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No 6229

Wednesday 15 June 2011

Vol cxli No 33

pp. 933–944

Notices by Faculty Boards, etc.

Archaeological and Anthropological Tripos, Parts IIa and IIb, 2011–12: Notice

The Faculty Board of Archaeology and Anthropology give notice of the following papers which are offered for Parts IIa and IIb of the Tripos in 2011–12:

Archaeology

A01

Archaeological thought I

A02

Archaeology in action I

A03

Archaeological thought II

A04

Archaeology in action II

A10

Archaeological practice

A06

The Palaeolithic of the Old World

A07

The Upper Palaeolithic from the Alps to the Americas

A08

European prehistory

A09

Special topics in European prehistory

A13

Aegean prehistory

A14

[The art and archaeology of] Roman Britain

A15

The poetics of Classical art

A16

Roman cities

A18

The historical archaeology of Ancient Egypt II

A20

Ancient Egyptian religion II

A21

Mesopotamian culture I: literature

A24

Mesopotamian archaeology II: territorial states to empires

A25

Europe in the first millennium ad I: Anglo-Saxon archaeology

A26

Europe in the first millennium ad II: Scandinavian archaeology

A28

The archaeology of medieval Britain

A31

Ancient India II: Early historic cities of South Asia

A33

Ancient South America

A36

The late prehistoric and historical archaeology of sub-Saharan Africa

A37

Introduction to scientific approaches in archaeology

A38

Archaeological science

M01

Akkadian language II

M02

Akkadian language III

M03

Sumerian

M05

Mesopotamian history II: empires and systems

E01

Egyptian language II

E02

Egyptian language III

Social Anthropology

Parts IIa and IIb

S7

The anthropology of colonialism and empire

S8

Anthropology and law

S9

Gender, kinship, and care

S10

Medical anthropology

Part IIb (Ethnographic area papers)

S6(a)

Africa

S6(b)

Inner Asia

S6(c)

South Asia

Biological Anthropology

Option

Title

Form of assessment

BA5.

Evolutionary history of African populations

Two-hour written exam

*BA6.

Humans in an evolutionary paradigm

Submitted essay of 4,000 words

BA7.

A title in biological anthropology (TBA)

Two-hour written exam

BA8.

Evolutionary prehistory

Two-hour written exam

BA9.

A title in biological anthropology (TBA)

Two-hour written exam + 20% practical work

*BA10.

Evolution of human phenotypes and behaviour

Two-hour written exam

*BA11.

Human evolution and health

Two-hour written exam

*BA13.

Primate molecular ecology

Two-hour written exam + 20% practical work

BA14.

Current topics in biological anthropology

Two-hour written exam

*BA16.

Data handling in biological anthropology

Two-hour written exam

* Note: candidates who took special subjects BA6, 10, 11, 13, and 16 for Part IIa will not be able to take these special subjects as Part IIb candidates.

Part I: Set texts

The Faculty Board of Archaeology and Anthropology give notice that the set texts for Part I of the Archaeological and Anthropological Tripos in the academical year 2011–12 will be as follows:

Paper 6. Akkadian language I

The Code of Hammurapi, in E. Bergmann ed., Codex Hammurabi (1953), laws 1–65 in cuneiform. The Annals of Sennacherib, third to seventh campaigns, in R. Borger, Babylonisch-assyrische Lesestücke, 2nd ed. (1979), pp. 329–332. In cuneiform.

Paper 7. Egyptian language I

A. H. Gardiner, Egyptian Grammar (Third edn., Oxford, 1957), reading extracts at ends of chapters XIV, XV, XVII, XX, XXI, XXII, XXIV, XXV, XXVI, XXVII, XXVIII, XXIX, XXX, XXXI, XXXII, XXXIII.

K. H. Sethe, Aegyptische Lesestücke (1924–37), nos. 3, 14, 22, 23.

Parts IIa and IIb: Set texts

The Faculty Board of Archaeology and Anthropology give notice that the set texts for Parts IIa and IIb of the Archaeological and Anthropological Tripos in the academical year 2011–12 will be as follows:

Paper E1. Egyptian language II

(a)K. H. Sethe, Aegyptische Lesestücke (1924–37), nos. 11, 12, 18, 24, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 34.

(b)Urkunden der 18. Dynastie (ed. K. Sethe and W. Helck, Berlin) IV, 356–375 and IV, 647–67.

(c)M. Sandman, Texts from the time of Akhenaten, 93–96.

Paper E2. Egyptian language III

Old Egyptian:

K. H. Sethe, Urkunden des alten Reiches, in Urkunden des ägyptischen Altertums, hrsg. von G. Steindorff, Abt, I, Bd. 1, Heft 1–4 (1932–33), nos. 17, 26 (Biographies of Weni and Harkhuf).

