Course Handbook - Faculty of History - University of Cambridge
Course Handbook - Faculty of History - University of Cambridge
Course Handbook - Faculty of History - University of Cambridge
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Senior Secretary, <strong>History</strong> Degree<br />
Committee<br />
Miss S M Willson – tel. 335305 email:<br />
degree-committee@hist.cam.ac.uk<br />
The Degree Committee Office deals with all matters relating to postgraduate funding (both PhD and<br />
MPhil) therefore, queries and questions about funding for MPhil and PhD courses should be<br />
addressed to the Degree Committee Office: <strong>History</strong> <strong>Faculty</strong> Building, West Road, <strong>Cambridge</strong>, CB3<br />
9EF.<br />
1.5 How the administration works for the MPhil in Economic and Social <strong>History</strong>; whom to contact<br />
about what and when<br />
Normally, you are expected first to approach your supervisor about matters relating to your<br />
academic work at <strong>Cambridge</strong>. If you have not already done so, you should contact your supervisor<br />
to arrange a meeting as soon as possible. The supervisor’s responsibility is to work closely with you<br />
to prepare you for writing your MPhil dissertation.<br />
Non-academic questions should be addressed to the Graduate Tutor <strong>of</strong> your College, who will<br />
normally be the best person to approach about visa and passport problems, dealings with grant<br />
awarding bodies, and housing and financial problems in general. The Degree Committee does not<br />
deal with these sorts <strong>of</strong> issues.<br />
Queries about the <strong>Faculty</strong>’s Graduate Training <strong>Course</strong> should be addressed to the <strong>Faculty</strong>’s Director<br />
<strong>of</strong> Graduate Training, Dr C Watkins (graduate-studies@hist.cam.ac.uk).<br />
The administration <strong>of</strong> the MPhil in Economic and Social <strong>History</strong> is managed by the MPhil Sub-<br />
Committee, but under the general oversight <strong>of</strong> the <strong>History</strong> <strong>Faculty</strong> Degree Committee, which has<br />
responsibility for all the <strong>Faculty</strong>’s postgraduate programmes. As Academic Secretary for the MPhil,<br />
Dr Natalia Mora-Sitja handles the day-to-day administrative work <strong>of</strong> the programme, and there may<br />
be occasions during your time here when an informal conversation with the Academic Secretary <strong>of</strong><br />
the MPhil may lead to the quick solution <strong>of</strong> some <strong>of</strong> the problems affecting your work. The<br />
Academic Secretary is here to give you advice about your work in addition to assistance available to<br />
you from the academic personnel with whom you are in direct contact. However, many important<br />
items <strong>of</strong> business such as a change <strong>of</strong> supervisor, approving dissertation titles, leave to continue to<br />
the PhD, appointing examiners and scrutinizing examination results are formal, and must be handled<br />
by the MPhil Sub-Committee and/or the Degree Committee. Because Sub-Committee meetings<br />
take place only two or three times a term, it is important for you to deal with administrative<br />
requests in a timely manner.<br />
Other questions about <strong>Faculty</strong> matters can be addressed to Miss T Blackman, the Administrative<br />
Secretary in the MPhil Office who will be happy to try to answer questions. Please e-mail her with<br />
your questions in the first instance on ecsoc@hist.cam.ac.uk. If you do not yet have access to e-mail<br />
(although all research students are allocated an e-mail address and expected to use it), the <strong>of</strong>fice’s<br />
telephone number is 748152 (or 48152 if you are using the university telephone network). Finally, in<br />
some delicate cases you might wish to seek the help <strong>of</strong> an Ombudsperson, see the General Graduate<br />
<strong>Handbook</strong> for information.<br />
2 THE COURSE<br />
2.1 Residence Requirements<br />
The academical year in <strong>Cambridge</strong> is divided into three terms, Michaelmas, Lent and Easter; in each<br />
term, the teaching takes place only in the nine-week period known as ‘Full Term’. The dates for the<br />
current year are Michaelmas Term: Tuesday 5 October - Friday 3 December 2010; Lent Term:<br />
Tuesday 18 January - Friday 18 March 2011; Easter Term: Tuesday 26 April - Friday 17 June 2011.<br />
The <strong>University</strong> requires that all students ‘keep’ three terms <strong>of</strong> residence before they can be awarded<br />
a degree.<br />
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