No 6565
Wednesday 30 October 2019
Vol cl No 7
pp. 74–100
Notices by Faculty Boards, or other bodies concerned, of changes to the form and conduct of certain examinations to be held in 2019–20, by comparison with those examinations in 2018–19, 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 gives notice that the form and conduct of the papers available for Part I and Part II of the Archaeology Tripos in the academic year 2019–20 will be as stated below. A list of papers not available for examination in Part II in 2019–20 is also provided.
The following papers are offered in Part I:
A1. World archaeology
This paper will be assessed by coursework, accounting for 40% of the final
mark and by one three-hour examination, counting for 60% of the final mark. The exam
paper will be divided into two sections and candidates will be required to answer
questions from both sections.
A2. Archaeology in action
This paper will be assessed by four pieces of coursework, counting for 40%
of the final mark, and one three-hour examination, counting for 60% of the final mark.
The exam paper will be divided into two sections and candidates will be required to
answer questions from both sections.
A3. Introduction to the cultures of Egypt and Mesopotamia
This paper will be assessed by coursework, accounting for 20% of the final
mark and by one three-hour examination, counting for 80% of the final mark. The exam
paper will be divided into two sections and candidates will be required to answer
questions from both sections.
A4. Being human: interdisciplinary
perspectives
This paper will be assessed by 100% coursework.
B1. Humans in biological perspective
This paper will be assessed solely by a three-hour examination. The exam
paper will be undivided.
E1. Egyptian language I
This paper is assessed through two in-class tests of two hours each. The
first one will take place after the end of week two of Lent Term, while the second will
be conducted after the end of week four of Easter Term. Each test will make up 50% of
the total mark awarded for the paper.
Each test will consist of short questions designed to test the students’ knowledge of grammatical forms, and/or the transliteration and translation of selections of unseen sentences and passages in hieroglyphic Middle Egyptian, appropriate to the expected level of proficiency of the students at the time of each assessment. In addition to the transliteration and translation, the complete grammatical analysis of each Egyptian sentence or passage will be required for both tests. The use of sign lists and glossaries or dictionaries is permitted, and copies will be supplied to the students for use in the test by the course coordinator.
M1. Babylonian language
This paper will be assessed solely by a three-hour examination. Candidates
must answer all questions. The number of questions may vary from year to year. The
relative percentage weight of each question will be specified in the examination paper.
With reference to extracts from set texts and/or unseen passages, candidates may be required to transliterate, and/or translate into English, and/or normalise, and/or answer linguistic or philological questions. Candidates may be asked questions about Akkadian grammar. Candidates may be asked to translate passages or sentences into Old Babylonian.
For the purposes of setting unseens and passages for translation into Akkadian, it will be assumed that candidates are familiar with all the vocabulary and idioms encountered in the set texts.
The following papers are offered in Part II:
A2. Archaeology in action
This paper will be assessed by four pieces of coursework, counting for 40%
of the final mark, and one three-hour examination, counting for 60% of the final mark.
The exam paper will be divided into two sections and candidates will be required to
answer questions from both sections.
A10. Archaeological theory and practice
1
The examination of this paper will take the form of a three-hour examination
paper (70% of the total mark) and a 3,000-word report on the Easter field trip or a
project of the same word length (30% of the total mark). The paper is
undivided.
A11. From data to interpretation (also
serves as Paper B5)
This paper will be assessed by a single piece of coursework counting for
100% of the final mark.
A12. Archaeological theory and practice 2
The examination for this paper will take the form of a three-hour
examination paper worth 80% of the overall mark and a report on summer fieldwork worth
20% of the overall mark or (where unable to participate in fieldwork) a piece of
coursework of equivalent length, worth 20% of the final mark, on a subject agreed with
the paper coordinator.
A13. The past in the present
This paper will be assessed by a single piece of coursework counting for
100% of the final mark. The coursework will take the form of a public outreach and
communications product selected from a list supplied by the paper coordinator (such as a
podcast, vlog, outreach event, ad campaign, photo exhibition, or policy brief) on one of
the themes discussed in the module.
A21. Archaeological science
This paper will be assessed by a practical test worth 50% of the overall
mark, completion of an assessed essay worth 40% of the overall mark, and a practical
workbook worth 10% of the overall mark.
A22. Palaeolithic archaeology
This paper is assessed by coursework counting for 30% of the mark and a
three-hour written examination which will count for 70% of the mark. The coursework is a
practical project report on one or several Palaeolithic artefacts of the Museum of
Archaeology and Anthropology (word-limit: 3,000 words, not including references; two
pages of illustrations). The submission date of the practical project report will be in
week 3 or 4 of Easter Term.
