Form and conduct of examinations, 2013

Notices by Faculty Boards, or other bodies concerned, of changes to the form and conduct of certain examinations to be held in 2013, by comparison with those examinations in 2012, are published below. Complete details of the form and conduct of all examinations are available from the Faculties or Departments concerned.

Linguistics Tripos

The Faculty Board of Modern and Medieval Languages give notice that, with effect from the examination to be held in 2013, the form of the examination for the following papers for Part II of the Linguistics Tripos will be as specified below:

SECTION C

Paper 14.

A subject in Linguistics to be specified by the Faculty Board from time to time: History of the French language.

Candidates will be required to answer THREE questions, at least ONE from EACH section.

Paper 15.

A subject in Linguistics to be specified by the Faculty Board from time to time: First and second language acquisition.

Candidates will be required to answer THREE questions, at least ONE from EACH section.

Paper 16.

A subject in Linguistics to be specified by the Faculty Board from time to time: Psychology of language processing and learning.

Candidates will be required to answer THREE questions, at least ONE from EACH section.

Paper 17.

A subject in Linguistics to be specified by the Faculty Board from time to time: Language typology.

Candidates will be required to answer THREE questions, at least ONE from EACH section.

Paper 18.

A subject in Linguistics to be specified by the Faculty Board from time to time: Computational linguistics.

Candidates will be required to answer THREE questions, at least ONE from EACH section.

All other papers remain unchanged.

Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos

The Faculty Board of Modern and Medieval Languages give notice that, with effect from the examination to be held in 2013, the form of the examination for the following papers for the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos will be as specified below:

Part Ia

SCHEDULE A

Ru.A3. Introduction to Russian culture.

Sections A and B: Candidates will no longer be provided with an English language translation of extracts from Russian texts.

In Section B of the examination, candidates will be expected to write brief comments on selected images that have not previously been studied as ‘set’ images. The images set for examination will be ‘representative’ – i.e. they will be similar to images that have been taught/studied throughout the year.

Paper B3. Translation into the foreign language, and the test in the foreign language through audio-visual media.

Candidates taking the test in Portuguese through audio-visual media (PGAV) will be required to explain their answers to the True or False questions in Question 4.

Candidates taking the test in Spanish through audio-visual media (SPAV) will be required to explain their answers to the True or False questions in Question 4.

SCHEDULE B

Ru.1. Introduction to Russian culture.

Candidates must ensure that at least ONE of the answers in Section B or C treats pre-1800 material (rather than, as in previous years, pre-1830 material).

SCHEDULE C

GL5. Greek or Latin texts (a modified version of Paper 5 of Part Ia of the Classical Tripos).

This paper will contain questions on Greek and/or Latin texts contained in the schedules of texts prescribed for Papers GL1 to GL3, and Paper 4 of the Classical Tripos, provided that questions will not be set on texts in Greek if no candidates have entered for paper GL1 or paper GL2 by the end of Full Lent Term preceding the examination; and questions will not be set on texts in Latin if no candidates have entered for paper GL3 by the end of Full Lent Term preceding the examination.

The paper will contain questions on four passages of Greek prose and verse (where set), two of which will come from the texts prescribed for Section (a) of Paper GL2 and/or four passages of Latin prose and verse (where set), two of which will come from texts prescribed for Section (a) of Paper 4 of the Classical Tripos.

The first five questions on each passage will be focused on detailed understanding of the language and the final question will ask for an extended analysis and appreciation.

Candidates will be required to answer questions on two passages which must both be in the same language, where both languages are set. Any verse passage set may include a question testing knowledge of scansion.

Part Ib

SCHEDULE B

French

Fr.3. Love, violence, and power in France, 1100–1500 (also serves as Paper 12 of Part I of the Anglo Saxon, Norse, and Celtic Tripos).

Candidates will be required to answer THREE questions, ONE from each section. Candidates must not use substantially the same material for more than ONE answer.

Fr.4. Rethinking the human: French literature, thought, and culture, 1500–1700.

Candidates will be required to answer THREE questions, ONE from each section. Candidates must not use substantially the same material for more than ONE answer.

Fr.5. Revolutions in writing, 1700–1900.

Candidates will be required to answer THREE questions, ONE from each section. Candidates must not use substantially the same material for more than ONE answer.

Fr.6. Innovation and upheaval: deformation and reformulation in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Candidates will be required to answer THREE questions, ONE from each section. Candidates must not use substantially the same material for more than ONE answer.

German

Ge.7. German: a linguistic introduction.

Candidates will be required to answer THREE questions, ONE from each section.

Italian

It.4. Autobiography and self-representation in Italian culture.

