Reports

Joint Report of the Council and the General Board on the establishment of a Regius Professorship of Engineering

The Council and the General Board beg leave to report to the University as follows:

1. In this Joint Report the Council and the General Board, with the support of the Head of the Department of Engineering and Head of the School of Technology, propose: (a) the establishment of a new Professorship of Engineering to commemorate the tenure of HRH The Duke of Edinburgh as Chancellor of the University; and (b) that the assent of Her Majesty The Queen be sought for the Professorship to be designated a Regius Professorship.

2. The University has an outstanding record of teaching and research in the Department of Engineering, its largest Department. The Department is a world leader with an integrated approach, highly networked with industrial and academic partnerships, and plays a major role in providing solutions to environmental, social, and economic challenges. HRH The Duke of Edinburgh has had a close and longstanding interest in engineering, both within the University, since before his election as Chancellor, and nationally. He has been a regular visitor to the Department since 1952, when he opened the Baker Building, and throughout his period as Chancellor, most recently in 2009 when he opened the Alan Reece Building for the Department’s Institute of Manufacturing. He also serves as patron of the Cambridge University Engineers’ Association. He played a leading role, as President of the Council of Engineering Institutions, in the formation of the Fellowship of Engineering and its transition in 1992 to the Royal Academy of Engineering of which he is the Senior Fellow. The establishment of the new Professorship would thus not only provide a senior leadership position for the Department but would recognize the Chancellor’s strong association with the field.

3. The Council and the General Board consider that the establishment of the Professorship would be a particularly fitting and permanent commemoration of HRH The Duke of Edinburgh’s tenure as Chancellor since 17 December 1976. In view of the University’s many links with the royal family and Her Majesty The Queen’s forthcoming Diamond Jubilee in 2012, the Council and Board further propose that the University should seek The Queen’s permission to designate the new Professorship as a Regius Professorship. If approved, this would be the eighth such Professorship in the University, the others being the Regius Professorships of Divinity, Hebrew, Greek, Civil Law, Physic, History, and Botany.

4. The cost of the new Professorship would be met from within the existing recurrent allocation of funds to the Department of Engineering. The procedure for electing the Professor would be in accordance with Statute D, XV (as is the case for the Regius Professorships of Botany, Divinity, Greek, and Hebrew).

5. The Council and the General Board recommend:

I. That a Professorship of Engineering be established in the University from 1 October 2011, placed in Schedule B of the Statutes, and assigned to the Department of Engineering.

II. That permission be sought from Her Majesty The Queen for the Professorship to have the title of Regius Professorship of Engineering.

III. That, subject to the approval of Her Majesty The Queen in Council, the Statutes of the University be amended as set out below and that these amendments be submitted under the Common Seal of the University to Her Majesty in Council for approval:

Statute D

THE UNIVERSITY OFFICERS

Chapter XIV

THE PROFESSORS

Section 1.

By amending the first clause so as to read:

There shall be in the University the Regius Professorships of Divinity, Civil Law, Physic, Hebrew, Greek, History, Botany, and Engineering;

13 June 2011	L. K. Borysiewicz, Vice-Chancellor	I. M. Le M. Du Quesnay	Vanessa V. Lawrence
	N. Bampos	Nicholas Gay	R. Lethbridge
	Richard Barnes	David Good	Mavis McDonald
	Stephen J. Cowley	Andy Hopper	Rachael Padman
	M. J. Daunton	Christopher Hum	John Shakeshaft
	R. J. Dowling	F. P. Kelly

17 June 2011	L. K. Borysiewicz, Vice-Chancellor	Simon Franklin	Rachael Padman
	N. Bampos	Andrew Gamble	J. Rallison
	William Brown	C. A. Gilligan	Jeremy Sanders
	H. A. Chase	David Good	Patrick Sissons
	S. Coakley

Report of the General Board on the introduction of a Human, Social, and Political Sciences Tripos and of a Psychological and Behavioural Sciences Tripos

The General Board beg leave to report to the University as follows:

1. This Report proposes the introduction of two new Triposes, in Human, Social, and Political Sciences, and in Psychological and Behavioural Sciences, with effect from October 2013. These will replace the existing Archaeology and Anthropology, and Politics, Psy­chology, and Sociology Triposes. The final intake for these Triposes will be in October 2012.

2. The proposals have been developed by a Social Sciences Tripos Management Committee, which the General Board established to plan the revision of the University’s undergraduate provision in these areas. They have the support of: the Faculty Boards of Archaeology and Anthropology, of Politics, Psychology, Sociology, and International Studies, and of Biology; the Council of the School of the Humanities and Social Sciences; the Senior Tutors’ Committee; the Committee of Management for the Natural Sciences Tripos; the Undergraduate Admissions Committee; and the Admissions Forum. They have been developed, in consultation with the institutions principally concerned, through the Management Committee, which includes representatives of the relevant institutions in the School of the Humanities and Social Sciences, together with representatives of certain institutions which participate in the Natural Sciences Tripos and of the Senior Tutors’ Committee.

3. The core teaching contributions will be provided by the institutions which make up the new Faculty of Human, Social, and Political Science (established by Grace 7 of 11 May 2011) and the Department of Experimental Psychology, but there will also be contributions from other institutions including the Institute of Criminology, the Faculties of Classics, Computer Science and Technology, Education, and History, and the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. The Triposes have been structured to allow contributions from other institutions in due course and to encourage borrowing of papers between each Tripos.

