The course is designed both for students who want to enhance their understanding of the social, cultural, political and economic history and present condition of Africa and for those who want to go on to further primary research; it provides intensive research and language training for those who wish to go on to prepare a doctoral dissertation, but it is also a free-standing postgraduate degree course in its own right; it is taught in the Michaelmas and Lent terms through weekly 2-hour classes, with readings set in advance.

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American Literature MPhil

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Self-contained course of literary study, also serves as prerequisite for students intending to continue towards PhD; core courses cover literary aspects of e.g.: early settlement, Puritanism, the Frontier, immigration, modernism, the Depression, Cold War, post-modernism, plus period classes (currently 1845-55 and 1915-25); resources for research seminars; dissertation.

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Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic BA (Hons)

Study mode: Full Time |

The history and culture of Anglo-Saxon England; the languages and literature of the Celtic peoples, or the exploits of the Vikings; ASNC, as it is known, focuses on the history, material culture, languages and literature of the different people of the British Isles, and the Scandinavian world, in the earlier Middle Ages; subjects studied depend on the particular strengths and interests of the students.

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Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic Certificate of Postgraduate Study

Study mode: Full Time |

1-year research programme; can be counted towards PhD.

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Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic MPhil

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Course consists of 2 series of seminars, plus individual meetings with supervisor; term 1 includes weekly seminar on 'scholarly methods', in which students are introduced to the resources available for studying the various fields embraced in the Department's work, and the possibilities for using them; these include information technology and the use of CD ROM databases (for example, in biblical and patristic texts), and bibliographical resources and methods covering the fields of language, literature and history within the 3 fields of Anglo-Saxon, Scandinavian and Celtic, including Latin writings; range of undergraduate courses also available; final requirement is 10-15,000-word thesis.

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Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic PhD

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Supervision available in historical, literary or linguistic areas in following fields: Anglo-Saxon history; Celtic history and palaeography; Scandinavian history; Old English and Old Norse language, literature and philology; Celtic languages, literatures and philology; Insular Latin.

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Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics Certificate of Advanced Studies

Study mode: Full Time |

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Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics PhD

Study mode: Full Time |

Major research groups in: astrophysical fluid dynamics; atmospheric dynamics; atomic physics and astrophysics; biomechanics; computational physics; cosmological theory; experimental and environmental fluid dynamics; general fluid dynamics; general relativity and gravitation theory; non-linear dynamics; numerical analysis; particle cosmology; particle phenomenology; quantum field theory; solid mechanics; statistical field theory; string/M theory; theoretical geophysics; PhD students are encouraged to attend advanced courses from Part III of the Mathematical Tripos and from other postgraduate courses, and weekly seminars.

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Archaeological Science MPhil

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Course covers a range of scientific archaeological approaches with a geoarchaeological focus, from theoretical, methodological and practical points of view; involves 2 core taught papers and an option paper, plus dissertation.

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Archaeology (World Archaeology/Archaeological Heritage and Museums) MPhil

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Archaeology MPhil

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1-year research programme; can be counted towards PhD.

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Archaeology PhD

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Supervision and research facilities available in wide range of topics; additional supervision available from staff in Faculties of Classics and Oriental Studies; Department's research interests range widely in time period from Palaeolithic to early medieval; geographical range includes Europe, Near East, Africa, Asia and Australia; research workers are encouraged to undertake excavation and survey overseas; research interests specially catered for include: landscape interpretation, soil morphology, scientific rescue archaeology; archaeobotany, environmental archaeology, early agriculture; Palaeolithic and Mesolithic archaeology, palaeolenvironmental studies, dating methods; Aegean prehistory, Neolithic and Bronze Age Europe; Indian prehistory and protohistory; Anglo-Saxon England, Europe in migration and early medieval periods; life-histories of prehistoric monuments; complex societies, Andean archaeology, settlement patterns; ancient Near East; integrated geophysical survey, remote sensing, geographical information systems and spatial databases.

