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Statistics Chairman FACULTY OF MEDIEVAL AND MODERN LANGUAGES ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ HONOUR SCHOOL OF MODERN LANGUAGES 2014 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ STATISTICS CHAIRMAN’S REPORT EXAMINERS’ REPORTS ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ TRINITY TERM 2014 1 Contents I. STATISTICS p. 3-15 1. ENTRIES p. 3-11 2. RESULTS (MAIN SCHOOL) p. 12 3. GENDER STATISTICS p. 13 4. ORAL EXAMINATION (INCLUDING JOINT SCHOOLS) p. 14-15 II. CHAIRMAN’S REPORT p. 16-28 III. EXAMINERS’ REPORTS p. 29-80 French p. 29-37 German p. 38-46 Italian p. 47-49 Portuguese p. 50-53 Russian p. 54-57 Spanish p. 58-65 Celtic p. 66 Czech with Slovak p. 67-68 Modern Greek p. 69-70 Linguistics p. 71-73 Polish p. 74 Special Subjects (XII) p. 75-80 2 I. STATISTICS The following statistics have been provided by the Central Administration. Some disparities remain between these figures and the reports of individual languages. 1.1. ENTRIES TABLE 1: Total Entries, Main Schools and Joint Schools 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 Total Entry 204 186 196 188 191 200 Withdrawals 12 6 3 4 2 2 Sat Exam 192 180 193 184 189 198 TABLE 2: Modern Languages; (Main School; Joint Schools separately below) Linguistics 22 16 18 18 18 26 13 3 TABLE 3: Numbers offering the various languages or equivalent subject. Numbers offering languages singly or in combination. 4 TABLE 4: JOINT SCHOOLS WITH MODERN LANGUAGES 5 TABLE 5a: ENTRIES FOR PAPERS 1-IX (INCLUDING JOINT SCHOOLS) 6 TABLE 5b: PAPER XIII GENERAL LINGUISTICS PAPER XIII 2013/14 33 2012/13 18 2011/12 21 2010/11 19 2009/10 25 2008/09 37 2007/08 18 7 TABLE 5c: ENTRIES FOR PAPERS X -XI (INCLUDING JOINT SCHOOLS) 8 TABLE 6: Special Subjects (XII) [All Schools] Paper Language Code Special Subject 2013/14 2012/13 2011/12 2010/11 2009/10 2008/09 2007/08 FRENCH 2002 Late Medieval Responses to the Roman de la Rose 1 2016 French Poetry of the Mid-Sixteenth Century 1 3 2013 Anglo-Norman Language and Literature 1 1 2014 The Twelfth and Thirteenth Century Grail Romances 5 1 1 1 2 2019 Jean-Jacques Rousseau 5 3 4 3 7 6 5 2020 Honore de Balzac 5 1 4 1 5 2 10 2021 French Poetry 1870 to 1918 3 3 7 3 4 4 2022 French Literature and the Modern War 5 5 5 10 11 9 2023 Marcel Proust 8 5 8 13 7 10 13 2024 French Poetry from Surrealism to the Present 2 2 2 3 2 2026 Literature and the Visual Arts 1 5 2026 Literature and the Visual Arts from Diderot to Zola 3 10 2026 Literature and the Visual Arts in France 5 6 6 9 2027 French Women Writers 6 11 11 8 7 8 7 2028 Advanced French Translation: Theory and Practice 22 30 18 12 18 14 9 2034 The Old French Epic 1 1 1 2 1 2035 French Satire from Rabelais to Beaumarchais 5 2 4 5 1 4 4 2039 Francophone Literature 7 4 Francophone Literature: Colonial and Post-colonial 2039 perspectives 6 11 9 4 10 2040 Old Occitan 1 3 1 Z 2002 Late Medieval Responses to Le Roman de la rose 1 2 2 1 GERMAN Old High German: Gothic 1 2005 Cinema in a Cultural Context: German Film 1930-70 4 4 3 1 2006 Drama and theatre since 1960 3 1 3 1 2037 Old High German 1 3 1 2037 Old High German: Gothic 1 Walther von der Vogelweide and the Origins of the 2041 German Love Lyric 1 1 Gottfried's Tristan and Medieval German Court 2042 Society 2 2 2 5 1 German Women's Writers of the early modern 2044 period 1 Eighteenth-Century German Aesthetics from 2045 Baumgarten to Schiller 2 1 1 1 2047 The Bildungsroman 1 1 1 1 German Political Writing in the eighteenth and 2048 nineteenth centuries 2 2049 Nietzsche and His Impact 1 4 4 3 8 2050 The poetry of Hofmannsthal, George and Rilke 1 3 1 2056 German Poetry since 1945 4 2 1 2056 German Poetry since 1945: Bachmann 1 2056 German Poetry since 1945: Brecht 2 2056 German Poetry since 1945: Celan 1 2056 German Poetry since 1945: Enzensberger 1 2056 German Poetry since 1945: Sachs 1 2070 Narrative Identities in the German Novel since 1945 1 1 2 1 2 1 Mechthild von Magdeburg and Womens Writing in 2071 German 1150-1300 2 2 2073 German modernist prose fiction 1898-1933 2 3 2 2 2076 Post 1945 Women's Writing in German 3 9 Paper Language Code Special Subject 2013/14 2012/13 2011/12 2010/11 2009/10 2008/09 2007/08 Expressionism in German literature and the visual 2079 arts 1 1 German Expressionism in Literature and the Visual 2079 