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Wednesday 8 June 2011

Vol cxli No 32

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Notices by Faculty Boards, etc.

Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos, 2012: Prescribed texts and topics

The Faculty Board of Modern and Medieval Languages give notice that the prescribed texts and topics for the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos 2012 are as set out below:

Part Ia

Dutch

Du. 1. This paper is suspended until further notice.

French

Fr. 1. Introduction to French literature, linguistics, film, and thought

An introduction to contemporary literary studies, thought and context, including: an examination of intellectual and cultural trends that might reflect, or have had an impact on, the texts and film studied; and a short introduction to linguistics as it pertains to French.

Details of texts and lists of recommended reading are available from the Department of French website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/french/.

German

Ge. 1. Introduction to German studies

This paper consists of introductory topics in German literature, linguistics, history, and thought. Details of topics and lists of recommended reading are available from the Department of German and Dutch website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/german/.

Modern Greek

Gr. 1. This paper is suspended until further notice.

Italian

It. 1. Texts and contexts

Reading lists and topics for this paper will be available from the Department of Italian website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/italian/.

Portuguese

Pg. 1. Introduction to the structure and varieties of modern Portuguese

This paper will be suspended for 2011–12.

Pg. 2. Introduction to Lusophone literature

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.

Further information and reading lists for this paper are available from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/spanish/courses/ugrad/pg2.html.

Russian

Ru. 1. Introduction to Russian culture

This paper consists of a set text and topics in Russian history, literature, and culture. reading lists for this paper are available from the Department of Slavonic Studies website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/slavonic/.

Spanish

Sp. 1. Introduction to the structure and varieties of modern Spanish

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.

Sp. 2. Introduction to Hispanic texts

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.

Part Ib

* 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.

Dutch

Du. 2. The medieval and sixteenth-century literature and history of the Low Countries, c. 1170 to c. 1585

Du. 3. The literature, history, and culture of the Republic of the United Netherlands, 1585 to 1700

Du. 4. The literature, history, and culture of Belgium and the Netherlands, from 1830 to the present day

Du. 5. Introduction to the language and literature of the Low Countries (Available to MML students, except those who have previously offered Dutch as one of their languages in Part Ia or Ib or have a Certificate or Diploma from the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages in that language.)

Reading lists and topics for these papers will be available from the Department of German and Dutch website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/dutch/.

French

Fr. 3. French literature, thought, and history, before 1300

Fr. 4. Occitan literature, thought, and history, before 1356

Fr. 5. French literature, thought, and history, from 1300 to 1510

This paper is suspended for 2011–12.

Fr. 6. French literature, thought, and history, from 1510 to 1622

Fr. 7. French literature, thought, and history, from 1594 to 1700

Fr. 8. French literature, thought, and history, from 1690 to 1799

Fr. 9. French literature, thought, and history, from 1789 to 1898

Fr. 10. French literature, visual culture, thought, and history, from 1890 to 1958

Fr. 11. Literature, visual culture, thought, and history in the French-speaking world since 1945

Fr. 12. A special subject in French culture: early modern thought

There are no prescribed texts for these papers. Further information and reading lists can be obtained from the Department of French website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/french/.

German

Ge. 1.* Introduction to German studies

This paper consists of introductory topics in German literature, linguistics, history, and thought. Details of topics and lists of recommended reading are available from the Department of German and Dutch website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/german/.

Ge. 2.* Introduction to German history and thought, since 1750

An introduction to German history and to some of the main German thinkers (such as Kant, Marx, Freud, and Habermas).

Ge. 3. This paper is suspended until further notice.

Ge. 4. The making of German culture, I: A study of medieval and early modern German culture through texts and contexts

Ge. 5. Modern German culture, I: 1750–1890

German culture, thought, and history in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Ge. 6. Modern German culture, II: 1890 to the present

German culture, thought, and history from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day.

Ge. 7. Introduction to the history of the German language

This paper introduces students to the broad outlines of the historical development of the German language from the earliest times until the modern period.

Ge. 12. A special period or subject in German literature, thought, or history (i): History and identity in Germany, 1750 to the present

Reading lists and topics for these papers will be available from the Department of German and Dutch website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/german/.

Modern Greek

Gr. 1. This paper is suspended until further notice.

Gr. 2. This paper is suspended until further notice.

