The Faculty Board of Engineering gives notice that the modules prescribed for the examinations to be held in 2018, and the mode of examination for each module, will be as listed below. Candidates must offer ten modules for examination. Candidates may offer only one module from any one of the sets. Students may not take more than two management modules.
Sets: |
M = Michaelmas Term |
L = Lent Term |
Assessment: |
p = examination only |
Unit |
Title |
Set |
Mode |
Notes |
Group A: Energy, fluid mechanics, and turbomachinery |
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3A1 |
Fluid mechanics I |
IIAM8 / L7 |
p |
Double module |
3A3 |
Fluid mechanics II |
IIAM1 / L1 |
p |
Double module |
3A5 |
Thermodynamics and power generation |
IIAM7 |
p |
|
3A6 |
Heat and mass transfer |
IIAL3 |
p |
|
Group B: Electrical engineering |
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3B1 |
Radio frequency electronics |
IIAM3 |
p |
|
3B2 |
Integrated digital electronics |
IIAL3 |
p |
|
3B3 |
Switch-mode electronics |
IIAM2 |
p |
|
3B4 |
Electric drive systems |
IIAL2 |
p |
|
3B5 |
Semiconductor engineering |
IIAM10 |
p |
|
3B6 |
Photonic technology |
IIAL7 |
p |
|
Group C: Mechanics, materials, and design |
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3C1/3P1 |
Materials processing and design (engineering) |
IIAM5 |
p |
|
3C5 |
Dynamics |
IIAM6 |
p |
|
3C6 |
Vibration |
IIAL6 |
p |
|
3C7 |
Mechanics of solids |
IIAM4 |
p |
|
3C8 |
Machine design |
IIAM3 |
p |
|
3C9 |
Fracture mechanics of materials and structures |
IIAL5 |
p |
|
Group D: Civil, structural, and environmental engineering |
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3D1 |
Geotechnical engineering I |
IIAM1 |
p |
|
3D2 |
Geotechnical engineering II |
IIAL1 |
p |
|
3D3 |
Structural materials and design |
IIAM2 |
p |
|
3D4 |
Structural analysis and stability |
IIAL2 |
p |
|
3D5 |
Water engineering |
IIAM10 |
p |
|
3D7 |
Finite element methods |
IIAL4 |
p |
|
3D8 |
Building physics and environmental geotechnics |
IIAM3 |
p |
|
Group E: Management and manufacturing |
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3E1 |
Business economics |
IIAM9 |
p |
|
3E2 |
Marketing |
IIAM9 |
p |
|
3E3 |
Modelling risk |
IIAL8 |
p |
|
3E6 |
Organizational behaviour |
IIAL8 |
p |
|
3E10 |
Operations management for engineers |
IIAL8 |
p |
|
3E11 |
Environmental sustainability and business |
IIAM9 |
p |
|
Group F: Information engineering |
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3F1 |
Signals and systems |
IIAM4 |
p |
|
3F2 |
Systems and control |
IIAL5 |
p |
|
3F3 |
Statistical signal processing |
IIAM1 |
p |
|
3F4 |
Data transmission |
IIAL6 |
p |
|
3F7 |
Information theory and coding |
IIAM5 |
p |
|
3F8 |
Inference |
IIAL4 |
p |
|
Group G: Bioengineering |
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3G1 |
Introduction to molecular bioengineering |
IIAM7 |
p |
|
3G2 |
Mathematical physiology |
IIAL3 |
p |
|
3G3 |
Introduction to neuroscience |
IIAL2 |
p |
|
3G4 |
Medical imaging and 3D computer graphics |
IIAL1 |
p |
|
3G5 |
Biomaterials |
IIAM8 |
p |
|
Group M: Multidisciplinary modules |
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3M1 |
Mathematical methods |
IIAL5 |
p |
|
Group S: Modules shared with Part IIb |
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4C4 |
Design methods |
IIAM7 |
p |
Shared module |
4D8 |
Pre-stressed concrete |
IIAL9 |
p |
Shared module; alternates with 4D16 |
4M12 |
Partial differential equations and variational methods |
IIAL9 |
p |
Shared module |
4M16 |
Nuclear power engineering |
IIAL9 |
p |
Shared module |
All lectures are AM except those indicated as PM.
