No 6190
Wednesday 26 May 2010
Vol cxl No 31
pp. 897–928
The Faculty Board of Modern and Medieval Languages give notice that the prescribed texts and topics for the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos 2011, are as set out below:
The Paper includes texts and topics from the middle ages, the early renaissance and the modern period. Reading lists and topics will be available from the Department of German and Dutch and from the Faculty website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/dutch/
An introduction to contemporary literary studies, thought and context through an examination of intellectual and cultural trends that might reflect, or have had an impact on the texts and film studied, and on linguistics as an essential feature of the study of language and culture.
Five major texts and one film will be studied: Robert d’Orbigny, Floire et Blanchefleur (Champion Classiques, 2004); Marguerite de Navarre, L’Heptaméron, ed. N. Cazauran, texte établi par S. Lefèvre (Folio Classique, Paris: Gallimard, 2000); Racine, Phèdre, ed. Christian Delmas and Georges Forestier, Collection Folio Théâtre no. 23 (Paris: Gallimard, 1995); Montesquieu, Lettres persanes (Garnier Flammarion); Emile Zola, Thérèse Raquin, ed. Henri Mitterand (Garnier Flammarion, 2008); Agnès Varda (director), Cléo de 5 à 7 (1962).
A general study of the structure and varieties of contemporary German, together with a study of selected topics from the history of German in the twentieth century.
An introduction to German History and to some of the main German thinkers (such as Kant, Marx, Freud, and Habermas).
This paper offers an introduction to fiction, drama, and poetry through some of the most important German literary texts. Authors studied include Gottfried von Strassburg, Walther von der Vogelweide, Goethe, Kleist, Heine, Büchner, Wim Wenders, Christa Wolf.
Gr. 1. This paper is suspended until further notice.
Reading lists and topics for this paper will be available from the Department of Italian and from the Faculty website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/italian/
A general study of the present-day structure and varieties of Portuguese, together with a study of the general linguistic background.
Candidates will be required to answer three questions, at least one from each section. Further information and reading lists for this paper are available from the Faculty website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/spanish/courses/ugrad/pg1.html
Candidates will be required to answer three questions from at least two sections:
Section 1: Portuguese literature/art; Section 2: Brazilian literature; Section 3: Lusophone African literature and topic-based questions.
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese gives notice that, in any given year, lectures for this paper will not necessarily cover all of the texts; candidates for the paper will be advised at the beginning of the year’s lecture course which, if any, texts/visual works are to be omitted/replaced.
Further information and reading lists for this paper are available from the Faculty website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/spanish/courses/ugrad/pg2.html
Section A. Mikhail Lermontov, Герой нашего времени
Sections B and C. Topics in Russian history, literature, and culture. Reading lists for this paper are available from the Department of Slavonic Studies and on the Faculty website.
A general study of the present-day structure and varieties of Spanish, together with a study of the general linguistic background.
Candidates will be required to answer three questions, at least one from each Section. Further information and reading lists for this paper are available from the Faculty website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/spanish/courses/ugrad/sp1.html
Candidates will be required to answer three questions, including at least one from Section C.
(a) Texts pre-1850; (b) Texts post-1850; (c) Topics.
Further information and reading lists for this paper are available from the Faculty website: http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/spanish/courses/ugrad/sp2.html
* Asterisked papers may only be taken by candidates who offered Option A in the language concerned in Part Ia. Such a candidate must offer at least one asterisked paper in that language in Part Ib.
† No candidate may offer more than one from among Papers Du. 5, Gr. 3, Pg. 3, Sp. 10, or Uk. 1 in any one year.
Reading lists and topics for these papers will be available from the Department of German and Dutch and from the Faculty website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/dutch/
This paper is suspended for Tripos 2011.
There are no prescribed texts for these papers. Further information and reading lists can be obtained from the Department of French.
A general study of the structure and varieties of contemporary German, together with a study of selected topics from the history of German in the twentieth century.
An introduction to German history and to some of the main German thinkers (such as Kant, Marx, Freud, and Habermas).
This paper offers an introduction to fiction, drama, and poetry through some of the most important German literary texts. Authors studied include Gottfried von Strassburg, Walther von der Vogelweide, Goethe, Kleist, Heine, Büchner, Wim Wenders, Christa Wolf.
Lists of recommended reading for the following papers are available from the Department of German and Dutch.
German culture, thought and history in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
German culture, thought, and history from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day.
This paper introduces students to the broad outlines of the historical development of the German language from the earliest times until the modern period.
A. Karkavitsas, Ο ζητιάνος; C. P. Cavafy, Ποιήματα, Vol. 1; S. Doukas, Ιστορία ενός αιχμαλώτου; G. Seferis, Μυθιστόρημα,Τετράδιο Γυμνασμάτων (selections); S. Myrivilis, Ο Βασίλης ο Αρβανίτης; O. Elytis, Άσμα ηρωικό και πένθιμο για τον χαμένο ανθυπολοχαγό της Αλβανίας; D. Chatzis, Το τέλος της μικρής μας πόλης; D. Nollas, Τα θολά τζάμια; G. Yatromanolakis, Ιστορία; E. Fakinou, Το έβδομο ρούχο.
