Notices by Faculty Boards, etc.

English Tripos, 2012: texts and topics

The Faculty Board of English give notice that the following texts, periods, and portions of subjects are for special study for the English Tripos, 2012 (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 318).

Unless otherwise stated, editions of texts are not specified.

PART I

Paper 1.	English literature and its contexts, 1300–1550 Set texts and specified topics Specified text for translation: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, ed. J. R. R. Tolkien and E. V. Gordon, rev. N. Davis, (Oxford, 1967), lines 1998–2530; Specified texts for commentary: Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde, ed. B. A. Windeatt (Penguin) or in The Riverside Chaucer, gen. ed. Larry D. Benson (Oxford, 1987), Book 2, Lines 1–931; William Langland, The Vision of Piers Plowman, (B Text), ed. A. V. C. Schmidt, second edition (London, 1995), Passus XVIII–XIX. Topics on which optional questions will be set: Violence; Nature and the Wild.
Paper 5.	Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida
Paper 6.	Practical criticism and critical practice
Paper 7.	European languages and literatures

Classical Greek

Set texts for Sections A and B

Plato: On Poetry, ed. Penelope Murray (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics, 1996)

Sophocles: Antigone, ed. Mark Griffith (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics, 1999)

Recommended text for Section C

Homer: Iliad, Book 24, ed. C. W. Macleod (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics, 1982)

Classical Latin

Set texts for Sections A and B

Virgil: Aeneid, VI

Horace: Odes 1.1, 1.4, 1.5, 1.9, 1.12, 1.22, 1.37, 2.14, 2.20, 3.1, 3.13, 3.30, 4.1, 4.5, 4.7, 4.15.

Recommended text for Section C

A Faculty online anthology of Latin verse: http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/undergraduate/local/part1/extra/paper07/latin/frameset.htm

French

Set texts for Sections A and B

Racine: Andromaque

Flaubert: Trois Contes, ed. P.-M. de Biasi (GF-Flammarion, 1986, variously reprinted)

Recommended text for Section C

A Faculty online anthology of French verse: http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/undergraduate/local/part1/extra/paper07/french/frameset.htm

German

Set texts for Sections A and B

Goethe: Faust, lines 354–4612 (i.e. Part One), excluding 3835–4398 (‘Walpurgisnacht’ and ‘Walpurgisnachtstraum’)

Brecht: Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder

Recommended text for Section C

A Faculty online anthology of German verse: http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/undergraduate/local/part1/extra/paper07/german/frameset.htm

Italian

Set texts for Sections A and B

Dante: Inferno, XVIII–XXXIV (no edition specified)

Primo Levi: Se questo è un uomo (Einaudi Tascabili, 1953, many times reprinted)

Recommended text for Section C

An online anthology of selections from: Cavalcanti; Dante; Petrarch; Ariosto; Tasso; Michelangelo; Leopardi; Ungaretti; Montale. http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/undergraduate/local/part1/extra/paper07/latin/frameset.htm

Old English

Set texts for Sections A and B

Beowulf: A Student Edition, ed. George Jack (Oxford: Clarendon, 1994), ll. 710–1191; The Dream of the Rood and The Battle of Maldon.

Recommended texts for Section C

Caedmon’s Hymn; Preface to the Translation of Gregory’s Pastoral Care; Translation of Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy, selections: ‘Proem’, ‘On Government’, and ‘Orfeus and Eurydice’; The Wanderer; The Seafarer; Deor; Wulf and Eadwacer; Riddles 5, 7, 12, 29, 43, 45, 55; The Wife’s Lament; The Husband’s Message; The Ruin; Passion of Saint Edmund; Judith; Wulfstan’s Sermo Lupi ad Anglos; Apollonius of Tyre. All these texts are available in Old and Middle English: An Anthology, ed. Elaine Treharne (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000).