Set |
Unit |
Title |
Mode |
Notes |
Michaelmas Term |
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IIAM1 |
3A3 |
Fluid mechanics II |
p |
Double module |
3D1 |
Geotechnical engineering I |
p |
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3F3 |
Statistical signal processing |
p |
||
IIAM2 |
3B3 |
Switch-mode electronics |
p |
|
3D3 |
Structural materials and design |
p |
||
IIAM3 |
3B1 |
Radio frequency electronics |
p |
|
3C8 |
Machine design |
p |
||
3D8 |
Building physics and environmental geotechnics |
p |
||
IIAM4 |
3C7 |
Mechanics of solids |
p |
|
3F1 |
Signals and systems |
p |
||
IIAM5 |
3C1 |
Materials processing and design |
p |
|
3F7 |
Information theory and coding |
p |
||
IIAM6 |
3C5 |
Dynamics |
p |
|
IIAM7 |
3A5 |
Thermodynamics and power generation |
p |
|
3G1 |
Introduction to molecular bioengineering |
p |
||
4C4 |
Design methods |
p |
Shared with IIb |
|
IIAM8 |
3A1 |
Fluid mechanics I |
p |
Double module |
3G5 |
Biomaterials |
p |
||
IIAM9 (PM lectures) |
3E1 |
Business economics modelling risk |
p |
|
3E2 |
Marketing |
p |
||
3E11 |
Environmental sustainability and business |
p |
||
IIAM10 (PM double lectures) |
3B5 |
Semiconductor engineering |
p |
|
3D5 |
Water engineering |
p |
||
Lent Term |
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IIAL1 |
3A3 |
Fluid mechanics II |
p |
Double module |
3D2 |
Geotechnical engineering II |
p |
||
3G4 |
Medical imaging and 3D computer graphics |
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IIAL2 |
3B4 |
Electric drive systems |
p |
|
3D4 |
Structural analysis and stability |
p |
||
3G3 |
Introduction to neuroscience |
p |
||
IIAL3 |
3A6 |
Heat and mass transfer |
p |
|
3B2 |
Integrated digital electronics |
p |
||
3G2 |
Mathematical physiology |
p |
||
IIAL4 |
3D7 |
Finite element methods |
p |
|
3F8 |
Inference |
p |
||
IIAL5 |
3C9 |
Fracture mechanics of materials and structures |
p |
|
3F2 |
Systems and control |
p |
||
IIAL6 |
3C6 |
Vibration |
p |
|
3F4 |
Data transmission |
p |
||
IIAL7 |
3A1 |
Fluid mechanics I |
p |
Double module |
3B6 |
Photonic technology |
p |
||
3M1 |
Mathematical methods |
p |
||
IIAL8 (PM lectures) |
3E3 |
Modelling risk |
p |
|
3E6 |
Organizational behaviour |
p |
||
3E10 |
Operations management for engineers |
p |
||
Group S – modules shared with IIb |
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IIAL9 |
4D8 |
Pre-stressed concrete |
p |
Shared module; alternates with 4D16 |
4M12 |
Partial differential equations and variational methods |
p |
Shared module |
|
4M16 |
Nuclear power engineering |
p |
Shared module |
The Faculty Board of Engineering gives notice that the modules prescribed for the examinations to be held in 2018, and the mode of examination for each module, will be as below.
Candidates must offer eight modules for examination. Candidates may offer only one module from any chosen set as listed below. In addition, students may take not more than three from the following: 4E modules; 4I1 and 4I7; 4M1–3; and (when available) 4D16. Students may not take more than two 4E modules (one per term).
No candidate who offered any module for Part IIa may again offer the same module for Part IIb.
There will be no Group R (research) modules available to Part IIb students in 2017–18.
Please note that as the Faculty Board does not have exclusive control over imported modules it cannot guarantee that they will not clash with any other set.