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Archaeology and Anthropology BA (Hons)

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Architecture BA (Hons)

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This course is oriented around design, from the large scale of a city or a region to the smallest detail, and is supported by lectures that draw upon the humanities (history and theory) and sciences (construction, environmental design and structures); the course provides a wide-ranging education in the principles of architectural design and its historical and theoretical background; students have a choice of specialised lectures in the 2nd and 3rd years and the opportunity to write a dissertation in the 3rd year; students also study and are examined in: construction and materials; building structures; environmental response and control; in addition, the Department teaches: computer-aided design; representation; life drawing; students cover every aspect of architecture from the technical to the cultural, but the emphasis of the course is on architecture as a practical art; design projects are set throughout the year and range from designing small artefacts to major projects exploring a theme and in a specific location which students are expected to visit; at the end of each year students have to submit a portfolio of course work and studio work in addition to taking examinations; exemption from Part 1 of the Royal Institute of British Architects? Examinations is obtained by the successful completion of the undergraduate course.

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Architecture PhD

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Asian and Middle Eastern Studies BA (Hons)

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Students can study Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Persian or Japanese which together form the Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Tripos; Arabic, Hebrew and Persian may be combined with each other or with subjects from other faculties such as a modern European language or Assyriology; Chinese and Japanese cannot ordinarily be combined, except with each other.

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Asian and Middle Eastern Studies MPhil

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The course aims to develop linguistic and methodological skills in 1 of the following areas of study: Chinese studies; Hebrew studies (classical, medieval and modern); Japanese studies (taken by dissertation only - 25,000 words); Middle Eastern and Islamic studies: Including Arabic, Persian and Ottoman; South Asian studies (Sanskrit only)

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Asian and Middle Eastern Studies PhD

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PhD supervision available in Aramaic (including Syriac) studies: Aramaic literature and philology, Targum, Neo-Aramaic dialects; Chinese studies: classical and modern Chinese language, Chinese literature, philosophy, history, economic history, art and archaeology, linguistics; Hebrew studies: biblical, post-biblical, medieval and modern Hebrew literature and philology, Northwest Semitic epigraphy and Ugaritic; Indian studies; Sanskrit, Pali, Prakrit, and Hindi literature and philology, Indian art, archaeology, religion and history; Middle Eastern and Islamic studies: Arabic and Persian classical, modern and colloquial language, Middle Eastern literature, social and political history; Japanese studies: classical and modern Japanese language, Japanese literature, religion and thought, cultural history, classical and modern history, modern Japanese society and politics.

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Astronomy PhD

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Recent topics include: Extrasolar planets and stellar disks: stellar variability and planet finding, the search for occultations in the open cluster NGC 2362, on the formation and evolution of planetary systems, modelling origin of hot dust around sun-like stars, and warped and twisted disks; stellar structure and evolution: 2-dimensional stellar evolution, and evolution and nucleosynthesis of zero-metallicity AGB stars; near-field cosmology: near-field cosmology, resolved stellar kinematics of local group galaxies, and the satellite galaxies of the local group, exploring dark matter locally via a heirarchy of stellar systems; galaxies: star formation thresholds in local face-on spiral galaxies, spiral structure in nearby galaxies, CaII quasar absorbers and their host galaxies, 3-body interactions of supermassive black holes in merging galaxies, and theoretical studies of galaxy and structure formation; quasars and AGN: the evolution of the quasar population, black holes in high-energy astrophysics, active galactic nuclei and gamma-ray bursts, and a near-infrared of quasars and their host galaxies; x-ray astrophysics: x-ray studies of extragalactic radio sources, and heating and transport processes in the intracluster medium; cosmology: lyman-alpha emission and the epoch of reionization, gravitational lensing, preparation for the analysis of point sources with Planck, and likelihood analysis of the cosmic microwave background.

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