4. The notion of bringing together undergraduate provision in those institutions which will make up the new Faculty, and between the Departments of Social and Developmental Psychology and of Experimental Psychology was raised in the course of the General Board’s Review of the social sciences (Reporter, 2009–10, p. 467). Those whom that Review Committee met, before it reported in January 2009, expressed strong support for these possibilities. The General Board have been much encouraged by the constructive way in which the institutions concerned have engaged with each other and consider that this bodes well for the future health of both Triposes.

5. The new Triposes will be closely connected. One will cover the larger part of the existing Archaeology and Anthropology, and Politics, Psychology, and Sociology Triposes (both of which would be suppressed), especially the subject matter covered by the Departments of Archaeology, Biological Anthropology, Politics and International Studies, Social Anthropology, and Sociology, and will be named the Human, Social, and Political Sciences Tripos. The other, the Psychological and Behavioural Sciences Tripos, will draw on expertise in this area which is present in a number of University institutions, most notably the Departments of Exp­erimental Psychology and of Social and Developmental Psychology.

6. There will be a significant level of shared teaching and borrowed papers between the two Triposes, even though they will have their own distinct identities (which will be important in promoting the University’s provision in these areas to potential applicants).

7. To secure links between the two Triposes there has been agreement, within the Management Committee, on the following:

(a)The Triposes should both comprise a Part I, Part IIa, and Part IIb, each Part I and Part IIa being based on a four-paper structure.

(b)The first year (Part I) should play a critical role in introducing students to the demands and different ways of studying at Cambridge, and, for many of them, to a number of subjects which they will not have had a chance to study previously. Each Part I should include a restricted list of papers from the other Tripos’s Part I which candidates might take.

(c)The second year (Part IIa) should offer the beginning of clearly defined disciplinary specialization, while maintaining the option of subject combinations which address students’ varied interests and do not require a commitment to a single subject. Part IIa could involve single or joint subject specialization.

(d)The goal for the final year (Part IIb) of each Tripos should be an engagement with contemporary research and thinking in each student’s chosen area (or areas) of study; the format of papers in the final year should facilitate change in content to reflect research developments and staff availability.

(e)Each Tripos should allow for appropriate subject specialization for those students who choose to pursue a particular subject (or two subjects) at Parts IIa and IIb.

(f)Each Tripos should allow for development and for the participation of other institutions over time.

(g)In Parts I and IIa, paper titles should be as generic as possible to allow for staff availability and expertise. Each paper in these Parts should normally comprise 32 hours of lectures (or equivalent). No Part I or Part IIa paper should normally be reliant on a single University Teaching Officer. A mechanism should be developed to give credit for each participating institution’s activity.

(h)Provision should be made for students who have taken Parts Ia and Ib of the Medical and Veterinary Sciences Tripos to transfer into either Tripos so as to qualify for the B.A. Degree before proceeding to clinical studies.

(i)The introduction of the new Triposes should not require additional University teaching or make unreasonable demands on the Colleges.

8. Students may transfer into one of the Triposes or transfer to other Triposes subject to meeting the relevant regulations regarding standing. Provision in the regulations will be made, where there are good pedagogical reasons and where timetabling permits, for borrowing from and loaning to other Triposes to preserve existing successful combinations and to permit new combinations as the fields of study develop.

Human, Social, and Political Sciences Tripos

9. This will cover the subject areas of Archaeology (including Assyriology and Egyptology), Biological Anthropology, Politics and International Studies, Social Anthropology, and Sociology, and provide opportunities for increased collaboration between these subjects. It will also allow connections to the Psychological and Behavioural Sciences Tripos and to other subjects, particularly, but not solely, based in the School of the Humanities and Social Sciences. In early consultations about the developments proposed by the General Board’s original Review Committee, a common observation was that the University’s existing academic staff establishment in a number of these subject areas is not on the same scale as that which is present on the establishment of cognate departments elsewhere. The proposed Tripos is intended to address this issue and to exploit the University’s expertise in these areas. This programme is structured to allow engagement with allied areas of study.

10. The Tripos will, in time, be managed by the new Faculty Board of Human, Social, and Political Science that will be established from 1 August 2011. With the exception of Social and Developmental Psychology, the new Tripos will accommodate the intellectual interests of the disciplines in that new Faculty. The aim will be to provide a unified administrative framework for the provision of undergraduate teaching in these disciplines that meets the University’s and the Colleges’ needs, while at the same time ensuring that the identity and visibility of these disciplines is maintained and is clearly visible to prospective applicants. It will also be important to ensure that effective means of dialogue are maintained with other institutions which are outwith the new Faculty but have current or prospective interest in contributing to the new Tripos. Subject to discussion with the new Faculty Board and the Council of the School of the Humanities and Social Sciences, the General Board anticipate that responsibility for this Tripos will be formally lodged with the new Faculty Board by September 2012, by which time the Faculty Board will have had an opportunity to establish itself, whilst managing the final years of the current Triposes. In the interim, a sub-committee, including members of the Social Sciences Management Committee and constituted in consultation with the Council of the School of the Humanities and Social Sciences, will act as the operational body responsible for further developing and promoting the new Tripos, reporting to the General Board through the Management Committee.

11. In Part I, students will choose from an array of papers, giving them the opportunity to sample subjects that may be new to them. Parts IIa and IIb will be track-based and will allow students to concentrate on either one or two subjects. There will be clear intellectual progression to an advanced level in one or two disciplines while students will also be able to borrow some papers from elsewhere. All students will graduate with a specialization (indicated on their transcripts) in one or two disciplines.