The language question 1888–1920; World War I and the Asia Minor disaster; dictatorship and civil war; Greece and European integration since 1974.
Candidates will be required to answer one compulsory Translation into English and two further questions on literary texts or cultural topics.
Further information and reading lists for this paper are available from the Faculty website: http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/greek/courses/ugrad/gr3.html
Reading lists and topics for this paper will be available from the Modern Greek Section and from the Faculty website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/greek/
΄Ανθη Ευλαβείας (ed. Karathanasis); Το δημοτικό τραγούδι: (a) Κλέφτικα (ed. A. Politis); (b) Της ξενιτιάς (ed. Saunier); D. Solomos, Ποιήματα (ed. L. Politis or S. Alexiou); A. Kalvos, Ωδαί; Makriyannis, Απομνημονεύματα Book I (ed. Vlachogiannis); G. Palaiologos, Ο Πολυπαθής; E. Roidis, Η Πάπισσα Ιωάννα; D. Vikelas, Λουκής Λάρας; G. Vizyinos, Νεοελληνικά Διηγήματα (ed. Moullas); A. Papadiamantis, Α. Παπαδιαμάντης Αυτοβιογραφούμενος (ed. Moullas), Η Φόνισσα.
C. Cavafy, Ποιήματα, Ανέκδοτα ποιήματα (ed. Savvidis); K. Theotokis, Η τιμή και το χρήμα; S. Myrivilis, Η ζωή εν τάφω; G. Seferis, Ποιήματα; K. Politis, Eroica; M. Axioti; Δύσκολες νύχτες; N. Engonopoulos, Ποιήματα; N. Kazantzakis, Βίος και Πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά; K. Tachtsis, Το τρίτο στεφάνι; Y. Ritsos, Τέταρτη διάσταση; T. Valtinos, Η κάθοδος των εννιά; R. Galanaki, Ο βίος του Ισμαήλ Φερίκ Πασά.
Reading lists and copies of texts, from which passages will be set for comment (compulsory for Part II candidates, optional for Part Ib candidates), are available from the Faculty.
Reading lists and topics for these papers will be available from the Department of Italian and from the Faculty website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/italian/
This paper is suspended until further notice.
This paper is suspended until further notice.
Reading lists for this paper are available from the Faculty and on the Faculty website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/other/courses/ugrad/neo_latin.html
A general study of the present-day structure and varieties of Portuguese, together with a study of the general linguistic background.
Candidates will be required to answer three questions, at least one from each section. Further information and reading lists for this paper are available from the Faculty website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/spanish/courses/ugrad/pg1.html
Candidates will be required to answer three questions from at least two sections:
Section 1: Portuguese literature/art; Section 2: Brazilian literature; Section 3: Lusophone African literature and topic-based questions.
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese gives notice that, in any given year, lectures for this paper will not necessarily cover all of the texts; candidates for the paper will be advised at the beginning of the year’s lecture course which, if any, texts/visual works are to be omitted/replaced.
Further information and reading lists for this paper are available from the Faculty website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/spanish/courses/ugrad/pg2.html
Candidates will be required to answer one compulsory Translation into English and two further questions on texts from Portugal, Brazil, Lusophone Africa or topic-based questions.
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese gives notice that, in any given year, lectures for this paper will not necessarily cover all of the texts; candidates for the paper will be advised at the beginning of the year’s lecture course which, if any, texts/visual works are to be omitted/replaced.
Further information and reading lists for this paper are available from the Faculty website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/spanish/courses/ugrad/pg3.html
(i) Religion; (ii) Dictatorship; (iii) Identity, self, and other; (iv) The political family.
Candidates will be required to answer three questions relating to three different topics in the examination.
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese gives notice that, in any given year, lectures for this paper will not necessarily cover all of the texts; candidates for the paper will be advised at the beginning of the year’s lecture course which, if any, texts/visual works are to be omitted/replaced. All topics will be examined each year.
Further information and reading lists for this paper are available from the Faculty website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/spanish/courses/ugrad/pg4.html
(i) A study of the phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic changes that led to the emergence of Hispanic languages out of Latin; (ii) Topics in Hispano-Romance linguistic change; (iii) Study of texts.
Further information and reading lists for this paper are available from the Faculty website: http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/spanish/courses/ugrad/sp11.html
Section A. Mikhail Lermontov, Герой нашего времени
Sections B and C. Topics in Russian history, literature, and culture. Reading lists for this paper are available from the Department of Slavonic Studies and on the Faculty website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/slavonic/
Повесть временных лет, 912-1054; Житие Феодосия Печерского; Слово о полку Игореве; Моление Даниила Заточника; Поучение Владимира Мономаха; Житие Александра Невского.
(a) Periods: The Mongols, the Church and the Grand Principality of Moscow; the formation of the Tsardom of Russia, Ivan Kalita to Ivan the Terrible; the Time of Troubles and the first Romanovs: Boris Godunov to Peter I.
(b) Written texts: Passages for commentary will be set from three of the following texts:
Житие митрополита Петра; Житие Петра, царевича ордынского, Видение Хутынского пономаря Тарасия; Домострой; Житие Юльянии Лазаревской; Житие протопопа Аввакума; Повесть о бражнике; Калязинская челобитная; О зачатии и здании царствующего града С.-Петербурга
(c) Visual texts: Muscovite iconography; Early popular prints; Early depictions of St Petersburg.
