Updated undergraduate summative assessment information 2018/19 - for current students
The following information provides undergraduate students with a summary of the changes to assessment weightings or types which have been made for the 2018/19 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.
Accounting | Anthropology | International Development | Economics | Economic History | Finance | Government | Geography and Environment | International History | International Relations | Law | Management | Methodology | Philosophy | Social Policy | Sociology | Statistics |
AC100 Elements of Accounting and Finance |
Old assessment: exam (195 minutes, summer exam period) 100% |
AC102 Element of financial Accounting |
Old assessment: exam (105 minutes, summer exam period) 100% |
AC103 Elements of Management Accounting, Financial Management and Financial Institutions |
Old assessment: exam (105 minutes, summer exam period) 100% |
AN100 Introduction to Social Anthropology |
Old assessment: essay (2,500 words) 15%, essay (2,500 words) 15%, exam (180 minutes, summer exam period) 70% |
AN101 Ethnography and Theory: Selected Texts |
Old assessment: essay (2,500 words) 15%, essay (2,500 words) 15%, exam (180 minutes, summer exam period) 70% |
AN200 The Anthropology of Kinship, Sex and Gender |
Old assessment: essay (2,500 words) 15%, essay (2,500 words) 15%, exam (180 minutes, summer exam period) 70% |
AN221 The Anthropology of Christianity |
Old assessment: essay (2,500 words, LT) 30%, take home exam (to be completed over 24 hours, ST) 70% |
AN223 The Anthropology of Southeast Asia |
Old assessment: take home exam (ST) 100% |
AN226 Political and Legal Anthropology |
Old assessment: essay (2,500 words) 15%, essay (2,500 words) 15%, exam (180 minutes, summer exam period) 70% |
AN237 The Anthropology of Development |
Old assessment: essay (2500 words) 30%, exam (120 minutes, summer exam period) 70% |
AN243 Children and Youth in Contemporary Ethnography |
Old assessment: essay (2500 words, LT) 30%, exam (120 minutes, summer exam period) 70% |
AN247 Anthropological Approaches to Questions of Being |
Old assessment: essay (2500 words, MT) 30%, exam (120 minutes, summer exam period) 70% |
AN250 The Anthropology of South Asia |
Old assessment: take home exam (ST) 100% |
AN256 Economic Anthropology (1): Production and Exchange |
Old assessment: essay (2500 words, LT) 30%, exam (120 minutes, summer exam period) 70% |
AN269 The Anthropology of Amazonia |
Old assessment: essay (2500 words, LT) 30%, exam (120 minutes, summer exam period) 70% |
AN276 Anthropology and the Anthropocene |
Old assessment: coursework (2500 words, LT) 30%, take home exam 70% |
AN298 Advanced Theory of Social Anthropology |
Old assessment: essay (5000 words, LT) 100% |
AN300 Advanced Theory of Social Anthropology |
Old assessment: essay (7200 words, LT) 100% |
AN301 The Anthropology of Religion |
Old assessment: essay (2500 words, LT) 15%, essay (2500 words, MT) 15%, exam (180 minutes, summer exam period) 70% |
AN357 Economic Anthropology (2): Transformation and Globalisation |
Old assessment: essay (2,500 words, LT) 30%, exam (120 minutes, summer exam period) 70% |
EC220 Introduction to Econometrics |
Old assessment: exam (summer exam period) 75%, exam (January exam period) 12.5%, coursework (MT) 12.5% |
EC221 Principles of Econometrics |
Old assessment: exam (summer exam period) 75%, exam (January exam period) 12.5%, coursework (MT) 12.5% |
EC317 Labour Economics |
Old assessment: exam (180 minutes and 15 minutes reading time, summer exam period) 100% |
EC331 Quantitative Thesis |
Old assessment: dissertation (up to 10,000 words, LT) 100% |
EH237 Theories and Evidence in Economic History |
Old assessment: project (3000 words, LT) 30%, exam (120 minutes, summer exam period) 70% |
EH211 Africa and the World Economy, 1500-2000 |
Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, summer exam period) 100% |
FM200 Financial Systems and Crises |
Old assessment: in-class assessment (MT) 30%, in-class assessment (MT) 70% |