Paper 8.	English language for literature, 1300 to the present Specified topics: Argument; Special Period, 1570–1630.
Paper 9.	English literature and its contexts, 1300 to the present: Open dissertation
Paper 10.	Early medieval literature and its contexts, 1066–c. 1350 (also serves as Paper 14 of Part II and as Paper 11 of Part I of the Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic Tripos)

Early Middle English:

English:

Set texts

The following texts and line numbers are taken from A Book of Middle English, ed. J. A. Burrow and Thorlac Turville-Petre, third edition (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004):

The Peterborough Chronicle 1137, lines 1–82

The Owl and the Nightingale, lines 1–390

Lawman’s Brut, lines 1–173

The following texts are taken from Medieval English Prose for Women: Selections from the Katherine Group and Ancrene Wisse, eds. Bella Millett and Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990):

Seinte Margarete, p. 50 line 4 – p. 62 line 21

Ancrene Wisse, Part 7, p. 110 line 1 – p. 122 line 20

Lay le Freine, in The Middle English Breton Lays, ed. Anne Laskaya and Eve Salisbury, (Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1995), lines 1–120, 135–310

Anglo-Norman:

Set texts

Beroul, Le Roman de Tristan, ed. Alfred Ewert (1939; repr. Oxford: Blackwell, 1988), lines 1437–1834

‘1 The Service for Representing Adam’, in Mediaeval Drama, ed. David Bevington (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1975), lines 358–590

La Chanson de Roland, ed. Frederick Whitehead, rev. T. D. Hemming (1942; Bristol: Bristol Classical Press, 1993), lines 2570–2685 and 3130–3236

Marie de France, Lais, ed. Alfred Ewert (1944; repr. Oxford: Blackwell, 1987; Bristol: Bristol Classical Press, 1995), ‘Le Fresne’, lines 1–312

Wace’s Roman de Brut: A History of the British, ed. and trans. Judith Weiss (Exeter: Exeter University Press, 1999), lines 12977–13298

Latin:

Set texts

‘19 The Slaughter of the Innocents’, in Mediaeval Drama, ed. David Bevington (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1975)

Nigel of Longchamps, Speculum Stultorum, ed. J. H. Mozley and R. R. Raymo (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1960), lines 2665–2872

Geoffrey of Monmouth, The History of the Kings of Britain: An Edition and Translation of the Historia Regum Britannie, ed. Michael Reeve, trans. Neil Wright (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2007), chapters 137–142

Walter Map, De Nugis Curialium, ed. and trans. M. R. James, rev. C. N. L. Brooke and R. A. B. Mynors (1914; Oxford: Clarendon press, 1983), p. 286 line 17 – p. 296 line 32

‘The Songs of Peter of Blois’, printed in Fleur Adcock, ed. and trans., The Virgin and the Nightingale (Newcastle: Bloodaxe, 1983), nos X–XVII

PART II

Group A

Paper 1. Practical criticism

Paper 2. Tragedy

Group B(i)

Paper 3. Chaucer

Paper 4. Medieval English literature, 1066–1500 (also serves as Paper 13 of Part II of the Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic Tripos)

Subject for special study: Dreams and Visions.

Paper 5. Special period of English literature: 1500–1547

Paper 6. Special period of English literature: 1847–1872

Paper 7. Special subject I

(a) This paper is not available in 2012.

(b) Literature, culture, and crisis, 1631–1671.

(c) Lyric

(d) Modernism and the short story

Group B(ii)

Paper 8. The English moralists

Paper 9. The history and theory of literary criticism

Paper 10. Postcolonial and related literatures

Paper 11. American literature

Section A of the exam paper will consist of passages for comment from the period 1836–1865.

Paper 12. Special subject II

(a) This paper is not available in 2012.

(b) Literature and visual culture

Specified topic for Section B: Kubrick: text and genre

(c) Contemporary writing in English

Group C(ii)

Paper 28. A special subject in comparative literature (Paper CS 5 of the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos): The body

Examination in Advanced Chemical Engineering for the degree of Master of Philosophy, 2011–12: Modules

The Degree Committee for the Faculty Board of Engineering give notice that the mandatory and optional modules available for study for the M.Phil. in Advanced Chemical Engineering (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 500) in the academical year 2011–12 and the form of examination of each module will be as follows.