(a) Pushkin, Евгений Онегин; Tolstoi, Анна Каренина, and one of Chekhov’s plays.
(b) Topics in Russian literature and thought – there are no set texts for this section, recommended reading lists are available from the Department of Slavonic Studies and Faculty website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/slavonic/
Section A. Set texts: Mikhail Bulgakov, Мастер и Маргарита; Isaak Babel, Конармия.
Section B. Topics in the twentieth-century Russian culture.
Reading lists for this paper are available from the Department of Slavonic Studies and on the Faculty website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/slavonic/
Section A: A list of primary sources is available from the Department of Slavonic Studies.
Section B: The period 1861–1905
Section C: The period 1905–1917
Section A: A list of primary sources is available from the Department of Slavonic Studies.
Section B: The period 1917–1934
Section C: The period 1934–1991
(a) An anthology of source material, available from the Department of Slavonic Studies;
(b) Topics: (i) Changes within the language system: sounds; grammatical categories; semantics. (ii) Changes in the social dimensions of language: diglossia; the development of the standard language.
A general study of the present-day structure and varieties of Spanish, together with a study of the general linguistic background.
Candidates will be required to answer three questions, at least one from each Section. Further information and reading lists for this paper are available from the Faculty website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/spanish/courses/ugrad/sp1.html
Candidates will be required to answer three questions, including at least one from Section C.
(a) Texts pre-1850; (b) Texts post-1850; (c) Topics.
Further information and reading lists for this paper are available from the Faculty website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/spanish/courses/ugrad/sp2.html
(i) War and the hero; (ii) Race, place, and society; (iii) Humour and the grotesque; (iv) Varieties of love; (v) The Golden Age comedy of manners.
Candidates will be required to answer three questions. The Department of Spanish and Portuguese gives notice that in any given year, lectures for this paper will not necessarily cover all of the above topics: candidates will be advised at the beginning of the year’s lecture courses which, if any, topics are to be omitted. All topics will be examined each year.
Further information and reading lists for this paper are available from the Faculty website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/spanish/courses/ugrad/sp3.html
(i) Spain in crisis, 1890–1923; (ii) Prescriptions of gender; (iii) The post-Civil War novel and Franco’s Spain; (iv) Images of contemporary Spain.
Further information and reading lists for this paper are available from the Faculty website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/spanish/courses/ugrad/sp4.html
(i) Nation and narration; (ii) Nightmares of the urban; (iii) Charting revolution; (iv) The racial ‘other’; (v) Penning the dictator; (vi) Labyrinths of fiction.
Further information and reading lists for this paper are available from the Faculty website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/spanish/courses/ugrad/sp5.html
(i) Catalan language; (ii) Modernisme, Noucentisme, Avantguardisme, 1900-39; (iii) Cultural resistance to the dictatorship 1939–75; (iv) Postmodernity in the postdictatorship.
Further information and reading lists for this paper are available from the Faculty website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/spanish/courses/ugrad/sp10/
(i) A study of the phonological, morphological, syntactic and semantic changes that led to the emergence of Hispanic languages out of Latin; (ii) Topics in Hispano-Romance linguistic change; (iii) Study of texts.
Further information and reading lists for this paper are available from the Faculty website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/spanish/courses/ugrad/sp11.html
This paper is available to all MML students. Reading lists for this paper are available from the Department of Slavonic Studies at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/slavonic/
There are no prescribed texts or topics for these papers, but details may be obtained from the Department of Linguistics at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/ling/
Every candidate will be expected to show knowledge of at least two of the Romance languages. There are no prescribed texts or topics for this paper. Further information and reading lists are available from the Faculty website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/courses/CS1/
† No candidate may offer more than one paper from among Papers CS 4–6.
‡ No candidate may offer more than one of Papers Gr. 3, Pg. 3, Sp. 10, Uk. 1 or Uk. 2 in any one year.
Reading lists and topics for these papers will be available from the Department of German and Dutch and from the Faculty website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/dutch/
This paper is suspended for Tripos 2011.
There are no prescribed texts for these papers. Further information and reading lists can be obtained from the Department of French and the Faculty website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/french/
Specified topics: German thought in the nineteenth century I; German thought in the nineteenth century II; German history in the nineteenth century I; German history in the nineteenth century II.
Specified topics: German thought in the twentieth century I; German thought in the twentieth century II; German history in the twentieth century I; German history in the twentieth century II.
There are no prescribed texts for these papers. Lists of recommended reading are available from the Department of German and Dutch at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/german/
Candidates will be required to answer one compulsory Translation into English and two further questions on literary texts or cultural topics.
