No 6369
Wednesday 10 December 2014
Vol cxlv No 13
pp. 285–297
Notices by Faculty Boards, or other bodies concerned, of changes to the form and conduct of certain examinations to be held in 2015, by comparison with those examinations in 2014, are published below. Complete details of the form and conduct of all examinations are available from the Faculties or Departments concerned.
The Faculty Board of Human, Social, and Political Science give notice that, with effect from the examinations to be held in 2014–15, the form of the examinations for certain papers in Part IIb of the Archaeology and Anthropology Tripos will be as follows:
The examination will consist of a three-hour written examination paper. The paper will be divided into three sections, each section containing two questions, and candidates are asked to answer three questions, one from each section.
The examination will consist of a two-hour written examination paper containing between four and six questions and candidates are asked to answer two questions.
The examination will consist of a two-hour written examination paper containing between four and six questions and candidates are asked to answer two questions. Forty per cent of the total mark will be based upon practical work submitted in accordance with Regulation 18.
The examination will consist of a two-hour written examination paper containing between four and six questions and candidates are asked to answer two questions.
The examination will consist of a two-hour written examination paper containing between four and six questions and candidates are asked to answer two questions. Forty per cent of the total mark will be based upon practical work submitted in accordance with Regulation 18.
The examination will consist of a three-hour written examination paper containing between ten and fourteen questions. Candidates are asked to answer three questions. Candidates will be expected to demonstrate a range of ethnographic knowledge in their answers, and to show a depth of knowledge of some specific ethnographic examples.
The examination will consist of a three-hour written examination paper containing between ten and fourteen questions. Candidates are asked to answer three questions. Candidates will be expected to demonstrate a range of ethnographic knowledge in their answers, and to show a depth of knowledge of some specific ethnographic examples.
The examination will consist of a three-hour written examination paper containing between ten and fourteen questions. Candidates are asked to answer three questions. Candidates will be expected to demonstrate a range of ethnographic knowledge in their answers, and to show a depth of knowledge of some specific ethnographic examples.
The examination will consist of a three-hour written examination paper containing between ten and fourteen questions. Candidates are asked to answer three questions. Candidates will be expected to demonstrate a range of ethnographic knowledge in their answers, and to show a depth of knowledge of some specific ethnographic examples
All other papers remain unchanged.
The Faculty Board of Economics give notice that, with effect from the examinations to be held in 2015, the form of the examinations for the following papers for the Economics Tripos will be changed as follows:
Previously there were eight questions set for this paper, with students being required to answer four questions. For the 2015 examinations there will be nine questions set, with students being required to answer four questions. There will be ten questions set when the subject of the Marshall Lectures falls within Microeconomics.
To date the paper has had three sections with candidates being required to answer a total of four questions, one question from each of Sections A and B, and two questions from Section C.
The form and conduct of the paper for 2015 will be changed to two sections, with students being required to answer a total of six questions:
Section A: Students are required to answer four out of five short questions (one from each Course).
Section B: Students are required to answer two questions out of five longer questions (one from each Course).
Both sections have equal weight.
To date the paper has had two sections, with candidates being required to answer a total of four questions. The form and conduct of the paper for 2015 will be changed to two sections, with students being required to answer a total of three questions:
Section A: Students required to answer one out of two mathematics-based questions: weighted as one third of the marks for the paper.
Section B: Students required to answer two out of four essay-based questions: weighted as two thirds of the marks for the paper.
The Faculty Board of Human, Social, and Political Science give notice that, with effect from the examinations to be held in 2014–15, the form of the examinations for certain papers in the Human, Social, and Political Sciences Tripos will be as follows:
The set texts for the paper for 2014–15 will be:
For Section I: Hobbes, Leviathan; Weber, ‘The profession and vocation of politics’; Constant, ‘On the liberty of the ancients and the liberty of the moderns’, and ‘Principles of politics applicable to all representative governments’; Schmitt, The concept of the political; Hayek, The road to serfdom; Arendt, On violence, and Pinker, The better angels of our nature.
For Section II: Hamilton et al., The federalist papers; Tocqueville, Democracy in America; Schumpeter, Capitalism, socialism, and democracy; Rosenblum, On the side of the angels: an appreciation of parties and partisanship and Caplan, The myth of the rational voter; Robinson and Acemoglu, Why nations fail; Gilens, Affluence and influence.