c = coursework |
p = examination only |
p+c = examination and coursework |
Unit |
Name |
Set |
Mode |
Notes |
Group A: Energy, fluid mechanics, and turbomachinery |
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4A2 |
Computational fluid dynamics |
IIBM1 |
c |
|
4A3 |
Turbomachinery I |
IIBM4 |
p+c |
|
4A4 |
Aircraft stability and control |
IIBM7 |
c |
Coursework in Christmas vacation, and further lecture in LT; max. 30 so may ballot |
4A7 |
Aerodynamics |
IIBM8 |
c |
|
4A9 |
Molecular thermodynamics |
IIBM5 |
p |
|
4A10 |
Flow instability |
IIBL8 |
p |
|
4A12 |
Turbulence and vortex dynamics |
IIBL3 |
p |
|
4A13 |
Combustion and IC engines |
IIBL5 |
p |
|
4A15 |
Aeroacoustics |
IIBM6 |
p |
|
Group B: Electrical engineering |
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4B2 |
Power microelectronics |
IIBM6 |
p |
|
4B6 |
Solid state devices and chemical / biological sensors |
IIBL3 |
p |
|
4B11 |
Photonic systems |
IIBM5 |
p |
|
4B13 |
Electronic sensors and instrumentation |
IIBL1 |
p |
|
4B19 |
Renewable electrical power |
IIBM2 |
p |
Pre-reqs 3B3, 3B4, 3B6 |
4B21 |
Analogue integrated circuits |
IIBM3 |
p |
|
4B22 |
Flexible electronics |
IIBL5 |
p |
|
4B23 |
Optical fibre communication |
IIBL2 |
p+c |
|
4B24 |
Radio frequency systems |
IIBL4 |
p+c |
Pre-req 3B1 |
4B25 |
Embedded systems for the internet of things |
IIBM7 |
c |
|
Group C: Mechanics, materials, and design |
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4C2 |
Designing with composites |
IIBM3 |
p+c |
|
4C3 |
Electrical and nano materials |
IIBM8 |
p |
|
4C4 |
Design methods |
IIBM2 |
p |
Shared with Part IIa |
4C5 |
Design case studies |
IIBL4 |
c |
|
4C6 |
Advanced linear vibrations |
IIBM4 |
p+c |
|
4C7 |
Random and non-linear vibrations |
IIBM5 |
p+c |
|
4C8 |
Vehicle dynamics |
IIBL8 |
p+c |
|
4C9 |
Continuum mechanics |
IIBL7 |
p |
|
4C15 |
MEMS: design |
IIBL2 |
p+c |
|
Group D: Civil, structural, and environmental engineering |
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4D4 |
Construction engineering |
IIBL4 |
c |
|
4D5 |
Foundation engineering |
IIBL5 |
p |
|
4D6 |
Dynamics in civil engineering |
IIBL2 |
p+c |
|
4D7 |
Concrete structures |
IIBM4 |
p+c |
|
4D8 |
Pre-stressed concrete |
IIBL1 |
p |
Shared with Part IIa; alternates with 4D16 |
4D10 |
Structural steelwork |
IIBM3 |
p+c |
|
4D13 |
Architectural engineering |
IIBM8 |
c |
|
4D14 |
Contaminated land and waste containment |
IIBL3 |
p+c |
|
Group E: Management and manufacturing |
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4E1 |
Innovation and strategic management of intellectual property |
IIBM9 |
c |
|
4E3 |
Business innovation in a digital age |
IIBM9 |
c |
|
4E4 |
Management of technology |
IIBM9 |
c |
|
4E5 |
International business |
IIBL9 |
c |
|
4E6 |
Accounting and finance |
IIBM9 |
c |
|
4E11 |
Strategic management |
IIBL9 |
c |
|
4E12 |
Project management |
IIBL9 |
c |
Part IIb Engineering students only |
Group F: Information engineering |
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4F1 |
Control system design |
IIBM7 |
p+c |
|
4F2 |
Robust and nonlinear systems and control |
IIBL7 |
p |
|
4F5 |
Advanced communications and coding |
IIBL6 |
p |
|
4F7 |
Statistical signal analysis |
IIBM4 |
p |
Revised and with new name. Pre-req 3F3 |
4F8 |
Image processing and image coding |
IIBL3 |
p |
|
4F10 |
Deep learning and structured data |
IIBM6 |
p |
|
4F12 |
Computer vision |
IIBM2 |
p |
|
4F13 |
Probabilistic machine learning |
IIBM1 |
c |
|
4F14 |
Computer systems |
IIBL5 |
p+c |
Part I Digital circuits and computing assumed |
Group G: Bioengineering |
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4G1 |
Mathematical biology of the cell |
IIBM1 |
c |
Cap: 15 |
4G2 |
Biosensors |
IIBL6 |
c |
|
4G3 |
Computational neuroscience |
IIBL4 |
c |
|
4G4 |
Biomimetics |
IIBL7 |
c |
|
Group M: Multidisciplinary modules |
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4M1 |
French |
IIBL10 |
c |
|
4M2 |
German |
IIBL10 |
c |
|
4M3 |
Spanish |
IIBM10 |
c |
|
4M9 |
Surveying field course |
IIBLV |
c |
Long Vacation module taken in previous summer; cap: 16 |
4M12 |
Partial differential equations and variational methods |
IIBL1 |
p |
Shared with Part IIa |
4M14 |
Sustainable development |
IIBM7 |
c |
|
4M16 |
Nuclear power engineering |
IIBL1 |
p |
Shared with Part IIa |
4M17 |
Practical optimization |
IIBM6 |
c |
|
4M18 |
Present and future energy systems |
IIBM3 |
p |
|
4M19 |
Advanced building physics |
IIBM2 |
c |
|
4M20 |
Robotics |
IIBM8 |
c |
|
4M21 |
Software engineering and design |
IIBL7 |
p |
|
Group I: Imported modules |
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4I1 |
Strategic valuation (TPE6) |
IIBCV |
c |
Christmas vacation module; cap: 10; borrowed from M.Phil. in Technology Policy |
4I7 |
Electricity and environment (TPE7) |
IIBL6 |
c |
Borrowed from M.Phil. in Technology Policy |
4I8 |
Medical physics |
IIBL8 |
p |
Borrowed from Physics |
4I10 |
Nuclear reactor engineering |
IIBM5 |
p |
Borrowed from M.Phil. in Nuclear Energy |
4I11 |
Advanced fission and fusion systems |
IIBL8 |
c |
Borrowed from M.Phil. in Nuclear Energy |
All lectures are AM except those indicated as PM.
