Master of Philosophy in Visual, Material, and Museum Anthropology
Differences from 2015/16 to 2023/24
1. The
Social Sciences Boardcourse shallelectbeforunder the supervision ofthe course a Standing Committee, namelythe Teaching Committee of the School of Anthropology, which shall have power to arrange lecturesandotherMuseuminstructionEthnography.The course director shall be responsible to that committee. In order to pass the degree, a student must pass all its assessed components. Where one or more components are failed, the student will be given the opportunity to re-sit or re-submit them once, as the case may be. Any subsequent award of the degree on successful completion of all the assessed components may be delayed by up to three terms, i.e. until the Examination Board next meets.- 2.
The examinations shall consist of the following:(1)Qualifying ExaminationEvery candidateCandidates will be required tosatisfy the examiners in an examination for which, if he or she passes at the appropriate level, he or she will be allowed to proceed to the second year of the M.Phil. Candidates mustfollow a course of instruction in Visual, Material, and Museum Anthropology forat least threesix terms, and will, when entering for the examinations, be required to produce a certificate from their supervisor to this effect.- 3. The
Qualifying Examinationexaminations shallbe taken in the Trinity Termconsist of theacademicfollowing: - Qualifying
year in which the candidate's name is first entered on the Register of M.Phil. students or, with the approval of the divisional board, in a subsequent year.Examination - Each candidate will be required to satisfy the examiners in papers 1-4
on the syllabusas described in theScheduleregulations for theM.Sc.MSc in Visual, Material, and Museum Anthropology,. - To pass the qualifying examination and
governedproceedby regulation 4 for that degree, except that for Paper 3(a) an outline proposal forto theM.Phil.secondthesis research of no more than 2,500 words should be submitted. (2)Final ExaminationThis shall be taken in the Trinity Termyear of theacademicMPhil,yearcandidatesfollowingmustthatachieveinanwhichaverage mark of 60 or above across thecandidate'sfournameexaminationis first entered on the register of Mpapers.Phil. students or, with the approval of the divisional board, in a subsequent year. Each candidate shall be required:- Final Examination
- (i) Candidates will take one option paper from a list of those approved by the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography to
presentbehimselfpublishedorbyherselfthefor written examination in oneend oftheweekoptional2areasoforMichaelmastopics available for that year in Lists Aterm,B, or C,other than that taken by the candidate in theM.Phil.MPhil Qualifying Examination. The option paper will be assessed by one or more submissions, full details of which are set out in thepreviousCourseyearHandbook; - (ii)
toCandidates will submitto the Chair of Examiners not later than noon on Tuesday of the fifth week of Trinity Terman essay of no more than 5,000 words(threetocopies)be submitted by noon on Thursday of week 5 of Trinity term, in the field of Visual, Material, and Museum Anthropology, on a topic to be selected from a list set by the examiners at the beginning of the third week of Trinity Term(candidates should not duplicate any material already used in their submission for paper 2 in the Qualifying Examination in the previous year); - (iii)
(iv)to present himself or herself for oral examination if required by the examiners.
toCandidates submit a thesis in accordance with the regulations below;
Thesis
3. Each candidate shall be required towill submit a thesis of not more than 30,000 words (excluding references and appendices) on a subject approved by the supervisor. The thesis may be based on the analysis of objects or photographs in the collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, or a topic from one of the subject areas covered during the qualifying year, including option topics. The candidate shall send to the Teaching Committee of the School of Anthropology, with the written approval of his or her supervisor, the proposed title of the thesis, together with a paragraph describing its scope, by noon on Monday of the second week of Michaelmas Term in the academic year following that in which his or her name was entered on the register of M.Phil. students. The thesis (three copies) must be typewritten and delivered to the Chair of Examiners, M.Phil. in Visual, Material, and Museum Anthropology, c/o Examination Schools, High Street, Oxford, not later than Tuesday of the second week of Trinity Term in the academic year in which the Final Examination is taken. The dissertation shall be provided with an abstract of up to 250 words, toon a subject approved by the supervisor, by noon on Thursday of week 2 of Trinity term;
5. The examiners may award a distinction for excellence in the whole examination.