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REGULATIONS FOR T H E D E G R E E O F

MASTER O F SCIENCE BY COURSEWORK

51.

Degree of Master of Science

by

Coursework

5

I.

Any person who has been admitted to the status of student for

the degree of Master of Science by Coursework, who has satisfied

the conditions prescribed by this section, and has satisfied the

examiners as required, may supplicate for the Degree of Master of

Science by Coursework.

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2.

The Educational Policy and Standards Committee shall have

power to make and vary such regulations as may be necessary for

carrying out the duties laid upon it and upon the Secretary of

Faculties by this section.

3.

For the purposes of this section, the words 'board', 'faculty

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board', or 'board of the faculty' shall include any committee

authorized to admit candidates for the Degree of Master of

Science by Coursework.

4.

A Student for the Degree of Master of Science by Coursework

who is not a graduate of the University may wear the same gown as

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that worn by Students for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

52.

Status of Student for the Degree of

Master of Science by Coursework

I .

Any person who, in the opinion of the board concerned, is well

qualified and well fitted to undertake the course of study for which

25

application is made, may be admitted to the status of Student for

the Degree of Master of Science by Coursework.

2.

It shall be the duty of the Secretary of Faculties to keep a

Register of those admitted to the status of Student for the Degree of

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$3. Admission of Candidates for the Degree of

Master of Science

by

Coursework

I .

A candidate seeking admission as a Student for the Degree of

Master of Science by Coursework shall apply to the board under

whose aegis the proposed course of study falls. Candidates for

admission shall be required to provide such information as the

board may determine from time to time by regulation. Applicants

shall in addition be required to undertake such other tests and meet

such conditions as, subject to the approval of the Educational Policy

and Standards Committee, a board may determine by regulation.

2.

Applications shall be made through the Secretary of Faculties,

and it shall be the duty of the Secretary of Faculties to submit each

application to the board concerned and to inform the candidate of

the outcome, as soon as may be.

3. No person shall be admitted as a Student for the Degree of

Master of Science by Coursework under these provisions unless he

or she is also a member of a college, and unless the application for

admission as a Student for the Degree of Master of Science by

Coursework has the approval of that college. The Secretary of

Faculties shall forward the application to the candidate's college

or to the college to which the candidate wishes to apply for member-

ship, as appropriate; and admission by the faculty board shall be

conditional upon admission by an approved society.

4.

A student registered for any other higher degree or diploma in

the University may apply for transfer to the status of Student for

the Degree of Master of Science by Coursework. The board con-

cerned shall have power to make such transfer, provided that it is

satisfied that the student is well qualified and well fitted to under-

take the course of study for which application is made, and that the

application has the support of the candidate's society. A candidate

who transfers status in this way shall be reckoned as having held the

status of Student for the Degree of Master of Science by

Coursework from the time of admission to his or her previous

status, unless the board shall determine otherwise.

5.

A student holding the status of Probationer Research Student

may, with the approval of the board which admitted him or her, be

admitted as a candidate for an examination for the Degree of

Master of Science by Coursework. Time spent as a student holding

the status of Probationer Research Student shall count as time spent

working for the Degree of Master of Science.

$4. Supervision of Students for the Degree of

Master of Science

by

Coursework

I.

Every candidate on admission as a Student for the Degree of

Master of Science by Coursework shall be placed by the board

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concerned under the supervision of a member of the University or

other competent person selected by the board, and the board shall

have power for sufficient reason to change the supervisor of any

student or to arrange for joint supervision by more than one super-

visor, if it deems it necessary.

2.

It shall be the duty of the supervisor of a student entered upon

a course of study to direct and superintend the work of the student,

to meet the student regularly, and to undertake such duties as shall

from time to time be set out in the relevant Notes of Guidance

issued by the Educational Policy and Standards Committee.

3.

The supervisor shall submit a report on the progress of a

student to the board three times a year, and at any other time

when the board so requests or the supervisor deems it expedient.

The supervisor shall communicate the contents of the report to the

student on each occasion that a report is made, so that the student is

aware of the supervisor's assessment of his or her work during the

period in question. In addition, the supervisor shall inform the

board at once if he or she is of the opinion the student is unlikely

to reach the standard required for the Degree of Master of Science

by Coursework.

4.