Set |
Unit |
Title |
Mode |
Notes |
Michaelmas Term |
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IIBM1 |
4A2 |
Computational fluid dynamics |
c |
|
4F13 |
Probabilistic machine learning |
c |
||
4G1 |
Mathematical biology of the cell |
c |
Cap: 15 |
|
IIBM2 |
4B19 |
Renewable electrical power |
p |
Pre-reqs 3B3, 3B4, 3B6 |
4C4 |
Design methods |
p |
Shared with Part IIa |
|
4F12 |
Computer vision |
p |
||
4M19 |
Advanced building physics |
c |
||
IIBM3 |
4B21 |
Analogue integrated circuits |
p |
|
4C2 |
Designing with composites |
p+c |
||
4D10 |
Structural steelwork |
p+c |
||
4M18 |
Present and future energy systems |
p |
||
IIBM4 |
4A3 |
Turbomachinery I |
p+c |
|
4C6 |
Advanced linear vibrations |
p+c |
||
4D7 |
Concrete structures |
p+c |
||
4F7 |
Statistical signal analysis |
p |
Pre-req 3F3 |
|
IIBM5 |
4A9 |
Molecular thermodynamics |
p |
|
4B11 |
Photonic systems |
p |
||
4C7 |
Random and non-linear vibrations |
p+c |
||
4I10 |
Nuclear reactor engineering |
p |
||
IIBM6 |
4A15 |
Aeroacoustics |
p |
|
4B2 |
Power microelectronics |
p |
||
4F10 |
Statistical pattern processing |
p |
||
4M17 |
Practical optimization |
c |
||
IIBM7 |
4A4 |
Aircraft stability and control |
c |
|
4B25 |
Embedded systems for the internet of things |
c |
||
4F1 |
Control system design |
p+c |
||
4M14 |
Sustainable development |
c |
||
IIBM8 |
4A7 |
Aerodynamics |
c |
|
4C3 |
Electrical and nano materials |
p |
||
4D13 |
Architectural engineering |
c |
||
4M20 |
Robotics |
c |
||
IIBM9 |
4E1 |
Innovation and strategic management of intellectual property |
c |
|
4E3 |
Business innovation in a digital age |
c |
||
4E4 |
Management of technology |
c |
||
4E6 |
Accounting and finance |
c |
||
IIBM10 |
4M3 |
Spanish |
c |
|
Christmas vacation |
||||
IIBM13 |
4I1 |
Strategic valuation (TPE6) |
c |
Cap: 10 |
Lent Term |
||||
IIBL1 |
4D8 |
Pre-stressed concrete |
p |
Alternates with 4D16 |
4B13 |
Electronic sensors and instrumentation |
p |
||
4M12 |
Partial differential equations and variational methods |
p |
Shared with Part IIa |
|
4M16 |
Nuclear power engineering |
p |
Shared with Part IIa |
|
IIBL2 |
4B23 |
Optical fibre communication |
p+c |
|
4C15 |
MEMS: design |
p+c |
||
4D6 |
Dynamics in civil engineering |
p+c |
||
IIBL3 |
4A12 |
Turbulence and vortex dynamics |
p |
|
4B6 |
Solid state devices and chemical / biological sensors |
p |
||
4D14 |
Contaminated land and waste containment |
p+c |
||
4F8 |
Image processing and image coding |
p |
||
IIBL4 |
4B24 |
Radio frequency systems |
p+c |
Pre-req 3B1 |
4C5 |
Design case studies |
c |
||
4D4 |
Construction engineering |
c |
||
4G3 |
Computational neuroscience |
c |
||
IIBL5 |
4A13 |
Combustion and IC engines |
p |
|
4B22 |
Flexible electronics |
p |
||
4D5 |
Foundation engineering |
p |
||
4F14 |
Computer systems |
p+c |
Part I Digital circuits and computing assumed. |
|
IIBL6 |
4F5 |
Advanced communications and coding |
p |
|
4G2 |
Biosensors |
c |
||
4I7 |
Electricity and environment |
c |
||
IIBL7 |
4C9 |
Continuum mechanics |
p |
|
4F2 |
Robust and nonlinear systems and control |
p |
||
4G4 |
Biomimetics |
c |
||
4M21 |
Software engineering and design |
p |
||
IIBL8 |
4A10 |
Flow instability |
p |
|
4C8 |
Vehicle dynamics |
p+c |
||
4I8 |
Medical physics |
p |
||
4I11 |
Advanced fission and fusion systems |
p |
||
IIBL9 |
4E5 |
International business |
c |
|
4E11 |
Strategic management |
c |
||
4E12 |
Project management |
c |
Part IIb Eng students only |
|
IIBL10 |
4M1 |
French |
c |
|
4M2 |
German |
c |
||
Long Vacation |
||||
LV1 |
4M9 |
Surveying field course |
c |
Cap: 16 |
The Faculty Board of Architecture and History of Art gives notice of the special subjects for the History of Art Tripos, 2017–18. The Board shall have the power of subsequently issuing amendments if they have due reason for doing so, and if they are satisfied that no student’s preparation for the examination is adversely affected (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 342, Regulation 11(b)).
