detail for the subject has been amended to reflect the changes to the subject route so as to read:
Students who have completed the course in Modern and Medieval Languages in Part I of the Education Tripos shall have the following choices for Part II:
| (A) | A one-year Part II, five papers in Education Studies as set out in Regulation 12. |
| (B) | A two-year Part II, including a period spent abroad as detailed in Regulation 15. |
The student having undertaken an intensive study course or similar and gained an acceptable form of certification in a further language (in the country of that language) which shall be one of those normally available within the Education with Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos, other than French:
| Three Education papers as set out in Regulation 12 | |
| and | translation from and into the foreign language offered at Part I (Paper C1 from Part II of the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos) |
| and | oral examination C from Part II of the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos in the foreign language offered at Part I |
| and | papers in a new language (Papers A1 and A2 from Part IA of the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos, together with Oral examination A in the same language) in place of a Year Abroad Project, provided that both papers shall be in the same language, which the student shall not have offered in any previous examination. |
| Year Abroad Project in accordance with the regulations for Part II of the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos | |
| and | three Education papers as set out in Regulation 12 |
| and | translation from and into the foreign language (Paper C1 from Part II of the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos) |
| and | oral examination C from Part II of the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos |
| and either: | |
| an additional paper taken from Schedule II of the regulations for the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos | |
| or | use of the foreign language (Paper B1 from Part IA of the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos) in a post A-level language not studied at Part I, which shall be one of those normally available within the Education with Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos |
| or | a further Education paper. |