Notices by Faculty Boards, etc.

Music Tripos, 2014–15

The Faculty Board of Music give notice that they have prescribed the following papers and subjects for the Music Tripos in 2014–15 (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 396):

Part Ib

NEW REGULATIONS

Papers 7–12 Additional papers

7.	Notation
8.	Keyboard skills
9.	Introduction to ethnomusicology
10.	Elective history 1
	i) Soviet music and power in the 1920s
	ii) The birth of the orchestra
11.	Elective history 2
	i) Winterreise
	ii) Carmen in context
12.	Introduction to music and science

All papers are examined by a three-hour written examination with the exception of the following:

Part Ib, Paper 8, ‘Keyboard skills’ which consists of a practical examination involving 30 minutes’ preparation time followed by a 15-minute examination.

Part II

NEW REGULATIONS

Papers 8–17 Additional papers

8.	Advanced keyboard skills
9.	Parisian polyphony
10.	J. S. Bach’s keyboard music
11.	Mozart’s Figaro in context
12.	Boris Godunov and its contexts
13.	The shadow of Sibelius
14.	Italian music since 1945
15.	Latin American music and the politics of representation
16.	North Indian classical music
17.	Perception and performance

All papers are examined by a three-hour written examination with the exception of the following:

Part II, Paper 8, ‘Advanced keyboard skills’ which consists of a practical examination involving 40 minutes’ preparation time followed by a 20-minute examination.

Paper 16, ‘North Indian classical music’. The examination will consist of a written paper of two hours’ duration which counts for two-thirds of the overall mark, together with the submission of a transcription and analysis project which counts for one third of the overall mark.

Paper 17, ‘Perception and performance’. The examination will consist of a written paper of two hours’ duration together with the submission of a written report, each of which counts as 50% of the overall mark.

N.B. Part II candidates must offer a combination of papers that is examined by at least six hours of written examination.

Theological and Religious Studies Tripos, Parts I, IIa, and IIb, 2015: Special Subjects and prescribed texts

The Faculty Board of Divinity have selected the Special Subjects and prescribed texts for the Theological and Religious Studies Tripos, Part I, Part IIa, and Part IIb, in 2015 (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 426). Details of these Special Subjects and prescribed texts are available on the Faculty website at http://www.divinity.cam.ac.uk/undergraduate/data/Tripos_set_texts.pdf.

Master of Music, 2014–15

The Faculty Board of Music give notice that they have prescribed the following set works and topics for the M.Mus. Degree in 2014–15 (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 496):

Section 1: Choral conducting

William Blitheman, In pace

Heinrich Schütz, Die mit Tränen säen

Claude Debussy, Dieu! qu’il la fait bon regarder! (from Trois chansons de Charles d’Orléans)

William Walton, Drop, drop slow tears

Section 2: Seminar course

(a) Music and theology

(b) Case studies in music and theology

(c) The Book of Common Prayer and liturgical reform

(d) The English choral tradition

(e) Case studies in the English choral tradition

Examination in Computational Biology for the M.Phil. Degree, 2014–15

The Degree Committee for the Faculty of Mathematics give notice that the modules to be offered in 2014–15 and their methods of assessment are as set out below (see Statutes and Ordinances, p. 515). Candidates for the degree must offer all modules for examination unless otherwise stated.

Term offered	Module	Abbreviation
Michaelmas	Functional genomics	FG
	Genome informatics	GI
	Scientific programming	SP
	Genome sequence analysis (half module)	GSA
Lent	Structural biology	SBP
	Network biology	NB
	Population genetic analysis of genomic data	PG
	either Analysis and modelling of comorbidities (half module) or Computational neuroscience (half module)
		MC
		CN
Easter	Systems biology	SB

The modules for this course are assessed by course-work. The course-work is typically in the form of reports summarizing analysis of biological data, or computational modelling of biological systems. Course-work reports (excluding appendices) are normally limited to ten pages. The final form of assessment will be published at http://www.ccbi.cam.ac.uk/Education/MPhil/ no later than 1 October 2014.

In addition to the offered modules, students sit a two-hour general examination in the Easter Term on the material taught within the modules.

Students are also required to complete an internship project which is assessed by a report of no more than 18,000 words and a presentation.

The weighting for the examination in Computational biology is out of 12, divided as follows: each module is weighted at 1, and half modules at 0.5, meaning a total weighting of 8 for the modules. The general examination is weighted at 1. The internship project is weighted at a total of 3, with 2.5 for the report and 0.5 for the presentation.