It shall be the duty of every Student for the Degree of Master

of Science by Coursework to undertake such guided work and to

attend such seminars and lectures as his or her supervisor requests;

to attend such meetings with his or her supervisor as the supervisor

reasonably arranges; and to fulfil any other requirements of the

Educational Policy and Standards Committee as set out in relevant

Notes of Guidance issued by the Educational Policy and Standards

Committee.

$5.

Residence and other Requirements for Students for the

Degree of Master of Science

by

Coursework

I .

No full-time Student for the Degree of Master of Science by

Coursework shall be granted leave to supplicate unless, after admis-

sion, he or she has kept statutory residence and pursued his or her

course of study at Oxford for at least three terms.

2 .

A full-time student working towards the examination in

Applied Social Studies shall not be given leave to supplicate unless,

after admission as a graduate student, he or she has kept statutory

residence and pursued his or her course of study at Oxford for at

least six terms, save that the board may dispense from statutory

residence any candidate for the examination in Applied Social

Studies who is required as part of the course to undertake fieldwork

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away from Oxford, for the time such fieldwork necessarily occupies,

up to a maximum of two terms.

3. No full-time Student for the Degree of Master of Science by

Coursework shall retain that status for more than six terms in all,

except that any candidate for the Examination in Applied Social

Studies or Educational Studies may retain that status for nine terms

in all.

4. Part-time students for the Degree of Master of Science by

Coursework shall in each case be required to pursue their course

of study for twice the number of terms required of an equivalent

full-time student. Part-time students shall not be required to keep

statutory residence but must attend for such instruction and under-

take such supervised fieldwork as the faculty concerned shall re-

quire. The Director of Graduate Studies of the board concerned, or

director of the department concerned, as the case may be, shall keep

a register of attendance of part-time students. No student shall be

granted leave to supplicate unless the register shows satisfactory

attendance by him or her.

5. Part-time students may hold the status of Student for the

Degree of Master of Science by Coursework for up to twice the

number of terms for which equivalent full-time students may hold

that status except where an extension of time is permitted by special

regulation.

6. A Student for the Degree of Master of Science by Coursework

shall cease to hold that status if:

(i) he or she shall have been refused permission to supplicate for

the Degree of Master of Science by Coursework;

(ii) the board concerned shall, in accordance with provisions set

down by regulation by the Educational Policy and Standards

Committee, and after consultation with the student's society

and supervisor, have deprived the student of such status;

(iii) he or she shall have been transferred under the relevant

provisions to another status;

(iv) he or she shall not have entered for the relevant examination

within the time specified under this subsection.

96. Examination

of Students

I.

The examinations for the Degree of Master of Science by

Coursework shall be under the supervision of the boards authorized

to admit candidates for the Degree of Master of Science by

Coursework. The examinations for the degree and the bodies re-

sponsible for the supervision of each examination are listed below.

I

Degree of M,

Examination

Advanced Cognitive Therapy

Studies

African Studies

Applied Linguistics and Second

Language Acquisition

Applied Landscape

Archaeology

Applied Statistics

Archaeological Science

Biodiversity, Conservation, and

I

Bioinformatics

Management

Biology (Integrative Bioscience)

Biomedical Engineering

Comparative Social Policy

Computer Science

Criminology and Criminal

Justice

Diagnostic Imaging

Drylands, Science &

Management

Economic and Social History

Economics for Development

Educational Research

Methodology

Educational Studies

Endovascular Neurosurgery

(Interventional

Neuroradiology)

English Local History

Environmental Change and

Management

Evidence-based Health Care

Evidence-based Social

Intervention

aster of Science by Coursework

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Board

Continuing Education

Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Continuing Education

Mathematical, Physical and Life

Sciences

10

Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Continuing Education/

Mathematical, Physical and

15

Life Sciences

Mathematical, Physical and Life

Sciences

Mathematical, Physical and Life

Sciences

20

Social Sciences

Mathematical, Physical and Life

Sciences

Law

25

Medical Sciences

Social Sciences

History

Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Medical Sciences

Continuing Education

Social Sciences

Medical Sciences/Continuing

40

Education

Social Sciences

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Examination

Financial Economics

Forced Migration

Forestry: Science, Policy, and

Management

Global Governance and

Diplomacy

Global Health Science

Integrated Immunology

History of Science: Instruments,

Museums, Science,

Technology

History of Science, Medicine,

and-~echnology

Human Biology

Board

Social Sciences

Area and Development Studies

Committee

Mathematical, Physical and Life

Sciences

Social Sciences

Medical Sciences

Medical Sciences

History

History

15

Mathematical, Physical and Life

Sciences

Integrated Immunology

Medical Sciences

Latin American Studies

School of Interdisciplinary Area

Studies

20

Management Research

Management

Material Anthropology and

Social Sciences

Museum Ethnography

Material Anthropology and

Social Sciences

Museum Ethnography

25

(Research Methods)

