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Appointment and ReappointmentHumanities DivisionAppointmentUNIVERSITY LECTURER (NTF)Committee for Comparative Philology, Linguistics, and Phonetics Corrigendum ELINOR MARY PAYNE, MA M.PHIL PH.D Camb, Fellow of St Hilda's College. In Phonetics and Phonology. From 30 April 2007 until 29 April 2012. Note. This replaces the corresponding notice of appointment published in the Gazette of 3 May, p. 1100, in which Dr Payne's appointment was mistakenly listed under the heading of Medieval and Modern Languages. Medical Sciences DivisionReappointmentUNIVERSITY LECTURERPhysiology, Anatomy and Genetics HELEN CLARE CHRISTIAN, B.SC PH.D Lond, MA Oxf. In Biomedical Science. From 1 June 2007 until the retirement age.
Board of the Faculty of Medieval and Modern LanguagesSpecial Subjects in the Honour School of Modern Languages and the related Joint Honour SchoolsThe Board of the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages gives notice, under the provisions of the regulations in Examination Regulations, that the following Special Subjects will be available in the examination in Trinity Term 2009. Certain subjects are marked with a language identifier. The numbers in the left-hand column are those used by the Examination Schools to identify papers. The method of assessment is also shown; a key to the letters is given at the end of this list. Depending on the availability of teaching resources, not all Special Subjects will be available to all candidates in every year. 2195 European cinema. An introduction to some
of the major movements and landmarks in the evolution of
European cinema. In the work submitted for assessment,
candidates will be expected to show evidence of having worked
on film study and analysis. 2011 [1] Modern literary theory.
Candidates will be expected to be familiar with major
theories in this field since 1918. 2030 (L) Syntax. 2009 (L) Semantics. 2031 (L) Phonetics and
Phonology. 2032 (L) Sociolinguistics. 2033 (L) Translation Theory. 2001 (L) Psycholinguistics. 2198 (L) Linguistic Project. In
the work submitted for assessment, candidates should document
a piece of original research into some aspect of a particular
dialect, language, or variety. (L) Language Change and Historical
Linguistics. 2012 (F, I, L, P, S) Romance philology
and linguistics. Candidates will be expected to show a
detailed knowledge of the methods of comparative Romance
linguistics and to illustrate their answers with examples
from more than one Romance language. Texts for linguistic
commentary in 'Vulgar Latin' (G. Rohlfs, Sermo vulgaris
latinus, Tübingen, 1969: II, VII, XIII, XX, XXIX,
XXXIV) and unseen passages from 'lesser known' Romance
varieties (Sardinian, Romanian, Romansch and others) will
also be set each year. 2013 (F) Anglo-Norman language
and literature. [PM] 2040 (F) Old Occitan. [PM] 2034 (F) The Old French epic.
[PM] 2014 (F) The twelfth- and
thirteenth-century Grail Romances. [PM] 2015 (F) French historical
writing to 1515. [PM] 2016 (F) French poetry of the
mid-sixteenth century. [PM] 2017 (F) Dramatic theory and
practice in France 1605–60. [PM] 2019 (F) [2] Jean-Jacques
Rousseau. [PM] 2035 (F) French satire from
Rabelais to Beaumarchais. [PM] 2020 (F) Honoré de
Balzac. 2021 (F) French poetry
1870–1918. 2022 F French literature and Modern
War. 2023 (F) [3] Marcel Proust. 2024 (F) French Poetry from
Surrealism to the Present. 2026 (F) Literature and the
visual arts from Diderot to Zola. 2027 (F) French women
writers. 2038 (F) Twentieth-century
autobiography. 2039 (F) Francophone
literature. 2028 (F) Advanced French
Translation: theory and practice. 2036 (G) Old Norse. Candidates
will be expected to have made a special study of F. Ranke and
D. Hofmann, Altnordisches Elementarbuch
(Sammlung Göschen No. 1115), pp. 80–135.
Candidates will also be expected to have read the
Völsungasaga and related material from the Poetic
Edda. Written work must show knowledge of the texts in
the original language. [PM] 2037 (G, L) Old High German, with either
Gothic or Old Saxon or Old English. Prescribed texts: Gothic,
Gospel according to St Mark, chapters 1–9; Old Saxon,
Heliand, ll. 4025–5038; Old English, Old
Frisian, Beowulf, ll. 1–1049. [PM] 2041 (G) Walther von der
Vogelweide and the Origins of the German Love Lyric. [PM] 2042 (G) Gottfried's Tristan and
Medieval German Court Society. [PM] 2071 (G) Mechthild von Magdeburg
and women's writing in German 1150–1300. [PM] 2044 (G) Women writers of the
early modern period. 2045 (G) Eighteenth-century
German aesthetics from Baumgarten to Schiller. 2072 (G) Weimar Classicism
1794—1805. 2047 (G) The Bildungsroman. 2048 (G) The fictions of Arno
Schmidt. 2049 (G) Nietzsche and his
impact. 2099 (G) Nineteenth-century
German Drama. 2050 (G) The poetry of Hugo von
Hofmannsthal, Stefan George, and Rainer Maria Rilke.
Candidates will be examined on the poetry of two
of these authors and will be expected to have read the works
listed in any two of the sections below.
(a) Hofmannsthal: Die Gedichte, ed.
Schmidt-Bergmann (Insel Verlag, 2000) (b) George:
Hymnen, Pilgerfahrten,
Algabal; Das Jahr der Seele;
Der Teppich des Lebens und die Lieder von Traum und Tod
mit einem Vorspiel; the sections 'Zeitgedichte',
'Gestalten', 'Gezeiten', and 'Maximin' from Der
siebente Ring; Das neue Reich omitting
the section 'Sprüche'. (c) Rilke: Das
Stunden-Buch; Neue Gedichte (both parts);
Requiem für eine Freundin; Requiem
für Wolf Graf von Kalckreuth; Die Sonette
an Orpheus; Duineser Elegien. 2073 (G) Shorter modernist prose
fiction 1900–35. 2079 (G) German Expressionism in
literature and the visual arts. 2056 (G) German poetry from
1945. Candidates will be expected to have a general knowledge
of the field, and a detailed knowledge of works written in or
after 1945 by three of the following authors: Bachmann, Benn,
Biermann, Bobrowski, Volker Braun, Brecht, Celan (the
collections of poetry from Mohn und Gedächtnis to
Atemwende inclusive), Enzensberger, Grass, Huchel, Sarah
Kirsch, Kunert, Sachs. Note: The paper will
include a compulsory section containing general questions and
commentary passages taken from the authors being offered;
candidates will thus be required to attempt either a general
essay or a commentary. Brecht's poetry from 1945 to 1956 may
be offered as one of the three authors selected for detailed
knowledge in this paper by candidates offering Brecht as a
prescribed author in paper X. 2070 (G) Narrative Identities in
the German Novel since 1945. Participants will be expected to
demonstrate a general knowledge of the field and to have read
a range of German-language novels from the post-1945 era.
Each portfolio shall consist of two essays, only one of which
may be on a single text. 2080 (G) Literature in the
GDR. 2081 (G) Advanced Translation:
Theory and Practice. The course will be taught in Hilary Term
of the final year. The maximum number of participants in the
seminar will be 8, on a first-come-first-served basis.
Students should apply by e-mail to katrin.kohl@jesus.ox.ac.uk
and charlie.louth@queens.ox.ac.uk.
Applications will be accepted from Monday, first week in the
Trinity Term of the student's second year until the course is
full, and at the latest on Monday, first week in the
Michaelmas Term of the student's final year. 2196 (G) Contemporary German
Literature. Candidates will be expected to have a general
knowledge of writing in German from the last decade and to
have read a range of texts from the same period. Each
portfolio will consist of two essays, only one of which may
be on a single text. 2083 (I) Italian Lyric Poetry of the
Thirteenth Century. This paper explores the birth and the
evolution of Italian poetry from the Scuola
Siciliana to the Tuscan poets, Dante and the
Stilnovisti as well as the poeti giocosi.
Particular attention is given to the specificity and the
complexity of the poetic language through which this literary
tradition constantly renews itself. Topics include the
relationship between courtly and religious versions of love
and desire, poetry and philosophy, politics and exile. 2084 (I) Dante's minor works. This paper
explores Dante's intellectual and literary journey in his
works other than the Divine Comedy. Topics
include Dante's meditation on desire and courtly love, his
linguistic, poetic and political theories, as well as the
relationship between poetry and philosophy, literature and
exile. Students can choose among Fiore,
Rime, Vita nova,
Convivio, De vulgari eloquentia,
Epistles, and Monarchia. 2091 (I) Italian Culture during the
Fascist period. To what extent was Italian culture shaped by
Mussolini's dictatorship during the inter-war years? In order
to address this issue, you can choose to deepen your
knowledge of one particular field or attempt an analysis of a
range of cultural media (literary, cinematic, journalistic,
etc.). You can study specific movements—such as
Futurism, the novecentisti, the
strapesani, etc.—or specific themes such
as censorship, propaganda, state-sponsored initiatives and,
last but certainly not the least, anti-Fascist culture. 2085 (I, L) 'Questione della lingua'.
Candidates will be expected to have read: Dante, De
vulgari eloquentia; Bembo, Prose della volgar
lingua; Manzoni, Scritti sulla
lingua. 2086 (I) Women writers of the Italian
Renaissance. A change in the cultural climate at the end of
the fifteenth century combined with the rise of the printing
industry, which required an ever increasing number of
readers, meant that women's education was no longer viewed
with scorn but, for the first time in Europe, actively
encouraged. This is the reason why the Italian Renaissance
saw an unprecedented flourishing of women writers. Veronica
Gambara, Vittoria Colonna, Tullia d'Aragona, Chiara Matraini,
Gaspara Stampa, Isabella di Morra, Veronica Franco and
Moderata Fonte are just a few of the better known writers and
poets active during the period 1500-1600, but there are many
others still awaiting to be rediscovered. All can be studied
individually, comparatively, or thematically, including the
questione della donna which, in trying to define
women's role in society, gave rise to a much debated and
often fiercely controversial topic in Renaissance Italy. 2088 (I) The works of Carlo Emilio Gadda.
Gadda is one of the most fascinating and complex Italian
writers of the twentieth century, whose oeuvre spans a wide
variety of styles (from the macaronic to the lyrical) and
genres (from the novel to the elzeviro, including poems,
private diaries, technical articles, philosophical
reflections, radiophonic pieces, fables, critical essays and
psycho-political pamphlets). This course will aim at
providing the conceptual basis for the critical
interpretation of Gadda's literary production, and in
particular of his two major novels (La cognizione del
dolore and Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via
Merulana); some of his other works will also be
studied. 2092 (I) Narratives of national identity
in postwar Italy. This option allows you to study the
interaction between fictional production (mainly literary
and/or cinematic) and the construction of models of national
identity. This was a particularly sensitive issue in the
early postwar years when Italians had to rebuild a sense of
nationhood after the collapse of Fascism and the humiliation
of the Second World War. Moreover, themes such as the
regional fragmentation of the peninsula—cultural as
well as economic—have accompanied the work of Italian
artists throughout the postwar years and are much alive
today. 2096 (I) Sicilian literature 1945 to the
present day. This paper allows you to study the extraordinary
contribution to Italian fiction made by Sicilian writers from
the Second World War to the present day. The novels range
widely in content and style: from two comic works written in
the 1940s and 1950s (V. Brancati, Il
bell'Antonio (1949) and Paolo il caldo
(1955)), to the important best-seller Tomasi di Lampedusa's
Il gattopardo (1958), key works about society by
Sciascia (Il giorno della civetta (1961),
A ciascuno il suo (1966) and L'affaire
Moro (1978)), and more recent fictions by Bufalino
(Diceria dell'untore (1981), and Le
menzogne della notte (1988)). 2097 (I) Italian women writers 1945 to
the present day. Writing by women is studied against the
historical context of the changing role of women in the
political sphere, in society and within literary genres.
Students are asked to consider issues connected with gender
and creativity, developments in perceptions and expectations
of writing by women, as well as the merits of the texts
themselves as literature. Any writers of suitable merit can
be studied and independent contemporary choices are
encouraged, but a core selection would include Anna Banti,
Natalia Ginzburg, Elsa Morante, Francesca Sanvitale, Paola
Capriolo and Francesca Duranti. 2098 (I) Italian poetry from 1956 to the
present day. Montale's collection La bufera e
altro (1956) is universally considered as a crucial
watershed for Italian poetry of the Novecento. In this book,
the sense of an ending—of the poetry that the
generation of Montale and Ungaretti wrote, its language, its
formal innovations, as well as its concerns, and its sense of
its role within Italian cultural and political
history—combines with a strong impetus towards the
future, addressing the historical present, and the role of
the poet within it, in a profoundly renewed and problematic
fashion. La Bufera paves the way for the work of
all the major protagonists of the second half of the century,
from Andrea Zanzotto to Vittorio Sereni, Giorgio Caproni and
Amelia Rosselli. The option will give students the
opportunity to read (as well as La bufera
itself) some of the major collections that have shaped the
poetic imaginary of the secondo novecento:
Zanzotto's La beltà, Sereni's
Strumenti umani, Caproni's Il seme del
piangere, and Rosselli's Variazioni
belliche. 2103 (S) Spanish drama before Lope de
Vega. Candidates will be expected to be familiar with the
works of: Juan del Encina, Lucas Fernández, Lope de
Rueda, Juan de la Cueva, Bartolomé de Torres Naharro,
Diego Sánchez de Badajoz, Juan de Timoneda, Miguel
Venegas, Miguel de Cervantes, and the Spanish works of Gil
Vicente. Candidates will be expected to have read the
Portuguese and bilingual texts of Gil Vicente, but passages
for comment, which will not be compulsory, will not be set
from these. [PM] 2105 (S) The discovery and conquest of
Mexico and the Antilles. Candidates will be expected to have
read: Cristóbal Colón, Textos y
documentos completos (ed. Consuelo Varela),
Nuevas cartas (ed. Juan Gil, Madrid: Alianza
Universidad, 1984); Hernán Cortés, Cartas
de relación de la conquista de Méjico
(ed. A. Delgado Gómez, Castalia, Madrid), Letters two
and three, pp. 159–453; Bernal Díaz del
Castillo, Historia de la Conquista de la Nueva
España (Porrúa, Mexico, 1960), vol. i,
pp. 174–501 and vol. ii, pp. 1–60;
Bartolomé de las Casas, Brevísima
relación de la destrucción de las Indias
(Madrid: Cátedra, 1991); Toribio de Motolinia,
Historia de los Indios de la Nueva España
(Porrúa, Mexico, 1969), pp. 77–109; Bernardino
de Sahagún, Historia general de la Nueva
España (Porra, Mexico, 1956), Libros 3, 7, and
8. 2106 (S) Spanish devotional and mystical
writing 1577–88. Candidates will be expected to have
read: Santa Teresa de Jesús, Moradas del
castillo interior; Fray Luis de Granada,
Introducción del símbolo de la fe
(ed. José María Balcells, Madrid,
Cátedra, 1989), pp. 125–231; Fray Luis de
León, Rey de Dios, Esposo,
and Jesús, from De los nombres de
Cristo; San Juan de la Cruz, Llama de amor
viva (candidates will also be expected to have read
the poem), Malón de Chaide, La conversión
de la Magdalena (three vols., ed. Félix
García, Clásicos Castellanos, Madrid, 1958),
III, 83–178, 190–219. [PM] 2108 (S) Modern Catalan literature.
Candidates will be expected to have a general knowledge of
the field and a detailed knowledge of at least
three authors. Details of the authors and works
prescribed for detailed knowledge will be available in the
Modern Languages Faculty Office, 41 Wellington Square, at the
beginning of the Michaelmas Full Term of the academic year of
the examination. 2111 (S) Modern Galician literature.