Gr. 3. Introduction to Modern Greek language and culture (Available to MML students, except those who have previously offered Modern Greek as one of their languages in Part Ia or Ib or have a Certificate or Diploma from the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages in that language.)

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.

Gr. 4. This paper is suspended at Part Ib until further notice.

Gr. 5. This paper is suspended at Part Ib until further notice.

Gr. 6. This paper is suspended at Part Ib until further notice.

Gr. 7. This paper is suspended at Part Ib until further notice.

Italian

It. 2. Structure and varieties of Italian

It. 3. Italian Modernism

This paper is suspended for 2011–12.

It. 4. Autobiography and self-representation in Italian culture

It. 5. Italian identities: Place, language, and culture

Reading lists and topics for these papers are available from the Department of Italian website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/italian/.

Medieval Latin

ML 1. This paper is suspended until further notice.

ML 2. This paper is suspended until further notice.

Neo-Latin

NL 1. Introduction to Neo-Latin literature, from 1350–1700

Reading lists for this paper are available on the Faculty website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/other/courses/ugrad/neo_latin.html.

Portuguese

Pg. 1. Introduction to the structure and varieties of modern Portuguese

This paper will be suspended for 2011–12.

Pg. 2. Introduction to Lusophone literature

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.

Pg. 3.Introduction to the language and literature of Portugal, Brazil, and Portuguese-speaking Africa (Available to MML students, except those who have previously offered Portuguese as one of their languages in Part Ia or Ib or have a Certificate or Diploma from the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages in that language.)

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.

Pg. 4. Self, family, nation, and empire in Lusophone culture, with special reference to the following: (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.

Sp. 11. The Hispanic languages, with special reference to the following: (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 these papers are available from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/spanish/courses/reading/default_Port.html.

Russian

Ru. 2. This paper is suspended until further notice.

Ru. 3. The history and culture of Early Rus, before 1300, with special reference to the following: Section A: Set texts, and Section B: Topics in history and culture of Rus before 1300.

Ru. 4. Early Modern Russia: literature, history, and visual culture, from 1300 to 1725, with special reference to the following: Section A: Two set texts, and Section B: Topics in the history and culture of Russia during the specified period.

Ru. 5. Russian culture from the Golden Age to the Silver Age

Ru. 6. Russian culture after 1880, with special reference to the following: Section A: Set text, and Section B: Topics in the twentieth-century Russian culture.

Ru. 7. Russia in revolution, from 1861 to 1917

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

Ru. 8. Socialist Russia, from 1917 to 1991

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

Ru. 9. The history of the Russian language, with special reference to the following:

(a) Reading of early texts;

(b) Changes within the language system from Early Russian to Contemporary Standard Russian.

Information about set texts, and reading lists for these papers, are available from the Department of Slavonic Studies website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/slavonic/.

Spanish

Sp. 1. Introduction to the structure and varieties of modern Spanish

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.

Sp. 2. Introduction to Hispanic texts

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.

Sp. 3. Topics in Medieval Iberian and Spanish Golden Age culture, with reference to the following:

(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.

Sp. 4. Topics in modern Spanish culture and history, with reference to the following:

(i) Spain in crisis, 1890–1923; (ii) Prescriptions of gender; (iii) The art of modernity; (iv) The post-Civil War novel and Franco’s Spain; (v) Images of Spain.

Sp. 5. Topics in Spanish-American culture and history

(i) Nation and narration; (ii) Nightmares of the urban; (iii) Charting revolution; (iv) The racial ‘other’; (v) Penning the dictator; (vi) Labyrinths of fiction.

Sp. 6. This paper is suspended until further notice.

Sp. 10. Introduction to Catalan language and culture

(i) Catalan language; (ii) Modernisme, the avant-garde, Noucentisme; (iii) The years of resistance; (iv) The post-Franco era; (v) Key aspects of Catalan culture.

Sp. 11. The Hispanic languages, with special reference to the following:

(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 these papers are available from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/spanish/courses/reading/default_Sp.html.

Ukrainian

Uk. 1. Introduction to the language, literature, and culture of Ukraine

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/.

Linguistics

Li. 1. Sounds and words

Li. 2. Structures and meanings

Li. 3. Language, brain, and society

Li. 4. History and varieties of English

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/.

Comparative studies

CS 1. The Romance languages

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/.

Part II

 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.