FM301 Market Anomalies and Asset Management |
Old assessment: exam (90 minutes, summer exam period) 100% |
FM302 Theories of Corporate Finance |
Old assessment: exam (90 minutes, summer exam period) 100% |
FM304 Applied Corporate Finance |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, summer exam period) 100% |
FM305 Advanced Financial Economics |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, summer exam period) 100% |
FM320 Quantitative Finance |
Old assessment: project (MT) 10%, coursework (MT) 2.5%, exam (180 minutes, summer exam period) 87.5% |
FM321 Risk Management and Modelling |
Old assessment: exam (90 minutes, summer exam period) 100% |
FM322 Derivatives |
Old assessment: exam (90 minutes, summer exam period) 100% |
GV100 Introduction to Political Theory |
Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, summer exam period) 100% |
GV248 Power and Politics in the Modern World: Comparative Perspectives |
Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, summer exam period) 100% |
GV249 Research Design in Political Science |
Old assessment: essay (3000 words) 50%, exam (120 minutes, summer exam period) 50% |
GV262 Contemporary Political Theory |
Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, summer exam period) 100% |
GV307 Political and Ethnic Conflict and Coexistence: Key Debates |
Old assessment: essay (4000 words, May) 100% |
GV325 Advanced Issues in Political Economy (not available for the academic year 2018/19) |
Old assessment: coursework (MT week 9) 40%, exam (165 minutes, 15 minutes reading time, summer exam period) 40% |
GV342 Philosophy, Politics and Economics: Capstone and Research Project |
Old assessment: project (5000 words, MT) 30%, presentation (capstone project presentation, MT) 20%, presentation (poster, LT) 20%, research project (LT) 30% |
GY120 Environmental Change: Past, Present and Future |
Old assessment: essay (1500 words, LT) 15%, essay (2000 words, LT) 25%, exam (120 minutes, summer exam period) 60% |
GY121 Sustainable Development |
Old assessment: essay (LT) 25%, take home exam (ST week 1) 75% |
GY220 Environment: Science and Society |
Old assessment: essay (2000 words, LT) 25%, exam (180 minutes, summer exam period) 75% |
GY240 Research Techniques (Spatial, Social and Environmental) |
Old assessment: project (ST) 35%, project (LT) 50%, other (LT) 15% |
GY2A0 Research Techniques (Spatial, Social and Environmental) |
Old assessment: coursework (LT) 15%, project (LT) 50%, research project (ST) 35% |
GY350 Dissertation |
Old assessment: research project (LT) 100% |
HY243 Islamic Empires, 1400 - 1800 |
Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, summer exam period) 90%, class participation (MT and LT) 10% |
HY245 The United States and the World since 1776 |
Old assessment: essay (3000 words, LT) 25%, exam (180 minutes, summer exam period) 75% |
HY324 Muslim-Jewish Relations: History and Memory in the Middle East and Europe, 622-1945 |
Old assessment: essay (3000 words, LT) 35%, exam (120 minutes, summer exam period) 50%, presentation (MT and LT) 15% |
HY329 Independent India: Myths of Freedom and Development |
Old assessment: essay (3000 words, LT) 30%, essay (3000 words, ST) 35%, fieldwork video gobbet (MT and LT) 15%, document analysis (500 words, ST) 20% |
IR101 Contemporary Issues in International Relations |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, summer exam period) 50%, short opinion piece (MT) 10%, presentation (MT and LT) 10%, policy memo (LT) 30% |
IR205 International Security |
Old assessment: essay (2500 words, LT) 50%, exam (120 minutes, summer exam period) 50% |
IR321 Revolutions and World Politics |
Old assessment: coursework (LT) 10%, presentation (LT) 10%, essay (3000 words, ST) 80% |
IR347 Political Economy of International Labour Migration |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, summer exam period) 100% |
IR355 Economic Diplomacy |
Old assessment: essay (2000 words, MT) 30%, exam (120 minutes, summer exam period) 70% |
IR368 The Political Economy of Trade (H) |
Old assessment: essay (2000 words, LT) 30%, exam (120 minutes, summer exam period) 70% |
IR377 The Politics of Governance, Development and Security in Sub-Saharan Africa |
Old assessment: essay (2500 words, ST) 100% |
LL202 Commercial Contracts |
Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, 15 minutes reading time, summer exam period) 100% |
LL205 Medical Law |
Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, 15 minutes reading time, summer exam period) 100% |
LL210 Information Technology and the Law |
Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, 15 minutes reading time, summer exam period) 100% |
LL232 Law and Institutions of the European Union |
Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, 15 minutes reading time, summer exam period) 100% |
LL242 International Protection of Human Rights |
Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, 15 minutes reading time, summer exam period) 100% |
LL250 Law and the Environment |
Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, 15 minutes reading time, summer exam period) 100% |
LL251 Intellectual Property Law |
Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, 15 minutes reading time, summer exam period) 100% |
LL257 Employment Law |
Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, 15 minutes reading time, summer exam period) 100% |
LL272 Outlines of Modern Criminology |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, 15 minutes reading time, summer exam period) 100% |
LL284 Topics in Sentencing and Criminal Justice |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, 15 minutes reading time, summer exam period) 100% |
Language Centre courses: | |
LN270 Society and Language: Linguistics for Social Scientists |
Old assessment: presentation (500 words, MT) 10%, project (4000 words, ST) 30% exam (180 minutes, summer exam period) 60%, |
Department of Mathematics courses: | |
MA212 Further Mathematical Methods |
Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, summer exam period) 100% |
MG214 Human Resource Management |
Old assessment: project (MT) 40%, exam (120 minutes, summer exam period) 60% |
MG301 Strategy |
Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, summer exam period) 100% |
Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method courses: | |
PH101 Logic |
Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, summer exam period) 100% |
PH103 The Big Questions: An Introduction to Philosophy |
Old assessment: essay (1,500 words, LT) 50%, essay (1,500 words, ST) 50% |
PH341 Philosophy, Politics and Economics: Applications |
Old assessment: essay (2000 words, ST) 30%, exam (120 minutes, summer exam period) 50%, presentation (LT) 20% |
SA201 Research Methods for Social Policy |
Old assessment: essay (3,000 words, LT) 50%, project (5000 words, ST) 50% |
SA221 Poverty, Inequality, and Social Policy |
Old assessment: essay (1500 words, ST) 25%, exam (180 minutes, summer exam period) 75% |
SO210 Crime, Deviance and Control |
Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, summer exam period) 100% |
SO221 Researching London: Advanced Social Research Methods |
Old assessment: essay (1,500 words, LT) 20%, group presentation (LT) 30%, research proposal (ST) 50% |
SO233 Reactionary Radicalism: Populism and Authoritarianism in the 21st Century |
Old assessment: essay (2500 words, ST) 60% essay outline, annotated bibliography and thesis statement (LT) 20%, Presentation or poster (LT) 20% |
SO302 The sociological Dissertation |
Old assessment: research proposal (2000 words, MT) 10%, research project (10000 words, ST) 90% |
SO308 Personal Life, Intimacy and the Family |
Old assessment: essay (2,500 words, ST) 30%, project (3500 words, ST) 70% |
SO311 Law and Violence |
Old assessment: essay (4000 words, LT) 90%, class participation (MT) 10% |
ST211 Applied Regression |
Old assessment: project (ST) 50%, exam (120 minutes, summer exam period) 50% |