12. In Part I, students will take:

(i)three papers from: Biological Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Sociology, Archaeology, Introduction to the cultures of Egypt and Mesopotamia, Politics, International Relations, Akkadian, and Egyptian (for which additional language provision will continue to be made);

(ii)one further paper from the set in (i) or Introduction to psychology from Part I of the Psychological and Behavioural Sciences Tripos.

13. In Part II, students will choose one of a series of specific pathways. Initially these will be:

Archaeology (including Assyriology and Egyptology);

Biological Anthropology;

Politics and International Relations;

Social Anthropology;

Sociology;

Archaeology and Social Anthropology;

Biological Anthropology and Archaeology;

Politics and Sociology;

Social and Biological Anthropology;

Sociology and Social Anthropology.

There will be four papers in each year of Part II in each track. For the joint tracks students will take two papers in each subject. Students will not be able to switch subject track between Part IIa and Part IIb unless they switch from a joint track to one of the single subjects in that track.

For the students in a single subject track, the fourth paper in Part IIa could, subject to the proposed regulations (Annex I), be a fourth paper in that subject, or a paper in another subject within the Tripos, or an interdisciplinary research methods paper, or a paper from Part IIa of the Psychological and Behavioural Sciences Tripos. Institutions could specify one of the three subject papers as borrowed from another Tripos.

14. Each participating institution will specify its requirements for Part IIb. Each will have the discretion to allow ‘single track’ students to take up to a quarter of their overall workload for that year with a paper borrowed from another Part II track and will also have the discretion to make their own papers available subject to a student having taken a relevant paper in Part IIa. Institutions will fix the number of hours of University teaching for Part IIb papers according to the pedagogical purposes of individual papers and to staffing expertise and resources.

15. An important consideration in the Management Committee’s deliberations has been the maintenance of the opportunity for certain students taking Archaeology papers to take papers from other Triposes which are relevant to their area of archaeological study. Such papers will only be available to students following a specified Archaeology track.

16. There will be a single board of Examiners, with a Chairman, for Part I. For Parts IIa and IIb the examining for each track will be delegated to sub-committees, chaired by a Senior Examiner, drawn from the subjects. Examining joint track students will be allocated to one of these sub-committees. The logistics of examining will be based on balancing ownership, administrative load, and equity across tracks. Separate class-lists for each of the Part IIa and IIb tracks will be published.

17. Steps will be taken both to promote the new designation and to ensure the identity and availability of all the disciplines involved. It has been assumed that this Tripos will be at least as attractive to applicants who would have previously applied to one of the current Triposes in Archaeology and Anthropology or in Politics, Psychology, and Sociology. There may well be a positive impact on the number of applicants by the recent addition of International Relations as well as the new interdisciplinary options, and this Tripos may prove attractive to a broader range of applicants than hitherto. The historic student numbers data for the two current Triposes suggest that a first-year intake of about 175 students can be anticipated. There will be no subject-specific admissions requirements.

Psychological and Behavioural Sciences Tripos

18. Centred around the undergraduate teaching provision offered by the current Department of Social and Developmental Psychology and by the Department of Experimental Psychology, this Tripos represents an opportunity to develop a Psychology programme complementary to that offered within the Natural Sciences Tripos. It is believed that it will attract well-qualified applicants with A Levels which combine the Humanities, Natural Sciences, and Social Sciences but who have historically applied elsewhere. The proposed Tripos (see Annex II) has the strong support of both Psychology Departments, and provides an opportunity to present to prospective applicants a more coherent and clearer indication of the undergraduate routes to studying Psychology in Cambridge.

19. Part I students will take four papers including ‘Introduction to psychology’ and ‘Psychological enquiry and methods’ together with two papers from a list of optional papers (either from the Human, Social, and Political Sciences Tripos or from other Triposes).

A number of students who have chosen this Tripos will have interests for which there are relevant papers elsewhere, for example in the Natural Sciences Tripos. Catering for this can be achieved by further borrowings, properly evaluated to ensure that such borrowings make educational and resourcing sense.

20. The Part IIa year will serve as a foundation for research-led teaching in the final year, and as an opportunity for students to begin to specialize. Students will take a paper in Social psychology and either Cognitive and biological psychology or the papers for Experimental Psychology in Part Ib of the Natural Sciences Tripos together with two optional papers (or, for those taking the Natural Sciences Tripos papers, one optional paper and a research project). The proposed IIa course includes many currently available papers although their content may, over time, be modified in the light of paper combinations which students typically choose.

There is potential for further development of additional papers in the second year depending on the available resources. Papers which reflect interests present elsewhere in the University and relevant to this Tripos can be envisaged in the future. These might include papers in psychiatric and clinical psychology, organizational and management psychology, linguistics, behavioural economics or criminology. The Tripos is structured to allow for this.

21. Students taking Part IIb will complete a research dissertation and a paper in Development and psychopathology together with two optional papers, or two Psychology papers from Part II of the Natural Sciences Tripos, with a dissertation and an optional paper. The Psychological and Behavioural Sciences Tripos will allow specialized provision in both Experimental Psychology and Social and Developmental Psychology to continue, but also provides the opportunity to have Part IIb specializations which combine papers in this discipline with either papers from appropriate Part II specializations in the Human, Social, and Political Sciences Tripos or the Natural Sciences Tripos.

22. There will be three separate bodies of Examiners, for Part I, for Part IIa, and for Part IIb. For each of these there will be a Chairman of Examiners, and there might also be one or more Assistant Chairmen. The Management Committee (see paragraph 24 below) will delegate authority to the Faculty Boards or comparable authorities concerned to act as nominating bodies for the papers on offer. These institutions will be responsible for nominating a Senior Examiner and such number of Examiners and Assessors as each deems sufficient.

23. The General Board believe, as did their original Social Sciences Review Committee, that the development of this Tripos will attract to Cambridge a number of talented students who wish to study Psychology (a consistently popular A Level choice), but who currently study elsewhere. It should prove attractive to those students who currently apply, with the intention of focusing on Psychology, to either the Politics, Psychology, and Sociology Tripos or the Natural Sciences Tripos. The requirements of the Psychology professional bodies will be met by the proposed Tripos. Presenting Psychology in a context of a behavioural sciences course more broadly considered, where students can explore related disciplines, should ensure that this is a distinctive and appealing option.

The historic student numbers data for the two current Triposes suggest that a first-year intake of about 25 students can be anticipated from that source. It is estimated that at least half of the Psychology final-year students who have followed the Natural Sciences route (as opposed to those transferring from the Medical and Veterinary Sciences Tripos or elsewhere) would have been applicants to this new Tripos, and that there might be a further 20 students who would represent new applicants (who might previously have applied elsewhere). These projections suggest an admissions target of around 65 is feasible. A first-year intake of 50 would be viable. Ultimately, as is the case with the Human, Social, and Political Sciences Tripos, the numbers admitted will be dictated by the University’s planning processes, the policies and capacities of the Colleges, the quality of the applicants, and the available teaching resources.

24. Overall responsibility for the Psychological and Behavioural Sciences Tripos will rest ultimately with a Management Committee of the kind already in place for the Natural Sciences Tripos. Such a Committee is appropriate given that this Tripos will involve (primarily) institutions which are constituent members of different Faculties and Schools. The Management Committee will take detailed responsibility for Part I, interacting with the Faculty Boards concerned, and for oversight of the Tripos as a whole. That Committee will have duties similar to its counterpart in the Natural Sciences Tripos in terms, for example, of: keeping under review all student-related administration for the several Parts of the Tripos; advice to the relevant bodies on the efficient use of teaching; oversight of examinations; keeping under review the regulations for the Tripos; determining teaching timetables for Part I; liaison with the Colleges and the Senior Tutors’ Committee on student numbers and other matters of relevance to the Colleges; and promoting an understanding of the Tripos within and outside the University. It is intended that this Management Committee will relieve the participating institutions of much of the administration involved in running a Tripos, in terms of, for example, timetabling and examination administration. The Management Committee will work closely with its counterpart for the Natural Sciences Tripos and those responsible for the Human, Social, and Political Sciences Tripos, to ensure maximum use of common or borrowed papers. Until the Management Committee is established, a sub-committee of the Social Sciences Tripos Management Committee, including relevant members of that Committee, will act as the operational body responsible, to the Social Sciences Tripos Management Committee and the General Board, for developing and promoting the new Tripos.

Concluding comments

25. The General Board see a range of benefits in the proposals contained in this Report. They believe that they should provide attractive undergraduate routes through Cambridge’s expertise in the Human, Political, and Social Sciences, and in Psychology. Discussions with representatives of schools and colleges have confirmed the attractiveness of the proposals. Each should contribute positively to Cambridge’s widening participation strategies. The two Triposes will offer more flexible teaching provision, with increased student choice, whilst at the same time reducing the overall undergraduate teaching load falling on the institutions involved. They will aim to produce graduates who are capable of advanced further study and research, if they so choose, or are well-prepared for a range of careers. The structure of each Tripos will also promote further interdisciplinary collaboration, in both teaching and research, between the participating institutions. The proposals play to Cambridge’s existing strengths in the constituent disciplines while enhancing the educational provision offered to build on the distinctive comb­inations available here.

26. As is the case for the Natural Sciences Tripos, prospective students will apply for admission to either Tripos as a whole, without having to commit themselves at the outset to a particular Part II programme. Discussions have taken place with the relevant intercollegiate bodies regarding the admissions process. Admissions Tutors and Directors of Studies will be fully briefed about the Triposes. Particular care will be taken, through the University’s Prospectus, the website, open days, and other student recruitment and widening participation activities, to ensure that the full range of choices open to students in each Tripos are clearly explained.

27. The General Board recommend:

I. That a Human, Social, and Political Sciences Tripos and a Psychological and Behavioral Sciences Tripos be established with effect from 1 October 2013, with regulations as set out in Annexes I and II.

II. That the last admissions intakes for the Archaeology and Anthropology, and the Politics, Psychology, and Sociology Triposes be in October 2012, and that the regulations for these Triposes be rescinded in due course when commitments to students admitted in, or prior to, October 2012 have been met.

1 June 2011	L. K. Borysiewicz, Vice-Chancellor	Simon Franklin	Rachael Padman
	N. Bampos	Andrew Gamble	J. Rallison
	William Brown	C. A. Gilligan	Jeremy Sanders
	H. A. Chase	David Good	Patrick Sissons
	S. Coakley	Maria Helmling	Joshua Ward

ANNEX I

HUMAN, SOCIAL, AND POLITICAL SCIENCES TRIPOS

General

1. The Human, Social, and Political Sciences Tripos shall consist of three Parts, Part I, Part IIa, and Part IIb. In Part IIa and Part IIb there shall be an examination in each of the following five subjects: Archaeology (including Assyriology and Egyptology), Biological Anthropology, Politics and International Relations, Social Anthropology, Sociology, and there shall be a joint examination in each of the following five pairs of subjects: Archaeology and Social Anthropology, Biological Anthropology and Archaeology, Politics and Sociology, Social and Biological Anthropology, Sociology and Social Anthropology. For Part I there shall be a single class-list; for Part IIa and Part IIb there shall be a separate class-list for each of the five subjects of the examination and for each joint examination.