This special subject examines the exceptionally fertile period of French medieval art and architecture between the era of monastic reform and the end of the building boom at the end of the 13th century. Starting with Romanesque art in such areas as Normandy and Burgundy, it will examine the major sources of art comment in the 12th century including the writings of St Bernard and Abbot Suger. The Parisian art milieu c. 1150, including Saint-Denis, will act as a springboard to further consideration of the development of Gothic architecture in northern and eastern France (Notre-Dame, Paris, Laon, Soissons, Chartres, Bourges, etc.). Developments in metalwork and portal sculpture will be considered, and also illumination. High Gothic (Reims, Amiens) will follow, with consideration of the portfolio of Villard d’Honnecourt. The Parisian milieu will then be returned to with examination of Gothic architecture and ‘scholasticism’, the Sainte-Chapelle and Court art under Louis IX, and the emergence of Rayonnant. Issues for discussion will include Gothic sculpture, theology and ‘moralitas’, the reception of French art and architecture in Western Europe more generally, and the loss of authority of French architecture to the geographical ‘margins’ from 1300.
The reigns of Elizabeth I and James I saw an unprecedented flourishing of the visual arts in England. In this era of political and religious instability, English artists and patrons experimented with new forms and motifs, forging a unique and idiosyncratic style. Yet this was an art full of contradictions: it revelled in a revived medieval chivalry while grappling enthusiastically with classicism, celebrated grandeur in the country house and royal portrait while embracing the intimacy of the portrait miniature. This special subject will examine the tensions and pluralism of English art c. 1550–1625, paying close attention to the social and cultural contexts that framed and shaped it. The course will cover panel painting and limning, architecture, sculpture, printmaking, the luxury arts, and the court masque alongside the period developments in literature and theatre with which they were imbricated. The complexities and significance of gender (particularly under Elizabeth), religious confession, and courtly self-fashioning for the arts will be addressed. Throughout, English art’s relationship to continental models – at the time and in subsequent historiography – will be critically assessed, as will its connection to the idea of Renaissance.
Many of the features that characterize the modern art world have their origins in Paris in the years 1750–1800. They include the birth of the public art gallery, in the Palais du Luxembourg and the Louvre, the rise of a new, articulate middle class public of art lovers, critics, and painters, or the development of new venues to discuss art, such as the Salons. The works of Winckelmann were published in French translation immediately after their first appearance in German; the rediscovery of Herculaneum and Pompeii had a great impact on the development of neo-classicism and the new discipline of archaeology. At the same time, critics, artists, and the public were obsessed with the art and art politics of the Grand Siècle. A common theme that links all these developments is the emergence of an educated, articulate public as a main actor in the Paris art world. This seminar will explore how these developments interacted to make Paris around 1750 the place where the modern art world was born; more in particular, it will consider how these, often conflicting, developments manifested themselves around a series of public debates, such as the disputes caused by the rediscovery of Pompeii and Herculaneum, or excavations at Tivoli; the position of sculpture as a public art, and its conflicted relation with models from Antiquity or the Renaissance; innovations in history painting, still life, and genre scenes; or the debates that surrounded the transformation of the Louvre from a palace for an absent king to the first public museum; the new artists and audiences that met in the Salons; or the debates caused by the publication of Winckelmann’s History of Classical Art.