Dutch

Du. 2. The medieval and sixteenth-century literature and history of the Low Countries, c. 1170 to c. 1585

Du. 3. The literature, history, and culture of the Republic of the United Netherlands, 1585 to 1700

Du. 4. The literature, history, and culture of Belgium and the Netherlands, from 1830 to the present day

Reading lists and topics for these papers will be available from the Department of German and Dutch website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/dutch/.

French

Fr. 3. French literature, thought, and history, before 1300

Fr. 4. Occitan literature, thought, and history, before 1356

Fr. 5. French literature, thought, and history, from 1300 to 1510

This paper is suspended for 2011–12.

Fr. 6. French literature, thought, and history, from 1510 to 1622

Fr. 7. French literature, thought, and history, from 1594 to 1700

Fr. 8. French literature, thought, and history, from 1690 to 1799

Fr. 9. French literature, thought, and history, from 1789 to 1898

Fr. 10. French literature, visual culture, thought, and history, from 1890 to 1958

Fr. 11. Literature, visual culture, thought, and history in the French-speaking world since 1945

Fr. 12. A special subject in French culture: early modern thought

Fr. 13. The French language: variation and change

There are no prescribed texts for these papers. Further information and reading lists are available from the Department of French website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/french/.

German

Ge. 8. German literature, thought, and history, from 1700 to 1815 (including Goethe’s works to 1832)

Ge. 9. German literature, thought, and history, from 1815 to 1914

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.

Ge. 10. German literature, thought, and history, since 1910

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.

Ge. 11. The history of the German language

Ge. 12. A special period or subject in German literature, thought, or history (i): History and identity in Germany, 1750 to the present

Ge. 13. A special period or subject in German literature, thought, or history (ii): Aspects of German-speaking Europe since 1945

Ge. 14. The making of German culture, II: A study of medieval and early modern German culture through texts and topics

Ge. 15. Modern German cultures of performance

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/.

Modern Greek

Gr. 3. Introduction to Modern Greek language and culture (Available to MML students, except those who have previously offered Modern Greek as one of their languages in Part Ia or Ib or have a Certificate or Diploma from the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages in that language.)

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.

Gr. 4. Crete and Cyprus in the Renaissance period

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/.

Gr. 5. Greek literature, thought, and history, from 1700 to 1900, with special reference to the following:

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.

Gr. 6. Greek literature, thought, and history, since 1900, with special reference to the following:

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.

Gr. 7. The history and structure of Modern Greek

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 website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/greek/courses/ugrad/gr7.html.

Italian

It. 6. Topics in modern Italian culture

It. 7. Dante and the culture of his age

It. 8. Italian culture, from 1500 to 1650

It. 9. A special subject in Italian culture. Italian cinema: The realities of history.

This paper is suspended for 2011–12.

It. 10. The language of Italy

Reading lists and topics for these papers will be available from the Department of Italian website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/italian/.

Medieval Latin

ML 1. This paper is suspended until further notice.

ML 2. This paper is suspended until further notice.

Neo-Latin

NL 1. Introduction to Neo-Latin literature, 1350–1700

NL 2. A special subject in Neo-Latin literature: Sannazaro, Poliziano, Bèze, Buchanan

Reading lists for these papers are available on the Faculty website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/other/courses/ugrad/neo_latin.html.

Portuguese

Pg. 3. Introduction to the language and literature of Portugal, Brazil, and Portuguese-speaking Africa (Available to MML students, except those who have previously offered Portuguese as one of their languages in Part Ia or Ib or have a Certificate or Diploma from the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages in that language.)

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.

Pg. 4. Self, family, nation, and empire in Lusophone culture, with special reference to the following:

(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.

Pg. 5. Literature and culture of Portugal and Brazil from 1595

This paper is suspended for 2011–12.

Sp. 11. The Hispanic languages, with special reference to the following:

(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 these papers are available from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/spanish/courses/reading/default_Port.html.

Russian

Ru. 3. The history and culture of Early Rus, before 1300, with special reference to the following:

Section A: Set texts.

Section B: Topics in history and culture of Rus before to 1300.

Ru. 4. Early modern Russia: literature, history, and visual culture, from 1300 to 1725, with special reference to the following:

Section A: Two set texts.

Section B: Topics in the history and culture of Russia during the specified period.

Ru. 5. Russian culture from the Golden Age to the Silver Age

Ru. 6. Russian culture after 1880, with special reference to the following:

Section A: Set text.

