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No 6473

Wednesday 12 July 2017

Vol cxlvii No 39

pp. 752–756

Notices by Faculty Boards, etc.

Engineering Tripos, Parts IIa and IIb, 2017–18: Modules and sets: Amendment

Further to the Notice published on 14 June 2017 (Reporter, 6469, 2016–17, p. 591), the Faculty Board of Engineering gives notice that the following amendments have been made to the sets for Parts IIa and IIb:

Part IIa

A new set, IIAL10, has been created and the following module has been added to it:

3M1 (moved from IIAL5)

Part IIb

A new set, IIBM11, has been created and the following modules have been added to it:

4G1 (moved from IIBM1)

4M17 (moved from IIBM6)

A new set, IIBL11, has been created and the following modules have been added to it:

4A10 (moved from IIBL8)

4G4 (moved from IIBL7)

The Faculty Board is satisfied that no candidate’s preparation for the examination will be adversely affected.

Historical Tripos, 2018 and 2019: Subjects and periods

(Statutes and Ordinances, p. 328)

Part II, 2018: Amendment

The Faculty Board of History gives notice that it has amended its announcement of special and specified subjects for Part II of the Historical Tripos in 2018, as published on 13 July 2016 (Reporter, 6433, 2015–16, p. 766), as follows:

By withdrawing the following from the list of specified subjects:

15.

Print and society in early modern England

The Faculty Board is satisfied that no candidate’s preparation for the examination will be adversely affected.

Part I, 2019: Paper 1, Themes and sources

The Faculty Board gives notice that the options for Paper 1 of Part I of the Historical Tripos (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 329) in 2019 will be as follows:

Paper 1

iMoney and society from late antiquity to the financial revolution

iiiReligious conversion and colonialism

ivRemaking the modern body, 1543–1939

vThe Bandung moment: revolution and anti-imperialism in the twentieth century

viComparative histories of race, class, and culture: Southern Africa, 1850–2013

viiiSacred histories

ixThe history of collecting

xWealth and poverty in West Africa, from the slave trades to the present

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

xiiFighting for Algeria, fighting for France, 1945–1962 (French sources)

xiiiEarning a living, 1377–1911: Work, occupations, gender, and economic development in England

xivFilm and history, 1929–1945

xvWorld environmental history

Part II, 2019: Papers 2 and 3, Special subjects

The Faculty Board of History also gives notice that the Special Subjects for Papers 2 and 3 of Part II of the Historical Tripos (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 330) in 2019 will be as follows:

Roman religion: identity and empire [associated with C2 of Part II of the Classical Tripos]

(A)

The ‘Angevin Empire’, 1150s–1230s

(B)

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

(D)

Heresy, inquisition, and society: southern France, c. 1150–1320

(F)

The culture of the miraculous in Renaissance Italy

(G)

The 1848 revolutions

(I)

Masculinities and political culture in Britain, 1832–1901

(J)

Fin de siècle Russia, 1891–1917

(K)

The transformation of everyday life in Britain, 1945–1990

(L)

Empires and the American imagination, c. 1763–c. 1900

(M)

An alternative history of Ireland: religious minorities and identity in the 26 counties, 1900–1959

(N)

The Kantian revolution

(O)

Sources of East Asian modernity, c. 1895–1927

(P)

International diplomacy and the end of the Cold War in Europe, 1985–1991

(R)

The subjects for the following papers in Part II of the Historical Tripos in 2019 will be as follows:

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

6

States between states: the history of international political thought from the Roman empire to the early nineteenth century

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

Writing history in the classical world [Paper C3 of Part II of the Classical Tripos]

10

Living in Athens [Paper C1 of Part II of the Classical Tripos]

11

Early medicine [Paper BBS113 of the Natural Sciences Tripos, Part II (Biological and Biomedical Sciences)]

12

The middle ages on film: medieval violence and modern identities

13

Man, nature, and the supernatural, c. 1000–c. 1600

14

Material culture in the early modern world

16

Overseas expansion and British identities, 1585–1714

17

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

18

Japanese history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries [Paper J6 of Part Ib of the Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Tripos]

19

The problem of sustainability, 1500–1987

20

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

21

Borderlands: life on the Habsburg-Ottoman frontier, 1521–1881

22

Stalinism and Soviet life

25

Middle Eastern modernities, from c. 1700 to the present day

26

Consumption and consumer culture in the United States

27

The history of Latin America, from 1500 to the present day

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 2019, 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 A, B, D, F, or G or by offering one of the Papers 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, and 21, or a dissertation, provided that its subject falls mainly in the period before 1750.

Candidates for Part II in 2018, 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, 14, 21, and 22.

E. M. C. RAMPTON, Acting Registrary

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