Candidates will be expected to have a general knowledge of
the field and a detailed knowledge of at least
three authors. Details of the authors and works
prescribed for detailed knowledge will be available in the
Modern Languages Faculty Office, 41 Wellington Square, at the
beginning of the Michaelmas Full Term of the academic year of
the examination. 2112 (S, L) Modern Catalan. Candidates
will be required to show knowledge of the descriptive
analysis of the contemporary language, and will have the
opportunity of discussing the historical development of the
language where this illuminates present-day usage. Candidates
will study the structure of Catalan as spoken and written at
the present-day (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax,
semantics); an overview of the external history of the
language and the regional varieties, the current
sociolinguistic situation, standardisation and language
policy. 2113 (S, L) Modern Galician. Candidates
will be required to show knowledge of the descriptive
analysis of the contemporary language, and will have the
opportunity of discussing the historical development of the
language where this illuminates present-day usage. Candidates
will study the structure of Galician as spoken and written at
the present-day (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax,
semantics); an overview of the external history of the
language and the regional varieties, the current
sociolinguistic situation, standardisation and language
policy. (S) Proto-Feminism and Feminism in Modern Spain. This
paper maps out the process of women's social, cultural and
political emancipation in Spain through the study of writers
such as E. Pardo Bazán, Concepción Arenal,
Carmen de Burgos, Rosa Chacel, María Zambrano, C
Martín Gaite and Esher Tusquets, among others. Their
works have contributed to the development of feminism either
by addressing questions of women's social and political
rights or by vindicating female sexuality, modes of thinking
and ways of writing. Belonging to a literary tradition which
was once granted an inferior cultural and political status,
these writers interrogate the values and perspectives of the
dominant canon shedding new light on the cultural and social
history of modern Spain. Candidates will be expected to have
a general knowledge of the main feminist theoretical debates
and a detailed knowledge of at least three authors. 2100 (S, L) Bilingualism: Spanish and
English. Candidates will study Spanish and English in
contrast; Spanish and English in a bilingual context. 2114 (S, P) Latin American fiction from
1940. Candidates may limit themselves to either Spanish
American or Brazilian fiction. Candidates will be expected to
be familiar with the broad evolution of this fiction over the
period since 1940. They wil also be expected to undertake a
specialised study of at least three of the
following authors: Jorge Amado, Jorge Luis Borges, Alejo
Carpentier, Julio Cortázar, Fernando del Paso, Carlos
Fuentes, Gabriel García Márquez, João Guimarães
Rosa, Clarice Lispector, Mario Vargas Llosa. 2130 (S, P) The Galician–Portuguese
Cancioneiros. [PM] 2131 (P) The Literature of Portuguese
Expansion in Asia. Candidates will be expected to have read
four of the following: the texts in Portuguese contained in
T.F. Earle and John Villiers, Albuquerque, Caesar of
the East (Aris and Phillips, 1990); João de Barros,
Décadas, ed. António Baiao, vol. I
(Sá da Costa, 1945) (candidates are advised to consult
also the electronic edition of the
Décadas published by the Centre for the
Study of the Portuguese Discoveries); Diogo do Couto, O
soldado prático, ed. Rodrigues Lapa (Sá
da Costa, 1954); Fernão Mendes Pinto,
Peregrinação, chaps. 1, 36–104,
203–26; Camões, Os Lusíadas.
[PM] 2133 (P) The Brazilian novel of the
North-East 1880–1960. (P) Portuguese Drama in the Sixteenth Century. 2134 (P) Twentieth-century Portuguese and
Brazilian women writers. 2135 (P) The literature of
Portuguese-speaking Africa. 2136 (P) Contemporary Brazilian
Fiction. 2139 (P) Brazilian Cinema. 2137 (R, L) [4] Old Church Slavonic in
relation to Common Slavonic and Russian. [PM] 2138 (R, L) Comparative Slavonic
Philology. Candidates will be expected to show a detailed
knowledge of the methods of Comparative Slavonic Philology
and to illustrate their answers with examples from more than
one Slavonic language. [PM] 2149 (R, L) [5] The structure and history
of one of the following languages:
Bulgarian/Macedonian, Croatian/Serbian, Czech, Polish,
Slovak, Slovene, Sorbian, Ukrainian. [PM] 2160 (R) Russian Literature of the
twentieth century (1953 to the present day). 2163 (R) Russian drama of the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries. 2170 R Russian women's writing. 2176 (Gr) The School of the Ionian
Islands 1797–1912, with special reference to the works
of Solomos, Kalvos, Laskaratos, Matesis, Valaoritis, and
Mavilis. 2177 (Gr) The New Athenian School of
Poetry 1880–1912, with special reference to the works
of Palamas, Drosinis, Gryparis, Krystallis, Malakasis, and
Hadzopoulos. 2178 (Gr) The Greek novel
1918–40, with special reference to the works of K.
Theotokis, G. Theotokas, Karagatsis, Myrivilis, Venezis, K.
Politis, and G.N. Abbot. 2179 (Gr) Greek Women Writers. 2180 (Gr) Modern Greek Film. 2181 (Gr) Readings of Popular Culture in
twentieth-century Greece. 2184 [6] Medieval Welsh tales and
romances. 2185 [6] The poets of the Welsh
princes. 2186 [6] Thepoetry of Dafydd ap
Gwilym. 2187 The Ulster Cycle of tales. 2188 The classical Irish bardic
tradition. 2189 (L) The structure and
history of the Welsh language. 2190 (L) The structure and
history of the Irish language. 2074 Medieval Hebrew prose and poetry.
Candidates will be expected to show knowledge of the
historical background and literary production of Jews in
medieval Spain, Provence and Italy. They will be expected to
undertake a specialised study of at least two of the
following topics: Isaac ibn Sahula, Meshal
Haqadmoni, ed. and English translation Raphael Loewe,
Osford 2004. Megillat Ahimaaz, ed. and English
translation M. Saltzman, New York, 1924. Judah ibn Tibbon,
Ethical Will, ed. I. Abrahams, Philadelphia
1948, vol. 1, pp. 54–99. The
Gazelle, medieval Hebrew poems on God, Israel
and the soul, ed. R. Scheindlin, Philadelphia, 1991.
Wine, women, and death: medieval Hebrew poems on the
good life, Raymond P. Scheindlin, Philadelphia,
1986. 2075 Early twentieth-century Hebrew literature.
Candidates will be expected to show knowledge of the work of
Central and East European Hebrew writers (some of whom
settled in Palestine in the early decades of this century)
and in particular of their literary development in the
environment of Austrian, Russian, and Polish literature, and
their influence in shaping contemporary Hebrew literature.
Candidates will be expected to have read stories by Y. H.
Brenner, M. Berdyczewski and S.J. Agnon; David Vogel's
novel, Hayei nisu'im; a selection of poetry by
H.N. Bialik, Saul Tschernichovsky and Leah Goldberg. Texts
will be selected from the following works: Y.H. Brenner,
Kovetz sippurim (Sifrei Mofet); Y. Lichtenbaum
(ed.), Sofreinu (Ahiasaf); T. Carmi (ed.),
The Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse; S.J. Agnon,
Sefer hama'asim. 2078 Modern Yiddish Literature. (L) Yiddish Linguistics. Sholem Aleichem:
Gants Tevye der milkhiker (Vilna: B. Kletskin,
1925 or any other full Yiddish edition). Sh. A-ski
(Shloyme-Zanvl Rappoport): Der dibek (in
Di yidishe drame fun tsvantsikstn yorhundert
(New York, 1977) vol. ii). Dovid Bergelson:
Opgang, ed. Joseph Sherman (New York: Modern
Language Association, 1999). Selections from the poetry of
Dovid Hofshteyn, Peretz Markish, Leyb Kviko and Moyshe Kulbak
in A shpigl oyf a shteyn (Tel Aviv:
Petez-farlag, 1964). Isaac Bashevis Singer, selected stories
from Der shpigl un andere dertseylungen
(Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1979). 2191 Postwar Polish Literature. Any other subject approved by the Modern Languages board. Application must be made in writing, and with the support of the candidate's tutor, to the Chairman of the Modern Languages Board, Modern Languages Faculty Office, 41 Wellington Square, not later than the Wednesday of the second week of the Michaelmas Full Term preceding the examination. Key to abbreviation lettersLanguage identifiers LLinguistics F French G German I Italian S Spanish P Portuguese R Russian GrGreek Method of assessment A Three-hour unseen written paper. (* The examination for the Subject 'Phonetics and Phonology' will additionally involve a half-hour practical phonetic transcription exercise.) B An essay or portfolio of essays (the number in parentheses shows the number of essays required), aggregating to about 6,000 words and not exceeding 8,000 words, to be delivered by noon on the Friday of the ninth week of Hilary Term next before the examination. C An essay or portfolio of essays (the number in parentheses shows the number of essays required), aggregating to about 6,000 words and not exceeding 8,000 words, written as answers to an examination paper to be collected from the Examination Schools, and signed for by candidates, on the Friday of the fifth week of Hilary Term next before the examination. Completed essay(s) should be submitted by hand to the Examination Schools by noon on the Friday of the ninth week of Hilary Term in the year of the examination, together with a statement certifying that the essays are the candidate's own work and that they have not already been submitted, either wholly or substantially, for a degree in this university or elsewhere. Note: Paper XII subjects which have been designated as Pre-modern are marked [PM] after the paper description. Notes on mutual exclusions and other restrictions[1] No candidate in the Honour School of English and Modern Languages may offer both the Special Subject 'Modern literary theory' and the Special Topic 'The History and Theory of Criticism' from the Honour School of English Language and Literature. [2] No candidate in the Honour School of Modern History and Modern Languages may offer both the Special Subject 'Jean-Jacques Rousseau' and the Further Subject 'Political and Social Thought' from the Honour School of Modern History. [3] No candidate in the Honour School of Modern History and Modern Languages may offer both the Special Subject 'Marcel Proust' and the Further Subject 'Literature, Politics, and Society in France 1870–1914' from the Honour School of Modern History. [4] No candidate in the Honour School of Modern Languages or in a joint Honour School involving Modern Languages may offer both the Special Subject 'Old Church Slavonic in relation to Common Slavonic and Russian' and option (1) ('The Old Church Slavonic language') in the Linguistic Studies paper II in Russian (Russian paper V from the Honour School of Modern Languages). [5] Candidates offering Czech (with Slovak) will not be permitted to offer either of those languages in the Special Subject on the structure and history of one of certain specified languages. [6] No candidate in the Honour School of English and Modern Languages may offer the papers 'Medieval Welsh Language and Literature I or II' from the Honour School of English Language and Literature with any of the Special Subjects 'Medieval Welsh tales and romances', 'The poets of the Welsh princes' and 'The poetry of Dafydd ap Gwilym'.
Changes in RegulationsWith the approval, where applicable, of the Educational Policy and Standards Committee of Council, the following changes in regulations made by the Continuing Education Board will come into effect on 8 June. Continuing Education BoardM.Sc in English Local HistoryWith effect from 1 October 2007 (for first examination in 2008)In Examination Regulations, 2006, delete from l. 3, p. 772, to l. 24, p. 773, and substitute:'English Local HistoryEvery candidate must follow for at least six terms a part-time course of instruction in English Local History and must upon entering for examination produce from his or her society a certificate to that effect.2. The examination will consist of the following parts: Qualifying test Every candidate must pass a qualifying test. The test shall consist of the satisfactory completion of a course on: Concepts and methods: an introduction to research in local history The organisers of the course shall, not later than the end of the Hilary Term in the first year of the course submit to the examiners a list of candidates who have satisfactorily completed the qualifying course. No candidate who has failed the qualifying test will be permitted to supplicate for the degree. Candidates who fail the qualifying course once will be permitted to take it again, not later than one year after the initial attempt. Final examinations The final examination shall consist of three parts: A. Skills for local history Every candidate must submit two written assignments of no more than 2,500 words in length for each of two courses from the list below: (1) Sources, Methods and Foundations in Medieval Local History (2) Sources, Methods and Foundations in Early Modern Local History (3) Sources, Methods and Foundations in Modern Local
History B. Advanced papers Every candidate must follow either (1) two advanced papers from Schedule A below, or (2) one advanced paper from Schedule A below and a second paper from Schedule B, which consists of papers also offered as part of the MSc in Economic and Social History. Other Schedule B papers may be added subject to the approval of the Chairman of the Graduate Studies Committee of the History Faculty Board and of the Board of Studies of the Committee for Continuing Education. Each candidate will submit two written assignments of not more than 5,000 words in length for each paper. Some Schedule B papers may be assessed by a three hour unseen examination.
A dissertation of not more than 15,000 words, including appendices but excluding bibliography, on a topic approved by the candidate's supervisor. The dissertation must be delivered not later than noon on the last Monday in September of the second year of the course to the Chairman of Examiners for the M.Sc in Local History, c/o Head of Examinations and Assessments, Examination Schools, High Street, Oxford.
Advanced Papers are available in the following areas: 1. The development of rural society 2. Social history 3. Urban history 4. History of religion 5. Architecture and local society
Advanced Papers are available in the following areas: Economic and business history History of science and technology Social history Historical demography History of medicine A list of Advanced Papers will be published by the Board of Studies for the M.Sc in English Local History in September for the academic year ahead (not all options may be available in every year). The definitive list of the titles of Advanced Papers for any one year will be circulated to candidates and their supervisors not later than Friday of the third week of Michaelmas Term. Teaching for the Advanced Papers will take place in Hilary Term. 3. The examiners will permit the use of any hand-held pocket calculator subject to the conditions set out on p. 37 of Examination Regulations, 2006. 4. Each candidate must attend an oral examination when required to do so by the examiners. 5. The examiners may award a distinction for excellence in the whole examination. 6. A candidate who fails an advanced paper, or whose dissertation fails to satisfy the examiners, may be permitted to retake the paper, or resubmit the dissertation, on one further occasion only, not later than one year after the initial attempt.
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