Mathematical Finance

Mathematical Modelling and

Scientific Computation

Mathematics and Foundations

of Computer Science

Medical Anthropology

Medical Chemistry for Cancer

Modem Japanese Studies

Nature, Society, and

Environmental Policy

Neuroscience

Pharmacology

Political Theory Research

Politics and International

Relations Research

Professional Archaeology

Mathematical, Physical and Life

SciencesIContinuing

Education

Mathematical, Physical and Life

3o

Sciences

Mathematical, Physical and Life

Sciences

Social Sciences

Medical Sciences

35

(See Addendum

3)

Social Sciences

(See Addendum

4)

Social Sciences

Medical Sciences

Medical Sciences

Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Continuing Education

45

Professional Development in

Education

Public Policy in Latin America

Research in Psychology

Russian and East European

Studies

Science and Medicine of

Athletic Performance

Social Anthropology

Social Anthropology (Research

Methods)

Sociology

Software Engineering

Theoretical Chemistry

Visual Anthropology

Water Science Policy and

Management

Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Medical Sciences

Social Sciences

Medical Sciences

Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Mathematical, Physical and Life

SciencesIContinuing

Education

Mathematical, Physical and Life

Sciences

Social Sciences

Social Sciences

The subjects of each examination shall be determined by regula-

tion by the board concerned, which shall have power to arrange

lectures and courses of instruction for the examination. The exam-

ination shall consist of:

(i) a written dissertation on a subject approved by the board or

by a person or persons to whom the board may delegate the

function of giving such approval;

(ii) a written examination;

(iii) an oral examination;

provided that a board shall have power by regulation to exclude any

one of parts (i), (ii), or (iii) from the examination for a particular

course of study and to authorize the examiners to dispense individual

candidates from the oral examination. This provision notwithstand-

ing, the examiners may, if they deem it expedient, set a candidate a

further written examination after examining the candidate orally.

2 .

No candidate shall be permitted to take an examination under

the preceding clause unless he or she has been admitted as a candi-

date for the examination in question by the body responsible for the

course and has satisfied any other conditions prescribed in the

regulations for that course.

3. Unless otherwise provided in this subsection, the number and

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this chapter.

A

board shall have power to prescribe that examiners

be appointed for candidates individually in such manner as shall be

appropriate for the particular course of study.

4. A

candidate who has failed to satisfy the examiners in the

examination may enter again for the examination on one, but not

more than one, subsequent occasion.

5. A

board may prescribe by regulation that students undertak-

ing a particular course of study shall take the examination in a

specific term as a condition of admission, and a student wishing to

take an examination later than the one to which he or she has been

admitted must apply to the board for permission to do so.

Except where otherwise indicated, all material submitted for exam-

ination (dissertations, extended essays, etc) shall be accompanied by a

certificate signed by the candidate indicating that it is the candidate's

own work, except where otherwise specified. This certificate must be

submitted separately in a sealed envelope addressed to the chairman of

examiners of the degree course in question.

Advanced Cognitive Therapy Studies

Regulations

I. The course will consist of lectures, tutorials, seminars, and classes on the principle and practice of advanced cognitive therapy studies, together with clinical practice and practice in supervision of cognitive therapy trainees. The course will be taken on apart- time basis over a period of not less than six terms and not more than nine terms.

2. Every candidate will be required to satisfy the examiners in the following: (a) attendance at the appropriate classroom-based courses including small group

case supervisions;

(6) supervised treatment of patients with cognitive therapy; (c) skill in supervising cognitive therapy trainees;

( 4 four audio- or videotape presentations of therapy sessions;

(e) four extended written case studies, each of no more than 4,000 words covering a range of different problem areas and including two straightforward and two complex cases;

u,

two written assignments, each of no more than 4,000 words, one covering the principles of supervision, and one covering the design, delivery and evaluation of a training event;

(g) a presentation of a brief cognitive therapy training event;

(h) a dissertation of no more than I 5 , m words on a topic approved by the examiners. The presentation under ( 4 and (g), the assessed work under (e) and

m,

and the dissertation under (h), shall be forwarded to the examiners for consideration by such dates as the examiners shall determine and shall notify the candidates and tutors.