Further information and reading lists for this paper are available from the Faculty website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/greek/courses/ugrad/gr3.html
Reading lists and topics for this paper will be available from the Modern Greek Section and from the Faculty website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/greek/
Άνθη Ευλαβείας (ed. Karathanasis); Το δημοτικό τραγούδι: (a) Κλέφτικα (ed. A. Politis); (b) Της ξενιτιάς (ed. Saunier); D. Solomos, Ποιήματα (ed. L. Politis or S. Alexiou); A. Kalvos, Ωδαί; Makriyannis, Απομνημονεύματα Book I (ed. Vlachogiannis); G. Palaiologos, Ο Πολυπαθής; E. Roidis, Η Πάπισσα Ιωάννα; D. Vikelas, Λουκής Λάρας; G. Vizyinos, Νεοελληνικά Διηγήματα (ed. Moullas); A. Papadiamantis, Α. Παπαδιαμάντης Αυτοβιογραφούμενος (ed. Moullas), Η Φόνισσα.
C. Cavafy, Ποιήματα, Ανέκδοτα ποιήματα (ed. Savvidis); K. Theotokis, Η τιμή και το χρήμα; S. Myrivilis, Η ζωή εν τάφω; G. Seferis, Ποιήματα; K. Politis, Eroica; M. Axioti; Δύσκολες νύχτες; N. Engonopoulos, Ποιήματα; N. Kazantzakis, Βίος και Πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά; K. Tachtsis, Το τρίτο στεφάνι; Y. Ritsos, Τέταρτη διάσταση; T. Valtinos, Η κάθοδος των εννιά; R. Galanaki, Ο βίος του Ισμαήλ Φερίκ Πασά.
Reading lists and copies of texts, from which passages will be set for comment (compulsory for Part II candidates, optional for Part Ib candidates), are available from the Faculty.
Reading lists and topics for these papers will be available from the Department of Italian and from the Faculty website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/italian/
This paper is suspended until further notice.
This paper is suspended until further notice.
Reading lists for these papers are available from the Faculty and on the Faculty website: http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/other/courses/ugrad/neo_latin.html
Candidates will be required to answer one compulsory Translation into English and two further questions on texts from Portugal, Brazil, Lusophone Africa or topic-based questions.
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese gives notice that, in any given year, lectures for this paper will not necessarily cover all of the texts; candidates for the paper will be advised at the beginning of the year’s lecture course which, if any, texts/visual works are to be omitted/replaced.
Further information and reading lists for this paper are available from the Faculty website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/spanish/courses/ugrad/pg3.html
(i) Religion; (ii) Dictatorship; (iii) Identity, self, and other; (iv) The political family.
Candidates will be required to answer three questions relating to three different topics in the examination.
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese gives notice that, in any given year, lectures for this paper will not necessarily cover all of the texts; candidates for the paper will be advised at the beginning of the year’s lecture course which, if any, texts/visual works are to be omitted/replaced. All topics will be examined each year.
Further information and reading lists for this paper are available from the Faculty website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/spanish/courses/ugrad/pg4.html
This paper will be suspended for Tripos 2011.
(i) A study of the phonological, morphological, syntactic and semantic changes that led to the emergence of Hispanic languages out of Latin; (ii) Topics in Hispano-Romance linguistic change; (iii) Study of texts.
Further information and reading lists for this paper are available from the Faculty website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/spanish/courses/ugrad/sp11.html
Повесть временных лет, 912–1054; Житие Феодосия Печерского; Слово о полку Игореве; Моление Даниила Заточника; Поучение Владимира Мономаха; Житие Александра Невского.
(a) Periods: The Mongols, the Church and the Grand Principality of Moscow; the formation of the Tsardom of Russia, Ivan Kalita to Ivan the Terrible; the Time of Troubles and the first Romanovs: Boris Godunov to Peter I.
(b) Written texts: Passages for commentary will be set from three of the following texts:
Житие митрополита Петра; Житие Петра, царевича ордынского; Видение Хутынского пономаря Тарасия; Домострой; Житие Юльянии Лазаревской; Житие протопопа Аввакума; Повесть о бражнике; Калязинская челобитная; О зачатии и здании царствующего града С.-Петербурга
(c) Visual texts: Muscovite iconography; early popular prints; early depictions of St Petersburg.
(a) Pushkin, Евгений Онегин; Tolstoi, Анна Каренина, and one of Chekhov’s plays.
(b) Topics in Russian literature and thought – there are no set texts for this section, recommended reading lists are available from the Department of Slavonic Studies and Faculty website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/slavonic/
Section A. Set texts: Mikhail Bulgakov, Мастер и Маргарита; Isaak Babel, Конармия.
Section B. Topics in the twentieth-century Russian culture.
Reading lists for this paper are available from the Department of Slavonic Studies and on the Faculty website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/slavonic/
Section A: A list of primary sources is available from the Department of Slavonic Studies.
Section B: The period 1861–1905
Section C: The period 1905–1917
Section A: A list of primary sources is available from the Department of Slavonic Studies.
Section B: The period 1917–1934
Section C: The period 1934–1991
(a) An anthology of source material, available from the Department of Slavonic Studies;
(b) Topics: (i) Changes within the language system: sounds; grammatical categories; semantics. (ii) Changes in the social dimensions of language: diglossia; the development of the standard language.
(i) Narratives of self; (ii) Don Quijote and the world of fiction.; (iii) Illusion and moral truth, (iv) Wit and the comic mind; (v) Discovering the other; (vi) The world as stage: theatre and society.