A23. European prehistory
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 paper will be divided into two sections and students are
required to answer at least one question from each section.
A24. The medieval globe
The examination for this paper will take the form of a three-hour
examination paper, worth 80% of the overall mark, and a project worth 20% of the overall
mark.
A26. Mesopotamian archaeology II:
territorial states to empires
The examination for this paper will take the form of a three-hour
examination paper, worth 80% of the overall mark, and a short notes and images test
worth 20% of the overall mark.
A28. Ancient Egypt in context: an
archaeology of foreign relations
The examination for this paper will take the form of a three-hour
examination paper, worth 80% of the overall mark, and a project worth 20% of the overall
mark. The examination paper will be divided into two sections and students must answer
at least one question from each section.
A30. The archaeology of death and burial in ancient
Egypt
The examination for this paper will take the form of a three-hour
examination paper, worth 80% of the overall mark, and a project worth 20% of the overall
mark. The examination paper will be divided into two sections and students must answer
at least one question from each section.
A33. Ancient South America
The examination for this paper will take the form of a three-hour
examination paper, worth 80% of the overall mark, and a project worth 20% of the overall
mark.
A35. The archaeology of Africa
The examination for this paper will take the form of a two-hour examination
paper worth 50% of the overall mark, an assessed essay worth 30% of the final mark, and
a project worth 20% of the final mark.
A50. A technologically dependent lineage
(also serves as Paper B14)
The examination for this paper will take the form of a two-hour examination
paper counting for 100% of the overall mark.
A52. Britain ad
300–800
This paper will be assessed by a single piece of coursework counting for
100% of the final mark.
A54. Prehistoric art
This paper will be assessed by a single piece of coursework counting for
100% of the final mark.
A61. Archaeology of colonialism
This paper will be assessed by a single piece of coursework counting for
100% of the final mark.
AS3. Geographical information systems in
archaeology
This paper will be assessed by a single piece of coursework counting for
100% of the final mark.
AS5. Human osteology (also serves as Paper
B18)
This paper will be assessed by a single piece of coursework counting for
100% of the final mark.
AS8. Archaeological chemistry
This paper will be assessed by a piece of coursework counting for 90% of the
final mark, and a lab notebook comprising 10% of the final mark.
AS11. Environmental archaeology
This paper will be assessed by a piece of coursework counting for 90% of the
final mark, and a lab notebook comprising 10% of the final mark.
B2. Human ecology and behaviour
The examination for this paper will take the form of a three-hour
examination paper. The paper will be divided into three sections of four questions each.
Students must answer three questions, one from each section.
B3. Human evolution
The examination for this paper will take the form of a three-hour
examination paper, worth 85% of the overall mark, and one practical examination worth
15% of the overall mark. The exam paper will be undivided and candidates are required to
answer three of the questions.
B4. Comparative human biology
This paper is assessed solely through written examination. The examination
will take the form of a three-hour examination paper with three sections. Students must
answer one question from each section.
B5. From data to interpretation (also
serves as Paper A11)
This paper will be assessed by a single piece of coursework counting for
100% of the final mark.
B6. Major topics in human evolutionary
studies
This paper will be assessed by a single piece of coursework counting for
100% of the final mark.
B11. What finches tell us about
humans
The examination for this paper will take the form of a two-hour examination
paper counting for 100% of the overall mark. The exam paper will be undivided and
candidates are required to answer two of the questions.
B12. Culture evolves
The examination for this paper will take the form of a two-hour examination
paper counting for 100% of the overall mark. The exam paper will be undivided and
candidates are required to answer two of the questions.
B13. Health and disease throughout human
evolution
The examination for this paper will take the form of a two-hour examination
paper counting for 100% of the overall mark. The exam paper will be undivided and
candidates are required to answer two of the questions.
B14. A technologically dependent lineage
(also serves as Paper A50)
The examination for this paper will take the form of a two-hour examination
paper counting for 100% of the overall mark. The exam paper will be undivided and
candidates are required to answer two of the questions.
B15. Friends, relatives and
communities: human social
evolution
The examination for this paper will take the form of a two-hour examination
paper counting for 100% of the overall mark. The exam paper will be undivided and
candidates are required to answer two of the questions.
B16. Genomes: ancient,
modern and mixed
The examination for this paper will take the form of a two-hour examination
paper counting for 100% of the overall mark. The exam paper will be undivided and
candidates are required to answer two of the questions.
B17. Our extended family: primate biology
and behaviour
The examination for this paper will take the form of a two-hour examination
paper counting for 100% of the overall mark. The exam paper will be undivided and
candidates are required to answer two of the questions.