2. The Faculty Board of Human, Social, and Political Science shall nominate a Senior Examiner and such number of Examiners to conduct the examination for Part I of the Tripos, and a Senior Examiner and such number of Examiners to conduct the examination in each subject for Part IIa and Part IIb, as they shall deem sufficient. The Faculty Board shall have power to nominate such number of Assessors as they shall deem sufficient to assist the Examiners for each Part. If required to do so, Assessors shall set papers in the subject or subjects assigned to them, shall mark the answers of the candidates in those papers, shall assess dissertations, and shall advise the Examiners on the performance of candidates in the examination. Assessors may be summoned to meetings of the Examiners for the purpose of consultation and advice, but shall not be entitled to vote.

3. The Faculty Board may from time to time make supplementary regulations defining all or any of the subjects and specified texts of examination and may modify, alter, or withdraw such supplementary regulations as they see fit, due care being taken that sufficient notice is given of any change.

4. Before the end of the Easter Term each year the Faculty Board shall give notice of the variable subjects for the examinations to be held in the academical year next following; provided that the Board shall have the power of subsequently issuing amendments if they have due reason for doing so and if they are satisfied that no student’s preparation for the examination is adversely affected. The Board shall have power when they give notice of variable subjects to announce any consequential restriction on the combination of papers that a candidate may choose to offer.

5. The questions proposed by each Examiner and Assessor shall be submitted for approval to the whole body of Examiners for Part I or to the Examiners in the particular subject for Part IIa or Part IIb.

6. Separate meetings shall be held of all the Examiners for Part I and of the five bodies of Examiners for Part IIa and Part IIb, at which the respective class-lists shall be drawn up. The five bodies of Examiners for Part IIa and Part IIb shall also draw up class-lists for the following subjects: Archaeology and Social Anthropology (the Examiners for Archaeology), Biological Anthropology and Archaeology (the Examiners for Biological Anthropology), Politics and Sociology (the Examiners for Politics and International Relations), Social and Biological Anthropology (the Examiners for Social Anthropology), and Sociology and Social Anthropology (the Examiners for Sociology). In each class-list the names of the candidates who deserve honours shall be placed in three classes, of which the second shall be divided into two divisions. The names in the first and third classes, and in each division of the second class, shall be arranged in alphabetical order. For special excellence a mark of distinction may be awarded. The class-lists for the subject Archaeology in Part IIa and Part IIb shall indicate whether a candidate has offered in the examination the Assyriology and/or Egyptology option.

7. No student shall be a candidate for more than one Part, or any Part and also for another Honours Examination in the same term.

8. No student who has been a candidate for any Part shall again be a candidate for the same Part.

9. A candidate shall not offer in any Part of the Tripos a paper that he or she has previously offered in another University examination.

Part I

10. The following may present themselves as candidates for honours in Part I:

(a)a student who has not obtained honours in another Honours Examination, provided that he or she has kept one term and that three complete terms have not passed after the student’s first term of residence;

(b)a student who has obtained honours in another Honours Examination, in the year after so obtaining honours, provided that he or she has kept seven terms and that nine complete terms have not passed after the student’s first term of residence.

11. The scheme of examination for Part I shall be as follows:

Section A

ARC1. The development of human society

ARC2. Archaeology in action I

ARC3. Introduction to the cultures of Egypt and Mesopotamia

ARC4. Akkadian language I (also serves as Paper X.1 of Part Ia of the Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Tripos)

ARC5. Egyptian language I (also serves as Paper X.2 of Part Ia of the Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Tripos)

BAN1. Humans in biological perspective

POL1. Analysis of politics (also serves as an optional paper for Paper 5 of Part IIa of the Economics Tripos)

POL2. International relations I (also serves as an optional paper for Paper 5 of Part IIa of the Economics Tripos)

SOC1. Introduction to sociology: modern societies I (also serves as an optional paper for Paper 5 of Part IIa of the Economics Tripos)

SAN1. Human societies: the comparative perspective

Section B

PBS1. Introduction to psychology

A candidate for Part I shall be required to offer four papers as follows:

(a)three papers from Section A;

(b)one further paper from Section A or a paper from Section B.

Part IIa and Part IIb

12. A student who has obtained honours in Part I of the Human, Social, and Political Sciences Tripos or in another Honours Examination may be a candidate for honours in Part IIa in the year next after so obtaining honours.1

13. A student who has obtained honours in Part IIa of the Human, Social, and Political Sciences Tripos may be a candidate for honours in Part IIb in the year next after so obtaining honours, provided that:

(i)the student has kept seven terms and twelve complete terms have not passed after her or his first term of residence;2

(ii)no student shall be a candidate for Part IIb in Archaeology unless the Head of the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology is satisfied that the student has, since matriculation, undertaken at least one week of study visit and six weeks of archaeological excavation or fieldwork on a project or projects (or in the case of candidates for Assyriology or Egyptology, an equivalent study visit to Egypt or the Middle East and/or study in a museum) approved by the Head of the Department, provided that the Head of the Department shall have power to grant exemption from this requirement to a candidate who has obtained an equivalent amount of appropriate experience in some other way. Before the division of the Lent Term each year the Head of the Department shall draw up a list of those candidates who have satisfied this requirement or have been granted exemption from it, and shall communicate this information to the Registrary;

(iii)a student who has obtained honours in Parts Ia and Ib of the Medical and Veterinary Sciences Tripos may be a candidate for the subject Politics and International Relations or Sociology or Politics and Sociology in Part IIb of the Human, Social, and Political Sciences Tripos.