Candidates will be required to answer three questions relating to three different topics in the examination.
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese gives notice that, in any given year, lectures for this paper will not necessarily cover all of the above topics: candidates for the paper will be advised at the beginning of the year’s lecture courses which, if any, topics are to be omitted. All topics will be examined each year.
Further information and reading lists for this paper are available from the Faculty website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/spanish/courses/ugrad/sp7.html
This paper will be suspended for Tripos 2011.
(i) Nature and culture; (ii) Experiments in form; (iii) Writing memory; (iv) Staging issues; (v) Between women.
Candidates will be required to answer three questions relating to three different topics in the examination.
Further information and reading lists for this paper are available from the Faculty website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/spanish/courses/ugrad/sp9.html
(i) Catalan language; (ii) Modernisme, Noucentisme, Avantguardisme, 1900–39; (iii) Cultural resistance to the dictatorship 1939–75; (iv) Postmodernity in the postdictatorship.
Further information and reading lists for this paper are available from the Faculty website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/spanish/courses/ugrad/sp10/
(i) A study of the phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic changes that led to the emergence of Hispanic languages out of Latin; (ii) Topics in Hispano-Romance linguistic change; (iii) Study of texts.
Further information and reading lists for this paper are available from the Faculty website: http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/spanish/courses/ugrad/sp11.html
This paper is divided into two sections:
(a) Topics in Latin-American culture; (b) Writers and artists.
Further information and reading lists for this paper are available from the Faculty website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/spanish/courses/ugrad/sp12.html
This paper is divided into two sections:
(a) Topics in contemporary Latin-American culture; (b) Writers, film directors, and artists.
Further information and reading lists for this paper are available from the Faculty website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/spanish/courses/ugrad/sp13.html
(a) Set texts: Poema de mio Cid; Juan Ruiz, Libro de Buen Amor; Juan Manuel, El Conde Lucanor; Diego de San Pedro, selected works; spectacle and the origins of theatre; court poetry.
(b) Topics: (i) Female voice and the representation of women; (ii) Living well, dying well; (iii) Convivencia; (iv) Treachery and taboo in medieval epic and epic legend; (v) Myth, history, and nation building; (vi) Crisis and conflict in fifteenth-century Castile.
Candidates will be required to answer three questions, at least one from each Section. The Department of Spanish and Portuguese gives notice that in any given year, lectures for this paper will not necessarily cover all of the above topics: candidates will be advised at the beginning of the year’s lecture courses which, if any, topics are to be omitted. All topics will be examined each year.
Further information and reading lists for this paper are available from the Faculty website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/spanish/courses/ugrad/sp14.html
These papers are available to all MML students. Reading lists for these papers are available from the Department of Slavonic Studies and the Faculty website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/slavonic/
There are no prescribed texts or topics for these papers, but details may be obtained from the Department of Linguistics at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/ling/
Every candidate will be expected to show knowledge of at least two of the Romance languages. There are no prescribed texts or topics for this paper. Further information and reading lists are available from the Faculty website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/courses/CS1/
This paper is suspended until further notice.
The paper will be divided into three main topics: (1) the structure of Old Church Slavonic (including the reading of texts); (2) the development of the Slavonic languages from Common Slavonic; and (3) topics in the current language situation.
This paper is suspended until further notice.
The paper will be in four sections: A. Illness and pain; B. Mind and body; C. Sexuality and performance; D. Power and politics.
Candidates will be required to answer three questions, not more than two from any one section. There are no prescribed texts, but a list of reading suggestions is available on the Faculty website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/courses/cs5/
Details of topics, prescribed films, and reading lists are available on the Faculty website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/courses/cs6/
The Faculty Board of Modern and Medieval Languages give notice of the following papers in Schedule D (papers taken from other Triposes) that may be taken in Part II under Regulation 24 for the examination in 2010–11.
