No 6234
Wednesday 27 July 2011
Vol cxli No 38
pp. 1109–1140
The length of the thesis has been amended. Regulation 1(a) has been amended as follows:
Regulation 1(a).
By replacing in this sub-paragraph the words ‘not less than 15,000 words in length, including notes and appendices, but excluding bibliography’ with the words ‘between 15,000 and 20,000 words, not including notes, appendices, and bibliography’.
The General Board and the Board of Graduate Studies have approved a recommendation from the Degree Committee for the Faculty of English that the examination in the subject American Literature for the M.Phil. Degree be suspended for the academical year 2012–13.
The list of subjects available has been amended.
Regulation 1(c).
By replacing in this sub-paragraph the sixth subject and adding a seventh subject so as to read:
6.Europe in the world: thinking globally in early modern history
7.Space, place, and landscape in early modern history
The length of the essays has been amended. Regulation 1(b) and (c) has been amended as follows:
Regulation 1(b) and (c).
By replacing at each occurrence the words ‘not more than 5,000 words’ with the words ‘not more than 4,000 words’.
The scheme of the examination has been amended by replacing the requirement for two written exercises with a requirement for an additional essay.
Regulation 1(b) and (c).
By deleting sub-paragraph (c) and amending sub-paragraph (b) so as to read:
(b)three essays, each not exceeding 5,000 words in length, including footnotes, but excluding tables, appendices, and bibliography, on subjects chosen by the candidate, subject to the approval of the Degree Committee, from the following list:
1. Latin-American history
2. Anthropology of Latin America
3. Topics in Latin-American culture
4. Economic issues in contemporary Latin America
5. Sociology and politics of Latin America
6. Latin-American film and visual arts
7. Core course in Latin-American studies
8. A subject in Latin-American studies specified from time to time by the Degree Committee.
Regulation 3.
By deleting from line 4 the words ‘and the written exercises’.
On the recommendation of the Faculty Board of Education, the General Board, with the concurrence of the Board of Graduate Studies and the Strategic Committee for the Institute of Continuing Education, have approved Advanced Subject Teaching as a subject for postgraduate study for the M.St. Degree. Special regulations for the examination in that subject have been approved as follows:
The scheme of examination for the course of study in Advanced Subject Teaching for the degree of Master of Studies shall be as follows:
(a)four essays, each of between 3,000 and 4,000 words in length on a topic approved by the Degree Committee for the Faculty of Education;
(b)a thesis of between 15,000 and 18,000 words in length including footnotes and appendices, but excluding bibliography, on a subject approved by the Degree Committee.
At the discretion of the Examiners the examination shall include an oral examination on the thesis and on the general field of knowledge within which it falls; such an oral examination may include questions relating to one or more of the other pieces of work submitted by the candidate under (a) and (b) above.