Italy’s artistic culture underwent a revolution in the decades around 1300 – a seismic shift towards more naturalistic modes of representation most strongly associated with Giotto di Bondone (c. 1267–1337). This course disentangles the Florentine master from Vasarian myth and modern attribution debates, reassessing his achievements within the context of his own time. The course considers Giotto alongside other leading painters (his Florentine compatriot Cimabue and the Sienese Duccio, Simone Martini, and both Lorenzetti) as well as the architect-sculptor Arnolfo di Cambio, setting them against the dynamic backdrop of Tuscany’s burgeoning urban centres (Florence, Siena, Pisa). The course explores links between art and literature, especially through the poetry of Dante, and the emergence of pictorial allegory capable of communicating complex philosophical and political concepts. Beyond Tuscany, the course examines several other major artistic centres where Giotto worked: Rome, where the papacy energetically renewed the eternal city’s early Christian past; Assisi, headquarters of the Franciscan Order and site of the peninsula’s most intensive concentration of fresco cycles; Padua, where the university encouraged artists to engage with classical antiquity and the new science of optics; and Naples, whose Angevin kings refashioned their southern capital with Gothic architecture imported from France.
This course explores the changing status of the art object from the mid-1980s to the present day, considering how vision and representation took centre stage. While the optical had been fundamental to the Modernist project, with the rise of Minimalism and Conceptualism in the 1960s and 1970s these concerns had been displaced. By the 1980s artists and theorists influenced by political breakthroughs in the decades before, returned to the visual field to explore the limits of representation in a changing world. Beginning with appropriation and moving through to recent returns to image-making in post-internet art, as well as queer experiments with alternative forms of portraiture, the course will trace the politics of looking and being looked at. This course will also address changes in technology, exploring artists’ investigations of digital and analogue media and the range of theoretical interests this has supported from Hito Steyerl’s discussion of the ‘poor image’, to Tacita Dean’s fetishization of film, and Ryan Trecartin’s experiments with mimesis. More broadly, this course will provide a framework to consider Contemporary Art in the work of art historians. It will not only address the history of art-making over the last thirty years, but also explore how art historians might approach the unstable and changing world of contemporary practice.
From the reign of Peter the Great (1682–1725), artistic practice in Russia underwent a period of remarkably accelerated development, complementing the long-standing tradition of icon painting with a wealth of experimentation in secular art. At the same time, the country acquired art collections of international repute, thanks to the activities of patrons as ambitious as Catherine the Great. This course examines the vibrant visual culture which resulted, from the imposing portraits of the eighteenth-century court, to the iconoclastic antics of the pre-Revolutionary avant-garde. By focusing both on painters unfamiliar in the West and on works as canonical as Malevich’s Black Square, the course will challenge standard interpretations of the modernist mainstream, and consider the role which Russia played in the wider development of Western European art.
Against the perceived complacency of post-war modernist painting, Conceptual Art and related movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s renewed the promise of the early 20th century avant-gardes. Again, art was to dismantle culturally dominant patterns of thinking and acting. The course will examine how these ambitions played out 1945–1989, interrogating three interrelated ideas: that progressive art can resist the spectacle of consumer culture, that art can offer a critique of its own institutions, and that art can offer new models for political action. Artists studied will include Abstract Expressionists in the 1950s, Conceptual artists in the 1960s, and the women’s art movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s. The course looks in detail at the socio-political context of the Cold War, and at the anti-war, civil rights, and women’s political movements. Geographically, the course focuses on the art of the United States, drawing comparative studies from the USSR, Eastern Europe, and Western Europe.
The century from c. 1750 to c. 1850 was one of almost unprecedented development in British architecture. New relationships with the ruined buildings of the ancient Græco-Roman world emerged in response to the effects of the Grand Tour and of the incipient science of archaeology, while an indigenous antithesis was represented by surviving or revived Gothic forms. The ideologies of the Picturesque and of Romanticism incorporated both classicism and medievalism, as well as more exotic forms of architecture inspired by Britain’s trading links with the Far East. This was also the period in which Britain emerged as the world’s first industrial nation, leading not just to new building materials and building types but also to rapid expansion of cities. In this special subject, the architectural effects of changing political and social imperatives in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries will be studied against the background of longstanding British traditions in building and landscape design.