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Paper 2. | Scandinavian history in the Viking Age. |
Paper 5. | Old English language and literature. |
Paper 6. | Old Norse language and literature. |
Paper 7. | Medieval Welsh language and literature. |
Paper 8. | Medieval Irish language and literature. |
Paper 7. | Advanced medieval Welsh language and literature. |
Paper 8. | Advanced medieval Irish language and literature. |
Paper 11. | Germanic philology. |
Paper 12. | Celtic philology. |
Paper A1. | A prescribed Greek author or authors, and a prescribed Latin author or authors: Homer, Odyssey, and/or Virgil, Aeneid. |
Paper A2. | Prescribed Greek texts: Sophocles and myth. |
Paper A3. | Prescribed Latin texts: Horace, Epodes and Odes I–III. |
Paper B1. | Plato. |
Paper B2. | Aristotle. |
Paper C4. | A subject in ancient or medieval European history: transformation of the Roman world (Paper 12 of the Historical Tripos, Part II). |
Paper D3. | A topic within classical archaeology and/or art: The poetics of classical art. |
Paper E2. | The Greek language: Greek from Mycenae to Homer. |
Paper E3. | The Latin language: Latin and the Greek language. |
Paper 2. | Tragedy. |
Paper 3. | Chaucer. |
Paper 10. | Postcolonial and related literatures. |
Paper 12. | Special subject II, Literature and visual culture (in any year in which the subject ‘Literature and visual culture’ has been prescribed as an option by the Faculty Board of English). |
Paper 18. | European history, since 1890. |
Paper 4. | History of political thought from c. 1700 to c. 1890. |
Paper 20. | The French and British problem c. 1688–2006. |
Paper 22. | The long road to modernization: Spain 1800–2000. |
Papers in the subject Experimental Psychology. |
Paper Is. 13. | Middle Eastern and Islamic culture: Human rights and the Middle East. |
Paper Is. 21. | Middle Eastern and Islamic history, 5. |
Paper Is. 22. | Middle Eastern and Islamic history, 6. |
Paper 11. | Aesthetics. |
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Paper Int. 7. | Society, politics, and culture in Latin America. |
The Board of History and Philosophy of Science give notice that the prescribed sources for the essay component of the Natural Sciences Tripos, Part II, in History and Philosophy of Science, 2010–11, are as follows:
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Paper 1 |
Letters, queries, and reports from Assyrian scholars: http://knp.prs.heacademy.ac.uk/ |
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Paper 2 |
Sir John Pringle, Six discourses delivered on the occasion of six annual assignments of Sir Godfrey Copley’s Medal (1783) |
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Paper 3 |
Charles Darwin’s correspondence: http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/ |
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Paper 4 |
Bas van Fraassen, The scientific image (1980) |
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Paper 5 |
Bruno Latour, Science in action (1987) |
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Paper 6 |
Foucault, Psychiatric power (1973–4) |
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Paper 7 |
Helkiah Crooke, Microcosmographia (1615), Book 4 |
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Paper 8 |
‘Drama of life before birth’ (Life, 1965) |
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Paper 9 |
O. Neurath and others, ‘The scientific conception of the world: Vienna Circle’ [1929], in Empiricism and Sociology (Dordrecht, 1973) |
Each source will have four hours of seminars. The seminars for each source will be held in the first half of Michaelmas Term 2010. Candidates are advised to attend seminars for four Primary Sources. These will normally be those sources associated with the three papers they are offering plus one other. Candidates will be required to write essays on two sources, which must be submitted to the Examiners on 24 January 2011. Each essay should be not more than 3,000 words in length (including footnotes, but excluding bibliography).
The Faculty Board of Divinity give notice that they have selected the following special subjects and prescribed texts for the Theological and Religious Studies Tripos, Part I, in 2011 (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 423).
A. Hebrew I (Elementary Hebrew)
Genesis 37, 40–43, 45.
B. New Testament Greek
John 9–12.
C. Sanskrit
Mahābhārata, 2.66–68 (BORI edn., Poona, 1933-66); Hitopadeśa, extracts 2–11 (C.R.Lanman, A Sanskrit Reader, pp. 16–35); Bhagavadgītā, chs. 3–4 (ed. by S.K.Belvalkar, BORI, Poona, 1968).
D. Qur’anic Arabic
The Qur’an, I: 1–7, II: 1–23, IV: 93–100, LIII: 1–40; al-Bukhari, al-Jami’ al-Sahih (Cairo, 1313 AH), Vol. I, pp. 1–10; al-Isfara’ini, al-Tabsir fi’l-din (Beirut, 1983 CE), pp. 45–46, 97–99.
Exodus 1–3; Deuteronomy 5–7; Ruth; Psalms 29, 82, and 93; Proverbs 8; Isaiah 44–46; Hosea 1–3.
Exodus 1–3; Deuteronomy 5–7; Ruth; Psalms 29, 82, and 93; Proverbs 8; Isaiah 44–46; Hosea 1–3.
Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 18.63–64, in Josephus, with translation and notes by L. H. Feldman (Loeb Classical Library: Harvard, 1981: Vol. IX), 48–51.
Mark 1.7–11; Matthew. 3.11–17; Luke 3.15–22 (excluding vv. 19–20); and Matthew 11.2–6 and Luke 7.18–23.
Mark 2.1–12; Matthew 9.1–8; Luke 5.17–26.
Mark 8.27–30; Matthew 16.13–20; Luke 9.18–21.
Mark 12.1–12; Matthew 21.33–46; Luke 20.9–19 and Gospel of Thomas 65 and 66.
Mark 14.53–72; Matthew 26.57–75; Luke 22.47–62.
Mark 15.33–39; Matthew 27.45–54; Luke 23.44–49.
John 1.1–18.
Prescribed topics:
A. Revivals and popular religion in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
B. The modern missionary movement.
C. The social gospel and kingdom theology.
There are no prescribed texts for this paper.
There are no prescribed texts for this paper but a list of recommended readings will be available in the Faculty Library and on the Faculty website from the end of full Easter Term.
Prescribed topic: the sociology of religion. There are no prescribed texts for this paper. .
There are no prescribed texts for this paper.
There are no prescribed texts for this paper but a list of recommended readings will be available in the Faculty Library and on the Faculty website from the end of full Easter Term.
The Faculty Board of Divinity give notice that they have selected the following special subjects and prescribed texts for the Theological and Religious Studies Tripos, Part IIa, in 2011 (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 423).
See special subject for Part I.