Mandatory modules

Ref	Name	Mode of assessment1
NM	Numerical methods in chemical engineering	Course-work
MA	Molecular aspects of chemical engineering	Course-work
MOTI	Management of technology and innovation	Course-work

Optional modules

Ref	Name	Mode of assessment1,2
B1	Biopharmaceuticals	Examination and course-work
B2	Catalysis	Examination
B3	Electrochemical engineering	Examination
B4	Fluid mechanics and the environment	Examination
B5	Modern metrology	Examination
B6	Optimization	Examination
B7	Particle technology	Examination
B8	Rheology and processing	Examination
B9	Biosensors	Course-work
4A2	Computational fluid dynamics	Course-work
4B5	Nanotechnology	Examination and course-work
4D14	Contaminated land and waste containment	Examination and course-work
4D15	Sustainable water engineering	Course-work
4E4	Management of technology	Course-work
4E5	International business economics3	Course-work
4E11	Strategic management	Course-work
4E12	Project management3	Course-work
4G4	Biomimetics	Course-work
4G6	Cellular and molecular biomechanics	Examination
4I7	Electricity and the environment	Course-work
4M6	Materials and processes for microsystems (MEMS)	Examination and course-work
4M14	Sustainable development	Course-work
4M15	Sustainable energy	Examination and course-work
4M16	Nuclear power engineering	Examination
5R15	Sustainable development	Course-work

The Degree Committee for the Faculty Board of Engineering reserve the right to add to this list during the Michaelmas Term 2011.

Examination in Advanced Computer Science for the M.Phil. Degree, 2011–12: Correction

The following modules available for study for the M.Phil. in Advanced Computer Science are half modules (see p. 956).

Michaelmas Term 2011

R07 Introductory logic (c and t)

Lent Term 2012

L22 Advanced topics in concurrency (t)

The following module available for study for the M.Phil. in Advanced Computer Science is a full module.

Lent Term 2012

L109 Social and technological network analysis (c)

Examinations in Economics and in Economic Research for the M.Phil. Degree, 2011–12: Notice

The Faculty Board of Economics and the Degree Committee for the Faculty of Economics give notice, with the approval of the Board of Graduate Studies and the General Board, that in the academical year 2011–12 the subjects for examination will be as listed below.

M.Phil. in Economics

Core Modules

Module 100: Microeconomics I

Module 200: Macroeconomics I

Module 300: Econometric methods

Advanced Modules

Module 110: Microeconomics II

Module 120: Topics in economic theory

Module 210: Macroeconomics II

Module 220: Macroeconomics III

Module 310: Times series econometrics and financial econometrics

Module 320: Cross section and panel data econometrics

Applied Modules

Module 130: Applied microeconomics

Module 230: Applied macroeconomics

Module 330: Applied econometrics

Specialist Modules

Module 140: Behavioural economics

Module 150: Economics of networks

Module 160: Political economy

Module 170: Corporate finance

Module 180: Industrial organization

Module 190: Behavioural finance

Module 240: International finance

Module 250: International trade

Module 400: Asset pricing

Module 500: Development economics

Module 510: Poverty, environment, and sustainable development

Module 600: Historical perspective in financial crises

Module 620: Institutions and long-distance trade 1000–1900

M.Phil. in Economic Research

Core Modules

Module 100: Microeconomics I

Module 200: Macroeconomics I

Module 300: Econometric methods

Advanced Modules

Module 110: Microeconomics II

Module 120: Topics in economic theory

Module 210: Macroeconomics II

Module 220: Macroeconomics III

Module 310: Times series econometrics and financial econometrics

Module 320: Cross section and panel data econometrics

Applied Modules

Module 130: Applied microeconomics

Module 230: Applied macroeconomics

Module 330: Applied econometrics

Specialist Modules

Module 140: Behavioural economics

Module 150: Economics of networks

Module 160: Political economy

Module 170: Corporate finance

Module 180: Industrial organization

Module 190: Behavioural finance

Module 240: International finance

Module 250: International trade

Module 400: Asset pricing

Module 500: Development economics

Module 510: Poverty, environment, and sustainable development

Module 600: Historical perspective in financial crises

Module 620: Institutions and long-distance trade 1000–1900

The method of examination for all modules will be by a two-hour written paper.

