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No 6276

Wednesday 1 August 2012

Vol cxlii No 41

pp. 862–894

Notices by Faculty Boards, etc.

Classical Tripos, Part II, 2013: Amendment to prescribed subjects and books

Further to their Notice of 3 August 2011 (Reporter, 2010–11, p. 1149), the Faculty Board of Classics give notice of the following changes and additions to the prescribed subjects and books for the Classical Tripos, 2013 (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 294):

Part II

GROUP A (LITERATURE)

Paper A4. Greek and Latin textual criticism and transmission of texts

Sophocles, Electra 1–471; Catullus 6–15, 51–62.

GROUP C (HISTORY)

Paper C3. A prescribed subject taken from ancient history

Carthage and Rome.

GROUP E (LANGUAGE)

Paper E2. Greek as a world language

GROUP O

The following papers are not available for examination in 2013:

Paper O1. The history of ideas on language (Paper 12 of Part II of the Linguistics Tripos).

Paper O11. Classical traditions in the sciences (Paper 1 in History and Philosophy of Science of Part II of the Natural Sciences Tripos).

The Faculty Board have confirmed that no candidate’s preparation for the examination in 2013 will be adversely affected by these changes. The full list of prescribed subjects and books for Part II of the Classical Tripos, 2013, is available on the Faculty of Classics website at http://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/current-students/prescribed_subjects_and_books/ (see the Notice below).

Classical Tripos: Prescribed subjects and books

Lists of prescribed subjects and books will no longer be published in the Reporter. The details of subjects and books prescribed for the following examinations in the Classical Tripos are now available on the Faculty of Classics website at http://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/current-students/prescribed_subjects_and_books/:

Preliminary examination for Part Ia of the Classical Tripos, 2013

Parts Ia, Ib, and II of the Classical Tripos, 2013

Part II of the Classical Tripos, 2014

Engineering Tripos, Parts IIa and IIb, 2012–13: Amendment

The Faculty Board of Engineering give notice of an amendment to the sets of modules prescribed for the examinations to be held in 2013 (see Reporter, 2011–12, p. 644). Modules 3E2 (Marketing) and 3E5 (Human resource management) will now be set together in the Michaelmas Term (as set IIAM10) and modules 3E1 (Business economics) and 3E10 (Operations management for engineers) will now be set together in the Lent Term (as set IIAL9); the subsequent sets have been relabelled accordingly.

An updated list of the Part IIa modules and sets is now available on the Department of Engineering website at http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/teaching/teachoff/IIA_Modules_12_13.pdf.

Historical Tripos, 2014: Notice of subjects and periods

The Faculty Board of History give notice that the options for Paper 1 of Part I of the Historical Tripos, 2014 (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 327) will be as follows:

Paper 1. Themes and Sources:

i

Money and society from late antiquity to the financial revolution

ii

Royal and princely courts: ancient, medieval, and early modern

iii

Religious conversion and colonialism

iv

Remaking the modern body, 1543–1939

vi

American perspectives on east and southeast Asia

vii

Nature and the city in medieval thought

viii

Sacred histories

ix

The history of collecting

x

Migrants: emigration and immigration, c. 1000–c. 2000

xi

The politics of memory in Germany after 1945 (German sources)

xii

World War II and its legacy in France (French sources)

xiii

Utopian writing, 1516–1789

xiv

Film and history, 1929–1945

The Faculty Board of History give notice that the Special Subjects for Papers 2 and 3 of Part II of the Historical Tripos, 2014 (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 329) will be as follows (see also the Notice on p. 878):

The city of Rome and its rulers, 476–769

(B)

Chivalry, patronage, and rulership: King René of Anjou in fifteenth-century Europe

(C)

Uses of the visual in early modern Germany, c. 1450–1550

(D)

An alternative history of Ireland: Religious minorities and identity in the 26 counties, 1912–1959

(G)

The British and the Middle East, c. 1830–c.1865

(J)

Fin de siècle Russia, 1891–1917

(K)

From World War to Cold War: America, Britain, Russia, and the division of Europe, 1944–1950

(L)

Asia’s revolutionary underground: from Shanghai to Java, 1918–1948

(M)

Missionary science, ethnic formation, and the religious encounter in Belgian Congo 1908–1960

(O)

The reconstruction of Germany, 1945–1955

(P)

The subjects for the following papers in Part II of the Historical Tripos, 2014 (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 329) will be:

1

Historical argument and practice

4

History of political thought from c. 1700 to c. 1890

5

Political philosophy and the history of political thought since c. 1890

7

Transformation of the Roman world [Paper C4 of Part II of the Classical Tripos]

8

The Near East in the age of Justinian and Muhammad, ad 527–700

9

The Jewish presence in medieval society

11

The archaeology of medieval Britain, c. 1000–1500 [Paper 28 of Part IIa of the Archaeology Tripos]

