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Diploma in Architecture

On the recommendation of the Faculty Board of Architecture and History of Art, the General Board and the Board of Graduate Studies have approved the following amendments to the regulations for the examination for the Diploma in Architecture (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 479). The purpose of these amendments is (i) to enable a student who has successfully completed the course for the one-year M.Phil. Degree in Environmental Design in Architecture to be granted exemption from either the First Examination or the Second Examination of the Diploma, (ii) to allow two of the three exercises in the course-work for the First Examination to be submitted in the Lent Term, (iii) to change the date of submission of studio-work for the Second Examination to the last Wednesday of the Easter Term, (iv) to make a viva voce examination compulsory in connection with the studio-work and/or the course-work in both the First and Second Examinations, and (v) to correct minor errors in Regulations 7 and 8. The regulations have been amended, with effect from 1 October 2000, as follows:

Regulation 1.

By amending the final part of the first sentence so as to read:

(b) has passed, or been granted exemption from, the Second Examination for the Diploma.

Regulation 3.

By amending the regulation so as to read:

3. (a) The Diploma Committee shall have power to grant exemption from the First Examination to a student who is a candidate under Regulation 2(a), and who has attained a satisfactory standard, as prescribed by the Committee, in an examination approved by the Committee for that purpose.

(b) Subject to the provisions of sub-paragraph (c) below, the Diploma Committee shall have power to grant exemption from either the First Examination or the Second Examination to a student who has been approved by the Board of Graduate Studies for the M.Phil. Degree (one-year course) having taken the examination in Environmental Design in Architecture for the degree.

(c) A student who has been granted exemption from the First Examination under sub-paragraph (a) above shall not also be eligible for exemption from the Second Examination under sub-paragraph (b).

The Chairman of the Committee shall inform the Registrary of the names of those students who have been granted exemption from either Examination by the Committee. The names of such students shall not be appended to the list of successful candidates, but shall be published by the Registrary.

Regulation 5.

By amending sub-paragraph (b) so as to read:

(b) The course-work shall consist of three exercises, which may be either essays or, with the approval of the approval of the Diploma Committee, alternative exercises, each on a topic proposed by the candidate. Two of these topics shall be submitted through the candidate's Tutor to the Departmental Secretary by the division of the Michaelmas Term, and one not later than the first quarter of the Lent Term, for the approval of the Diploma Committee. A candidate shall propose one topic in the history, theory, and practice of each of the following subject-areas: (i) architecture, (ii) urban and regional development, (iii) building technology. An essay shall be of not less than 2,500 words and not more than 3,000 words in length; an alternative exercise shall be of comparable substance. Two essays and alternative exercises shall be submitted to the Examiners not later than the first day of Full Lent Term and one not later than the first day of Full Easter Term. Essays shall be in English and shall be typewritten unless previous permission has been obtained from the Diploma Committee to present them in manuscript.

A candidate will be called for viva voce examination in connection with the studio-work or the course-work or both.

Regulation 7.

By deleting in line 5 the word 'Full'.

By replacing in line 7 the words 'topics of the studio-work and the submitted work' by the words 'topic of the submitted work'.

By replacing in the penultimate line the word 'may' by the word 'will'.

Regulation 8.

By inserting before the word 'Architecture' the words 'Environmental Design in'.

Regulation 11.

By inserting before the words 'the Second Examination' the words 'or has been granted exemption from'.


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Cambridge University Reporter, 1 December 1999
Copyright © 1999 The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge.