1. The History and Politics Tripos shall consist of three Parts: Part Ia, Part Ib, and Part II. A separate class-list shall be published for each Part.
2. The Faculty Board of History shall be responsible for the Tripos and shall be advised by a Committee of Management for the Tripos which shall comprise such representatives of the Faculties of History and of Human, Social, and Political Science and which will have such responsibilities as the two Faculty Boards shall determine, and which shall report to both Faculty Boards.
3. On the recommendation of the Committee of Management, the Faculty Board of History shall nominate a Chair of Examiners and such number of Examiners and Assessors for each Part of the Tripos, as they shall deem sufficient, provided that the Chair, Examiners, and Assessors may be appointed to examine in more than one Part of the Tripos. If required to do so, Assessors shall set papers in the subject or subjects assigned to them, shall mark the answers of the candidates in these papers, shall assess dissertations, and shall present written reports to the Examiners. Assessors may be summoned to meetings of the Examiners for the purpose of consultation and advice, but shall not be entitled to vote.
4. The Faculty Board may from time to time make supplementary regulations defining all or any of the subjects and specified texts of examination, and may modify, alter, or withdraw such supplementary regulations as they see fit, as advised by the Committee of Management, due care being taken that sufficient notice is given of any changes.
5. Before the end of the Easter Term each year the Faculty Board shall give notice of the variable subjects for the examinations to be held in the academical year next following; provided that 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. The Board shall have power when they give notice of variable subjects to announce any restriction on the combination of papers that a candidate may offer.
6. The questions proposed by each Examiner and Assessor shall be submitted for approval to the whole body of Examiners for the Part of the Tripos concerned.
7. Separate meetings shall be held of all the Examiners for each Part, at which the respective class-lists shall be drawn up. In each class-list the names of candidates who deserve honours shall be placed in three classes, of which the second shall be divided into two divisions. The names in the first and third classes, and in each division of the second class, shall be arranged in alphabetical order. Those candidates placed in the first class whose work is of special merit shall be awarded a mark of distinction.
8. No student shall be a candidate for more than one Part, or any Part and also for another Honours examination in the same term.
9. No student who has been a candidate for any Part shall again be a candidate for the same Part.
10. A candidate shall not offer in any Part of the Tripos a paper that he or she has previously offered in another University examination.
11. The following may present themselves as candidates for honours in Part Ia:
12. The scheme of examination for Part Ia shall be:
Section A
Section B
Papers from Sections B and D from Part I of the Historical Tripos as follows:
A candidate for Part Ia shall be required to offer the three papers listed in Section A and one further paper from Section B.
Each paper shall be of three hours’ duration except HP1. The examination for HP1 shall consist of a written paper of one and a half hours’ duration and the submission of an essay of not more than 4,000 words. The Faculty Board of History shall publish prescribed titles or subjects for the essay by the division of Lent Term. The essay shall be submitted, in accordance with detailed arrangements approved by the Faculty Board, no later than the third Thursday of Full Easter Term.
13. The following may present themselves as candidates for honours in Part Ib:
a student who has obtained honours in Part Ia of the Tripos in the next year after so obtaining honours.
14. The scheme of examination for Part Ib shall be as follows:
Section A
Section B
Section C
Papers from Sections C, D, F, and G from Part I of the Historical Tripos as follows:
Section D
A candidate for Part Ib shall be required to offer one paper from each section.
Each paper shall be of three hours’ duration except POL5, POL6, and HP2. The examination for POL5 shall consist of the submission of two essays each of not more than 5,000 words. The Faculty Board of Human, Social, and Political Science shall prescribe titles or subjects for essays by the beginning of the Michaelmas Term next preceding the examination concerned. The essays shall be submitted as follows: one essay no later than the date published by the Department of Politics and International Studies, which should be no later than the end of the first week of Full Lent Term, and one essay no later than the date published by the Department of Politics and International Studies, which should be no later than the end of the first week of Full Easter Term.
The examination of POL6 shall consist of one project report of not more than 5,000 words, to be submitted on the date published by the Department of Politics and International Studies, which should be no later than the end of the first week of Full Easter Term, and a two-hour examination. The Faculty Board of Human, Social, and Political Science shall prescribe titles or subjects for essays by the beginning of the Michaelmas Term next preceding the examination concerned.
The examination for HP2 shall consist of the submission of two essays of no fewer than 3,000 and not more than 5,000 words each. The Faculty Board of History shall publish prescribed titles or subjects for essays by the beginning of the Michaelmas Term next preceding the examination concerned. The two essays shall be typewritten and submitted, in accordance with detailed arrangements approved by the Faculty Board, not later than the first Thursday of Full Lent Term and Full Easter Term respectively.
15. The following may present themselves as candidates for Part II:
16. The scheme of examination for Part II shall be:
Section A
Section B
Section C
Section D
Each paper in Sections A and B shall be of three hours’ duration. The mode of examination for the variable papers in Section C shall be published by the Faculty Board before the end of the Easter Term next preceding the examination. The Faculty Board of History shall publish prescribed titles or subjects for the essay by the division of Lent Term. The essay shall be submitted, in accordance with detailed arrangements approved by the Faculty Board, no later than the third Thursday of Full Easter Term. The paper offered under Section D(ii) shall be examined by a single essay of not more than 5,000 words, which shall be submitted no later than the first Friday of Full Easter Term. The Faculty of Human, Social, and Political Science shall publish by notice the prescribed titles for essays by the beginning of the Michaelmas Term next preceding the examination concerned.
17. A candidate for Part II shall be required to offer Paper HP3 and
either |
three papers from Sections B–C; |
or |
one paper from Sections B–C and the three papers from Section D. Where a candidate offers papers from Section D, the two submitted essays shall each be considered a half-paper for the purposes of classing; |
or |
two papers from Sections B–C and a dissertation as prescribed in Regulation 16 on a topic within the range of the History and Politics Tripos as a whole. |
18. The examinations for the History and Politics Tripos shall be held for the first time as follows:
Part Ia in 2018
Part Ib in 2019
Part II in 2020