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No 6265

Thursday 10 May 2012

Vol cxlii No 30

pp. 592–601

Notices by Faculty Boards, etc.

Archaeological and Anthropological Tripos, Parts I, IIa, and IIb, 2012–13: Notice

The Faculty Board of Human, Social, and Political Science give notice of the following papers which are offered for Parts I, IIa, and IIb of the Tripos in 2012–13.

Archaeology papers

Paper 1.

The development of human societies

Paper 4a.

Being human: an interdisciplinary approach

Paper 5.

Introduction to the cultures of Egypt and Mesopotamia

Paper 6.

Akkadian I

Paper 7.

Egyptian language I

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.

Topics in Palaeolithic archaeology

A08.

European prehistory

A13.

Aegean prehistory

A14.

The art of collecting

A15.

The poetics of Classical art

A16.

Roman cities

A17.

The historical archaeology of ancient Egypt I

A19.

Ancient Egyptian religion I

A22.

Mesopotamian culture II: religion and science

A23.

Mesopotamian archaeology I: prehistory and early states

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

A30.

Ancient India I: the Indus civilization and beyond

A34.

The archaeology of Mesoamerica and North 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

M04.

Mesopotamian history I: states and structures

E01.

Egyptian language II

E02.

Egyptian language III

Biological Anthropology papers

BA1.

Foundations in biological anthropology: the human animal

BA2.

Foundations in biological anthropology: the human journey

BA3.

Foundations in biological anthropology: the human lifespan

BA4.

Theory and practice in anthropology

BA5.

The evolutionary history of African populations

BA6.

Humans in an evolutionary paradigm

BA7.

Hunter gatherers

BA8.

Evolutionary ecology of extinct hominins

BA9.

Social networks as complex systems

BA10.

Evolution of human morphological and behavioural phenotypes and their genetic basis

BA11.

Human evolution and health

BA12.

A topic in biological anthropology

BA13.

Primate molecular ecology

BA14.

Apes as models for human evolution

BA16.

Data handling in biological anthropology

Social Anthropology papers

S7.

Anthropology of cities and space

S8.

Anthropology and law

S10.

Medical anthropology

S6a.

Europe

S6b.

Latin America

S6c.

South Asia

Natural Sciences Tripos, Part II (History and Philosophy of Science), 2012–13: Notice

Prescribed sources

The Board of History and Philosophy of Science give notice that the prescribed sources for the essay component of the Natural Sciences Tripos, Part II, in History and Philosophy of Science, 2012–13, are now available on the Departmental website at http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/admin/ part_ii_prescribed_sources.pdf.

Written papers

The Board of History and Philosophy of Science give notice that the written papers available for examination in 2013 are as follows:

Paper 2.

Early medicine

Paper 3.

Natural philosophies: renaissance to enlightenment

Paper 4.

Science, industry, and empire

Paper 5.

Modern medicine and biomedical sciences

Paper 6.

Metaphysics, epistemology, and the sciences

Paper 7.

Ethics and politics of science, technology, and medicine

Paper 9.

History of philosophy of science

Paper 10.

Mind and society

Paper 11.

Mesopotamian science and scholarship

Politics, Psychology, and Sociology Tripos, Parts IIa and IIb, 2012–13: Amendment

The Faculty Board of Human, Social, and Political Sciences give notice of an amendment to the papers offered in Parts IIa and IIb of the Politics, Psychology, and Sociology Tripos in 2012–13, announced in their Notice of 19 May 2011 (Reporter, 2010–11, p. 759).

Paper Soc. 9. ‘A subject in sociology V: Religion and politics’ will now be offered as Soc. 9. ‘A subject in sociology V: Science, technology, and society’.

Paper Int. 5. ‘An interdisciplinary subject III: Gender, kinship, and care’ will not be offered.

Paper Int 10. ‘An interdisciplinary subject V: Anthropology of colonialism and empire’ will not be offered.

The Faculty Board are satisfied that no candidate’s preparation for the examination will be affected by the change.