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Honour School of Psychology, Philosophy, and Linguistics

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  • 1. The branches of the Honour School of Psychology, Philosophy, and Linguistics shall be Psychology, Philosophy, and Linguistics. Candidates must offer two or three branches.

  • 2. No candidate shall be admitted to the examination in this school unless he or she has either passed or been exempted from the First Public Examination.

  • 3. For candidates offering Psychology, the examination shall consist of two parts. Part I shall consist of the one subject area, Psychology. Part II shall consist of two or three subject areas: Psychology, and one or both of Philosophy and Linguistics. For candidates not taking Psychology Parts I and II, the examination shall consist only of papers in Philosophy and Linguistics.

  • 4. No candidate who offers Psychology shall be admitted for the Part II examination in this school unless

    • (a) he or she has passed the Part I examination specified for this school; and

    • (b) he or she has satisfied the Moderators for the Preliminary Examination for Psychology, Philosophy, and Linguistics, in the subject Introduction to Probability Theory and Statistics or has passed the Qualifying Examination in Statistics for this school.

  • The Head of the Department of Experimental Psychology or deputy may dispense a candidate from the Qualifying Examination in Statistics in cases where it is clear that the candidate has reached an adequate standard in Statistics by virtue of previous study and qualification.

  • 5. Candidates offering Psychology shall be examined by such of the Public Examiners in the Honour School of Experimental Psychology as may be required; candidates offering Philosophy shall be examined by such examiners as are nominated by a committee of which the two elected members shall be appointed by the Board of the Faculty of Philosophy; and candidates offering Linguistics shall be examined by such examiners as are nominated by the Board of the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics.

  • 6. The examinations in this school shall be under the joint supervision of the Medical Sciences Board and the Faculty Boards of Philosophy and of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics, which shall make regulations concerning them subject always to the preceding clauses of this sub-section.

B

Candidates may offer either Psychology, Philosophy, and Linguistics or Psychology and Philosophy or Psychology and Linguistics or Philosophy and Linguistics.

For candidates offering Psychology, the examination shall consist of two parts. The four papers for Psychology Part I shall count as two papers for the Final Honour School. Part II will consist of six papers covering two or three subject areas; Psychology, and one or both of Philosophy and Linguistics.

For candidates not offering Psychology, the examination shall consist of eight papers in Philosophy and Linguistics.

No candidate who offers Psychology shall be admitted for the Part II examination in this school unless he or she has passed the Part I examination specified for this school.

The examination for Psychology Part I shall be taken during Weeks 0 and 1 of Trinity Term of the candidate's second year. The examination for Psychology Part II and for Philosophy and Linguistics shall be held during Trinity Term of the candidate's third year. The dates of submission for assessed work are those prescribed in sections 1-3 below.

The subjects in Psychology shall be those specified in 1. Psychology below; in Philosophy those listed in the Special Regulations for Philosophy in all Honour Schools including Philosophy, and in Linguistics those specified in the Special Regulations for Linguistics in all Honour Schools including Linguistics.

Subject to the restrictions set out below, candidates may offer not more than two of the following:

  • (a) a research project in Psychology 

  • (b) a library dissertation in Psychology 

  • (c) a thesis in Philosophy 

  • (d) a thesis in Linguistics 

  • (e) a project in Linguistics. 

Candidates may not offer both a research project in Psychology and a project in Linguistics.

There are further restrictions on the choice of subjects and requirements to be satisfied within each branch, which are set out below. These include restrictions related to projects, dissertations and theses.

The highest honours can be obtained by excellence in any of the branches offered, provided that the candidate has taken sufficient subjects in the branch and that adequate knowledge is shown in the other branch(es) of examination.

Every candidate shall give notice to the Registrar of all papers being offered not later than Friday in Week 8 of Michaelmas Full Term preceding the examination.