12

The middle ages on film: medieval violence and modern identities

14

Material culture in the early modern world

15

Food and drink in Britain and the wider world, c. 1500–1800

16

Persecution and toleration in Britain, 1400–1700

17

The politics of knowledge from the late Renaissance to the early Enlightenment

20

World population, development, and environment since 1750: comparative history and policy

21

The French and the British problem, since c. 1688

22

‘Total War’ and European Societies, 1792–1815

24

The politics of gender in Britain, 1790–1990

25

The long road to modernization: Spain, 1800–2000

27

The history of Latin America in the colonial period, c. 1500–1830

28

The history of the Indian sub-continent from the late eighteenth century to the present day

29

The history of Africa from 1800 to the present day

30

‘Islands and beaches’: the Pacific and Indian Oceans in the long nineteenth century

Candidates for Part II in 2014, who have previously taken Part I of the Historical Tripos and who did not offer in that Part a paper falling mainly in the period before 1750, may meet the requirement to take a pre-1750 paper in Part II by offering one of the Special Subjects B, C, and D or by offering one of the Papers 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17 or a dissertation, provided that its subject falls mainly in the period before 1750.

Candidates for Part II in 2014, who have previously taken Part I of the Historical Tripos and who did not offer in that Part a paper falling mainly in the period after 1750, may meet the requirement to take a post-1750 paper in Part II by offering one of the Special Subjects G, J, K, L, M, O, and P or by offering Papers 4 or 5 or one of the Papers 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 28, 29, and 30 or a dissertation, provided that its subject falls mainly in the period after 1750.

Candidates for Part II in 2014, who have previously taken Part I of the Historical Tripos and who did not offer in that Part a paper in European History, may meet the requirement to take a European History paper in Part II by offering one of the following papers: 7, 8, 9, 14, 21, 22, and 25.

M.Phil. in Engineering for Sustainable Development, 2012: Notice

The Degree Committee for the Faculty of Engineering give notice that the mandatory and optional modules available for study for the M.Phil. in Engineering for Sustainable Development (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 495) in the academical year 2012–13, and the mode of assessment of each module, will be as follows:

Core modules (mandatory) (all assessed by course-work)

Michaelmas 2012

ESD 100

Concepts, values, and change processes

ESD 200

Sustainability methods and metrics

MOT&I

Management of technology and innovation (two components = one module)

Lent 2013

MOT&I

Management of technology and innovation (two components = one module)

Outer core modules (two required from the following list)1

ESD 300

Sustainability assessment of large infrastructure projects

ESD 400

Economic, legal, and regulation issues

ESD 500

Sustainable design and implementation

ESD 600

Development engineering

Optional modules

Michaelmas 2012

(two required)

Mode of assessment2

ESD-E453

Environmental engineering

course-work

4B14

Solar electronic power: generation and distribution

course-work and examination

4B19

Renewable electrical power

examination

4D13

Architectural engineering

course-work

4D14

Contaminated land and waste containment

course-work and examination

4E64

Accounting and finance

course-work

4I7

Electricity and environment

course-work

ET-B25

Renewable energy: wind, tidal, and hydro

course-work

TP1

Introduction to technology policy

course-work

TPE66

Uncertainty and real options in systems design

course-work

MM 205

Environment and sustainability

course-work

ESD-A1

Environmental design for architecture: 1

course-work

ESD-Geog5

Politics, society, and nature

course-work

EP025

Fundamental of environmental economics

course-work

Lent 2013

(two required)1

Mode of assessment2

4D15

Sustainable water engineering

course-work

4E4

Management of technology

course-work

4E5

International business economics

course-work

4E 11

Strategic management

course-work

4E12

Project management

course-work

4M15

Sustainable energy

course-work and examination

4G4

Biomimetics

course-work

ET-B35

Renewable energy: solar and biomass

course-work

5R18

Environmental fluid mechanics

examination

TP 4

Complexity and negotiations (Easter Term)

course-work

TPE7

Political economy of technology policy

course-work

TPE8

Systems dynamics

course-work

TPE10

Government policy towards technology development

course-work

EP045,7

Sustainability and international environmental policy

examination

EP065

Aspects of environmental policy making

course-work and examination

EP105

Climate change policy and land development

examination

ESD-CE2

Sustainability and chemical engineering

examination

The Degree Committee for the Faculty of Engineering reserve the right to modify this list during the Michaelmas Term 2012.

Footnotes

  • 1Modules from the outer core may also be taken as electives in Lent Term.


  • 2All written examinations are of one and a half hours’ duration unless otherwise specified.


  • 3The Degree Committee for the Faculty of Engineering reserve the right to withdraw any of these modules should less than ten students enrolled on the M.Phil. in Engineering for Sustainable Development elect to study them.


  • 4Subject to overall numbers.


  • 5A cap will be placed of approximately five ESD students per module.


  • 6Block module to be run in December 2012.


  • 7Pre-requisite required.