Candidates will be required to answer THREE questions, at least ONE from each section. Candidates are expected to show knowledge of texts from THREE OR MORE of the topics taught for this paper.

Russian

Ru.4. Early modern Russia: literature, history, and visual culture from 1300–1725.

Candidates will be required to answer THREE questions, at least ONE from each section.

Part II

SCHEDULE A

Paper C1. Translation from and into the foreign language.

The examination will consist of TWO questions. Candidates will be required to answer BOTH questions.

Paper C2. Foreign language: Text and culture.

Candidates will be required to answer ONE question relating to ONE of two texts.

SCHEDULE B

French

Fr.7. Topics in medieval studies to be specified by the Faculty Board from time to time (also serves as Paper 20 of Part II of the English Tripos): Defining the human.

Candidates will be required to answer THREE questions, ONE from each section. Candidates must not use substantially the same material for more than ONE answer.

Fr.8. Living, loving, and dying in Renaissance France (also serves as Paper 21 of Part II of the English Tripos).

Candidates will be required to answer TWO questions, ONE from each section. In the Section A essay candidates must NOT include anything more than a passing reference to any author from whose work they have analysed an extract in the Section B commentary. Candidates must make substantive reference to more than one author, unless they choose a question which specifically names an author.

Fr.9. Reason, experience, and authority: French literature, thought, and history, 1594–1700 (also serves as Paper 22 of Part II of the English Tripos).

Candidates will be required to answer THREE questions, ONE from each section. Candidates must not use substantially the same material for more than ONE answer.

Fr.10. French literature, thought, and history, from 1690 to 1799 (also serves as Paper 23 of Part II of the English Tripos).

Candidates will be required to answer THREE questions, ONE from each section. Candidates must not use substantially the same material for more than ONE answer.

Fr.11. Gender, desire, and power in 19th century French culture (also serves as Paper 24 of Part II of the English Tripos).

Candidates will be required to answer THREE questions, ONE from each section. Candidates must not use substantially the same material for more than ONE answer.

Fr.12. Ethics and experience: literature, thought, and visual culture of the French-speaking world (1900 to the present) (also serves as Paper 25 of Part II of the English Tripos).

Candidates will be required to answer THREE questions, ONE from each section. Candidates must not use substantially the same material for more than ONE answer.

Fr.15. A special topic in French Studies (B) to be specified by the Faculty Board from time to time: Ethics and the erotic in Medieval Occitan writing.

Candidates will be required to answer THREE questions, ONE from each section. Candidates must not use substantially the same material for more than ONE answer.

Fr.16. A special topic in French Studies (C) to be specified by the Faculty Board from time to time: Colonization, empire, and globalization: technologies of space in French culture.

Candidates will be required to answer THREE questions, ONE from each section.

German

Ge.12. A special period or subject in German literature, thought, or history (i): History and identity in Germany, 1750 to the present.

Candidates will be required to answer THREE questions from six sections, A–F. Not more than ONE question may be taken from any section. ONE question must be taken from EITHER Section A or Section B. Candidates may answer on BOTH Section A and Section B, if they wish.

Modern Greek

Gr.4. Crete and Cyprus in the Renaissance period.

The paper will be divided into three sections: Sections A and B will contain questions on selected works of (A) narrative and lyric poetry and (B) drama. Section C will include questions relating to the historical, social, and cultural context and to broader literary issues. Candidates must answer ONE question from each section.

Italian

It.7. Dante and the culture of his age (also serves as Paper 26 of Part II of the English Tripos).

Candidates may answer ANY THREE questions or, if they prefer, ANY ONE question selected from those which are marked with an asterisk *.

Russian

Ru.4. Early modern Russia: literature, history, and visual culture from 1300–1725.

Candidates will be required to answer THREE questions, at least ONE from each section. There will no longer be an obligatory commentary question for Part II candidates.

Linguistics

Li.14. A subject in Linguistics to be specified by the Faculty Board from time to time (Paper 14 of the Linguistics Tripos): History of the French language.

Candidates will be required to answer THREE questions, at least ONE from EACH section.

Li.15. A subject in Linguistics to be specified by the Faculty Board from time to time (Paper 15 of the Linguistics Tripos): First and second language acquisition.

Candidates will be required to answer THREE questions, at least ONE from EACH section.

Li.16. A subject in Linguistics to be specified by the Faculty Board from time to time (Paper 16 of the Linguistics Tripos): Psychology of language processing and learning.

Candidates will be required to answer THREE questions, at least ONE from EACH section.

Li.17. A subject in Linguistics to be specified by the Faculty Board from time to time (Paper 17 of the Linguistics Tripos): Language typology.

Candidates will be required to answer THREE questions, at least ONE from EACH section.

