No 6446
Wednesday 30 November 2016
Vol cxlvii No 12
pp. 146–175
The General Board has approved revisions to the regulations for the History and Modern Languages Tripos, so as to introduce the teaching of German (ab initio), Italian (ab initio and advanced), Portuguese (ab initio), and Spanish (ab initio).
Regulation 11.
By amending the regulation so as to read:
11. Modern and Medieval Languages Examinations shall be held in the following languages: French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
Regulation 13.
By removing clauses (i), (ii), and (iii) of the current regulation and by replacing them with the following so as to read:
(i)Option B (post-A-level or equivalent) languages:
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Paper B1 |
Use of the foreign language |
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Paper B2 |
Translation from the foreign language |
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Oral examination B |
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(ii)Option A (ab initio) languages:
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Paper A1 |
Introduction to the foreign language 1: Use of the foreign language |
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Paper A2 |
Introduction to the foreign language 2: Translation from the foreign language |
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Paper A3 |
Introduction to the foreign language 3: Introduction to culture/literature of the foreign language |
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Oral examination A |
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(iii)Introductory Scheduled Paper relating to the language concerned:
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Introduction to French literature, linguistics, film, and thought (also serves as Paper Fr.1 of the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos); |
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Introduction to German studies (also serves as Paper Ge.1 of the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos); |
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Italian texts and contexts (also serves as Paper It.1 of the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos); |
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Introduction to the language, literatures, and cultures of the Spanish speaking world (also serves as Paper Sp.1 of the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos); |
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Introduction to Russian culture (also serves as Paper Sl.1 of the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos). |
The remainder of the regulation remains unchanged.
Regulation 15.
By removing clauses (i) and (ii) of the current regulation and by replacing them with the following so as to read:
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(i) |
French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish (Option B) |
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Translation into the foreign language, and test in the foreign language through audio-visual media (also serves as Paper B3 of the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos) |
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(ii) |
German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish (Option A) |
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(a) |
Use of the foreign language (also serves as Paper B1 of the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos) Translation from the foreign language (also serves as Paper B2 of the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos) Oral examination B |
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(b) |
Translation into the foreign language, and test in the foreign language through audio-visual media (also serves as Paper B3 of the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos) |
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The remainder of the regulation remains unchanged.
Regulation 16.
By amending the first sentence of the regulation so as to read:
16. A candidate may offer, in place of one of the designated papers from Schedule A (papers indicated by the ‘†’ symbol) two long essays, each of not fewer than 3,500 and not more than 4,000 words in length including footnotes but excluding bibliography.
By adding the following paper to the list of papers that may be offered:
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Ge.1 |
Introduction to German studies |
By introducing two new sub-sections headed ‘Italian’ and ‘Portuguese’, and listing papers to be offered as follows:
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It.2. |
Structure and varieties of Italian |
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It.3. |
Italian cinema † |
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It.4. |
Autobiography and self-representation in Italian culture † |
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It.5. |
Italian identities: place, language, and culture † |
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Pg.1. |
Introduction to the language, literatures, and cultures of Portuguese-speaking countries |
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Pg.4. |
Self, family, nation, and empire in Lusophone culture † |
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Sp.11. |
The Hispanic languages |
By introducing a dagger (†) symbol against papers Sp.3, Sp.4, and Sp.5; by removing paper Sp.10 from the list of papers that may be offered; and by adding the following paper to the list of papers that may be offered:
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Sp.11. |
The Hispanic languages (also serves as Paper 21 of the Linguistics Tripos) |
By introducing a dagger (†) symbol against papers Sl.2, Sl.4, Sl.5, Sl.6, and Sl.7.
By removing the following paper from the Schedule of papers to be offered:
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NL.1. |
Introduction to Neo-Latin literature 1350–1700 (Part Ib and Part II) |
By introducing two new sub-sections headed ‘Italian’ and ‘Portuguese’, and listing papers to be offered as follows:
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It.6. |
Topics in modern Italian culture |
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It.7. |
Dante and the culture of his age |
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It.8. |
Italian literature, thought, and culture, 1500–1650 |
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It.9. |
Text and image |
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It.10. |
The language of Italy |
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Pg.4. |
Self, family, nation, and empire in Lusophone culture |
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IL.1. |
Ibero-American cinema |
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Sp.11. |
The Hispanic languages (also serves as Paper 21 of the Linguistics Tripos) |
The General Board, on the recommendation of the Management Committee for the Natural Sciences Tripos, has approved the addition of Half Subject Materials Science to the Physical Sciences course under Regulation 30 as follows:
By adding Materials Science to the list of Half Subjects in sub-paragraph (a):
(a) the examination requirements of one Half Subject, chosen from Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Materials Science, Physics
By inserting new sub-paragraph (iv):
(iv) The examination requirements for Half Subject Materials Science shall consist of two written papers of three hours’ duration and specified further work. The further work and its examination requirements and submission arrangements shall be announced by the Head of the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy not later than the beginning of Michaelmas Term. Records of further work shall be submitted to the Examiners through the Head of the Department and shall bear the signatures of the teachers under whose direction the work was performed. The Examiners shall be provided by the Head of Department with assessments of the work submitted by candidates, and shall take the assessments into account in assigning marks for the examination.
Half Subject Materials Science may not be offered unless the candidate has previously offered Materials Science in Part Ib of the Tripos.
Further to the Notices published on 16 November 2016 (Reporter, 6444, 2016–17, pp. 106 and 107), the following corrections have been made.
Sub-paragraph (b) of each of the revised regulations concerning the examination in Mechanisms of Drug Action (MODA) should have made reference to ‘one written paper of two hours containing essay questions (Section III)’.