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No 6545

Wednesday 1 May 2019

Vol cxlix No 27

pp. 492–525

Notices by Faculty Boards, etc.

Historical Tripos 2020: Subjects and periods

Further to the Notice published on 25 July 2018 (Reporter, 6516, 2017–18, p. 851), the Faculty Board of History gives notice that the special and specified subjects for Part II of the Historical Tripos, 2020, have been amended as follows:

By withdrawing the following from the list of special subjects for Papers 2 and 3:

The culture of the miraculous in Renaissance Italy

(G)

Food and drink in Britain and the wider world, c.1550–1800

(H)

Fin de siècle Russia, 1891–1917

(K)

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

(M)

The Kantian Revolution

(O)

By adding the following to the list of special subjects for Papers 2 and 3:

Memory in early modern England

(C)

Reform and Reformation: Thomas More’s England

(F)

Masculinities and political culture in Britain, 1832–1901

(H)

By amending the title of Special Subject E for Papers 2 and 3 from ‘The well-protected domains: A spatial history of the Ottoman empire, 1300–1800’ to ‘The palace and the coffeehouse: The power of place in Ottoman history, 1300–1800’.

By withdrawing the following from the list of specified subjects:

15

Print and society in early modern England

26

Consumption and consumer culture in the United States

By adding the following to the list of specified subjects:

  9

Slavery in the Greek and Roman worlds [Paper C3 of Part II of the Classical Tripos]

15

The medieval globe [Paper A24 of Part II of the Archaeology Tripos]

19

Women, gender and paid work in Britain since c.1850

24

The American Revolution in unexpected places

25

Ireland and the Irish since the Famine

Candidates for Part II in 2020, 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, C, D, E or F, or by offering one of the Papers 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 21 or a dissertation, provided that its subject falls mainly in the period before 1750.

Candidates for Part II in 2020, 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, 22 and 23.

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

Conservation Leadership for the M.Phil. Degree: Modules

The Degree Committee for the Faculty of Earth Sciences and Geography gives notice that for the examination in Conservation Leadership for the degree of Master of Philosophy in 2019–20 the modules available and the form of examination of each module shall be as follows:

Compulsory modules

Reference

Name

Mode of assessment

CL1

Conservation problems and practice

exercise

CL2

Conservation enterprise

essay

CL3

Conservation management

exercise

CL4

Communicating conservation

exercise

CL5

Conservation governance

essay

CL6

Innovation for conservation leadership

coursework

Placement report

report and presentation