Section B: Topics in the twentieth-century Russian culture.

Ru. 7. Russia in revolution, from 1861 to 1917

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

Ru. 8. Socialist Russia, from 1917 to 1991

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

Ru. 9. The history of the Russian language, with special reference to the following:

(a) Reading of early texts;

(b) Changes within the language system from Early Russian to Contemporary Standard Russian.

Information about set texts, and reading lists for these papers are available from the Department of Slavonic Studies website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/slavonic/.

Spanish

Sp. 7. Spanish literature, thought, and history, from 1492 to 1700, with special reference to the following: (i) Narratives of self; (ii) Wit and illusion: The Baroque vision; (iii) Don Quijote and the world of fiction; (iv) Discovering the other; (v) The world as stage: Theatre and society.

Candidates will be required to answer three questions relating to three different topics in the examination.

Sp. 8. Spanish cinema and television

This paper is suspended until further notice. This paper cannot be replaced by an Optional Dissertation.

Sp. 9. Spanish literature, thought, and history, after 1820

(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.

Sp. 10. Introduction to Catalan language and culture

(i) Catalan language; (ii) Modernisme, the avant-garde, Noucentisme; (iii) The years of resistance; (iv) The post-Franco era; (v) Key aspects of Catalan culture.

Sp. 11. The Hispanic languages, with special reference to the following:

(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.

Sp. 12. Latin-American culture

This paper is divided into two sections: (a) Topics in Latin-American culture; (b) Writers and artists.

Sp. 13. Contemporary Latin-American culture

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.

Sp. 14. Spanish literature, life, and history, before 1492

(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.

Further information and reading lists for these papers are available from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/spanish/courses/reading/default_Sp.html.

Ukrainian

Uk. 1. Introduction to the language, literature, and culture of Ukraine

Uk. 2. Studies in twentieth-century Ukrainian literature and film

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/.

Linguistics

Li. 6. Phonetics

Li. 7. This paper is suspended until further notice.

Li. 8. Phonology and morphology

Li. 9. Syntax

Li. 10. Semantics and pragmatics

Li. 11. Historical linguistics

Li. 12. History of ideas on language

Li. 13. History of the English language

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/.

Comparative studies

CS 1. The Romance languages

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/.

CS 2. This paper is suspended until further notice.

CS 3. The Slavonic languages, with special reference to the following:

(a) Old Church Slavonic;

(b) The historical development of the Slavonic languages;

(c) Topics in Slavonic linguistics.

Information about set texts, and reading lists for this paper is available from the Department of Slavonic Studies website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/slavonic/.

CS 4. This paper is suspended until further notice.

CS 5. A special subject in comparative literature (ii): The body

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/.

CS 6. European film

Details of topics, prescribed films, and reading lists are available on the Faculty website at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/courses/cs6/.

Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos, Schedule D (Borrowed Papers), 2011–12: Notice

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 2011–12.

Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic Tripos, Part I

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

Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic Tripos, Part II

Paper 5. A subject in Old English literature specified by the Faculty Board of English

Paper 6. Advanced medieval Scandinavian 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

Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Tripos, Part II

Paper MES. 39 Special subject in the pre-Modern Middle East

Paper MES. 40 Special subject in the Contemporary Middle East: political anthropology of Islam and the Middle East

Paper MES. 41 Comparative semitic linguistics

Classical Tripos, Part II

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: Aristotle’s moral and political thought

Paper C4. A subject in ancient or medieval European history: Transformation of the Roman world (Paper 12 of the History 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 its neighbours

English Tripos, Part II

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)

Historical Tripos, Part I

Paper 18. European history, since 1890

Historical Tripos, Part II

Paper 4. History of political thought from c. 1700 to c. 1890

Paper 21. The French and British problem, since 1688 [The number of MML candidates for this paper will be capped at 3.]

Paper 25. The long road to Modernization: Spain 1800–2000. This paper will be suspended until 1 October 2012.

Paper 27. A subject in extra-European history specified by the Faculty Board from time to time: The history of Latin America in the colonial period, c.1500–1830

Natural Sciences Tripos, Part Ib

Papers in the subject Experimental Psychology

Philosophy Tripos, Part II

Paper 11. Aesthetics

Social and Political Sciences Tripos (Politics, Psychology, and Sociology Tripos), Parts IIa and IIb

Paper Int. 7. Society, politics, and culture in Latin America