Regulations for examinations

Music Tripos, Parts Ib and II

(Statutes and Ordinances, p. 388)

With effect from 1 October 2017

The General Board gives notice that the regulations for the Music Tripos have been amended, as set out below, to enable the Faculty Board of Music to issue amendments to lists of prescribed subjects in Parts Ib and II if they have due reason for so doing and are satisfied that no student’s preparation for either examination is adversely affected.

Regulation 10.

By amending the first sentence of the Regulation that follows the articulation of the scheme of the examination in Part Ib so as to read:

The Faculty Board shall have the power to prescribe, not later than the division of the Easter Term in the year next before the examination to which they apply, not more than six additional papers, provided that they shall have the power of subsequently issuing amendments if they have due reason for so doing and they are satisfied that no student’s preparation for the examination shall be adversely affected.

Regulation 12.

By amending the first sentence of the Regulation that follows the articulation of the scheme of the examination in Part II so as to read:

The Faculty Board shall have the power to prescribe, not later than the division of the Easter Term in the year next before the examination to which they apply, not more than twelve additional papers, provided that they shall have the power of subsequently issuing amendments if they have due reason for so doing and they are satisfied that no student’s preparation for the examination shall be adversely affected.

The Faculty Board of Music has confirmed that no candidate’s preparation for the examination will be adversely affected.

Theological and Religious Studies Tripos, Parts IIa and IIb

(Statutes and Ordinances, p. 409)

With effect from 1 October 2017

The General Board, on the recommendation of the Faculty Board of Divinity, has approved changes to the Regulations for Part IIa and Part IIb of the Theological and Religious Studies Tripos as set out below. Changes to the associated supplementary regulations are also shown.

Part IIa

The list of papers available in Part IIa has been amended so as to introduce a revised title for Paper B3, and so as to suspend Paper B9. 'God and the imago Dei', and Paper B12. 'Theology and the natural sciences I' in 2017–18.

Regulation 18.

Group B

Paper B3. Judaism in the Greek and Roman periods

By removing the title of the paper and replacing it with a revised title so as to read:

Paper B3.

The shaping of Jewish identity (332 bce – 70 ce)

By inserting a footnote against the following papers so as to read ‘This paper is suspended in 2017–18’:

Paper B9.	God and the imago Dei
Paper B12.	Theology and the natural sciences I

The Faculty Board of Divinity is satisfied that no candidate’s preparation for the examination will be affected.

SUPPLEMENTARY REGULATIONS

With effect from the same date, the Supplementary Regulations for the Tripos have been amended so as to replace the current supplementary regulation for Paper B3 with the following:

Paper B3.

The shaping of Jewish identity (332 bce – 70 ce)

This paper will be concerned with an essential period for our understanding of the formation of Judaism (and the context from which Christianity arose). It will examine the social, historical, and political contexts in which ancient Jews shaped their identity and how as a result they came to fashion new forms of literature and beliefs. It will focus on the land of Israel in the time from the rise of Alexander the Great (332 bce) up to and including the First Roman Revolt.

Part IIb

The list of papers available in Part IIb has been amended so as to suspend Paper C4. 'Topic in the history of Christianity', Paper C5. 'Theologies of hope', and Paper C7. 'Topics in the study of religion' in 2017–18.

Regulation 18.

Group C

By inserting a footnote against the following papers so as to read ‘This paper is suspended in 2017–18’:

Paper C4.	Topic in the history of Christianity
Paper C5.	Theologies of hope
Paper C7.	Topics in the study of religion

SUPPLEMENTARY REGULATIONS

With effect from the same date, the Supplementary Regulations for the Tripos have been amended so as to suspend Papers D1.(a) and D2.(e) in 2017–18.

By inserting a footnote against the following papers so as to read ‘This paper is suspended in 2017–18’:

Paper D1.	(a) Old Testament
Paper D2.	(e) Christianity and society in Africa and its diaspora, 1800–2000

The Faculty Board of Divinity is satisfied that no candidate’s preparation for the examination will be affected.

Examination in Music Studies for the M.Phil. Degree

(Statutes and Ordinances, p. 519)

With effect from 1 October 2018

The General Board, on the recommendation of the Faculty Board of Music, has approved corrections to the regulations for the examination in Music Studies for the degree of Master of Philosophy so as to:

(i)no longer allow a candidate taking Option A to submit a thesis of not more than 25,000 words in place of one of the 3,500-word essays specified under Regulation 2(b) and the 15,000-word thesis specified under Regulation 2(c); and

(ii)no longer allow a candidate taking Option C to submit a thesis of not more than 25,000 words, or present a recital taking between 50 and 60 minutes to perform and submit an essay of not more than 12,500 words, in place of one of the essays specified under Regulation 4(b) and the 15,000-word thesis and recital taking between 50 and 60 minutes to perform specified under Regulation 4(c).

Regulation 2.

Option A – All subjects except Composition and Performance Studies

By removing the final paragraph of the regulation and amending the regulation so as to read:

(c)a thesis of not more than 15,000 words1 on a subject approved by the Degree Committee.

Regulation 4.

Option C – Performance Studies

By removing the final paragraph of the regulation and amending the regulation so as to read:

(c)	either	(i)   a thesis of not more than 15,000 words,1 on a subject approved by the Degree Committee,
	or	(ii)   a recital taking between 50 and 60 minutes to perform together with an essay of not more than 7,500 words on a related topic approved by the Degree Committee.