3. Candidates will be expected to attend a viva voce examination at the end of the course of studies unless individually dispensed by the examiners.

4. The examiners may award a distinction to candidates for the M.Sc.

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5. Candidates who fail to satisfy the examiners in the audio- or videotape pre- sentations under 2 ( 4 and 2(g), the assessed work under z(e) and 2V), or the disserta- tion under 2(h), may be permitted to resubmit work in respect of the part or parts of the examination which they have failed for examination on not more than one occasion which shall normally be within one year of the original failure.

African Studies

I . Each candidate will be required to follow a course of instruction in African Studies for three terms, and will, when they enter their names for the examination, be required to produce a certificate from their supervisors to this effect.

2. Candidates will be required to present themselves for examination in the com- pulsory paper in Methodology and Research Strategies, in Themes in African History and the Social Sciences, and in one optional paper at the end of Trinity Term in the year of re~stration. In addition, each candidate will be required to submit the following written work:

(i) Historiography/Theory essay: one 5,000 word essay on the comparative read- ing, historiography, or theory relevant to the dissertation, including introduc- tion of key questions to be addressed in the dissertation to be submitted not later than 1 2 noon on the first day of first Week of Trinity Full Term in the year in which the examination is taken.

(ii) One ~o,ooo word dissertation: the title of the dissertation must be approved by the African Studies Management Committee not later than 12 noon on the last day of Eighth Week of Michaelmas Full Term in the year in which the examination is taken. The dissertation must be submitted not later than 12 noon on Friday of Sixth Week of Trinity Full Term in the year in which the examination is taken.

Two typewritten or word processed copies of each of the items of written work detailed in (i)-(ii) above must be delivered to the Clerk of the Examination Schools, addressed to the Chair of Examiners for the M.Sc. in African Studies, c/o Clerk of the Schools, Examination Schools, High Street, Oxford at the times and days specified.

3. A candidate who fails the examination will be permitted to retake it on one further occasion within six terms of his or her initial registration. A candidate who fails one or more of the compulsory or optional papers will be required to resit all three papers. Candidates will be permitted to resubmit the same item or items of written work that reached a satisfactory standard.

4. Candidates may be required to attend an oral examination on any part of the examination.

5. The examiners may award a distinction for excellence in the whole examination.

SCHEDULE

The structure of the course is as follows:

(a) Compulsory core course in Methodology, Ethics, and Research Strategies: re- searching Africa: ethics, politics; disciplinary approaches including history, politics, anthropology, and geography, with key texts; conducting interviews: oral traditions, interviewing strategies, reminiscences, memory, questionnaires, participatory methods; archives on and in Africa; visual materials, artefacts, photographs and films; practical aspects of research.

(b) Compulsory core course in Themes in African History and the Social Sciences: key features of African states; social and economic change and the dilemmas of development; globalization and conflict in the post-colonial era; environmental history and politics.

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they shall notify candidates. The assessed work set out in clause 4(c) shall be forwarded to the examiners c/o Clerk of the Schools, Examination Schools, High Street, Oxford

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4BG for consideration by such date as the examiners shall determine and of which they shall notify candidates.

5 . Candidates may be required to attend a viva voce examination at the end of the course of studies at the discretion of the examiners.

6 . The examiners may award a distinction to candidates for the M.Sc.

7. Any candidate who has successfully completed the Postgraduate Certificate in Bioinformatics may on admission to the M.Sc. be exempted from the requirement to submit, for the examination for this degree, four written assignments under 4(b) above. Any such candidate may be allowed to count not more than three terms wmpleted in the study of the Postgraduate Certificate in Bioinformatics towards the minimum period of study for the M.Sc., but the actual number of terms, if greater than three, wmpleted in the study of the Postgraduate Certificate shall be counted towards the maximum period of study for the M.Sc. The M.Sc. in Bioinformatics if successfully completed, will subsume a candidate's previously completed Postgraduate Certificate. 8. Any candidate who has successfully completed the Postgraduate Diploma in Bioinformatics may on admission to the M.Sc. be exempted from the requirement to submit, for the examination for this degree, eight written assignments under 4(b) above. Any such candidate may be allowed to count not more than six terms completed in the study of the Postgraduate Diploma in Bioinformatics towards the minimum period of study for the M.Sc., but the actual number of terms, if greater than six, completed in the study of the Postgraduate Diploma shall be counted towards the maximum period of study for the M.Sc. The M.Sc. in Bioinformatics if successfully wmpleted, will subsume a candidate's previously completed Postgraduate Diploma.