Diploma in Economics, 2011–12: Notice

The Faculty Board of Economics and the Degree Committee for the Faculty of Economics give notice, with the approval of the Board of Graduate Studies and the General Board, that in the academical year 2011–12 the subjects for examination for the Diploma in Economics will be as listed below.

Papers 1 and 2 will each be examined by means of a three-hour written examination, while Paper 3 will be examined by means of a three-hour written examination (60% of the marks) and a project (40% of the marks).

Paper 1: Microeconomics

Paper 2: Macroeconomics

Paper 3: Econometrics

Examination in Economics for the Certificate of Postgraduate Study, 2011–12: Notice

The Faculty Board of Economics and the Degree Committee for the Faculty of Economics give notice, with the approval of the Board of Graduate Studies and the General Board, that in the academical year 2011–12 the subjects for examination will be as listed below.

Compulsory Component

PhD 40: How to do economics

Specialist Modules

PhD10: Advanced course in economic theory

PhD20: Topics in advanced macroeconomics

PhD30: Advanced econometrics I

PhD31: Advanced macroeconomics II

Module 140: Behavioural economics

Module 150: Economics of networks

Module 160: Political economy

Module 170: Corporate finance

Module 180: Industrial organization

Module 190: Behavioural finance

Module 240: International finance

Module 250: International trade

Module 400: Asset pricing

Module 500: Development economics

Module 510: Poverty, environment, and sustainable development

Module 600: Historical perspective in financial crises

Module 620: Institutions and long-distance trade 1000–1900

Research Workshops

Microeconomic theory workshop

Applied microeconomics workshop

Macroeconomics workshop

Econometrics workshop

M.Phil. in Engineering for Sustainable Development, 2011–12: Notice

The Degree Committee for the Faculty of Engineering give notice that the mandatory and optional modules available for study for the M.Phil. in Engineering for Sustainable Development (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 512) in the academical year 2011–12 will be as follows.

Core Modules (Mandatory)

(all assessed by course-work)

Michaelmas 2011

ESD 100	Concepts, values, and change processes
ESD 200	Sustainability methods and metrics
MOT&I	Management of technology and innovation (two components = one module)

Lent 2011

MOT&I

Management of technology and innovation (two components = one module)

Outer Core Modules (two required from the following list)1

ESD 300	Sustainability assessment of large infrastructure projects
ESD 400	Economic, legal, and regulation issues
ESD 500	Development engineering
ESD 600	Sustainable design and implementation

Optional modules

Michaelmas 2011 (two required)		Mode of assessment2
ESD-E453	Environmental engineering	course-work
4B14	Solar electronic power: generation and distribution	course-work and examination
4B19	Renewable electrical power	examination
4D11	Building physics	course-work and examination
4D13	Architectural engineering	course-work
4D14	Contaminated land and waste containment	course-work and examination
4E1	Technological innovation: research and practice	course-work
4E4	Management of technology	course-work
4E64	Accounting and finance	course-work
4G4	Biomimetics	examination
4I7	Electricity and environment	course-work
MM10	Globalization	course-work
TP1	Introduction to technology policy	course-work
TPE7	Political economy of technology policy	course-work
ESD-A1	Environmental design for architecture: 1	course-work

Lent 2012 (two required)1		Mode of assessment2
4A8	Environmental fluid mechanics	examination
4D15	Sustainable water engineering	course-work
4E5	International business economics	course-work
4E11	Strategic management	course-work
4E12	Project management	course-work
4M15	Sustainable energy	course-work and examination
4G1	Systems biology	course-work
TP4	Complexity and negotiations (Easter Term)	course-work
TP65	Uncertainty and real options in systems design	course-work
TPE8	Systems dynamics	course-work
ESD-A2	Environmental design for architecture: 2	course-work
ESD-CE2	Sustainability and chemical engineering	examination

The Degree Committee for the Faculty of Engineering reserve the right to add to this list during the Michaelmas Term 2011.