For Section III: Marx and Engels, The communist manifesto; Gandhi, Hind Swaraj; Nietzsche, On the genealogy of morality; Haidt, The righteous mind: why good people are divided by politics and religion.
The examination paper will be divided into three sections, following the division above. Candidates must answer three questions from at least two sections. A sample exam paper is available on the Faculty’s website.
The set texts in 2014–15 will be as follows:
(a)Laws of Hammurabi §§ 1–65 – after R. Borger, Babylonisch-assyrische Lesestücke (Pontifical Biblical Institute, 2006) vol. 1, pp. 10–20.
(b)Old Babylonian Gilgamesh II lines 44–119 – after A. R. George, The Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic (OUP, 2003), vol. 1, pp. 174 and 176.
(c)ARM IV 65 – after G. Dossin, La correspondance de Samsi-Addu (Archives Royales de Mari IV; Imprimerie Nationale, 1951) p. 93, with corrections from J.-M. Durand, Documents épistolaires de Mari I, p. 305.
(d)ARM II 106 – after C.F. Jean, Lettres diverses (=Archives Royales de Mari II; Imprimerie Nationale, 1950) p. 184, with corrections from J.-M. Durand, Documents épistolaires de Mari I, p. 346.
(e)Two Old Babylonian baby incantations – after W. Farber, Schlaf, Kindchen, Schlaf! (Eisenbrauns, 1989) pp. 34 and 36.
(f)Sennacherib’s Prism inscription, i.65–iv.31 = Campaigns II, III, IV and V – after Bauer apud R. Borger, Babylonisch-assyrische Lesestücke (Pontifical Biblical Institute, 2006) vol. 2, pp. 328–331.
This paper is assessed solely through a three-hour written examination, which requires the transliteration and translation of three passages in hieroglyphic Middle Egyptian. Two passages are taken from the set texts, which are specified at the beginning of the year; a third passage is selected from an unseen text commensurate to the level of difficulty of the seen passages. In addition to requiring the transliteration and translation of a passage, each question will also require brief comment on specific grammatical/linguistic features in the passage, and/or its historical context and significance. All three questions are compulsory, and their relative ‘weighting’ is as follows:
Question 1: 34%
Question 2: 33%
Question 3: 33%
All other papers remain unchanged.
For single track students assessment will consist of an examination (80% of the total mark), a report on the Easter field trip (10% of the total mark), and a training excavation report (10% of the total mark).
For joint track students assessment will consist of an examination (80% of the total mark) and a practical project studying an artefact or group of artefacts. This project is in the form of a 3,000-word written report worth 20% of the final mark and is due to be submitted on Friday, 8 May 2015.
Full details of the paper can be found at: https://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/resources/student_resources/current-ugrad/iia-courses/arc6
The examination for this paper will take the form of a three-hour examination paper, worth 80% of the overall mark, and completion of a practical workbook worth 20% of the overall mark.
The examination for this paper will take the form of a three-hour examination paper, worth 70% of the overall mark, one project worth 20% of the overall mark, and one practical examination worth 10% of the overall mark.
The examination for this paper will take the form of a three-hour examination paper, worth 80% of the overall mark, and one project worth 20% of the overall mark.
The examination for this paper will take the form of a three-hour examination paper, worth 80% of the overall mark, and one project worth 20% of the overall mark.
The examination for this paper will take the form of a three-hour examination paper, worth 80% of the overall mark, and one project worth 20% of the overall mark.
The examination for this paper will take the form of a three-hour examination paper, worth 80% of the overall mark, and one project worth 20% of the overall mark.
The examination for this paper will take the form of a three-hour examination paper, worth 80% of the overall mark, and one project worth 20% of the overall mark.
The examination for this paper will take the form of a three-hour examination paper, worth 80% of the overall mark, and one short notes and images test worth 20% of the overall mark.
The paper will be assessed by a three-hour examination in which candidates are required to answer three questions from a choice of twelve. The questions will be of equal weight.
The examination for this paper will take the form of a three-hour examination paper, worth 80% of the overall mark, and one project worth 20% of the overall mark.
