The Chairman of the Faculty Board of Classics gives notice that the Annual Meeting of the Faculty of Classics will be held at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 10 November 2011, in the Faculty of Classics, Sidgwick Site. The main item of business will be to elect four members of the Faculty Board in category (c) to serve for four years from 1 January 2012, in accordance with Statute C, IV, 2(c).
Nominations for election, and notice of any other business, should be received by Mrs Carolyn Bartley (email cb520@cam.ac.uk), Faculty of Classics, Sidgwick Avenue, not later than Thursday, 3 November 2011.
The Chairman of the Faculty Board of Computer Science and Technology gives notice that the Annual Meeting of the Faculty will be held at 2.15 p.m. on Tuesday, 15 November 2011, in Lecture Room 2 of the William Gates Building, JJ Thomson Avenue.
Notification of any agenda items should be sent in writing to the Secretary of the Faculty Board of Computer Science and Technology, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, JJ Thomson Avenue, to reach her no later than noon on Friday, 28 October 2011.
The Degree Committee of the Faculty of Human, Social, and Political Science give notice of the following list of Archaeology modules to be offered for examination in 2011–12. The methods of examination will be as follows:
G01 |
Research skills |
2,000-word research design and presentation (100%) |
G02 |
Core archaeology |
Examination (67%) and 3,000-word essay (33%) |
G03 |
Palaeolithic and Mesolithic archaeology |
Examination (67%) and 3,000-word essay (33%) |
G04 |
European prehistory |
Examination (67%) and 3,000-word essay (33%) |
G06 |
Medieval Europe: 5th–11th centuries ad |
Examination (67%) and 3,000-word essay (33%) |
G07 |
Medieval Europe: 11–16th centuries ad |
Examination (67%) and 3,000-word essay (33%) |
G08 |
Archaeology of the Americas |
Examination (67%) and 3,000-word essay (33%) |
G09 |
South Asian archaeology |
Examination (67%) and 3,000-word essay (33%) |
G10 |
Archaeological science |
Examination (67%) and 3,000-word essay (33%) |
G12 |
Directed reading |
Two 4,000-word essays (50% each) |
G13 |
Introduction to Egyptian language |
100% examination |
G14 |
Advanced Egyptian language |
100% examination |
G15 |
Coptic |
100% examination |
G16 |
Demotic |
100% examination |
G18 |
Historical archaeology of Ancient Egypt II |
Examination (67%) and 3,000-word essay (33%) |
G21 |
Sumerian language and texts |
100% examination |
G22 |
Elementary Akkadian language and texts |
100% examination |
G23 |
Advanced Akkadian language and texts |
100% examination |
G25 |
Archaeology of Mesopotamia: territorial states to empires |
Examination (67%) and 3,000-word essay (33%) |
G26 |
Mesopotamian literature |
Two 4,000-word essays (50% each) |
G28 |
Topics in Mesopotamian archaeology |
Two 4,000-word essays (50% each) |
G29 |
Socio-politics of the past |
Examination (67%) and 3,000-word essay (33%) |
G30 |
Museums: history, theory, practice |
Examination (67%) and 3,000-word essay (33%) |
G31 |
Management of archaeological heritage |
Two 4,000-word essays (50% each) |
G32 |
Practical applications of scientific methods |
Two 4,000-word practical reports (50% each) |
The Faculty Board of Business and Management give notice that in the Michaelmas Term 2011–12 the subjects for examination for the Master of Business Administration Degree will be as listed below. The method of examination is shown for each subject.
MBA4 |
Corporate finance |
Assessed by two-hour written examination |
MBA5 |
Financial reporting |
Assessed by 1.5-hour written examination. Correction: assessed by a ONE-hour written examination |
MBA2 |
Management science |
Group assessment in business modelling and 1.5-hour written examination on statistics and probability |
MBA7 |
Organizational behaviour |
Group assignment and 1.5-hour written examination |
MBA10 |
Strategy |
Group assignment and 1.5-hour written examination |
MBA11 |
Marketing |
Group assignment and 1.5-hour written examination |
MBA1 |
Microeconomics |
Attendance |
MBA6 |
CVP research methods |
Attendance |
MBA8 |
Management practice |
Assessed by 2,500-word essay |
MBA9 |
Cambridge venture project |
Assessed by group presentation and peer review |
EMBA20 |
Negotiation skills |
Not formally assessed |
EMBA12 |
Strategic management |
Assessed by three group course-work assignments (10% each) and one individual assignment (70%) |
EMBA11 |
Managing innovation strategically |
Three individual assignments (15% each), VLE participation (10%), group presentation (45%) |
EMBA13 |
Team consulting project |
Group project |
EMBA19 |
Open PPD |
Not formally assessed |
EMBA1 |
Analysis of financial reports (accounting) |
1.5-hour written examination (100%) |
EMBA5 |
Management science |
1.5-hour written examination (50%), group assignment (50%) |
EMBA2 |
Corporate finance |
Assessed by one group project (analysis of case studies) (40%) and 1.5-hour written examination (worth 60%) |
EMBA6 |
Organizational behaviour |
1.5-hour written examination |
EMBA10 |
Marketing |
Three-hour written examination |
EMBA3 |
Economics |
Attendance required |
EMBA4 |
Management practice |
Individual assessment (100%) |
The Faculty Board of Business and Management give notice that in the Michaelmas Term 2011–12 the subjects for examination for the Master of Finance Degree will be as listed below. The method of examination is shown for each subject.
