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:
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 |
S7 |
The anthropology of colonialism and empire |
S8 |
Anthropology and law |
S9 |
Gender, kinship, and care |
S10 |
Medical anthropology |
S6(a) |
Africa |
S6(b) |
Inner Asia |
S6(c) |
South Asia |
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.
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:
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.
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.
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:
(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.
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.
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).
(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.
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.
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.
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 |
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B3: Electrochemical engineering |
Examination |
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B4: Fluid mechanics and the environment |
Examination |
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B5: Modern metrology |
Examination |
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B6: Optimization |
Examination |
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B7: Particle technology |
Examination |
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B8: Rheology and processing |
Examination |
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B9: Biosensors |
Course-work |
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C |
C1: Computational fluid dynamics |
Course-work |
C2: Entrepreneurship |
Course-work |
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C3: Foreign language |
Course-work |
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C4: Chemical product design |
Course-work |
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D |
Research project |
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.
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:
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.