The examination for this paper will take the form of a three-hour examination paper, worth 80% of the overall mark, and one project worth 20% of the overall mark.
The examination for this paper will take the form of a three-hour examination paper, worth 80% of the overall mark, and one essay worth 20% of the overall mark.
The examination for this paper will take the form of a three-hour examination paper, worth 80% of the overall mark, and one project worth 20% of the overall mark.
The examination for this paper will take the form of a three-hour examination paper, worth 100% of the overall mark.
The paper will be assessed by a three-hour examination. All questions will be compulsory. Their number and relative weighting will vary from year to year. The ‘percentage weight’ of each question will be specified in the paper. Candidates will be required to transliterate and/or translate and/or normalize passages from the set texts and/or unseen passages, justifying their translations of difficult words or constructions with notes. Comment and/or parsing may be required for particular forms.
Note: Where in assessed course work and examinations candidates are asked to translate Akkadian or Sumerian, this should be in their own words. Reproducing a translation from another source is not acceptable.
The paper will be assessed by a three-hour examination. All questions will be compulsory. Their number and relative weighting will vary from year to year. The ‘percentage weight’ of each question will be specified in the paper. Candidates will be required to transliterate and/or translate and/or normalize passages from the set texts and/or unseen passages, justifying their translations of difficult words or constructions with notes. Comment and/or parsing may be required for particular forms. The production of synoptic transliterations may be required.
Note: Where in assessed course work and examinations candidates are asked to translate Akkadian or Sumerian, this should be in their own words. Reproducing a translation from another source is not acceptable.
The paper will be assessed by a three-hour examination. All questions will be compulsory. Their number and relative weighting will vary from year to year. The ‘percentage weight’ of each question will be specified in the paper. Candidates will be required to translate passages from the set texts. Comment and/or parsing may be required for particular forms. Candidates may also be required to answer questions about Sumerian grammar. The paper will include no unseen passages.
Note: Where in assessed course work and examinations candidates are asked to translate Akkadian or Sumerian, this should be in their own words. Reproducing a translation from another source is not acceptable.
This paper is assessed solely through a three-hour written examination, which requires the transliteration and translation of three passages in hieroglyphic Middle Egyptian. Two passages are taken from the set texts, which are specified at the beginning of the year; a third passage is selected from an unseen text commensurate to the level of difficulty of the seen passages. In addition to requiring the transliteration and translation of a passage, each question will also require brief comment on specific grammatical/linguistic features in the passage, and/or its historical context and significance. All three questions are compulsory, and their relative ‘weighting’ is as follows:
Question 1: 34%
Question 2: 33%
Question 3: 33%
The examination will consist of a three-hour written examination paper. The paper will be divided into four sections, each section containing two or three questions, and candidates are asked to answer three questions, not more than one from each section.
The examination will consist of a three-hour written examination paper. The paper will be divided into four sections, each section containing two or three questions, and candidates are asked to answer three questions, not more than one from each section.
The examination will consist of a three-hour written examination paper. The paper will be divided into four sections, each section containing two or three questions, and candidates are asked to answer three questions, not more than one from each section.
The examination will consist of a three-hour written examination paper. The paper will be divided into two sections, each section containing two or three questions, and candidates are asked to answer three questions, at least one from each section.
The examination will consist of a three-hour written examination paper containing between ten and fourteen questions. Candidates are asked to answer three questions. Candidates will be expected to demonstrate a range of ethnographic knowledge in their answers, and to show a depth of knowledge of some specific ethnographic examples.
The examination will consist of a three-hour written examination paper containing between ten and fourteen questions. Candidates are asked to answer three questions. Candidates will be expected to demonstrate a range of ethnographic knowledge in their answers, and to show a depth of knowledge of some specific ethnographic examples.
The examination will consist of a three-hour written examination paper containing between ten and fourteen questions. Candidates are asked to answer three questions. Candidates will be expected to demonstrate a range of ethnographic knowledge in their answers, and to show a depth of knowledge of some specific ethnographic examples.
The examination will consist of a three-hour written examination paper containing between ten and fourteen questions. Candidates are asked to answer three questions. Candidates will be expected to demonstrate a range of ethnographic knowledge in their answers, and to show a depth of knowledge of some specific ethnographic examples.
