Updated graduate summative assessment information 2019/20 - for current students
The following information provides graduate students with a summary of the changes to assessment weightings or types which have been made for the 2019/20 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.
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AC411 Accounting, Strategy and Control |
Old assessment: essay (MT) 15%, project 15%, exam (120 minutes, 15 minutes reading time, January exam period) 70% New assessment: essay (MT) 20%, project 20%, exam (120 minutes, 15 minutes reading time, January exam period) 60% |
AC417 Corporate Financial Disclosure and Investor Relations |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, January exam period) 60%, class participation (LT) 20%, other (LT) 20% New assessment: exam (120 minutes, January exam period) 60%, other (LT) 40% |
AC444 Valuation and Security Analysis |
Old assessment: project (LT) 30% exam (120 minutes, summer exam period) 70% New assessment: exam (120 minutes, summer exam period) 50%, Project (LT) 40%, Class participation 10% |
AN402 The Anthropology of Religion |
Old assessment: essay (5000 words, LT) 50%, essay (5000 words, ST) 50% New assessment: exam (180 minutes, summer exam period) 100% |
AN405 The Anthropology of Kinship, Sex and Gender |
Old assessment: essay (5000 words, LT 50%, essay (5000 words, ST) 50% New assessment: essay (4000 words, LT) 50%, essay (4000 words, ST) 50% |
AN424 The Anthropology of Melanesia |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, summer exam period) 100% New assessment: essay (4000 words, ST) 100% |
AN451 Anthropology of Politics |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, summer exam period) 100% New assessment: essay (4000 words) 100% LT |
AN469 The Anthropology of Amazonia |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, summer exam period) 100% New assessment: take home exam (MT) 100% |
AN480 Public Anthropology |
Old assessment: research project (5000 words, LT) 100% New assessment: research project (4000 words, LT) 100% |
AN481 Health and Welfare: Anthropological Perspectives |
Old assessment: essay (5000 words, LT) 100% New assessment: essay (4000 words, LT) 100% |
DV407 Poverty |
Old assessment: presentation (MT) 15%, take home exam (ST) 85% New assessment: essay (2000 words, LT) 25%, exam (summer exam period) 75% |
DV410 Research Design and Dissertation in International Development |
Old assessment: coursework (1000 words, MT) 15%, coursework (3000 words, ST) 15%, dissertation (1000 words, ST) 70% New assessment: coursework (1000 words) 10.5%, coursework (3000 words, ST) 19.5%, dissertation (1000 words, ST) 70% |
DV415 Global Environmental Governance |
Old assessment: essay (2000 words, ST) 20%, exam (120 minutes, summer exam period) 80% New assessment: essay (2000 words, ST) 20%, take home exam (ST) 80% |
DV418 African Development |
Old assessment: essay (2000 words, ST) 20%, exam (120 minute, summer exam period) 80% New assessment: essay (2000 words, LT) 10%, exam (120 minute, summer exam period) 70%, other (LT) 20% |
DV421 Critical Perspectives on Global Health and Development |
Old assessment: exam (120 minute, summer exam period) 100% New assessment: essay (3000 words, ST) 100% |
DV423 Global Political Economy of Development |
Old assessment: exam (180 minute, summer exam period) 100% New assessment: take home exam (MT) 100% |
DV424 International Institutions and Late Development |
Old assessment: essay (4000 words, ST) 40%, exam (120 minute, summer exam period) 60% New assessment: essay (4000 words, LT) 40%, exam (120 minute, summer exam period) 60% |
DV428 Managing Humanitarianism |
Old assessment: take home exam 100% (ST) New assessment: take home exam 100% (LT) |
DV431 Development Management |
Old assessment: project (ST) 40%, exam (180 minute, summer exam period) 60% exam (180 minute, summer exam period) 75%, presentation (LT) 25% New assessment: project (LT) 40%, exam (180 minute, summer exam period) 60%, exam (180 minute, summer exam period) 75%, presentation (LT) 25% |
DV435 African Political Economy |
Old assessment: essay (3000 words, LT) 40%, exam (120 minutes, summer exam period) 60% New assessment: essay (2000 words, LT) 40%, exam (120 minutes, January exam period) 60% |
DV447 International Development, Youth and Gendered Violence |
Old assessment: essay (2000 words, LT) 20%, exam (120 minute, summer exam period) 80% New assessment: presentation 20%, case study 80% |
DV458 Key issues in Global Health and Development |
Old assessment: coursework (ST) 50%, exam (summer exam period) 50 % New assessment: exam (120 minutes, January period exam) 100% |
DV460 Bayesian Reasoning for Qualitative Social Science: A modern approach to case study inference |
