No 6198
Wednesday 13 October 2010
Vol cxli No 2
pp. 49–64
The Chairman of the Faculty Board of Archaeology and Anthropology gives notice that the Annual Meeting of the Faculty will be held at 4.30 p.m. on Monday, 8 November 2010, in the Seminar Room of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Street. All members of the Faculty are invited to attend. Reports on the past year will be presented by the Chairman of the Faculty Board, the Heads of Department of Archaeology, Biological Anthropology, and Social Anthropology, the Director of the McDonald Institute, the Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, the Director of the Mongolian and Inner Asian Studies Unit, the Director and Curator of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, the Chair of the Part I and Admissions Committee, and the Haddon Librarian.
Elections will be held, in accordance with Statute C, IV, 2(c), of members of the Faculty Board in class (c) to serve from 1 January 2011.
Nominations and notifications of any other business must be sent in writing to the Secretary of the Faculty Board of Archaeology and Anthropology, Pembroke Street, by Friday, 29 October 2010.
Faculty members requiring the agenda and associated papers in advance of the meeting should please email the Secretary of the Faculty Board (fjf24@cam.ac.uk) by Monday, 1 November 2010.
The Chairman of the Faculty Board of Computer Science and Technology gives notice that the Annual Meeting of the Faculty will be held at 2.15 p.m. on Tuesday, 16 November 2010, in Lecture Room 2 of the William Gates Building, JJ Thomson Avenue.
Notification of any agenda items should be sent in writing to the Secretary of the Faculty Board of Computer Science and Technology, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, JJ Thomson Avenue, to reach her no later than noon on Friday, 22 October 2010.
The Faculty Board for Earth Sciences and Geography give notice that, for the examination to be held in 2011, the papers to be offered will be examined as shown in the table below. In this table, the following terms are defined:
1.‘Three-hour examination’: The papers will be examined by a conventional unseen three-hour examination in which candidates will be asked to attempt three questions from a choice of not less than nine questions.
2.‘Two+1 examination’: The assessment of such papers will consist of a two-hour examination in which candidates will be asked to attempt two questions from a choice of not less than six questions. The papers will be undivided. In addition, there will be assessed course-work to be submitted not later than the division of the Easter Term in the year of the examination. The nature of the course-work required will be determined by the University Teaching Officer responsible for the co-ordination of the course who will provide, at the first lecture of the course, written details of the procedures which will be followed. The course-work will be equivalent to one question in quantity and for assessment in determining an overall mark for the paper.
|
Paper number |
General titles |
Courses offered in 2010–11 |
Mode of assessment |
|
1 |
Human geography I |
Cities |
Three-hour examination |
|
2 |
Human geography II |
Understanding the economy: contemporary geographies of capitalism |
Three-hour examination |
|
3 |
Human geography III |
Development |
Three-hour examination |
|
4 |
Human geography IV |
Geography and public policy |
Two+1 examination |
|
5 |
Human geography V |
Culture and society |
Three-hour examination |
|
6 |
Physical and environmental geography I |
Processes in the climate system |
Three-hour examination |
|
7 |
Physical and environmental geography II |
Glacial processes, landforms, and sediment |
Three-hour examination |
|
8 |
Physical and environmental geography III |
Environmental hazards |
Three-hour examination |
|
9 |
Physical and environmental geography IV |
Rivers and coasts |
Three-hour examination |
|
10 |
Physical and environmental geography V |
Biogeography |
Three-hour examination |
The Faculty Board for Earth Sciences and Geography give notice that, for the examination for Part II of the Geographical Tripos to be held in 2011, the papers to be offered will be examined as shown in the table below. In this table, the following terms are defined:
1.‘Three-hour examination’: The papers will be examined by a conventional unseen three-hour examination in which candidates will be asked to attempt three questions from a choice of not less than nine questions. The papers will be undivided.
2.‘Two+1 examination’: The assessment of such papers will consist of a two-hour examination in which candidates will be asked to attempt two questions from a choice of not less than six questions. The papers will be undivided. In addition, there will be assessed course-work to be submitted not later than the division of the Easter Term in the year of the examination. The nature of the course-work required will be determined by the University Teaching Officer responsible for the co-ordination of the course who will provide, at the first lecture of the course, written details of the procedures which will be followed. The course-work will be equivalent to one question in quantity and for assessment in determining an overall mark for the paper.
|
Paper number |
General titles |
Courses offered in 2010–11 |
Mode of assessment |
|
1 |
Human geography I |
Europe and beyond: politics, societies, and economies |
Three-hour examination |
|
2 |
Human geography II |
The geographies of the British economy |
Three-hour examination |
|
3 |
Prescribed topic or topics in geography I |
Political geography: geographies of post colonialism |
Three-hour examination |
|
4 |
Prescribed topic or topics in geography II |
The social engagement with nature |
Three-hour examination |
|
5 |
The geography of a prescribed area or areas I |
Nature and governance in Africa |
Two+1 examination |
|
6 |
The geography of a prescribed area or areas II |
The human geography of the Arctic regions |
Three-hour examination |
|
7 |
Historical geography I |
Historical geographies of food, famine, and power |
Three-hour examination |
|
8 |
Historical geography II |
Geographies of discipline and social regulation in 19th century Britain |
Three-hour examination |
|
9 |
Prescribed topic or topics in environmental geography |
Biosedimentary coastal systems |
Three-hour examination |
|
10 |
Prescribed topic or topics in geography III |
Contemporary India: the politics of society, environment, and development |
Three-hour examination |
|
11 |
Prescribed topic or topics in geography IV |
The historical geography of the AIDS pandemic |
Three-hour examination |
|
12 |
Physical geography I |
Earth system processes and feedbacks |
Three-hour examination |
|
13 |
Physical geography II |
Glacial environments |
Three-hour examination |
|
14 |
Prescribed topic or topics in geography V |
Biogeography |
Two+1 examination |
|
15 |
Prescribed topic or topics in geography VI |
Volcanology |
Three-hour examination |