A. Hebrew II (Intermediate
Hebrew)
Deuteronomy 5–15; Judges 13–16; Jonah; Job 1–2, 42.7–17.
B. New Testament Greek
Mark 1–8 and Galatians.
C. Sanskrit
Rgvedasamhitā 1.1, 7.86, 10.14, 10.90, 10.129 (in A. A.
Macdonell, A Vedic Reader for Students);
Mānavadharmaśāstra, chs.1, 4, 12 (P. Olivelle,
Manu’s code of law: a critical edition and translation of the
Mānava-Dharmaśāstra,
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005);
Sāmkhyakārikā, vv.1–21, 53–69 (G. J.
Larson, Classical
Sāmkhya, Motilal
Banarsidass, Delhi, 1983); Buddhacarita of Aśvaghosha, ch.3 (ed. by E. H.
Johnston, Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi, 1972).
D. Arabic
The Qur’an, Sura XIX; Abu Sa’id al-Baydawi, Anwar al-tanzil
wa-asrar al-ta’wil (Istanbul, 1329AH), 404–5; Bin Juzayy al-Kalbi,
Tafsir Beirut, 1983/1403), pp. 413–16; al-Waqidi,
Kitab al-Maghazi, ed. Marsden Jones (Oxford, 1966), Vol. II,
pp. 731–8; Yahya ibn Sharaf al-Nawawi, al-Minhaj fi sharh Sahir Muslim ibn
al-Hajjaj (Cairo, 1347AH), Vol. II, pp. 79–98; Abd al-Rahman ibn
al-Jawzi, Sifat al-safwa (Hyderabad, 1355AH), Vol. IV, pp.
155–9.
Jeremiah 1–25.
2 Esdras (IV Ezra) 3–14 (from the Apocrypha in the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, NRSV); the Wisdom of Solomon 6:1–7:24; 10–12 (NRSV); Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 44–50 (NRSV); and 1 Maccabees 1–2 (NRSV); the Damascus Document 1:1–3:13 (G. Vermes, The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English, 5th edition. London 1997); Josephus Antiquities 13:405–432 (R. Marcus, Josephus: Jewish Antiquities, Books XII–XIII. Loeb Classical Library 365, Harvard, 1943); a selection of inscriptions (W. Horbury and D. Noy, eds, Jewish Inscriptions of Graeco-Roman Egypt. Cambridge, 1992, nos. 22, 24, 27, 29, 30, 31, 33, 34, 35, 36, 38, 39); and a selection of coins (Y. Meshorer, Jewish coins of the Second Temple period. Translated from the Hebrew by I.H. Levine. Tel Aviv, Am Hassefer, 1967, nos. 5–9, 18–20, 30–32, 37–39, 153, 162–163, 165–170, 235–238; and Fitzwilliam Museum CM.LS.3356-R).
1 Corinthians.
John 1–6, 17–20; 1 John 2–3; 3 John
There are no prescribed texts for this paper but a list of recommended readings will be available in the Faculty Library and on the Faculty website from the end of full Easter Term.
Prescribed topics:
A: The Protestant Reformation in Europe, ca. 1517–1618
B: The Catholic Reformation in Europe, ca. 1492–1618
Augustine, Confessions Books III, IV, VII, IX, trans. Henry Chadwick (Oxford University Press, 1991); Aquinas, Summa Theologiae 1a1, 1a13, 3a75 (Eyre & Spottiswoode, Blackfriars edition, London, 1964), Volumes 1, 3, and 58; K. Barth, Church Dogmatics 1.1 (T&T Clark, Edinburgh, 2nd ed., 1975), pp. 295–383; F. D. E. Schleiermacher, The Christian Faith (Edinburgh, 1928), pp. 425–38, 723–51; ‘The Freedom of a Christian Man’ in Luther’s Works, Vol. 31. The Career of the Reformer I, ed. Harold J. Grimm, trans. W.A. Lambert (Philadelphia: Muhlenberg Press, 1957), pp. 343–77.
Prescribed topic: Image and icon in Christian tradition.
There are no prescribed texts for this paper but a list of recommended readings will be available in the Faculty Library and on the Faculty website from the end of full Easter Term.
There are no prescribed texts for this paper but a list of recommended readings will be available in the Faculty Library and on the Faculty website from the end of full Easter Term.
There are no prescribed texts for this paper but a list of recommended readings will be available in the Faculty Library and on the Faculty website from the end of full Easter Term.
Prescribed topic: Moral vision in the European novel.
There are no prescribed texts for this paper but a list of recommended readings will be available in the Faculty Library and on the Faculty website from the end of full Easter Term.
There are no prescribed texts for this paper.
There are no prescribed texts for this paper.
There are no prescribed texts for this paper.
There are no prescribed texts for this paper.
The Faculty Board of Divinity give notice that they have selected the following special subjects and prescribed texts for the Theological and Religious Studies Tripos, Part IIb, in 2011 (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 423).
See special subject for Part I.
See special subject for Part IIa.
A. Hebrew III (Advanced
texts)
a) 2 Kings 18 and 19; Psalm 48, Isaiah 1:1–2:5,
Lamentations 1, Zechariah 14; b) Psalms 8, 19, 22, 23, 24, 46,
51, 74, 82, 91, 104, 145.
