Updated postgraduate summative assessment information 2017/18 - for prospective students
The following information provides postgraduate students with a summary of the changes to assessment weightings or types which have been made for the 2017/18 session. It is intended to help you when you are selecting your courses. Please click on the course guide links for more information regarding exam durations, assessment details and submission timings.
Department of Accounting courses: | |
AC417 Corporate Financial Disclosure and Investor Relations |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 100% |
Department of Anthropology courses: | |
AN475 The Anthropology of Revolution |
Old assessment: take home exam 90%, class participation 10% |
Department of Economics courses: | |
EC4J3E Public Policy in Practice Workshop III (EMPP) |
Old assessment: essay (3,000 words) 100% |
EC535 Development Economics for Research Students |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 100% |
Department of Economic History courses: | |
EH404 India and the World Economy |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 100% |
European Institute courses: | |
EU432 The Philosophy of Europe |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 75%, essay (2,500 words) 25% |
EU437 Europe Beyond Modernity |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 100% |
EU475 Muslims in Europe |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 60% |
Department of Finance courses: | |
FM403 Management and Regulation of Risk |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 50%, essay (10,000 words) 50% |
FM421 Applied Corporate Finance |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 80%, coursework 20% |
Department of Government courses: | |
GV441 States and Markets |
Old assessment: exam (January exam period) 100% |
Gender Institute courses: | |
GI402 Gender, Knowledge and Research Practice |
Old assessment: essay (2,500 words) 50%, research project 50% |
GI407 Globalisation, Gender and Development |
Old assessment: essay (4,000 words) 50%, essay (4,000 words) 50% |
GI409 Gender, Globalisation and Development: An Introduction |
Old assessment: essay (4,000 words) 100% |
GI414 Theorising Gender and Social Policy |
Old assessment: essay (2,500 words) 50%, take home exam 50% |
GI424 Gender Theories in the Modern World: An Interdisciplinary Approach |
Old assessment: take home exam 100% |
GI426 Gender and Human Rights |
Old assessment: in depth research and review report 50%, essay (2,000 words) 50% |
Department of Geography and Environment courses: | |
GY421 Gender and Development : Geographical Perspectives |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 75%, essay (2,500 words) 25% |
GY438 Cities and Social Change in East Asia |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 75%, essay (3,000) 25% |
GY454 Urban Policy and Planning |
Old assessment: essay (5,000 words) 100% |
GY455 Economic Appraisal and Valuation |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 100% |
GY462 Real Estate Finance |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 80%, presentation 20% |
Department of Health Policy courses: | |
HP401 Foundations of Health Policy (formerly SA447) |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 100% |
HP4B9E Dissertation in Health Economics, Policy and Management (formerly SA4E3) |
Old assessment: dissertation (5,000 words) 95%, research proposal 5% |
HP421 Economic Analysis for Health Policy in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (formerly SA4M6) |
Old assessment: essay (3,000 words) 25%, exam (main exam period) 75% |
HP4C1E Economic Analysis for Health Policy (formerly SA4M6E) |
Old assessment: essay (3,000 words) 50%, take home exam 50% |
HP4C2E Quality and Outcomes in Cardiovascular Sciences (formerly SA4M7E) |
Old assessment: essay (3,000 words) 50%, take home exam 50% |
HP405 Global Health Policymaking and Policy Change (formerly SA4N3) |
Old assessment: project 25%, exam (main exam period) 75% |
HP408 Financing Health Care: Comparative Perspectives (formerly SA4N4) |
Old assessment: essay (3,000 words) 25%, exam (main exam period) 75% |
Department of International Development courses: | |
DV407 Poverty |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 70%, essay (2,000 words) 30% |
DV431 Development Management |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 60%, project 40% |
DV453 Humanitarian Consultancy Project |
Old assessment: essay (1,500 words) 20%, presentation 5%, project 75% |
Department of International History courses: | |
HY423 Empire, Colonialism and Globalisation |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 50%, presentation 15%, essay (2,500 words) 25%, class participation 10% |
HY435 Political Islam: From Ibn Taymiyya to ISIS |
Old assessment: essay (3,000 words) 10%, essay (3,000 words) 15%, essay (3,000 words) 25%, class participation 15%, presentation 15% |
HY441 Islam, State and Conflict in Southeast Asia |
Old assessment: essay (3,000 words) 10%, essay (3,000 words) 25%, essay (3,000 words) 30%, presentation 15%, in class assessment 20% |
HY459 The Ottoman Empire and its Legacy, 1299-1950 |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 50%, in class assessment 50% |
Department of International Relations courses: | |
IR462 Introduction to International Political Theory |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 100% |
IR468 The Political Economy of Trade |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 100% |
Department of Law courses: | |