Li.18. A subject in Linguistics to be specified by the Faculty Board from time to time (Paper 18 of the Linguistics Tripos): Computational linguistics.

Candidates will be required to answer THREE questions, at least ONE from EACH section.

Comparative Studies

CS 5. A special subject in comparative literature: The body (also serves as part of Paper 28 of Part II of the English Tripos).

Candidates will be required to answer THREE questions in total from at least TWO sections. Answers should show substantial knowledge of material from THREE language areas (which may include English OR a language in translation) in the paper as a whole, and from at least TWO language areas in any ONE answer.

Candidates should answer with reference to literature, theory, film, and art, as appropriate.

Candidates should NOT draw substantially on material from their dissertation or material which they have used or intend to use in another scheduled paper.

Candidates should NOT draw substantially on the same material in more than ONE question on the same paper.

CS 6. European film.

Candidates will be required to answer three questions. Each answer must show substantial knowledge of films from TWO OR MORE language areas, which may include English. Scripts as a whole must show substantial knowledge of cinema from TWO OR MORE of the paper’s five specified language areas (French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish). Candidates must not draw substantially on the same material for more than one answer.

All other papers remain unchanged.

Examinations in Conservation Leadership, Environment, Society, and Development, Geographical Research, Multi-Disciplinary Gender Studies, and Polar Studies for the degree of Master of Philosophy

The Faculty Board of Earth Sciences and Geography give notice that the form of the examination for 2012–13 will be as listed below.

1. Timetable of submission and weight of marks

M.Phil. in Conservation Leadership
Component	Item	Submission date	Weighting (%)
1	CL1: Conservation problems and practice course-work	16 January	10
	CL6: Innovation for conservation leadership course-work	25 March	10
2	CL2: Conservation enterprise essay	3 April	10
	CL3: Conservation management exercise	3 April	10
	CL4: Communicating conservation exercise	22 April	10
	CL5: Conservation governance essay	22 April	10
3	Placement Report	28 August	40

M.Phil. in Environment, Society, and Development
Component	Item	Submission date	Weighting (%)
1	Review essay 1 – core paper 1	11 March	12.5%
	Review essay 2 – core paper 2	11 March
	Essay 3 – core paper 2	29 April	12.5%
	Essay 4 – option 1	29 April	12.5%
	Essay 5 – option 2	29 April	12.5%
2	Dissertation	Friday, 7 June	50%

M.Phil. in Geographical Research
Component	Item	Submission date	Weighting (%)
1	Geographical essay 1	29 April	13.33
	Geographical essay 2	29 April	13.33
	Joint schools essay	29 April	13.33
2	Joint schools ‘open-book’ online tests		Pass
3	Dissertation	27 August	60

M.Phil. in Multi-disciplinary Gender Studies
Component	Item	Submission date	Weighting (%)
1	Essay 1	13 March	15
	Essay 2	29 April	15
2	Thesis	29 July	70

M.Phil. in Polar Studies
Component	Item	Submission date	Weighting (%)
1	Essay 1	5 November	15
	Essay 2	3 December	15
	Essay 3	28 January	15
2	Thesis	13 June	55

2. Thesis subject area deadlines

The subject area of each thesis/project must be approved by the Degree Committee of Earth Sciences and Geography. The deadline for this is 6 February (4 February for M.Phil. in Polar Studies).

3. Oral examination (Vivas)

Each M.Phil. may include, at the discretion of the Examiners, an oral examination on the thesis/project that has been submitted, the general field of knowledge within which it falls, or other parts of the relevant M.Phil. course. All students must be available in Cambridge for an oral examination and must be in contact with the Graduate Office by telephone or email in order that arrangements can be made, if required. The dates of the oral examination (if required) are:

M.Phil. in Geographical Research	Thursday, 19 September
M.Phil. in Environment, Society, and Development	Tuesday, 2 July
M.Phil. in Polar Studies	TBC
M.Phil. in Multi-disciplinary Gender Studies	Wednesday, 11 September
M.Phil. in Conservation Leadership	Wednesday, 18 September

4. Submission

All assignments are to be submitted to the Graduate Office (or M.Phil. Administrator) by 4 p.m. on the day stated (two copies with a signed cover sheet). The M.Phil. in Multi-disciplinary Gender Studies and M.Phil. in Conservation Leadership may have a different submission time. Please check the course Handbook. Polar Studies students are to submit to SPRI Director’s Assistant at SPRI.

5. Pass requirements

In order to be awarded the Degree of Master of Philosophy candidates must achieve a total score of at least 60%. Furthermore, candidates are expected to pass all components by achieving a score of at least 60% of the marks allocated to the component. In the event that a candidate scores a marginal fail in one component of the examination, this may be compensated by an overall average of 60% or more.