No 6262
Wednesday 18 April 2012
Vol cxlii No 27
pp. 534–545
Notices by Faculty Boards, or other bodies concerned, of changes to the form and conduct of certain examinations to be held in 2011–12, by comparison with those examinations in 2011, are published below. Complete details of the form and conduct of all examinations are available from the Faculties or Departments concerned.
The Faculty Board of Human, Social, and Political Science give notice that, with effect from the examinations to be held in 2012, the form of the examination for the following paper for Part I of the Politics, Psychology, and Sociology Tripos will be as specified below:
The questions in the first section of the examination paper will no longer be passages from texts. ‘Principles of politics applicable to all representative governments’ is now a set text for Constant. Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj has replaced Kant’s ‘Perpetual Peace’. A sample examination paper is available on the Faculty website.
All other papers remain unchanged.
The Faculty Board of Human, Social, and Political Science give notice that, with effect from the examination to be held in 2012, the form of the examination for the following papers for Parts IIa and IIb of the Politics, Psychology, and Sociology Tripos will be as specified below:
The examination will require students to answer three essay questions in one three-hour examination. Students will be required to select two questions from Part I of the course (the general theory course) and one from Part II (the specialized module). A sample examination paper is available on the Faculty website.
Assessment will be by means of a single 5,000-word essay and a two-hour written examination, each carrying 50% of the total mark. The examination paper will be divided into five sections: (A) Western Europe; (B) Eastern Europe; (C) the Middle East; (D) the US Presidential Election, 2008; and (E) state-formation in the Congo. There will be three questions in each of Sections A, B, and C, and two questions in Sections D and E, making a total of 13 questions. Candidates will be required to answer two questions, taking each from a different section, of which at least one must be from Sections A, B, or C. A sample examination paper is available on the Faculty website.
The examination will consist of a three-hour written paper. Candidates will be required to answer three questions from a choice of at least twelve, including questions on conflict and questions on peacebuilding. There will be at least one question on the Democratic Republic of the Congo, one on Iraq, and one on Cambodia. The paper will be undivided. A sample examination paper is available on the Faculty website.
The examination will be divided into three sections: (A) Anglo-American and British politics; (B) the politics of European integration; (C) comparative politics of Western Europe. Each section will consist of four to six questions. Candidates will be required to answer three questions, taken from at least two of the sections. A sample examination paper is available on the Faculty website.
This paper examines questions about the politics of Africa. The examination will consist of twelve questions, of which candidates will be required to answer three. A sample examination paper is available on the Faculty website.
The examination will consist of a three-hour written paper. Candidates will be required to answer three questions from a choice of sixteen questions, of which eight will pertain to the politics of China, and eight to the politics of Southeast Asia. The paper will be undivided. A sample examination paper is available on the Faculty website.
The content of the paper has been revised such that the topics in arguments in political economy have been replaced with topics on the euro-zone debt crisis. A sample examination paper is available on the Faculty website.
The section on ‘New media and society’ (eight lectures) and the related examination questions on the paper set in 2011 will be replaced by a section entitled: ‘Popular music in its social context’ (twelve lectures). The examination will remain undivided and will contain questions relating to the new popular music section as well as questions relating to the sections on ‘Theories of culture and the media’ and ‘Media and politics’.
All other papers remain unchanged.