14. The scheme of examination for Part IIa and Part IIb shall be as follows:

Archaeology

ARC6. Archaeological thought I

ARC7. Archaeological thought II

ARC8. Archaeology in action II

ARC9. Archaeological science I

ARC10. Archaeological science II

ARC11. The Palaeolithic of the Old World

ARC12. Topics in palaeolithic archaeology

ARC13. European prehistory

ARC14. Special topics in European prehistory

ARC15. Aegean prehistory (Paper D1 from the Classical Tripos)

ARC16. A topic within classical archaeology and/or art (Paper D2 from the Classical Tripos)

ARC17. A topic within classical archaeology and/or art (Paper D3 from the Classical Tripos)

ARC18. A topic within classical archaeology and/or art (Paper D4 from the Classical Tripos)

ARC19. The historical archaeology of Ancient Egypt I

ARC20. The historical archaeology of Ancient Egypt II

ARC21. Ancient Egyptian religion I

ARC22. Ancient Egyptian religion II

ARC23. Mesopotamian archaeology I: prehistory and early states

ARC24. Mesopotamian archaeology II: territorial states to empires

ARC25. Mesopotamian culture I: literature

ARC26. Mesopotamian culture II: religion and science

ARC27. Europe in the first millennium ad I Anglo-Saxon archaeology (also serves as Paper 14 of Part I and Paper 16 of Part II of the Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic Tripos)

ARC28. Europe in the first millennium ad II Scandinavian archaeology (also serves as Paper 15 of Part I and Paper 17 of Part II of the Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic Tripos)

ARC29. The archaeology of medieval Britain

ARC30. Ancient India I: the Indus civilization and beyond

ARC31. Ancient India II: early historic cities of South Asia

ARC32. Ancient South America

ARC33. The archaeology of Mesoamerica and North America

ARC34. The archaeology of Africa

ARC35. Akkadian language II (also serves as Paper X.6 of Part Ib of the Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Tripos)

ARC36. Akkadian language III

ARC37. Sumerian language

ARC38. Egyptian language II (also serves as Paper X.7 of Part Ib of the Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Tripos)

ARC39. Egyptian language III

ARC40. Mesopotamian history I: states and structures

ARC41. Mesopotamian history II: empires and systems

The Faculty Board shall announce before the end of the Easter Term the papers that will be available in the examinations to be held in the next academical year.

Biological Anthropology

BAN2. A subject in biological anthropology I

BAN3. A subject in biological anthropology II

BAN4. A subject in biological anthropology III

BAN5. Theory and practice in biological anthropology

BAN6. A subject in biological anthropology IV

BAN7. A subject in biological anthropology V

BAN8. A subject in biological anthropology VI

Politics and International Relations

POL3. International relations II

POL4. Comparative politics

POL5. Conceptual issues in politics and international relations

POL6. Statistics and methods

POL7. The history of political thought to c. 1700 (Paper 19 of Part I of the Historical Tripos)

POL8. The history of political thought from c. 1700 to c. 1890 (Paper 20 of Part I of the Historical Tripos)

POL9. Political philosophy and the history of political thought since c. 1890 (Paper 5 of Part II of the Historical Tripos)

POL10. Conceptual issues and texts in politics and international relations

POL11. The history of political thought to c. 1700 (Paper 3 of Part II of the Historical Tripos)

POL12. The history of political thought from c. 1700 to c. 1890 (Paper 4 of Part II of the Historical Tripos)

POL13. A subject in politics and international relations I3

POL14. A subject in politics and international relations II

POL15. A subject in politics and international relations III

POL16. A subject in politics and international relations IV

POL17. A subject in politics and international relations V

POL18. A subject in politics and international relations VI

POL19. A subject in politics and international relations VII

Social Anthropology

SAN2. Foundations of social anthropology I

SAN3. Foundations of social anthropology II

SAN4. Theory, methods, and enquiry in social anthropology

SAN5. Thought, belief, and ethics

SAN6. Political economy and social transformation

Special subjects in social anthropology

SAN7. A subject in social anthropology

SAN8. A subject in social anthropology

SAN9. A subject in social anthropology

SAN10. A subject in social anthropology

SAN11. A subject in social anthropology

Sociology

SOC2. Social theory

SOC3. Modern societies II

SOC4. Concepts and arguments in sociology

SOC5. Statistics and methods

SOC6. A subject in sociology I

SOC7. A subject in sociology II

SOC8. A subject in sociology III

SOC9. A subject in sociology IV

SOC10. A subject in sociology V

SOC11. A subject in sociology VI

SOC12. A subject in sociology VII

SOC13. A subject in sociology VIII

SOC14. The sociology of education (Paper 3 of Part II of the Education Tripos)

SOC15. Criminology, sentencing, and the penal system (Paper 23 of the Law Tripos)

15. Each paper shall be of three hours’ duration except POL5 and SOC4, which shall consist of the submission of two essays each of not more than 5,000 words. The Faculty Board shall publish by notice in each Department of the Faculty of Human, Social, and Political Science prescribed titles or subjects for essays by the beginning of the Michaelmas Term next preceding the examination concerned. The essays for POL5 and SOC4 shall be submitted in printed or typewritten form to the Senior Examiner in the relevant subject as follows: one essay no later than the end of the first week of Full Lent Term, and one essay no later than the end of the first week of Full Easter Term.