The examination will consist of a three-hour written examination paper containing between ten and fourteen questions. Candidates are asked to answer three questions. Candidates will be expected to demonstrate a range of ethnographic knowledge in their answers, and to show a depth of knowledge of some specific ethnographic examples.
The examination will consist of a three-hour written examination paper containing between ten and fourteen questions. Candidates are asked to answer three questions. Candidates will be expected to demonstrate a range of ethnographic knowledge in their answers, and to show a depth of knowledge of some specific ethnographic examples.
This paper will be examined by one three-hour examination paper; candidates will be required to answer three questions.
This paper will be examined by one three-hour examination paper; candidates will be required to answer three questions.
This paper will be examined by two 5,000-word essays. Essays will be submitted in accordance with the published deadlines; essay topics are available in the paper guide or on the student website.
This paper is being examined for the first time. There will be one three-hour examination paper, divided into two sections. Candidates will be required to answer three questions, including at least one from each section. All questions are of equal value.
The paper examines a range of issues concerning the ethical dimensions of world politics and their applications in practical contexts. The first section focuses on theoretical issues and the second and third sections explore the relationship between theory and practice with the second section covering political violence and the third section covering human rights. Candidates will be required to take a three-hour written examination. Candidates must answer three questions, taking two questions from the first section and one from either the second section or the third section. A sample exam paper is available on the Department of Politics and International Studies website (http://www.polis.cam.ac.uk/).
The paper examines a range of issues, substantive and methodological, in comparative politics. The paper is divided into two parts: (1) general comparative politics; (2) a range of country-specific case studies. Candidates will be required to take a three-hour written examination. The exam paper will be divided into seven sections. Section A will consist of nine questions covering general comparative politics. Sections B–G will cover the individual case studies with each case study being a section and there being two questions in each section. Candidates will be required to answer three questions from three different sections, taking one question from section A. A sample exam paper is available on the Department of Politics and International Studies website (http://www.polis.cam.ac.uk/).
POL5 is examined by two essays of a maximum of 5,000 words each, on titles taken from a list provided by the Faculty.
The paper examines major texts and topics in the history of Western political thought before c. 1700. A candidate will be required to take a three-hour written examination. The examination will require the candidate to answer three questions, with at least one answer from Section A (texts) and at least one answer from Section B (topics).
The paper examines major texts and topics in the history of Western political thought between c. 1700 and c. 1890. A candidate will be required to take a three-hour written examination. The examination will require the candidate to answer three questions, with at least one answer from Section A (texts) and at least one answer from Section B (topics).
The Faculty Board of Human, Social, and Political Science give notice that, with effect from the examinations to be held in 2014–15, the form of the examinations for certain papers of Part IIb of the Politics, Psychology, and Sociology Tripos will be as follows:
The examination will consist of a three-hour written paper. Candidates will be required to answer three questions from a choice of at least thirteen, including questions on the politics of the Middle East, the international relations of the Middle East, and the politics of Muslim societies. There will be at least one question on democratization and protest in Turkey, and at least one question on sectarian politics in Iraq and Syria. The exam paper will be undivided. A sample exam paper is available on the Department of Politics and International Studies website (http://www.polis.cam.ac.uk/).
The examination will be divided into three sections, covering: (A) The politics of the European Union; (B) Contemporary issues in the comparative politics of Western Europe: The end of the post-war consensus; and (C) the UK’s relations with the EU. Candidates are required to answer three questions from at least two sections of the paper, dropping the previous requirement to answer from section A.
The content of the paper has been revised such that there is an additional topic on conflict, social relations, and the state in Africa. A sample exam paper is available on the Department of Politics and International Studies website (http://www.polis.cam.ac.uk/).
The content of the paper has been revised such that the topic on euro-zone debt crisis has been incorporated into the topic on sovereign debt and the modern democratic nation-state. A sample exam paper is available on the Department of Politics and International Studies website (http://www.polis.cam.ac.uk/).
This paper is being examined for the first time. It will be examined either by two 5,000-word essays or by one three-hour examination. Essays will be submitted in accordance with the published deadlines; essay topics are available in the paper guide or on the student website. The examination paper will be undivided and candidates must answer three questions on any topic from the teaching. All questions are of equal value.
All other papers remain unchanged.