LL440 Corporate Law and Accounting |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 60%, essay (10,000 words) 40% |
Department of Management courses: | |
MG402 Public Management: A Strategic Approach |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 70%, essay (3,000 words) 30% |
MG404 Consumer Insights I: Behavioural Fundamentals |
Old assessment: essay (2,000 words) 40%, exam (main exam period) 50%, presentation 10% |
MG430 Strategy, Organisation and Innovation |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 90%, class participation 10% |
MG434 Organisational Behaviour |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 100% |
MG441 Foundations of Management (modular) |
Old assessment: class participation 15%, take home exam 85% |
MG463 CEMS Global Management Practice |
Old assessment: essay (2,000 words) 40%, project 40%, class participation 20% |
MG472 Global Strategy, Management and Information Systems |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 100% |
MG473 Negotiation Analysis |
Old assessment: negotiation journal/case 75%, preparation memo 15%, class participation 10% |
MG475 Organisational Theory |
Old assessment: project 30%, exam (main exam period) 60%, class participation 10% |
MG478 Globalisation and Human Resource Management |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 50%, essay (2,000 words) 40%, class participation 10% |
MG483 eHealth: Policy, Strategy and Systems |
Old assessment: coursework 20%, essay (5,000 words) 70%, class participation 10% |
MG493 Dissertation |
Old assessment: project 15%, dissertation 85% |
MG4D7 Dissertation: MSc MISDI (formerly MG4D9) |
Old assessment: dissertation (10,000 words) 100% |
MG4E2 Marketing Management |
Old assessment: essay 50%, project 40%, class participation 10% |
MG4E4 Analytic frameworks for policy evaluation |
Old assessment: essay (5,000 words) 90%, presentation 10% |
MG4E5 Governance, Markets and Competition in the Delivery of Public Services |
Old assessment: essay (5,000 words) 90%, presentation 10% |
MG4G3 Designing and Managing Change in the Public Sector (H) |
Old assessment: essay (4,000 words) 80%, presentation 20% |
Department of Mathematics courses: | |
MA429 (formerly MG4E1) |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 45%, project 45%, coursework 10% |
MA498 Dissertation in Mathematics |
Old assessment: dissertation 100% |
Department of Media and Communications courses: | |
MC408 Theories and Concepts in Media and Communications I (Key concepts and interdisciplinary approaches) |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 100%, |
MC411 Media and Globalization |
Old assessment: presentation 10%, coursework 30%, essay (2,000 words) 60% |
MC423 Global Media Industries |
Old assessment: essay (3,000 words) 90%, presentation 10% |
MC434 Digital Platforms and Media Infrastructures: Societal Issues |
Old assessment: essay 60%, presentation 40% |
Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method courses: | |
PH416 Philosophy, Morals and Politics |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 67%, essay (2,000 words) 33% |
PH427 Genes, Brains and Society |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 67%, essay (2,000 words) 33% |
PH430 Einstein for Everyone: From time travel to the edge of the universe |
Old assessment: exam (January exam period) 67%, essay (1,500 words) 33% |
PH431 Physics and the City: From Quantum Jumps to Stock Market Crashes |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 67%, essay (1,500 words) 33% |
Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science courses: | |
PS451 Cognition and Culture |
Old assessment: essay (3,000 words) 100% |
PS462 Theory and Practice of Organisational Development |
Old assessment: presentation 25%, essay (3,000 words) 75% |
Department of Social Policy courses: | |
SA4B3 MSc Global Population Health Dissertation |
Old assessment: dissertation (10,000 words) 100% |
SA4C8 Global Social Policy and International Organizations |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 75%, essay 25% |
SA4D3 Behavioural Economics and the Valuation of Health Outcomes |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 50%, essay (2,500 words) 50% |
SA4F1 Migration: Current Research, Critical Approaches |
Old assessment: coursework 25%, exam (main exam period) 75% |
SA4F8 Behavioural Public Policy |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 50%, essay (2,500 words) 50% |
SA4K6 Dissertation: MSc International Health Policy and MSc International Health Policy (Health Economics) |
Old assessment: dissertation (10,000 words) 100% |
Department of Sociology courses: | |
SO426 Classical Social Thought |
Old assessment: essay (5,000 words) 100% |
SO448 City Design: Research Studio |
Old assessment: studio portfolio 50%, individual tutor assessment 50% |
SO477 Urban Social Theory |
Old assessment: essay (5,000 words) 100% |
SO478 Social Scientific Analysis of Inequalities |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 50%, essay (3,000 words) 25%, essay (3,000 words) 25% |
SO4A1 Governing Cities in an Urban Age: Challenges and Opportunities |
Old assessment: presentation 30%, report 70% |
Department of Statistics courses: | |
ST429 Statistical Methods for Risk Management |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 75%, project 25% |
ST440 Recent Developments in Finance and Insurance |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 100% |
ST443 Machine Learning and Data Mining |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 70%, project 30% |