B. Greek
James, 1 Peter and Jude.
C. Sanskrit
Gītagovinda of Jayadeva, chs.1, 2, 6, 7 (Lee Siegel,
Sacred and Profane Dimensions of Love in Indian Traditions as Exemplified
in The Gītagovinda of Jayadeva,
Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1978); Chāndogya Upanishad 6.8, with
Śamkara’s Bhāshya (Shri
Sankarabhagavatpada’s Upanisadbhasyam, Mahesh Research Institute edn.,
vol. 2, pp. 252–66); Bhāgavata Purāna, Book 10, chs. 29–33
(ed. by J.L.Shastri, Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi, 1983); Pudgalaviniścaya,
from the Abhidharmakoshabhāshya of Vasubandhu (ed. by Swami Dwarikadas
Shastri, Bauddha Bharati Series, Benares, pp. 1218–1234).
D. Arabic
This paper will not be available in
2010–11.
Genesis 1–11.
There are no prescribed texts for this paper but a list of recommended readings will be available in the Faculty Library and on the Faculty website from the end of full Easter Term.
Prescribed topics:
A. Church and Empire in late antiquity.
B. The Churches and the State in Europe 1846–1945
There are no prescribed texts for this paper but a list of recommended readings will be available in the Faculty Library and on the Faculty website from the end of full Easter Term.
This paper will not be available in 2010–11.
Prescribed topics:
A. Doctrine of God.
B. Doctrine of the Trinity.
C. Incarnation.
D. Salvation and sanctification.
E. Faith and rationality.
There are no prescribed texts for this paper but a list of recommended readings will be available in the Faculty Library and on the Faculty website from the end of full Easter Term.
Prescribed topic: social anthropology.
There are no prescribed texts for this paper but a list of recommended readings will be available in the Faculty Library and on the Faculty website from the end of full Easter Term.
Prescribed topics:
A. The Holy Land.
B. The theory and practice of Jewish law.
There are no prescribed texts for this paper.
Prescribed topics:
A. Sufism.
B. Islamic philosophy and philosophical theology.
There are no prescribed texts for this paper.
Prescribed topics:
A. Traditional Vedanta and ‘Neo-Vedanta’
B. Being and causality in Mahayana.
There are no prescribed texts for this paper.
There are no prescribed texts for this paper but a list of recommended readings will be available in the Faculty Library and on the Faculty website from the end of full Easter Term.
There are no prescribed texts for this paper but a list of recommended readings will be available in the Faculty Library and on the Faculty website from the end of full Easter Term.
People and Places: Human Society and the Natural Environment. This paper will be examined by means of a three-hour examination. Prescribed texts: Genesis 1–4, Leviticus 26, Deuteronomy 28, Isaiah 34–35, Ezekiel 36, Hosea 4, Joel, Amos, Psalms 8, 19, 72, 96, 104, 148 and Job 38–40.
Prescribed topic: New Testament ethics.
There are no prescribed texts for this paper but a list of recommended readings will be available in the Faculty Library and on the Faculty website from the end of full Easter Term. This paper will be examined by means of a three-hour examination.
Aquinas, St. Thomas, Summa Theologiae. (1967) Blackfriars edition, Vol. VIII, London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, Ia.44–46, (pp. 4–89); Aquinas – The Eternity of the World (available on the following link: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/aquinas-eternity.html); Augustine, trans. H. Chadwick (1991). Confessions. Oxford, Oxford University Press, Books XI and XII (pp. 221–273); Avicenna, trans M. E. Marmura (2005). The metaphysics of The healing : a parallel English–Arabic text. Provo, Utah, Brigham Young University Press, Book 8 (pp. 257–299); Al Ghazali, trans. M. E. Marmura, (1997). The Incoherence of the Philosophers. Provo, Utah, Brigham Young University Press, Part I, 3rd to 5th discussions (pp. 56–97); Maimonides, Moses, S. Pines, et al. (1963). The guide of the perplexed. [Chicago], University of Chicago Press. Vol. I. Ch. 50–64 (pp. 111–157) Vol. II. Chs 17–29; Philo of Alexandria, ed. Runia, D. T. (2001). On the Creation of the Cosmos According to Moses. Atlanta, SBL. pp. 47–93 (text) pp. 98–162 (commentary).
There are no prescribed texts for this paper but a list of recommended readings will be available in the Faculty Library and on the Faculty website.
Prescribed text: The Gospel of John in the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible.
There are no prescribed texts for this subject. This paper will be examined by means of a three-hour examination.
There are no prescribed texts for this paper but a list of recommended readings will be available in the Faculty Library and on the Faculty website from the end of full Easter Term.
There are no prescribed texts for this paper but a list of recommended readings will be available in the Faculty Library and on the Faculty website from the end of full Easter Term.
Prescribed topics:
A. Sex and gender.
B. Bioethics and medical ethics.
There are no prescribed texts for this paper but a list of recommended readings will be available in the Faculty Library and on the Faculty website from the end of full Easter Term.
There are no prescribed texts for this paper but a list of recommended readings will be available in the Faculty Library and on the Faculty website from the end of full Easter Term.