16. Subject to the provisions of Regulation 10, candidates for Part IIa shall offer papers and other exercises as follows:

(a) Candidates in Archaeology

Option 1 (Archaeology)

(i)ARC6;

(ii)ARC8;

(iii)one paper chosen from Papers ARC2,4 ARC9, ARC11–34;

(iv)one paper chosen from BAN2–4, POL3–4, SAN2–3, 7–11, SOC2–3, and Papers 1 and 2 for the subject History and Philosophy in Part Ib of the Natural Sciences Tripos, or one further paper chosen from ARC9, ARC11–34, or either Paper 7 or Paper 8 borrowed from Part I of the Historical Tripos.

Option 2 (Assyriology)

(i)ARC355 or ARC4;

(ii)ARC23 or ARC24;

(iii)ARC25 or ARC26;

(iv)one paper chosen from ARC6, ARC8–9, ARC11–22, ARC27–34, or ARC40–41.

Option 3 (Egyptology)

(i)ARC386 or ARC5;

(ii)ARC6 or ARC8;

(iii)ARC19 or ARC20;

(iv)ARC21 or ARC22.

Option 4 (Assyriology and Egyptology)

(i)ARC355 or ARC4;

(ii)ARC386 or ARC5;

(iii)one paper from ARC19–22;

(iv)one paper from ARC23–26.

(b) Candidates in Biological Anthropology

(i)Papers BAN2–4;

(ii)one paper chosen from ARC8–9, ARC11–34, BAN6–8, POL3–4, SAN2–3, 7–11, SOC2–3, and Papers 1 and 2 for the subject History and Philosophy in Part Ib of the Natural Sciences Tripos.

(c) Candidates in Politics and International Relations

(i)POL3;

(ii)POL4;

(iii)either POL7 or POL8;

(iv)one paper chosen from ARC8–9, ARC11–34, BAN2–4, SAN2–3, 7–11, SOC2–3, Papers 1 and 2 for the subject History and Philosophy in Part Ib of the Natural Sciences Tripos, POL5–6, or either Paper 10 or Paper 11 borrowed from Part I of the Historical Tripos.

(d) Candidates in Social Anthropology

(i)Papers SAN2–4;

(ii)one paper chosen from ARC8–9, ARC11–34, BAN2–4, POL3–4, SOC2–3, and Papers 1 and 2 for the subject History and Philosophy in Part Ib of the Natural Sciences Tripos or SAN7–11.

(e) Candidates in Sociology

(i)SOC2;

(ii)SOC3;

(iii)either SOC4 or SOC5;

(iv)one paper chosen from ARC8–9, ARC11–34, BAN2–4, POL3–4, SAN2–3, 7–11, SOC4–5, Papers PBS 3–4 of the Psychological and Behavioural Sciences Tripos, and Papers 1 and 2 for the subject History and Philosophy in Part Ib of the Natural Sciences Tripos, or either Paper 10 or Paper 11 borrowed from Part I of the Historical Tripos.

(f) Candidates in Archaeology and Social Anthropology

(i)ARC6 and ARC8;

(ii)two papers chosen from SAN2–4.

(g) Candidates in Biological Anthropology and Archaeology

(i)ARC6 and ARC8;

(ii)two papers chosen from BAN2–4.

(h) Candidates in Politics and Sociology

(i)one paper chosen from POL3–4;

(ii)one paper chosen from POL7–8;

(iii)SOC2 and SOC3.

(i) Candidates in Social and Biological Anthropology

(i)two papers chosen from SAN2–4;

(ii)two papers chosen from BAN2–4.

(j) Candidates in Sociology and Social Anthropology

(i)SAN2 and SAN3;

(ii)SOC2 and SOC3.

17. Subject to the provisions of Regulation 10, candidates for Part IIb shall offer papers and other exercises as follows:

(a) Candidates in Archaeology

Option 1 (Archaeology)

(i)ARC7;

(ii)two papers chosen from Papers ARC9–34,7 one of which may be substituted by a dissertation on a subject approved by the Head of the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, which shall be submitted in accordance with the provisions of Regulation 19;

(iii)one further paper chosen from Papers ARC9–34, BAN2–4, BAN6–8, POL13–14,8 SAN2–3, SAN7–11, SOC6–15.9

Option 2 (Assyriology)

(i)ARC3610 or ARC35;

(ii)ARC23 or ARC24;

(iii)ARC25 or ARC26;

(iv)either one further paper chosen from ARC7, ARC9–22,11 ARC27–34, ARC37,12 ARC 40–41 or a dissertation on a subject approved by the Head of the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, which shall be submitted in accordance with the provisions of Regulation 19.

Option 3 (Egyptology)

(i)ARC3913 or ARC38;

(ii)ARC19 or ARC20;

(iii)ARC21 or ARC22;

(iv)either one further paper chosen from ARC7, ARC9, ARC11–34, BAN2–4, BAN6–8, SAN2–3, SAN7–11, SOC7–15 or a dissertation on a subject approved by the Head of the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, which shall be submitted in accordance with the provisions of Regulation 19.

Option 4 (Assyriology and Egyptology)

(i)ARC3614 or ARC35;

(ii)ARC3915 or ARC38;

(iii)one paper from ARC19–26;

(iv)either one further paper ARC19–26, ARC37,16or a dissertation on a subject approved by the Head of the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, which shall be submitted in accordance with the provisions of Regulation 19.