B18. Decoding the skeleton (also serves as
Paper AS5)
This paper will be assessed by a single piece of coursework counting for
100% of the final mark.
E1. Egyptian language I
This paper is assessed through two in-class tests of two hours each. The
first one will take place after the end of week two of Lent Term, while the second will
be conducted after the end of week four of Easter Term. Each test will make up 50% of
the total mark awarded for the paper.
Each test will consist of short questions designed to test the students’ knowledge of grammatical forms, and/or the transliteration and translation of selections of unseen sentences and passages in hieroglyphic Middle Egyptian, appropriate to the expected level of proficiency of the students at the time of each assessment. In addition to the transliteration and translation, the complete grammatical analysis of each Egyptian sentence or passage will be required for both tests. The use of sign lists and glossaries or dictionaries is permitted, and copies will be supplied to the students for use in the test by the course coordinator.
E2. Middle Egyptian texts
This paper is assessed through two in-class tests of two hours each. The
first one will take place after the end of week two of Lent Term, while the second will
be conducted after the end of week four of Easter Term. Each test will make up 50% of
the total mark awarded for the paper.
Each test will consist of the transliteration and translation of selections of unseen passages in hieroglyphic Middle Egyptian. In addition to the transliteration and translation, the complete grammatical analysis of each Egyptian passage will be required for both tests. The use of sign lists and glossaries or dictionaries is permitted, and copies will be supplied to the students for use in the test by the course coordinator.
E3. Old and Late Egyptian texts
This paper is assessed through two in-class tests of two hours each. The
first one will take place after the end of week two of Lent Term, while the second will
be conducted after the end of week four of Easter Term.
The first test (after the end of week two of Lent Term) will consist of the transliteration and translation of selections of unseen passages in hieroglyphic Old Egyptian and will make up 50% of the total mark awarded for the paper. The second test (after the end of week four of Easter Term) will consist of the transliteration and translation of selections of unseen passages in hieroglyphic Late Egyptian and will likewise make up 50% of the total mark awarded for the paper. In addition to the transliteration and translation, the complete grammatical analysis of each Egyptian passage will be required for both tests. The use of sign lists and glossaries or dictionaries is permitted for both tests, and copies will be supplied to the students for use in the test by the course coordinator.
E4. Coptic
This paper is assessed through two in-class tests of two hours each. The
first one will take place at the end of week two of Lent Term, while the second will be
conducted at the end of week four of Easter Term.
The first test will consist of the translation of short sentences and concise unseen passages in Sahidic Coptic and will make up 50% of the total mark awarded for the paper. The second test will consist of the translation of several selections of unseen passages in Sahidic Coptic and itself will make up the other 50% of the total mark awarded for the paper. In addition to the translation, the complete grammatical analysis (parsing) of each sentence or passage may be required. The use of glossaries or dictionaries is permitted for both tests, and copies will be supplied to the students for the purposes of the test by the course coordinator.
M1. Babylonian language I
This paper will be assessed solely by a three-hour examination. Candidates
must answer all questions. The number of questions may vary from year to year. The
relative percentage weight of each question will be specified in the examination paper.
With reference to extracts from set texts and/or unseen passages, candidates may be required to transliterate, and/or translate into English, and/or normalise, and/or answer linguistic or philological questions. Candidates may be asked questions about Akkadian grammar. Candidates may be asked to translate passages or sentences into Old Babylonian.
For the purposes of setting unseens and passages for translation into Akkadian, it will be assumed that candidates are familiar with all the vocabulary and idioms encountered in the set texts.
M2. Mesopotamian culture I:
literature
This paper will be assessed through three coursework essays of 2,000 words,
each worth a third of the final mark, on topics specified by the
coordinator.
M4. Intermediate Babylonian
The paper will be assessed by a three-hour examination (80%) and by
coursework (20%). Candidates must answer all questions in the examination. The number
and relative weighting of the questions may 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 normalise 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 or constructions. The
coursework will require candidates to write 500 words of commentary on the content
and/or textual basis of one of the set texts (as specified by the course coordinator),
and 500 words of philological commentary on one or more extracts from the set texts (as
specified by the course coordinator).The two coursework assignments are equally
weighted.
M5. Advanced Babylonian with
Assyrian
The paper will be assessed by a three-hour examination (80%) and by
coursework (20%). Candidates must answer all questions in the examination. The number
and relative weighting of the questions may 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 normalise 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 or constructions, or
other linguistic features. Candidates may be required to produce ‘synoptic’ or
‘variorum’ transliterations.
