No 6235
Wednesday 3 August 2011
Vol cxli No 39
pp. 1141–1156
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:
SUPPLEMENTARY REGULATIONS
The detail for Papers 1 and 2 of Part Ia of the Architecture Tripos has been amended so as to read:
The paper deals with a selective introduction to the histories of architecture and the city in Western Europe and to theoretical writings on architecture and the role of the architect from classical antiquity to the start of the nineteenth century.
The paper deals with a selective introduction to the histories of architecture and the city in Western Europe and to theoretical writings on architecture and the role of the architect from the nineteenth century to the present.
Regulation 12.
Paper 26. ‘The Slavonic languages’, has been suspended with effect from 1 October 2011 until 1 October 2012.
The Faculty Board of Modern and Medieval Languages have confirmed that no candidate’s preparation for the examination in 2012 will be affected.
Paper CS 3, ‘The Slavonic languages’, has been suspended with effect from 1 October 2011 until 1 October 2012. The paper will be available for candidates to offer as an optional dissertation as provided for by Regulation 27(c).
The Faculty Board of Modern and Medieval Languages have confirmed that no candidate’s preparation for the examination in 2012 will be affected.
Regulation 14.
This paper is suspended until 1 October 2012.
By amending the title of Paper 24 from ‘Schism, conflict, and unity in Christian history’ to ‘Further church history’.
The Faculty Board of Divinity and the Management Committee of the Bachelor of Theology for Ministry have confirmed that no candidate’s preparation for the examination in 2012 will be affected.
By amending the current detail for this paper so as to read:
This paper will provide for the study of one or more areas in church history prescribed by the Faculty Board. This paper will be examined by the mixed mode of assessment specified in Regulation 15.
By amending the title and detail for this paper so as to read:
This paper will provide for the close study of one specialist area in church history, chosen from the subjects prescribed by the Faculty Board. Candidates may choose one specialist area from a maximum of four in any one year. This paper will be examined by the mixed mode of assessment specified in Regulation 15.
The General Board and the Board of Graduate Studies have approved a recommendation from the Faculty Board of Modern and Medieval Languages that the examination in the subjects English and Applied Linguistics and in Linguistics be replaced by an examination in the subject Theoretical and Applied Linguistics for the M.Phil. Degree. The special regulations for the examinations in English and Applied Linguistics and in Linguistics for the M.Phil. Degree have accordingly been rescinded with effect from 1 October 2012 and replaced by the following special regulations for an examination in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics:
1. The scheme of examination for the one-year course of study in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics for the degree of Master of Philosophy shall consist of:
(a)a thesis not exceeding 20,000 words in length, including footnotes, but excluding tables, appendices, and bibliography, on a subject approved by the Degree Committee for the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages;
(b)four essays, of which three shall be no more than 2,000 words in length and one shall be no more than 4,000 words in length, each including footnotes, but excluding tables, appendices, and bibliography, on subjects either approved or prescribed by the Degree Committee;
(c)an oral presentation on a topic falling in one of the areas of study prescribed by the Degree Committee not later than the end of the Full Michaelmas Term preceding the examination.
2. The examination shall include an oral examination on the thesis and on the general field of knowledge within which it falls, and, at the discretion of the Examiners, on the essays submitted by the candidate; save that the Examiners may, at their discretion, waive the requirement for an oral examination.