(b) Candidates in Biological Anthropology

(i)BAN5;

(ii)two papers chosen from Papers BAN6–8, one of which may be substituted by a dissertation on a subject approved by the Head of the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, which shall be submitted in accordance with the provisions of Regulation 19;

(iii)either one paper chosen from ARC9–34,17 POL13–14,18 SAN2–3, SAN7–11, SOC6–15,19or a further paper chosen from BAN6–8.

(c) Candidates in Politics and International Relations

(i)POL10;

(ii)two papers chosen from POL11–19, one of which may be substituted by a dissertation on a subject approved by the Head of the Department of Politics and International Studies, which shall be submitted in accordance with the provisions of Regulation 19;20

(iii)either one paper chosen from ARC9–34,21 BAN2–4, BAN6–8, SAN2–3, SAN7–11, SOC6–1522or a further paper chosen from POL11–19.

(d) Candidates in Social Anthropology

(i)Papers SAN5 and SAN6;

(ii)one paper chosen from Papers SAN7–11, or a dissertation on a subject approved by the Head of the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, which shall be submitted in accordance with the provisions of Regulation 19;

(iii)either ARC9–34,23 BAN2–4, BAN6–8, POL13–14,24 SOC6–1525or a further paper chosen from Papers SAN7–11.

(e) Candidates in Sociology

(i)one paper chosen from SOC6–13;

(ii)two further papers chosen from SOC6–15, one of which may be substituted by a dissertation on a subject approved by the Head of the Department of Social Sciences, which shall be submitted in accordance with the provisions of Regulation 19;

(iii)either one paper chosen from ARC9–34,26 BAN2–4, BAN6–8, POL13–14,27 SAN2–3, SAN7–11, Papers PBS 9–12 of the Psychological and Behavioural Sciences Tripos or a further paper chosen from SOC6–15.

(f) Candidates in Archaeology and Social Anthropology

(i)Paper ARC7;

(ii)one paper chosen from SAN5 and SAN6;

(iii)one paper chosen from ARC9–3428 and one paper chosen from SAN5–11; one of these papers may be substituted by a dissertation on a subject approved by the Head of the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, which shall be submitted in accordance with the provisions of Regulation 19.

(g) Candidates in Biological Anthropology and Archaeology

(i)Paper ARC7;

(ii)one paper chosen from BAN6–8;

(iii)one paper chosen from ARC9–3429 and a further paper chosen from BAN6–8; one of these papers may be substituted by a dissertation on a subject approved by the Head of the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, which shall be submitted in accordance with the provisions of Regulation 19.

(h) Candidates in Politics and Sociology

(i)two papers from POL11–19;30

(ii)two papers chosen from SOC6–15;

(iii)a candidate may substitute for one paper a dissertation on a subject approved by the Head of the Department of Politics and International Studies, which shall be submitted in accordance with the provisions of Regulation 19.

(i) Candidates in Social and Biological Anthropology

(i)one paper chosen from SAN5 and SAN6;

(ii)one paper chosen from BAN6–8;

(iii)one paper chosen from SAN5–11 and a further paper chosen from BAN6–8; one of these papers may be substituted by a dissertation on a subject approved by the Head of the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, which shall be submitted in accordance with the provisions of Regulation 19.

(j) Candidates in Sociology and Social Anthropology

(i)two papers chosen from SOC6–15;

(ii)one paper chosen from SAN5 and SAN6 and one paper chosen from SAN5–SAN11;

(iii)a candidate may substitute for one paper a dissertation on a subject approved by the Head of Department of Social Sciences, which shall be submitted in accordance with the provisions of Regulation 19.

18. Candidates for Part IIa and Part IIb in Archaeology and Biological Anthropology shall present for the inspection of the Examiners, by a date which the Head of the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology shall announce not later than the division of Michaelmas Term, records of such practical work done during the courses leading to the examination as shall be determined from time to time by the Faculty Board. The Examiners shall be provided by the Head of Department with assessments of the candidates’ practical work, and shall take these assignments into account in assigning marks for the examination.

19. (a) A candidate for Part IIb who wishes to offer a dissertation shall submit an application, including the title of the proposed dissertation, a brief account of its scope, and a statement of the scheme of papers to be offered in the examination. A candidate who so wishes may request permission to include a film or filmed material, amounting to not more than twenty minutes in length, as a component part of the dissertation. Applications shall be submitted to the Head of Department so as to arrive not later than the division of the Full Michaelmas Term next preceding the examination.

(b) Each candidate must obtain the approval of the Head of Department for the proposed title not later than the division of the Lent Term. When the Head of Department has approved a title, no change shall be made to it, or to the candidate’s scheme of papers, without the further approval of the Head of Department.

(c) A dissertation shall be of not more than 10,000 words in length. The inclusion of footnotes, figures, tables, appendices, and bibliography in the word count will be specified by each department. Each dissertation shall be typewritten, with two printed copies submitted in addition to a copy in an approved electronic format.

(d) A dissertation shall be submitted to the Senior Examiner in the relevant subject not later than the second Friday of the Full Easter Term in which the examination is held.

A dissertation shall be accompanied by (i) a brief synopsis on a separate sheet of paper of the contents of the dissertation, and (ii) a certificate signed by the candidate stating the word count of the dissertation, that it is her or his own original work, and that it does not contain material that has already been used to any substantial extent for a comparable purpose.

20. At the discretion of the Examiners, a candidate for Part IIb may be examined viva voce.

Temporary Regulation

21. The examinations for the Human, Social, and Political Sciences Tripos shall be held for the first time as follows:

Part I in 2014

Part IIa in 2015

Part IIb in 2016