No 6552
Wednesday 19 June 2019
Vol cxlix No 34
pp. 693–722
(Statutes and Ordinances, p. 306)
The Faculty Board of Economics gives notice of the following amendment to the Supplementary Regulations for Part IIa of the Economics Tripos so as to update the description of Paper 7.
The paper has the following subject matter: the distribution of wages and the determination of employment by household supply and employer demand for labour, the role of market frictions in shaping the equilibrium outcome, human capital and education, asymmetric information and screening, the family structure, and discrimination. Candidates will be expected to know the main empirical data sources on the labour market. They should also be familiar with the modern approaches to the analysis of such data. Students will be introduced to empirical work on these issues in country-specific contexts and will learn about country-specific peculiarities among advanced economies regarding, for example, wage dispersion, minimum wages, gender wage differentials, taste discrimination and statistical discrimination, the sorting in the marriage market and the labour division within household. They should be able to draw selectively on contributions from sociology and political science.
(Statutes and Ordinances, p. 499)
The General Board, on the recommendation of the Faculty Board of Modern and Medieval Languages, has approved Film and Screen Studies and European, Latin American and Comparative Literatures and Cultures as subjects for examination for the degree of Master of Philosophy by Thesis.1 The Board accordingly approved amendments to the Schedule to the regulations and special regulations for the examinations, as follows:
By adding the following to the Schedule to the regulations as subjects for examination for the M.Phil. Degree by thesis:
Film and Screen Studies
European, Latin American and Comparative Literatures and
Cultures
By adding the following as Special Regulations:
1. The scheme of examination for the one-year course of study in Film and Screen Studies for the degree of Master of Philosophy shall consist of a thesis of not more than 30,000 words in length, including footnotes, but excluding appendices and bibliography, on a topic approved by the Degree Committee not later than the end of the Full Michaelmas Term preceding the examination.
2. The examination shall include an oral examination on the thesis and on the general field of knowledge within which it falls.
1. The scheme of examination for the one-year course of study in European, Latin American and Comparative Literatures and Cultures for the degree of Master of Philosophy shall consist of a thesis of not more than 30,000 words in length, including footnotes, but excluding appendices and bibliography, on a topic approved by the Degree Committee not later than the end of the Full Michaelmas Term preceding the examination.
2. The examination shall include an oral examination on the thesis and on the general field of knowledge within which it falls.
1See also the General Board Notice published on 5 June 2019 (Reporter, 6550, 2018–19, p. 651).
(Statutes and Ordinances, p. 548)
The General Board, on the recommendation of the Faculty Board of Clinical Medicine, has approved a change to the regulations for the examination in Cancer Biology for the degree of Master of Research to allow the course to be taken as either a one-year full-time course or as a two-year part-time course. In all other respects the course regulations remain the same.
By amending the first sentence of the regulation to read as follows:
The scheme of examination for the one-year full-time or two-year part-time course of study in Cancer Biology for the degree of Master of Research shall consist of the following:
(Statutes and Ordinances, p. 556)
The General Board, on the recommendation of the Faculty Board of Clinical Medicine, has approved Medical Education as a subject for examination for the degree of Master of Studies. Special Regulations for the examination in the subject have been approved as follows:
1. The scheme of examination for the three-year part-time course of study in Medical Education for the degree of Master of Studies, shall consist of:
(a)two written assignments of between 4,500 and 5,500 words (one of which will be a literature review);
(b)an educational intervention or innovation project (5,000 words or equivalent);
(c)a portfolio of professional educational practice;
(d)a reflective narrative of up to 4,000 words with ten selected exemplars;
(e)a project proposal of between 3,000 and 4,000 words, on a subject approved by the Degree Committee for the Faculties of Clinical Medicine and Veterinary Medicine;
(f)a project presentation and short reflective piece (1,500 to 2,500 words); and
(g)a project report (8,000 to 10,000 words, or equivalent).