Arts 3 1 2080 Literature in the GDR 5 6 3 3 3 1 8 2081 Advanced German Translation: Theory and Practice 9 8 8 9 9 8 8 2099 Nineteenth-Century German Drama 2 2196 Contemporary German Literature 1 1 1 1 D222 Old High German: Gothic 3 D224 Old High German: Old English 1 D226 German Poets: Hofmannsthal 1 D228 German Poets: Rilke 1 ITALIAN 2084 Dante's Minor Works 1 3 2085 Questione Della Lingua 1 1 2086 Women Writers of the Italian Renaissance 1 2 2091 Italian Culture during the Fascist Period 1 1 1 3 2 2092 Narratives of National Identity in Postwar Italy 2 3 3 2096 Sicilian Literature 1945 to Present Day 1 3 2 2 3 4 2097 Italian Women Writers 1945 to the Present Day 1 1 4 2 2 3 Literature, history and society in Late Medieval SPANISH 2003 Spain 2 2007 Women Writers in Modern Spain 1 1 1 2008 The Literature and Culture of al-Andalus 1 2 2 1 1 2100 Bilingualism: Spanish and English 2 1 2 2103 Spanish Drama before Lope de Vega 1 1 The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and the 2105 Antilles 3 3 6 7 3 4 2 2106 Spanish Devotional and Mystical Writing 1577-88 1 1 1 2107 Art and Literature in the Golden Age of Spain 1 2108 Contemporary Catalan Literature 4 2110 Latin American Cinema 9 10 2111 Modern Galician Literature 1 2 1 2112 Modern Catalan 1 2 1 3 2 2113 Modern Galician 1 1 1 Z Literature, historiography and society in Late 2003 Medieval Spain 1 Z 2108 Modern Catalan Literature 1 1 1 PORTUGUESE 2130 The Galician-Portuguese Cancioneiros 1 2131 The Literature of the Portuguese Expansion in Asia 2 2 1 2 2134 Twentieth Century Lusaphone Women Writers 1 1 Twentieth-Century Portuguese and Brazilian 2134 Women Writers 2 2 2135 The Literature of Portuguese-Speaking Africa 1 1 2 2 2 1 Russian Literature of the 20th century (1953 to the RUSSIAN 2160 Present Day) 1 2 1 2 2163 Russian Drama of the 19th and 20th Centuries 3 4 3 4 6 1 1 2170 Russian Womens Writing 1 1 Z Russian Literature of the 20th century (1890 to the 2160 Present Day) 1 5 The Structure and History of a Language: 2150 Bulgarian/Macedonian 1 1 1 2151 The Structure and History of a Language: Czech 1 1 2153 The Structure and History of a Language: Polish 1 1 2 2 3 The Structure and History of a Language: 2154 Serbian/Croatian 2 2 2 2 10 Paper Language Code Special Subject 2013/14 2012/13 2011/12 2010/11 2009/10 2008/09 2007/08 2158 The Structure and History of a Language: Ukrainian 1 1 1 MODERN 2178 The Greek Novel 1918-1940 1 GREEK 2180 Modern Greek Film 1 1 Z Readings of Popular Culture in twentieth-century 2181 Greece 1 LINGUISTICS 2001 Psycholinguistics 2 5 6 7 2 8 3 2009 Semantics 1 2 1 1 3 2 2012 Romance Philology and Linguistics 1 1 1 1 2030 Syntax 3 2 3 5 3 6 4 2031 Phonetics and Phonology 7 2 1 3 3 2018 Phonetics and Phonology (Aural) 3 2 1 3 3 2029 Phonetics and Phonology (Lab Report) 4 2032 Sociolinguistics 5 9 5 5 2 8 6 2033 Translation Theory 2 4 2152 The Structure and History of a Language: Romanian 6 1 2197 Morphology 2 2198 Linguistic Project 8 2 1 1 4 2 4 2199 Language Change and Historical Linguistics 3 2 3 2 OTHER 2195 European Cinema 17 10 22 17 15 31 31 2011 Modern Literary Theory 8 5 5 12 8 5 Total Total Total 179 179 186 171 175 191 175 11 2. RESULTS (MAIN SCHOOL) TABLE 7: Distribution of Firsts TABLE 8: Numbers and Percentages in each class (rounded to nearest decimal place) 12 3. GENDER STATISTICS [Main School] There were 192 candidates, of whom 116 (60.41%) were female. Statistics are given for overall performance. The database also generates access to statistics on gender performance on individual papers, and these may be consulted in the Examinations Office. TABLE 9: Gender Statistics [Main School] 13 4. ORAL EXAMINATION (INCLUDING JOINT SCHOOLS) TABLE 10: Oral Examination (including Joint Schools): Candidates 14 TABLE 11: 15 II. CHAIRMAN’S REPORT Administration The success of an examining process as complex as the Modern Languages FHS depends on effective team working at all levels. I was extremely well supported by the Vice-Chair, , who not only took joint responsibility for the Oral examinations but willingly and proactively shared many of the responsibilities for attendance, scrutiny and checking of documentation, and was unfailingly available to discuss the many issues of practice and principle arising throughout the year.
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