No 6192
Wednesday 9 June 2010
Vol cxl No 33
pp. 949–968
The General Board give notice that, on the recommendation of the Faculty Board or other authority concerned, the regulations for certain University examinations have been amended as follows:
(Statutes and Ordinances, pp. 307 and 308)
The subject Mathematics for Part I of the Education Tripos will no longer be available for candidates admitted in October 2011 or later years. The subject will continue to be available to candidates admitted before that date.
The subject Mathematical Sciences for Part II will no longer be available for candidates admitted in October 2011 or later years. The subject will continue to be available to candidates admitted before that date.
The option ‘Mineral Sciences’ has been removed from the list of papers available for this subject.
(Statutes and Ordinances, p. 351)
Regulation 10.
By inserting a new paper ‘History of ideas on language’ as Paper 25.
This is a temporary solution for students offering the Preliminary Examination in 2009–10 who would continue under the Old Regulations for Tripos 2011. Examinations for the Linguistics Tripos will be held under the Old Regulations for the last time in 2011.
(Statutes and Ordinances, p. 354)
The scheme for the examination for the Tripos has been reorganized to renumber the papers in a more logical way that facilitates any future amendments; and for the arrangements for borrowed papers to be more consistent. The three current Groups will be reorganized into four Sections. A new paper will be introduced in Parts IIa and IIb entitled ‘History of ideas on language’; the paper entitled ‘Linguistic theory’ (currently Paper 11) will be renumbered as Paper 5 so as to allow a logical numbering sequence of papers; the paper entitled ‘The history of the French language’ (Paper Fr. 13 of the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos, currently listed as Paper 16) will be abolished; borrowing of Paper E1 of Part II of the Classical Tripos (Elements of comparative linguistics) into Parts IIa and IIb of the Linguistics Tripos will now be allowed. Regulations 12, 14, 15, and 16 have accordingly been amended so as to read:
12. The papers set for the Linguistics Tripos shall be as follows:
Paper 1. |
Sounds and words |
Paper 2. |
Structures and meanings (also serves as Paper X.3 of Part Ib of the Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Tripos) |
Paper 3. |
Language, brain, and society |
Paper 4. |
History and varieties of English |
Paper 5. |
Linguistic theory |
Paper 6. |
Phonetics |
Paper 7. |
Foundations of speech communication |
Paper 8. |
Phonology and morphology |
Paper 9. |
Syntax |
Paper 10. |
Semantics and pragmatics |
Paper 11. |
Historical linguistics |
Paper 12. |
History of ideas on language |
Paper 13. |
A subject in linguistics to be specified by the Faculty Board from time to time |
Paper 14. |
A subject in linguistics to be specified by the Faculty Board from time to time |
Paper 15. |
A subject in linguistics to be specified by the Faculty Board from time to time |
Paper 16. |
A subject in linguistics to be specified by the Faculty Board from time to time |
Paper 17. |
A subject in linguistics to be specified by the Faculty Board from time to time |
Paper 18. |
A subject in linguistics to be specified by the Faculty Board from time to time |
Paper 19. |
A subject in linguistics to be specified by the Faculty Board from time to time |
Paper 20. |
The language of Italy (Paper It. 10 of the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos) |
Paper 21. |
The Hispanic languages (Paper Sp. 11 of the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos) |
Paper 22. |
Aspects of the history of the German language (Paper Ge. 11 of the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos) |
Paper 23. |
The history of the Russian language (Paper Ru. 9 of the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos) |
Paper 24. |
The history and structure of modern Greek (Paper Gr. 7 of the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos) |
Paper 25. |
The Romance languages (Paper CS 1 of the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos) |
Paper 26. |
The Slavonic languages (Paper CS 3 of the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos) |
Paper 27. |
Celtic philology (Paper 12 of Part II of the Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic Tripos) |
Paper 28. |
Elements of comparative linguistics (Paper E1 of Part II of the Classical Tripos) |
Paper 29. |
The Greek language (Paper E2 of Part II of the Classical Tripos) |
Paper 30. |
The Latin language (Paper E3 of Part II of the Classical Tripos) |
Paper 31. |
Germanic philology (Paper 11 of the Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic Tripos) |
Paper 32. |
Experimental psychology (the subject Experimental Psychology in Part Ib of the Natural Sciences Tripos) |
14. (i) A candidate who takes the examination for Part IIa after obtaining honours in Part I of the Linguistics Tripos shall offer four papers chosen from Sections C and D.
(ii) A candidate who takes the examination for Part IIa in the year next after obtaining honours in another Honours Examination shall offer:
(a)Papers 1 and 2;1
(b)two papers chosen from Sections C and D.
provided that a candidate who has previously offered one or both of Papers 1 and 2 in a previous Honours Examination shall substitute that paper or both papers by either one further paper or two further papers, respectively, chosen from Sections C and D.
15. A candidate who takes the examination for Part IIb shall offer:
(a)Paper 5;
(b)two papers chosen from Sections C and D, provided that a candidate shall not offer a paper that he or she has previously offered in another Honours Examination;
(c)a dissertation submitted under the provisions of Regulation 16.
16. The following provisions shall apply to a dissertation offered under Regulation 15:
(a)Every dissertation shall be on a subject that falls within the scope of papers from Section C. A candidate shall not offer a dissertation on a subject that falls substantially within the scope of any paper that he or she intends to offer in the examination.
Regulations 16(b), 16(c), 16(d), and 16(e) remain unchanged.
1Provided that in 2011 a candidate who has offered Paper Li. 1 (General Linguistics) in a previous Honours Examination shall substitute Papers 1 and 2 by offering two further papers chosen from Section C.
(Statutes and Ordinances, p. 354)
The following detail for Papers 6 and 7 has been included:
The examination for this paper will consist of a written paper and a practical component. The practical component will assess competence in impressionistic and quantitative phonetic methods.
The examination for this paper will consist of a written paper and a practical component. The practical component will assess competence in experimental speech research.
The Faculty Board of Modern and Medieval Languages are satisfied that no candidate’s preparation for the examination in 2011 will be affected by these changes.
(Statutes and Ordinances, p. 247)
Regulation 2.
The subject Mathematics has been withdrawn.