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No 6202

Wednesday 10 November 2010

Vol cxli No 6

pp. 141–180

Regulations for Examinations

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:

Natural Sciences Tripos, Part Ia

(Statutes and Ordinances, p. 381)

With effect from 1 October 2010

Part Ia

Materials Science

By notice of 28 April 2010 (Reporter, 2009–10, p. 766) the title of the subject ‘Materials and Mineral Sciences’ was amended to ‘Materials Science’. References to the Faculty Board of Earth Sciences and Geography and to the Head of the Department of Earth Sciences with respect to this subject have accordingly been removed and the regulations amended as follows:

Regulation 9.

By replacing under nominating bodies for Materials Science in Part Ia the words ‘Faculty Boards of Earth Sciences and Geography, and Physics and Chemistry, jointly’ by the words ‘Faculty Board of Physics and Chemistry’.

Regulation 17(b).

By replacing in lines 5–6 the words ‘the Heads of the Departments of Earth Sciences and Materials Science and Metallurgy’ by the words ‘the Head of the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy’.

Regulation 17(c).

By replacing in the table the provider of assessment for the subject ‘Materials Science’ so as to read: ‘Head of the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy’.

Politics, Psychology, and Sociology Tripos

SUPPLEMENTARY REGULATIONS

(Statutes and Ordinances, p. 417)

With immediate effect

The Faculty Board of Politics, Psychology, Sociology, and International Studies give notice of the following changes to the supplementary regulations:

Part I

Detail in respect of Paper 5 of Part I of the Politics, Psychology, and Sociology Tripos has been inserted so as to read:

Paper 5. International relations I

The course for this paper provides an introduction to the subject of International Relations, whose main focus is the nature of politics at the international level. It does so by focusing on the concept of the ‘international society’ of states, which refers to the set of institutions and common procedures generated over the last three and a half centuries in various attempts to manage co-existence, but which now includes many non-state actors and a number of different levels of interaction. The four principal themes of the course are: the historical evolution of the international system; the causes and consequences of war; the sources of such order as exists in international life; and the ethical dilemmas arising from the interaction of competing political systems.

Part IIb

Papers Psy. 3–6 have been renumbered as Psy. 4–7 with effect from 1 October 2010 (Reporter, 2008–09, p. 428); the detail for the new Paper Psy. 3 has been inserted so as to read:

Paper Psy 3. Biological and cognitive psychology

This paper covers biological and cognitive topics involving the connection of brain, body, and behaviour, and will do so from a social sciences perspective. Specific content includes neuroanatomy, neuroendocrinology, and neurophysiology, as well as learning, memory, judgement, decision making, intelligence, and cognition and emotion. Topics are presented in the context of the complete individual, and in interaction with the social environment. Lectures include relevant methodologies and methodological issues, and integrative examples will be provided on topics such as executive function, sex differences in the brain, social neuroscience, and autism. Practicals will serve to further illustrate the links between theoretical foundations and experimental methods. Students are expected to read in depth, as well as broadly, and to bring their independent perspective and insight to the material at hand.