9. Any candidate who has been exempt, under clause 2 above, from completing the

Postgraduate Certificate in Bioinformatics, must follow for at least six and at most twelve terms a part-time course of instruction in the theory and practice of Bioinformatics. Such candidates may on admission be exempted from the require- ment to submit, for the examination for this degree, four written assignments under 4

(b) above.

10. Candidates who fail to satisfy the examiners in any part of the examination may be permitted to resubmit work in respect of the part or parts of the examination which they have failed for examination on not more than one occasion which shall normally be within one year of the original failure.

I I. The standing committee shall have the discretion to permit any candidate to be exempted from submitting up to one of the total of nine written assignments required under 4(b) above, provided that the standing committee is satisfied that such a candidate has undertaken equivalent study, or has appropriate work experience to an equivalent standard.

SCHEDULE

Section A: Foundation Modules

Students must take four modules from the following list:

I. Biology, principles: basic molecular biology

2. Biology, experimental techniques in

3. Bioinformatics applications of computing, an introduction to techniques 4. Algorithm design and complexity

5. Quantitative techniques for Bioinformatics 6. The power of Bioinformatics in modem research Section B: Specialised Modules

Students must take five modules from the following list:

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7. Molecular Evolution

8. Structural Bioinformatics

9. Databases 10. Microarrays

I I. Symbolic machine learning

12. Statistical data mining

I 3. Statistical genetics

I 4. Population genetics

15. The experimental-Bioinformatics interface4urrent challenges and emerging solutions

The Standing Committee shall approve the content of at least three modules to be given each year, the titles of which shall be circulated to candidates and their super- visors by the noughth week of Michaelmas Term.

Biology (Integrative Bioscience)

I. The Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Divisional Board shall elect for the supervision of the course an organizing committee which shall have power to arrange lectures and other instruction. The organizing committee shall appoint for each candidate an academic committee consisting of the supervisors of the candi- date's two research projects and one member of the organizing committee, who will serve as the candidate's academic supervisor.

2. Each candidate must follow a course of study in Biology for at least three terms and for a substantial part of the three subsequent vacations, as determined by the course timetable. There will be no written examination.

3. Candidates shall be examined in all of the following ways:

(i) each candidate will be required to submit to the examiners two copies of a typewritten or printed essay of not more than 3,000 words (excluding biblio- graphy, tables, figures and appendices) on each of three topics specified or agreed by the course organizers, one essay relating to the Techniques in Molecular Biology course and the other two essays relating to two of the Research in the Biosciences courses chosen for further study, as set out in the schedule. Candidates shall not deal with substantially the same material in their essays submitted for different topics which must also be on topics dissimilar from those of their two research projects;

(ii) each candidate will be required to submit to the examiners one practical notebook for each of the six subject areas taught set out in (a) and (b) of the schedule;

(iii) each candidate will be required to submit to the examiners coursework as prescribed for the Statistics and Experimental Methods components of the Core Research Skills instruction set out in (c) of the schedule;

(iv) each candidate will be required to submit to the examiners two copies of a typewritten or printed dissertation of not more than 10,ooo words (excluding bibliography, tables, figures and appendices) on each of the two research projects chosen for study, as set out in the schedule;

(v) each candidate will be required to give two public presentations (one seminar, one poster) on subjects of his or her choice related to the research projects, on dates to be determined by the examiners.

4. Each candidate will be examined viva voce.

5. Candidates will be required to demonstrate understanding of and competence in the other topics covered by the Core Research Skills teaching and in the Professional

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Development Programme, as set out in the schedule. Such understanding and competence will be examined by its appropriate expression within the work submitted for assessment detailed in regulation 3 above.

6 . The required written submissions must be sent to the Chairman of

Examiners, M.Sc. in Biology, c/o The Clerk of the Schools, Examination Schools, 5 High Street, Oxford, 0x1 4ec; they must be submitted by dates to be specified by the Organizing Committee and which will be published on the course website

(http://www.zoo.ox.ac.uk/mscl) not later than the start of Michaelmas Term of the academic year in which the examination is taken. Each submission must be accom- panied by a certificate signed by the candidate indicating that it is the candidate's own 10

work, except where specifically acknowledged.