M.Phil. Degree (one-year course): Examinations in Environmental Policy, in Planning, Growth, and Regeneration, in Real Estate Finance, and in Land Economy Research, 2011–12: Notice

The Degree Committee for the Department of Land Economy give notice, with the approval of the Board of Graduate Studies and the General Board, that in the academical year 2011–12 the modules for: Environmental Policy; Land Economy Research; Planning, Growth, and Regeneration; and Real Estate Finance, in the examination for the M.Phil. Degree (one-year course), in addition to the compulsory dissertation, will be as follows. Each candidate’s course of study will be subject to the approval of the Degree Committee. Modules may be withdrawn if there is not sufficient demand or in the event of exceptional circumstances. Availability of modules will be subject to satisfactory completion of prerequisite modules specified by the Department of Land Economy in the M.Phil. Handbook, and to timetabling constraints.

Environmental Policy

Core methodology module

either

RM01 Quantitative research methods I (Michaelmas Term)

or

RM03 Mixed research methods (Michaelmas Term)

Core modules

EP02 Fundamentals of environmental economics (Michaelmas Term)

EP03 Fundamentals of international environmental law (Michaelmas Term)

At least two from

EP01 Environmental values (Michaelmas Term)

EP04 Sustainability and international environmental policy (Lent Term)

EP05 Advanced international environmental law (Lent Term)

EP06 Aspects of environmental policy-making (Lent Term)

EP08 Rural environment: property, planning, and policy (Lent Term)

EP09 Economic development and land use policies (Michaelmas Term)

EP10 Climate change policy and land development (Lent Term)

Optional modules

RM02 Quantitative research methods II (Lent Term)

PGR01 Urban and environmental planning I (Michaelmas Term)

PGR02 Issues in public policy and regeneration I (Michaelmas Term)

PGR05 Housing and regeneration (Lent Term)

PGR07 Spatial economics (Lent Term)

PGR08 Institutions and development I (Michaelmas Term)

PGR09 Institutions and development II (Lent Term)

PGR10 Urban and environmental planning II (Lent Term)

RE01 Introduction to real estate finance (Michaelmas Term)

RE02 Real estate development (Lent Term)

RE03 Real estate securities, securitization, and investment (Lent Term)

RE04 Private real estate investment: risk and return (Lent Term)

RE05 Legal issues in land use and finance (Lent Term)

RE06 The macroeconomy and housing (Michaelmas Term)

Paper 1 Development economics (Lent Term)

Planning, Growth, and Regeneration

Core methodology module

either

RM01 Quantitative research methods I (Michaelmas Term)

or

RM03 Mixed research methods (Michaelmas Term)

Core modules

PGR01 Urban and environmental planning I (Michaelmas Term)

PGR02 Issues in public policy and regeneration I (Michaelmas Term)

PGR10 Urban and environmental planning II (Lent Term)

RE02 Real estate development (Lent Term)

Optional modules

RM02 Quantitative research methods II (Lent Term)

PGR05 Housing and regeneration (Lent Term)

PGR07 Spatial economics (Lent Term)

PGR08 Institutions and development I (Michaelmas Term)

PGR09 Institutions and development II (Lent Term)

EP01 Environmental values (Michaelmas Term)

EP02 Fundamentals of environmental economics (Michaelmas Term)

EP03 Fundamentals of international environmental law (Michaelmas Term)

EP04 Sustainability and international environmental policy (Lent Term)

EP05 Advanced international environmental law (Lent Term)

EP06 Aspects of environmental policy-making (Lent Term)

EP08 Rural environment: property, planning, and policy (Lent Term)

EP09 Economic development and land use policies (Michaelmas Term)

EP10 Climate change policy and land development (Lent Term)

RE01 Introduction to real estate finance (Michaelmas Term)

RE03 Real estate securities, securitization, and investment (Lent Term)

RE04 Private real estate investment: risk and return (Lent Term)

RE05 Legal issues in land use and finance (Lent Term)

RE06 The macroeconomy and housing (Michaelmas Term)

Real Estate Finance

Core methodology module

RM01 Quantitative research methods I (Michaelmas Term)