This course offers a broad examination of the emergence and development of the field of Islamic art from the 19th to the 21st century. It will begin with an exploration of the rich artistic output of individuals like Owen Jones and Jules Bourgoin whose borrowings of patterns from sites like the Alhambra almost instantaneously sparked global interest in Islamic ornament and architecture. The course will go on to examine the effects of these discoveries on artisanal productions worldwide and their role in major movements such as the Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau. It will navigate through the rooms of collectors like Frederic Leighton and Albert Goupil, look closely at the Orientalist oeuvre of artists like Jean-Léon Gérôme and his one-time disciple Osman Hamdi Bey, and cast a critical eye on modern modes of displaying Islamic art in exhibitions and museums. Through these examples, participants will have the opportunity to discuss such concepts as Orientalism and Islamic aniconism and look in depth at the complicated history of archaeology and the circulation of objects that affected the formation of the field. The course will include visits to the Fitzwilliam Museum to study its Islamic art collections on site.
The Board of History and Philosophy of Science gives notice that the prescribed sources for the essay component of the Part II course in 2017–18 are now available on the Departmental website at http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/partii#primary_sources.
The Faculty Board of Economics and the Degree Committee for the Faculty of Economics give notice, with the approval of the Student Registry and the General Board, that in the academical year 2017–18 the subjects for the examination in Economic Research for the degree of Master of Philosophy will be as listed below.
Core modules |
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E100: |
Microeconomics |
Two-hour written examination |
R101: |
Microeconomics II |
Three-hour written examination |
R200: |
Advanced macroeconomics I |
Three-hour written examination |
R201: |
Advanced macroeconomics II |
Two-hour written examination |
R300: |
Advanced econometric methods |
Three-hour written examination |
R301: |
Econometrics II |
Three-hour written examination |
Specialist modules |
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S140: |
Behavioural economics |
Two-hour written examination |
S150: |
Economics of networks |
Two-hour written examination |
S170: |
Industrial organization |
Two-hour written examination |
S180: |
Labour: search, matching, and agglomeration |
Two-hour written examination |
S500: |
Development economics |
Two-hour written examination |
S600: |
Topics in macroeconomic history |
Project |
S610: |
British industrialism |
Project |
S620: |
Institutions and economic growth in historical perspective |
Two-hour written examination |
F300: |
Corporate finance |
Two-hour written examination |
F400: |
Asset pricing |
Two-hour written examination |
F500: |
Empirical finance |
Two-hour written examination |
F510: |
International finance |
Two-hour written examination |
F520: |
Behavioural finance |
Two-hour written examination |
F530: |
Venture capital in the innovation economy |
Project |
F540: |
Topics in applied asset management |
Two-hour written examination |
For further information on the form and conduct of examination papers for the M.Phil. in Economic Research, please see http://www.econ.cam.ac.uk/intranet/info/FormandConduct-grad.pdf.
The Faculty Board of Economics and the Degree Committee for the Faculty of Economics give notice, with the approval of the Student Registry and the General Board, that in the academical year 2017–18 the subjects for the examination in Economics for the degree of Master of Philosophy will be as listed below.
Core modules |
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E100: |
Microeconomics |
Two-hour written examination |
E101: |
Applied microeconomics |
Two-hour written examination |
E200: |
Macroeconomics |
Two-hour written examination |
E201: |
Applied macroeconomics |
Two-hour written examination |
E300: |
Econometric methods |
Three-hour written examination |
Specialist modules |
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S140: |
Behavioural economics |
Two-hour written examination |
S150: |
Economics of networks |
Two-hour written examination |
S170: |
Industrial organization |
Two-hour written examination |
S180: |
Labour: search, matching, and agglomeration |
Two-hour written examination |
S301: |
Applied econometrics |
Two-hour written examination |
S500: |
Development economics |
Two-hour written examination |
S600: |
Topics in macroeconomic history |
Project |
S610: |
British industrialism |
Project |
S620: |
Institutions and economic growth in historical perspective |
Two-hour written examination |
F300: |
Corporate finance |
Two-hour written examination |
F400: |
Asset pricing |
Two-hour written examination |
F500: |
Empirical finance |
Two-hour written examination |
F510: |
International finance |
Two-hour written examination |
F520: |
Behavioural finance |
Two-hour written examination |
F530: |
Venture capital in the innovation economy |
Project |
F540: |
Topics in applied asset management |
Two-hour written examination |
Paper 1: |
Development economics (from the Centre of Development Studies) |
Project |
Paper 4: |
Globalization, business, and development (from the Centre of Development Studies) |
Project |
For further information on the form and conduct of examination papers for the M.Phil. in Economics, please see http://www.econ.cam.ac.uk/intranet/info/FormandConduct-grad.pdf.