The coursework will consist of 500 words of philological commentary on one or more extracts from the set texts (as specified by the course coordinator), and a copy (scale drawing) of an original cuneiform text specified by the course coordinator.
M6. Sumerian language
This paper will be assessed solely by a three-hour examination. Candidates
must answer all questions. The number of questions may vary from year to year. The
relative percentage weight of each question will be specified in the examination paper.
Candidates may be required to transliterate, and/or translate into English, and/or
normalise, and/or answer linguistic and/or philological questions. Candidates may be
asked questions about Sumerian grammar.
The following papers are not offered in 2019–20:
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A25. |
Mesopotamian Archaeology I: prehistory and early states |
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A27. |
Society and settlement in ancient Egypt |
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A29. |
The archaeology of religion in ancient Egypt |
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A31. |
Ancient India I: the Indus civilisation and beyond |
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A32. |
Ancient India II: early historic cities of South Asia |
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A34. |
The archaeology of Mesoamerica and North America |
|
A36. |
Topics in regional archaeology |
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M3. |
Mesopotamian culture II: religion and scholarship |
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A51. |
British prehistory |
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A53. |
Special topics in Near Eastern Archaeology |
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A55. |
Special topics in regional archaeology 2 |
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A56. |
Special topics in regional archaeology 3 |
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A57. |
Special topics in regional archaeology 4 |
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A58. |
Special topics in regional archaeology 5 |
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A59. |
Material culture: conceptual approaches |
|
A60. |
Special topics in museum studies |
|
A62. |
Historical ecology |
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AS2. |
Special topics in advanced statistics/modelling |
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AS4. |
Zooarchaeology |
|
AS6. |
Palaeobotany |
|
AS7. |
Geoarchaeology |
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AS9. |
Analysis of archaeological materials |
|
AS10. |
Archaeological genetics |
|
AS12. |
Special topics in archaeological methods 2 |
The Faculty Board of Human, Social and Political Science gives notice that, with effect from the examinations to be held in 2019–20, the form and conduct of the examinations for the following papers in Parts IIa and IIb of the Human, Social and Political Sciences Tripos will be changed as follows:
POL4. Comparative politics
The paper is divided into two parts: (1) a range of case studies from
different regions in the world; (2) themes in comparative politics. Candidates will be
required to take a three-hour written examination. The examination paper will be divided
into eight sections. Section A will consist of at least six questions covering general
themes in comparative politics. Sections B–H will cover the 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.
POL5. Themes and issues in politics and international
relations
The paper requires students to submit two essays, each of up to 5,000 words
of length, from a list of questions published on the Department’s website. The essays
shall be submitted as follows: one by 12 noon on 20 January 2020, and one by 12 noon on
27 April 2020. Full details of the rules regarding word length and the details of the
submission process are available on the Department’s website.
POL12. The politics of the Middle East
The examination will consist of a three-hour written paper. Candidates will
be required to answer three questions from a choice of at least ten, including questions
on the politics of the Middle East, the international relations of the Middle East, and
the politics of Islamism. The paper will be undivided. Students no longer have the
option of being assessed via long essays for this paper.
POL15. The politics of Africa
The examination will consist of a three-hour written paper. Candidates will
be required to answer three questions from a choice of at least twelve, which shall
include questions on all six sections of the paper. The paper will be
undivided.
POL16. Conflict and peacebuilding
The examination will consist of a three-hour written paper. Candidates will
be required to answer three questions from a choice of at least twelve, including
questions on conflict, questions on peacebuilding and questions on cases. The paper will
be undivided.
POL17. Law of peace: the law of emerging international
constitutional order
The paper will consist of a three-hour written paper. Candidates may choose
any one of five questions that will be offered. Three of these will be problem (case
analysis) questions, and two will be essay questions. Candidates should expect that each
question may span more than one of the individual subject areas covered by the course.
POL19. Themes and issues in politics and international
relations
The paper requires students to submit two essays, each of up to 5,000 words
in length, from a list of questions published on the Department’s website. The essays
shall be submitted as follows: one by 12 noon on 20 January 2020, and one by 12 noon on
27 April 2020. Full details of the rules regarding word length and the details of the
submission process are available on the Department’s website.
SAN4e. The anthropology of an ethnographic area:
Pacific
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.
SAN9. Science and society
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.
SOC8. Religion and contentious mobilisation
This paper will be examined by one three-hour examination paper, divided
into two sections. Candidates will be required to answer at least one question from each
part. All questions are of equal value.
CRIM5. Social networks and crime: global perspectives on social
order, violence and organised
crime
This paper will be examined by 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.