Core modules

RE01 Introduction to real estate finance (Michaelmas Term)

RE03 Real estate securities, securitization, and investment (Lent Term)

RE04 Private real estate investment: risk and return (Lent Term)

At least one from

RE02 Real estate development (Lent Term)

RE05 Legal issues in land use and finance (Lent Term)

RE06 The macroeconomy and housing (Michaelmas Term)

RE07 Real estate project modelling and decision methods (Lent Term)

PGR01 Urban and environmental planning I (Michaelmas Term)

PGR07 Spatial economics (Lent Term)

Optional modules

RM02 Quantitative research methods II (Lent Term)

EP01 Environmental values (Michaelmas Term)

EP02 Fundamentals of environmental economics (Michaelmas Term)

EP03 Fundamentals of international environmental law (Michaelmas Term)

EP04 Sustainability and international environmental policy (Lent Term)

EP05 Advanced international environmental law (Lent Term)

EP06 Aspects of environmental policy-making (Lent Term)

EP08 Rural environment: property, planning, and policy (Lent Term)

EP09 Economic development and land use policies (Michaelmas Term)

EP10 Climate change policy and land development (Lent Term)

PGR02 Issues in public policy and regeneration I (Michaelmas Term)

PGR05 Housing and regeneration (Lent Term)

PGR08 Institutions and development I (Michaelmas Term)

PGR09 Institutions and development II (Lent Term)

PGR10 Urban and environmental planning II (Lent Term)

Land Economy Research

Compulsory module

Six Core modules from the Joint Schools’ Social Science Research Methods Course (JSSS) (Michaelmas and Lent Terms)

Choice of two modules to be examined by essay or project in all cases (Michaelmas or Lent)

PGR01 Urban and environmental planning I (Michaelmas Term)

PGR02 Issues in public policy and regeneration I (Michaelmas Term)

PGR05 Housing and regeneration (Lent Term)

PGR07 Spatial economics (Lent Term)

PGR08 Institutions and development I (Michaelmas Term)

PGR09 Institutions and development II (Lent Term)

PGR10 Urban and environmental planning II (Lent Term)

EP01 Environmental values (Michaelmas Term)

EP02 Fundamentals of environmental economics (Michaelmas Term)

EP03 Fundamentals of international environmental law (Michaelmas Term)

EP04 Sustainability and international environmental policy (Lent Term)

EP05 Advanced international environmental law (Lent Term)

EP06 Aspects of environmental policy-making (Lent Term)

EP08 Rural environment: property, planning, and policy (Lent Term)

EP09 Economic development and land use policies (Michaelmas Term)

EP10 Climate change policy and land development (Lent Term)

RE01 Introduction to real estate finance (Michaelmas Term)

RE02 Real estate development (Lent Term)

RE03 Real estate securities, securitization, and investment (Lent Term)

RE04 Private real estate investment: risk and return (Lent Term)

RE05 Legal issues in land use and finance (Lent Term)

RE06 The macroeconomy and housing (Michaelmas Term)

RE07 Real estate project modelling and decision methods (Lent Term)

The Degree Committee also give notice that in the examination to be held in 2011–12, in addition to the compulsory dissertation in each M.Phil.:

1. The modules offered in the Michaelmas Term will be examined before the start of Full Lent Term by one or two essays and/or projects not exceeding 4,000 words each, and/or by written examination.

2. The modules offered in the Lent Term will be examined before the start of Full Easter Term by one or two essays and/or projects not exceeding 4,000 words each, and/or by written examination.

3. All written examinations shall be of two or three hours’ duration.

4. M.Phil. in Land Economy Research candidates will be examined by essay(s) and/or project(s) and not by written examination. They are also required to complete a 4,000 word research methods essay as part of the JSSS course.

Language Centre opening hours, Long Vacation 2011: Notice

The Acting Director gives notice that the Language Centre (including the John Trim Centre for Independent Learning) will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. for the duration of the Long Vacation 2011, with the exception of the summer closure period from 5 p.m. on Friday, 29 July 2011, until 9 a.m. on Monday, 15 August 2011.