Old assessment: project (3000 words, ST) 100% New assessment: project (3000 words, ST) 80%, in-class assessment (LT) 20% |
DV490 Economic Development Policy I: Applied Policy Analysis for Macroeconomic Development |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, summer exam period) 70%, in-class assessment (30%) |
DV510 Research Design and Proposal in International Development |
Old assessment: other (ST) 100% New assessment: research proposal (August) 100% |
EC421 International Economics |
Old assessment: essay (6000 words, ST) 50%, exam (120 minute, January exam period) 25%, exam (120 minute, 10 minute reading time, summer exam period) 25% New assessment: essay (6000 words, ST) 50%, essay (1500 words, LT) 25%, essay (1500 words ST) 25% |
EC423 Labour Economics |
Old assessment: essay (6000 words, ST) 50%, exam (120 minute, 15 minute reading time, January exam period) 25%, exam (120 minute, 15 minute reading time) 25% New assessment: essay (6000 words, ST) 50%, exam (120 minute, 15 minute reading time, summer exam period) |
EC424 Monetary Economics |
Old assessment: essay (6000 words, ST) 50% , exam (120 minute, 15 minute reading time, January exam period) 25%, exam (120 minute, 15 minute reading time, summer exam period) 25% New assessment: essay (6000 words, ST) 50%, exam ( 120 minute, 15 minute reading time, summer exam period) 50% |
EC426 Public Economics |
Old assessment: essay ( 6000 words, ST) 50%, exam (120 minute, January exam period) 25%, exam (120 minute, summer exam period) 25% New assessment : essay (6000 words, ST) 50%, exam (120 minute, summer exam period) 50% |
EC427 The Economics of Industry |
Old assessment: essay (6000 words, ST) 50%, exam (120 minute, January exam period) 25%, exam (120 minute, 10 minute reading time, summer exam period) 25% New assessment: essay (6000 words, ST) 50%, exam ( 120 minute, 15 minute reading time, summer exam period) 50% |
EC428 Development and Growth |
Old assessment: essay (6000 words, ST) 50%, exam (120 minute, 15 minute reading time, January exam period) 25%, exam (120 minute, 15 minute reading time, summer exam period) 25% New assessment: essay (6000 words, ST) 50%, exam ( 120 minute, 15 minute reading time, summer exam period) 50% |
EC442 Macroeconomics for MRes students |
Old assessment: Exam (100%, duration: 3 hours, reading time: 15 minutes) in the summer exam period. |
EC465 Economic Growth, Development, and Capitalism in Historical Perspective |
Old assessment: essay (5000 words, ST) 40%, exam (120 minute, January exam period) 30%, exam (120 minute, summer exam period) 30% New assessment: essay (6000 words, ST) 50%, exam (120 minute, 15 minute reading time, summer exam period) 50% |
EC53 Political Economy |
Assessment path 1: Old assessment: essay (6000 words, ST)50%, exam (120 minute, January exam period) 25%, exam (120 minute, summer exam period) 25% New assessment: essay (6000 words, ST) 50%, exam (120 minute, summer exam period) 50% Assessment path 2: Old assessment: exam (120 minute, January exam period) 50%, exam (120 minute, summer exam period) 50% New assessment: exam (180 minute, summer exam period) 100% |
EC475 Quantitative Economics |
Old assessment: exam (120 minute, January exam period) 50%, exam (120 minute, summer exam period) 50% New assessment: exam (120 minute, 15 minute reading time, summer exam period) 80%, other (MT) 10%, research proposal (LT) 80% |
EC476 Contracts and Organisations |
Old assessment: assessment 1: exam (120 minute, January exam period) 50%, exam (120 minute) 50%, assessment 2: essay (6000 words, ST) 50%, exam (120 minute, January exam period) 25%, exam (120 minute, summer exam period) 25% New assessment: assessment 1:exam (120 minute, 15 minute reading time, summer exam period) 100%, assessment 2: essay (6000 words, ST) 50%, exam (120 minute, 15 minute reading time, summer exam period) 50% |
EC487 Advanced Microeconomics |
Old assessment: exam (120 minute, January exam period) 50%, exam ( 120 minute, summer exam period) 50% New assessment: exam ( 120 minute, January exam period) 40%, exam (120 minute, summer exam period) 40%, other (MT and LT) 20% |
EC532 International Economics for Research Students |
Old assessment: exam (180 minute, 15 minute reading time, summer exam period) 100% New assessment: coursework (LT) 50%, coursework (MT) 50% |
EC539 Macroeconomics for Research Students |
Old assessment: exam (180 minute, summer exam period) 100% New assessment: other (MT, LT and ST) 100% |
EH402 Research Design and Quantitative Methods in Economic History |
Old assessment: exam (120 minute, January exam period) 100% New assessment: take home exam (January) 100% |
EH404 India and the World Economy |
Old assessment: essay (3000 words, ST) 100% New assessment: (5000 words, ST) 100% |
EH413 African Economic Development in Historical Perspective |