7. The viva voce examinations will be conducted in September in the year in which the candidate is examined, on dates to be determined by the examiners.

8. The examiners may award a distinction for excellence in the whole examination.

9. The examiners shall retain one copy of each extended essay, the poster and both 15 copies of each dissertation of each successful candidate, the essay and one copy of each dissertation for deposit in the Zoology Department Library and the other dissertation to be given to the project supervisor.

The syllabus for study will include five principal components: (a) Research in the Biosciences

This will consist of five taught courses of lectures with associated practicals, demon- strations and seminars, detailing research approaches, methodologies and results in specific subject areas of bioscience. The subject areas will be approved annually by the organizing committee. Details of those courses offered in each academic year will be 25 published on the course website (http://www.zoo.ox.ac.uWmsc~ before the end of the preceding Trinity Term. Candidates will be expected to submit practical notebooks for all the courses, and to show advanced knowledge of two of these subjects by submitting essays relating to them as specified in Regulation 3.

(b) Core Research Skills: Techniques in Molecular Biology 30 This will consist of a taught course of lectures with associated practicals, demon- strations and seminars, detailing research approaches and methodologies in molecu- lar biology. Candidates will be expected to submit a practical notebook for this course, and to show advanced knowledge of this subject by submitting an essay relating to it, as specified in Regulation 3. 35

(c) Core Research Skills: The Acquisition, Handling and Analysis of Bioscience Information.

Integrated lectures and classes providing training in transferable core research skills in the following areas:

(i) Safety and good research practice (ii) Experimental design

(iii) Statistics

(iv) Computing and information technology (v) Libraries and databases

(d) Professional Development Programme for Bioscientists

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T o provide transferable personal skills for a career in scientific research. this progrimme will consist of practical exercises and taught classes with interactive discussions and practical assignments in the following areas:

(i) Creativity, teamwork, and leadership (ii) Time management and learning skills (iii) Presentation skills, verbal and written

(iv) Career planning, assessing personal skills and values, CVs and interview techniques

(v) Exploitation of science: getting ideas to the market-place, patents, intellectual property rights

(vi) The relationship between academic and industrial research (vii) Government science policy and research funding. (viii) Ethical and social issues in science.

(e) Research Projects

Each candidate will undertake two research projects in dissimilar areas of bioscience, each involving original laboratory, museum or field research under the supervision of a research supervisor, on subjects selected by the candidate in con- sultation with the candidate's supervisor and the organizing committee.

Biomedical Engineering

I. The Divisional Board of Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences, in consulta- tion with the Faculty of Engineering Science, shall elect for the supervision of the course an organizing committee which shall have power to arrange lectures and other instruction.

z. Candidates shall follow a course of instruction in Biomedical Engineering for at least three terms and a substantial part of the three subsequent vacations, as deter- mined by the course timetable, and will, when entering their name for the examina- tion, be required to produce a certificate from their society to that effect.

3. The course syllabus shall be published annually in the Course Handbook.

4. The examination shall consist of the following parts:

(a) Candidates shall be required to take two written papers in Biomedical Engineering and Applied Biomedical Engineering, each of three hours. The examiners will not provide calculators, but will permit the use of one hand-held pocket calculator from a list of permitted calculators. This list will be published annually in the Course Handbook.

(b) Candidates will be required to submit two assignments on subjects selected by the committee in the area of the healthcare industry. Each assignment must be typed and must not exceed 3,000 words, except where specified. Three copies of the healthcare industry assignments must be delivered to the M.Sc. Examiners (Biomedical Engineering), c/o the Clerk of the Schools, Examination Schools, High Street, Oxford, not later than noon on Friday of the tenth week ofTrinity Term in the year of the examination.

( c ) Candidates will be required to undertake a prescribed schedule of practical

work in computational methods. In the assessment of this paper the examiners will take into consideration the failure of a candidate to complete the practical work to a level prescribed by the committee. The Course Director will provide a list showing the extent to which each candidate has satisfied these require- ments.

(d)

Candidates will be required to undertake a prescribed schedule of practical work in biomedical engineering. In assessing the practical work the examiners