MFIN9 |
Principles of finance |
1.5-hour written examination |
MFIN10 |
Economic foundations of finance |
1.5-hour written examination |
MFIN7 |
Introduction to financial accounting |
1.5-hour written examination |
MFIN29 |
Derivatives |
1.5-hour written examination |
MFIN6 |
Financial institutions and products |
1.5-hour class test |
MFIN3 |
Econometrics |
Course-work |
MFIN22 |
Management practice |
Seminar, assessed by attendance |
MFIN5 |
Finance and organizations |
Seminar, assessed by attendance |
MFIN23 |
City speaker series |
Assessed by attendance |
MFIN24 |
Equity research project |
Group project, assessed by group presentation (50%) and report (50%) |
Further to their Notice of 2 June 2011 (Reporter, 2010–11, p. 892), the Faculty Board of Law have agreed to designate LL.M. Paper 13, Contemporary issues in the law of European integration, as falling within the field of European law (e) (LL.M. Regulation 1, Statutes and Ordinances, p. 443).
The Faculty Board of Music give notice that they have prescribed the following set works and topics for the M.Mus. Degree in 2011–12:
Marenzio, O Rex gloriae
Tallis, Audivi media nocte
Clarke, Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem
Brahms, Im Herbst
Poulenc, Salve Regina
(a) Music and theology
(b) Words and music
(c) Choral and organ music and the liturgy
(d) Choral histories
(e) Recorded sound
The Faculty Board of Biology give notice that the following combination of Major and Minor subjects, additional to, or amending, those previously published (Reporter, 2010–11, pp. 487–89), will be offered in NST Part II (Biological and Biomedical Sciences) in 2011–12:
Major subjects:
Major subject |
Permissible Minor subjects |
Examination requirements |
|
404 |
Pathology (A and D) |
101 103 104 105 107 108 109 114 116 117 118 119 120 122 123 |
Four written papers of three hours each. |
411 |
Biochemistry (Maximum five candidates) |
101 104 107 115 116 117 118 122 123 125 126 |
Five written papers: four papers of three hours each and one paper of three and a quarter hours. |
413 |
Plant sciences (Ecology – M3 and M1 or Zoology M2, L2 and Zoology L2) |
104 105 106 109 110 111 117 118 121 123 |
Four written papers of three hours each. |
414 |
Genetics (choice of four out of five modules to be decided) (Maximum eight candidates) |
101 103 104 105 107 108 113 114 115 116 117 118 122 123 125 126 (a fifth Genetics module can be taken as a Minor subject) |
Four written papers of three hours each. |
419 |
Zoology (Behaviour – M4, M5, L2, L3) |
103 104 106 108 113 114 115 116 117 118 121 123 124 125 126 |
Four written papers of three hours each. |
421 |
Zoology (Ecology and Conservation – two from M2, M3, M5 and L2, L3) |
103 104 106 108 109 113 114 117 118 119 120 121 123 124 |
Four written papers of three hours each. |
422 |
Zoology (Ecology and Genetics – two from M2, M3, M5 and 2 from L2, L3 and Genetics M5) |
103 104 108 109 113 114 117 118 119 123 124 |
Four written papers of three hours each. |
426 |
Pathology (D and E) |
101 103 104 107 108 109 114 116 117 118 119 120 122 123 124 |
Four written papers of three hours each. |
Minor subjects:
113 |
Early medicine (Paper 2 of Part II of the Natural Sciences Tripos – History and Philosophy of Science) (Maximum twelve candidates) |
One written paper of three hours’ duration. |
114 |
Modern medicine and biomedical sciences (Paper 5 of Part II of the Natural Sciences Tripos – History and Philosophy of Science) (Maximum twelve candidates) |
One written paper of three hours’ duration. |