Notices by Faculty Boards, etc.

Historical Tripos, Part II, 2016

The Faculty Board of History give notice that they have amended their announcement of special and specified subjects for Part II of the Historical Tripos, 2016, as published on 16 July 2014 (Reporter, 6355, 2013–14, p. 736), as follows:

By withdrawing the following from the list of Special Subjects (Section B) for Papers 2 and 3:

Constructing the world of Archaic Greece (c. 750–480 bc)	(A)
From World War to Cold War: America, Britain, Russia, and the division of Europe, 1944–1950	(L)

By adding the following to the list of Special Subjects for Papers 2 and 3:

The ‘Angevin Empire’, 1150s–1230s	(B)
The 1848 Revolutions	(I)
From imperial medicine to global health, 1865 to the present	(L)

By withdrawing the following from the list of Specified Subjects (Section D):

9	The Jewish presence in medieval society
11	The archaeology of medieval Britain, c. 1000–1500
16	Persecution and toleration in Britain, 1400–1700
22	‘Total War’ and European societies, 1792–1815
23	The long road to modernization: Spain, since 1808

By adding the following to the list of Specified Subjects:

8	The near East in the age of Justinian and Muhammad, ad 527–700
11	Early medicine [Paper 2 of Part II of the History and Philosophy of Science Tripos]
12	The middle ages on film: medieval violence and modern identities
15	Print and society in early modern England
17	The politics of knowledge from the late Renaissance to the early Enlightenment
22	Stalinism and Soviet life

By amending the title of Paper 13:

From	The medieval universe, c. 1000 to c. 1600
To	Man, nature, and the supernatural, c. 1000 to c.1600

By amending the title of Paper 27:

From	The history of Latin America in the Colonial Period, 1500 to the present day
To	The history of Latin America, from 1500 to the present day

Candidates for Part II in 2016, who have previously taken Part I of the Historical Tripos and who did not offer in that Part a paper falling mainly in the period before 1750, may meet the requirement to take a pre-1750 paper in Part II by offering one of the Special Subjects B, D, E, F, G, and H or by offering one of the Papers 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 17 or a dissertation, provided that its subject falls mainly in the period before 1750.

Candidates for Part II in 2016, who have previously taken Part I of the Historical Tripos and who did not offer in that Part a paper in European History, may meet the requirement to take a European History paper in Part II by offering one of the following papers: 7, 8, 14, 21, and 22.

The Faculty Board are satisfied that no candidate’s preparation for examination will be adversely affected by these amendments.

Natural Sciences Tripos, Part III (Interdisciplinary papers), 2015–16

Part III

The Committee of Management for the Natural Sciences Tripos give notice of the following additional interdisciplinary papers, which shall be included in the examination requirements of one or more subjects.

Title of paper	Mode of assessment	May be offered in
IDP1: Atmospheric chemistry and global change	One-and-a-half-hour written examination.	Chemistry; Physics; Geological Sciences
IDP2: The Earth system and climate change	One-and-a-half-hour written examination. Assessed practical examinations for Geological Science students only.	Chemistry; Physics; Geological Sciences
IDP3: Materials, electronics, and renewable energy	One-and-a-half-hour written examination.	Chemistry; Physics; Geological Sciences

Notwithstanding the examination requirements set out in Regulation 36 of the Natural Sciences Tripos, the following amendments shall apply to candidates offering interdisciplinary papers:

Part III Chemistry

Candidates may offer up to two of the interdisciplinary papers listed above, without restriction.

Candidates shall have less time to complete their other scheduled examination papers, such that, for each interdisciplinary paper offered:

•thirty minutes shall be taken away from the duration of Paper 1, and candidates for this paper will be required to answer one question fewer;

•forty-five minutes shall be taken away from the duration of Paper 3, and candidates will be required to answer one question fewer.

Part III Physics

Candidates may offer up to three of the interdisciplinary papers listed above in place of the equivalent number of Minor Topics.

Part III Geological Sciences

Candidates may offer one or two of the interdisciplinary papers listed above. Such a decision may affect the time duration of Papers 2 and 3 taken by the candidate.

Paper 2A will be a two-hour written paper for candidates offering one of Papers IDP1, IDP2, and IDP3.

Paper 2B will be a one-hour written paper for candidates offering two of Papers IDP1, IDP2, and IDP3.

Paper 3 will be a three-hour written paper for candidates offering IDP2 only.

Paper 3A will be a two-hour written paper for candidates offering one of Papers IDP1 or IDP3 (also includes candidates offering Paper IDP2 together with Paper IDP1 or Paper IDP3).

Paper 3B will be a one-hour written paper for candidates offering both Papers IDP1 and IDP3.

Candidates offering Papers IDP1 (Atmospheric chemistry and global change) and/or IDP3 (Materials, electronics, and renewable energy) will also offer a literature review associated with each of these papers, of no more than 5,000 words.

The literature review will be on a topic which may be either proposed by the candidate and approved by the Head of Department, or chosen by the candidate from a list of approved topics announced by the Head of Department early in the Lent Term. The review shall be submitted to the Examiners not later than the first Wednesday of Full Easter Term.