HUMAN, SOCIAL, AND POLITICAL SCIENCES TRIPOS
PART IIB BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY PAPER OPTIONS – 2015-2016
Name:
College:
Email:
DoS:
Date:
DoS Signature:
FIRST: On this page, provide your personal details in the box above, and choose
a track from the list at the bottom of the page.
THEN: Go to the page shown next to your track, and select the papers from the
options available for that track;
THEN Return the entire form to the Division of Biological Anthropology by
Friday 22 May 2015 (email Soussan Shahriari, ss2297@cam.ac.uk)
All options should be discussed with and endorsed by your Director of Studies.
Your track in part IIA:
Single track:
Biological Anthropology
Joint track:
Biological Anthropology and Archaeology
or
Other joint track
Your track in part IIB:
Single track:
Biological Anthropology
Single track:
Archaeology
Joint track:
Biological Anthropology and Archaeology
Other track:
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Students should note that it is NOT possible to change the track chosen between Part IIA and IIB,
with the exception that students may change from a joint track to one of the single subjects from
that track.
Students on all tracks will choose four papers in Part IIB, or three papers and a dissertation.
Students choosing single track Social Anthropology should contact Eva Rybicki (email: ebr23@cam.ac.uk), U/G
Administrator in Social Anthropology.
Students choosing joint track Social and Biological Anthropology should contact Eva Rybicki (email:
ebr23@cam.ac.uk) U/G Administrator in Social Anthropology.
Students choosing single track Archaeology should contract Natasha Martindale (ncm21@cam.ac.uk) U/G
Administrator in Archaeology.
Single track BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Administrator: Soussan Shahriari ss2297@cam.ac.uk
2015-16 academic year only
Paper 1: You must take paper BAN5: Theory and Practice in Biological Anthropology
Papers 2 and 3: You must choose two from the following list of three options:
☐ paper BAN6: Human Variation and Adaptation
☐ paper BAN7: Advanced Behaviour
☐ dissertation
Paper 4: EITHER choose one of:
☐SAN9
☐SAN10
☐SOC7
☐SOC8
☐SOC14 ☐SOC15
☐ARC8
☐ARC9
☐ARC16
☐ARC17 ☐ARC19
☐ARC31 ☐ARC33
☐SAN11
☐SOC9
☐POL13
☐ARC10
☐SOC6
☐SOC10
☐POL14
☐ARC11
☐ARC21
☐ARC23
☐SOC11
☐SOC12
☐SOC13
☐ARC12
☐ARC13
☐ARC14
☐ARC24
☐ARC26
☐ARC27
☐ARC30
☐ OR choose one of the following two papers (assuming you have not chosen it for paper 2 and 3 already)
☐ paper BAN6: Human Variation and Adaptation
☐ paper BAN7: Advanced Behaviour
*See course titles on page 4
NOTES: ARC9 can only be taken if Paper ARC8 was taken at Part IIA
POL13 and POL14 can only be taken if POL3 and POL4 were taken at Part IIA
SOC6 can only be taken if SOC2 was taken at PART IIA
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JOINT TRACK: BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY & ARCHAEOLOGY
Administrator: Soussan Shahriari: ss2297@cam.ac.uk
2015-16 academic year only
Papers 1: Choose one paper from:
☐ARC6: Archaeological theory and practice I (providing this paper was not taken in IIA)
☐ARC7: Archaeological theory and practice II (Ideally recommended for those who have taken
ARC6)
Paper 2: Choose one paper from:
☐BAN6: Human Variation and Adaptation
☐BAN7: Advanced Behaviour
Papers 3: Choose one paper from:
☐ARC8
☐ARC16
☐ARC17
☐ARC31
☐ARC9
☐ARC10
☐ARC11
☐ARC19
☐ARC33
☐ARC21
☐ARC23
☐ARC12
☐ARC24
☐ARC13
☐ARC26
☐ARC14
☐ARC27
☐ARC30
Paper 4: Choose one paper from (assuming you have not chosen it for paper 2 already):
☐BAN6: Human Variation and Adaptation
☐BAN7: Advanced Behaviour
OR choose a
☐ Dissertation instead of the option paper in either track (Paper 3 or 4)
Course Titles
BAN2: Behavioural Ecology
BAN3: Human Origins
BAN4: Health and disease
BAN5: Theory and Practise in Biological Anthropology
BAN6: Plasticity and Adaptation
BAN7: Advanced Behaviour
SAN9: Science and society
SAN10: The anthropology of post socialist societies
SAN11: Anthropology of visual and media culture
SOC6: A subject in sociology I: Advanced Social Theory
SOC7: A subject in sociology II: Media, Culture and Society
SOC8: A subject in sociology III: Revolution, War and Militarism
SOC9: A subject in sociology IV: Modern Capitalism
SOC10: A subject in sociology V: Gender
SOC11: A subject in sociology VI: Racism, Race and Ethnicity
SOC12: A subject in sociology VII: Modern Britain
SOC13: A subject in sociology VIII: Health, Medicine and Society
SOC14: The sociology of education
SOC15: Criminology, sentencing, and the penal system
POL13: A subject in politics and international relations II: The Politics of Europe
POL14: A subject in politics and international relations III: The Politics of Asia
ARC8: Archaeological science I
ARC9: Archaeological science II
ARC10: The Palaeolithic of the Old World
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ARC11: Topics in Palaeolithic archaeology
ARC12: European Prehistory
ARC13: Special topics in European prehistory
ARC14: Aegean prehistory (paper D1 from the Classical Tripos)
ARC16: The poetics of classical art (paper D3 of the Classical Tripos)
ARC17: Roman Cities (paper D4 from Classical Tripos)
ARC19: Ancient Egypt in Context: Archaeology of Foreign relations
ARC21: The Archaeology of Death and Burial in Ancient Egypt
ARC23: Mesopotamian archaeology II: territorial states to empires
ARC24: Mesopotamian culture I: literature
ARC27: Europe in Late Antiquity and the Migration Period
ARC30: Ancient India II: Early historic cities of South Asia
ARC31: Ancient South America
ARC33: The archaeology of Africa
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