K. H. Sethe, Die altaegyptischen Pyramidentexte, Bd. 1 (1908), sections 393a–414c = Utterances 273–74 (the Cannibal Hymn).

P. Posener-Kriéger and J.-L. de Cenival, Hieratic papyri in the British Museum (5th series, 1968), ‘The Abu Sir Papyri’, plates IIIA–VA, XXA, XXIA, XXXIIIA–XXXVA, LIIIA.

Late Egyptian:

A. H. Gardiner (ed.), The Blinding of Truth and Wenamun (in Late-Egyptian Stories, Bibliotheca Aegyptiaca I, 1932).

A. H. Gardiner, Ramesside Administrative Documents (1948), pp. 45–59.

A. H. Gardiner (ed.), Papyrus Sallier I (in Late Egyptian Miscellanies, Bibliotheca Aegyptiaca VII, 1937).

Paper M1. Akkadian language II

(a) Gilgamesh, Tablet XI, lines 1–266, in S. Parpola, The Standard Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh (1997), pp. 57–62. In cuneiform.

(b) The Gula Hymn of Bullutsa-rabi, W. G. Lambert, Orientalia 36 (1967) 105–32. In transliteration.

Paper M2. Akkadian language III

Texts studied for this paper will include letters and legal documents in Old Babylonian dialect, letters and laws in Assyrian dialect, and selections from literary and historical texts of different periods.

Paper M3. Sumerian

Students will read in class Sumerian texts selected from historical inscriptions, legal documents, and literary texts of the Early Dynastic, Ur III, and Old Babylonian periods.

Chemical Engineering Tripos, Part IIb, 2011–12: Notice

The Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Syndicate give notice that the modules available for study in the academical year 2011–12 will be as follows.

Topics in Group A and Group D are compulsory for all candidates. The regulations specify that each candidate takes a total of eight modules from Groups B and C. The Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Syndicate impose the restriction that each candidate shall choose six modules from Group B, and shall take Chemical Product Design and choose one other module from Group C.

Group

Number and title of module

Mode of assessment

A

A1: Compulsory topics

Examination

B

B1: Biopharmaceuticals

Examination and course-work

B2: Catalysis

Examination

B3: Electrochemical engineering

Examination

B4: Fluid mechanics and the environment

Examination

B5: Modern metrology

Examination

B6: Optimization

Examination

B7: Particle technology

Examination

B8: Rheology and processing

Examination

B9: Biosensors

Course-work

C

C1: Computational fluid dynamics

Course-work

C2: Entrepreneurship

Course-work

C3: Foreign language

Course-work

C4: Chemical product design

Course-work

D

Research project

Engineering Tripos, Parts IIa and IIb modules, 2011–12: Corrections

Certain of the details in the Notice concerning Parts IIa and IIb modules published on 26 May 2011 (Reporter, p. 848) were incorrect.

Part IIa Module 3D8, Building physics and environmental geotechnics, should be in set L6 and not in set L8.

Part IIb Module 4D7, Concrete and masonry structures, has been moved from set M3 to set L10 due to staff availability.

History of Art Tripos, Parts IIa and IIb, 2011–12: Special subjects

The Faculty Board of Architecture and History of Art give notice of a change to the special subjects previously announced in Reporter, 2009–10, p. 984, for the History of Art Tripos, 2011–12; namely that Gothic art and architecture in France 1100–1300 is replaced as Paper 5/6 by the following:

Paper 5/6. Art and Architecture of the Italian city 1100–1350

This Special Subject explores the art and architecture of the Italian city in a period of urban expansion, governmental, and religious change, and growing civic and artistic self-awareness. The course concentrates on central and northern Italy, examining Rome and the Papal States alongside the city communes to the north, and asking how indigenous traditions and differing political circumstances interacted with shared urban characteristics and the movement of artists between cities. Tracing developments in architecture, sculpture, mosaic, fresco, and panel painting, it examines workshop practices and the issue of individual artistic identity, with reference to contemporary documents and to historiography from Vasari onwards. The course considers how artists and architects drew on the classical and early Christian heritage of the cities concerned, but were also informed by Byzantine art and by the development of the Gothic style in northern Europe. Paying attention to the cityscape as a whole, the course addresses ways in which art and architecture served to depict the city and to articulate civic religion, private and communal interests, relationships between city and countryside, and references to the earthly and heavenly Jerusalem.

The Board are satisfied that no student’s preparation for the examination in 2012 will be adversely affected by this change.