Part IA   |   Part IB   |   Part II

Part II lasts for two years.

In your third year, you will undertake a Year Abroad, and write a project report of 8,000 words.

In your fourth year you will take two language courses (‘Translation from and into the foreign language’ and ‘Text and Culture’) and choose 3 other papers, in one of the following combinations

• one History paper, and two MMLL papers;

• two History papers and one MMLL paper;

• one History paper, one MMLL paper and a dissertation.

The list of MMLL paper(s) you can choose from is here:

https://www.mmll.cam.ac.uk/mml/ii

The list of History papers you can choose is here:

https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/undergraduate/hist-tripos/part-ii/papers-for-2020-2021

You can choose from the whole range listed in Sections B, C, or D.  But please note that if you choose a Special Subject:

it will count as one paper, and you will take the written (gobbets) exam (Paper 3), and not write a Long Essay (Paper 2);

you can only take one Special Subject paper. If you wish to do a second History paper, it must be selected from Sections C or D.

For 2020-21 the word count for the dissertation will be 10 - 15,000 words. 

From 2021 the word count will be 10,000 

Modern Languages papers

Core language papers for French, German, Russian or Spanish (for both post-A-level and ab initio routes)

Students will take at least one of the following Modern Language papers:

• The papers listed in Schedule B and C

History papers

Students will take at least one paper from the following range:

Click here for full details on the History papers