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No 6238

Wednesday 12 October 2011

Vol cxlii No 3

pp. 56–70

Notices by Faculty Boards, etc.

Annual Meeting of the Faculty of Classics: Notice

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.

Teaching Conference and Annual Meeting of the Faculty of Computer Science and Technology: Notice

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.

Examination in Archaeology for the degree of Master of Philosophy, 2011–12: Notice

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)

Examination for the degree of Master of Business Administration, Michaelmas Term 2011–12: Notice

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.

One-year course

Written papers

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

Course-work

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

Executive M.B.A. course

2010–12 class

Course-work

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

2011–13 class

Written papers

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

Course-work

EMBA3

Economics

Attendance required

EMBA4

Management practice

Individual assessment (100%)

Examination for the degree of Master of Finance, Michaelmas Term 2011–12: Notice

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.

Written papers

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

Course-work

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

Projects

MFIN24

Equity research project

Group project, assessed by group presentation (50%) and report (50%)

LL.M. Examination, 2012, Notice of designated papers: Amendment

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).

Master of Music, 2011–12: Notice

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:

Section 1: Choral conducting:

Marenzio, O Rex gloriae

Tallis, Audivi media nocte

Clarke, Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem

Brahms, Im Herbst

Poulenc, Salve Regina

Section 2: Seminar course:

(a) Music and theology

(b) Words and music

(c) Choral and organ music and the liturgy

(d) Choral histories

(e) Recorded sound

Natural Sciences Tripos, Part II (Biological and Biomedical Sciences), 2011–12: Notice

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.