The Faculty Board of Economics and the Degree Committee for the Faculty of Economics give notice, with the approval of the Student Registry and the General Board, that in the academical year 2017–18 the subjects for the examination in Finance and Economics for the degree of Master of Philosophy will be as listed below.
Core modules |
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F100: |
Finance I |
Two-hour written paper |
F200: |
Finance II |
Two-hour written paper |
F300: |
Corporate finance |
Two-hour written paper |
F400: |
Asset pricing |
Two-hour written paper |
E100: |
Microeconomics |
Two-hour written paper |
E300: |
Econometric methods |
Three-hour written paper |
Specialist modules |
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F500: |
Empirical finance |
Two-hour written paper |
F510: |
International finance |
Two-hour written paper |
F520: |
Behavioural finance |
Two-hour written paper |
F530: |
Venture capital in the innovation economy |
Project |
F540: |
Topics in applied asset management |
Two-hour written paper |
S140: |
Behavioural economics |
Two-hour written examination |
S150: |
Economics of networks |
Two-hour written examination |
S301: |
Applied econometrics |
Two-hour written examination |
E101: |
Applied microeconomics |
Two-hour written examination |
E200: |
Macroeconomics |
Two-hour written examination |
E201: |
Applied macroeconomics |
Two-hour written examination |
Mathematical Tripos, Part III |
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Optimal investment |
For further information on the form and conduct of examination papers for the M.Phil. in Finance and Economics, please see http://www.econ.cam.ac.uk/intranet/info/FormandConduct-grad.pdf.
The Faculty Board of Economics and the Degree Committee for the Faculty of Economics give notice, with the approval of the Student Registry and the General Board, that in the academical year 2017–18 the subjects for examination will be as listed below.
Compulsory component |
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PhD40: |
How to do economics |
Not examinable |
Ph.D. modules |
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PhD10: |
Economic theory |
Two-hour written examination |
PhD11: |
Applied microeconomic theory |
Project |
PhD20: |
Topics in advanced macroeconomics |
Project |
PhD21: |
Computational methods |
Project |
PhD30: |
Topics in advanced econometrics |
Project |
PhD31: |
GMM |
Project |
M.Phil. modules |
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S140: |
Behavioural economics |
Two-hour written examination |
S150: |
Economics of networks |
Two-hour written examination |
S170: |
Industrial organization |
Two-hour written examination |
S180: |
Labour: search, matching, and agglomeration |
Two-hour written examination |
S301: |
Applied econometrics |
Two-hour written examination |
S500: |
Development economics |
Two-hour written examination |
S600: |
Topics in macroeconomic history |
Project |
S610: |
British industrialism |
Project |
S620: |
Institutions and economic growth in historical perspective |
Two-hour written examination |
F300: |
Corporate finance |
Two-hour written examination |
F400: |
Asset pricing |
Two-hour written examination |
F500: |
Empirical finance |
Two-hour written examination |
F510: |
International finance |
Two-hour written examination |
F520: |
Behavioural finance |
Two-hour written examination |
F530: |
Venture capital in the innovation economy |
Project |
F540: |
Topics in applied asset management |
Two-hour written examination |
Research seminars/workshops |
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Microeconomic theory |
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Applied microeconomics |
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Macroeconomic |
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Econometrics |
For further information on the form and conduct of examination papers for the Economics Tripos, please see http://www.econ.cam.ac.uk/intranet/info/FormandConduct-grad.pdf.
The Faculty Board of Economics and the Degree Committee for the Faculty of Economics give notice, with the approval of the Student Registry and the General Board, that in the academical year 2017–18 the subjects for examination for the Advanced Diploma in Economics will be as listed below.
Paper 1: |
Microeconomics |
Paper 2: |
Macroeconomics |
Paper 3: |
Econometrics |
Papers 1 and 2 will each be examined by means of a three-hour written examination, while Paper 3 will be examined by means of a two-hour written examination (60% of the marks) and a project (40% of the marks).