Old assessment: exam (120 minute, January exam period) 100% New assessment: exam (120 minute, summer exam period) 100% |
EH421 Economic History of Colonialism |
Old assessment: essay (3000 words, MT, Week 11) 100% New assessment: essay (5000 words, ST) 100% |
EH423 Japan and Korea as Developing Economies |
Old assessment: exam ( 120 minute, summer period exam) 100% New assessment: essay (5000 words, LT) 100% |
EH426 Quantitative Topics in Economic History I: Cross-section and panel data |
Old assessment: presentation (MT) 30%, essay (3000 words, LT) 70% New assessment: essay (5000 words, LT) 100% |
EH427 Quantitative topics in economic history II: time series and economic dynamics |
Old assessment: presentation (LT) 30%, essay (3000 words, ST) 70% New assessment: essay (5000 words, ST) 100% |
EH428 History of Economics: Making Political Economy into a Social Science |
Old assessment: essay (3000 words, LT) 100% New assessment: essay (5000 words, LT) 100% |
EH429 History of Economics: Ideas, Policy and Performativity |
Old assessment: essay (3000 words, ST) 100% New assessment: essay (5000 words, ST) 100% |
EH430 Monetary and Financial History |
Old assessment: essay (3500 words, LT) 50%, essay (3500 words, MT) 50% New assessment: essay (5000 words, LT) essay (5000 words, MT) 50% |
EH454 Human Health in History |
Old assessment: project (3000 words, LT) 50%, exam (120 minutes, summer exam period) 50% New assessment: project ( 5000 words, LT) exam (120 minute, summer exam period) 50% |
EH486 - Shipping and Sea Power in Asian Waters, c 1600-1860 |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, summer exam period) 100% New assessment: essay (2500 words) 30%, exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 70% |
EU430 Europeanization: The Comparative Politics of Domestic Change |
Old assessment: presentation (MT) 10%, essay (1500 words, MT) 30%, essay (3000 words, LT) 60% New assessment: essay (2000 words, LT) 40%, essay (3000 words, ST) 60% |
EU455 Concepts in Political Economy |
Old assessment: essay (2000 words, MT) 40%, class participation (MT) 10% online assessment (ST) 50% New assessment : online assessment (ST) 100% |
EU457 Culture and Security in Global Politics |
Old assessment essay (5000 words, ST) 80%, research proposal (LT) 20% New assessment: essay (2500 words, LT) project (2500 words, MT) 50% |
EU464 International Migration: EU Policies and Politics |
Old assessment: project (5000 words, ST) 90%, class participation (LT) 10% New assessment: project (5000 words, ST) 100% |
EU482 Europe in World Trade |
Old assessment: essay (2500 words, LT) class participation 10%, online assessment 50% New assessment: essay (5000 words, LT) 100% |
FM406 Topics in Portfolio Management |
Old assessment: coursework (LT) 30%, exam (120 minute, 10 minute reading time, summer exam period) 70% New assessment: coursework (LT) 20%, exam (120 minute, 10 minute reading time, summer exam period) 80% |
FM406E Topics in Portfolio Management |
Old assessment: coursework (LT) 30%, exam (120 minute, 10 minute reading time, summer exam period) 70% New assessment: coursework (MT) 20%, exam (120 minute, 10 reading time, summer exam period) 80% |
FM407E Mergers, Buyouts and Corporate Restructurings |
Old assessment: project (LT) 30%, exam (120 minute, 15 minute reading time, summer exam period) 70% New assessment: project (MT) 30% exam (120 minute, 15 minute reading time, summer exam period) 70% |
FM409E Risk Management in Financial Markets |
Old assessment: coursework (MT) 5% presentation (MT) 5%, exam (120 minute, summer exam period) 90% new assessment: coursework (LT) 10%, exam (120 minute, summer exam period) 90% |
FM414E Private Equity, Venture Capital and Entrepreneurial Finance |
Old assessment: coursework ( MT) 90%, class participation (MT) 10% New assessment: coursework ( LT) 90%, class participation ( LT) 10% |
FM422 Corporate Finance |
Old assessment: exam (120 minute, 15 minute reading time, summer exam period) 80%, in-class assessment (MT) 10%, in-class assessment (MT) 10% New assessment: exam (120 minute, 15 minute reading time, summer exam period) 80%, in-class assessment (MT) 20% |
FM422E Corporate Finance |
Old assessment: exam (120 minute, 15 minute reading time, summer exam period) 70%, in-class assessment (MT) 10%, in-class assessment (LT) 10%, class participation (MT and LT) 10% New assessment: exam (120 minute, 15 minute reading time, summer exam period) 70%, in-class assessment (MT and LT) 20%, class participation (MT and LT) 10% |
FM423 Asset Markets |
Old assessment: exam (120 minute, 10 minute reading time, summer exam period) 80%, in-class assessment (MT) 10%, in-class assessment (MT) 10% New assessment: exam (120 minute, 10 minute reading time, summer exam period) 80%, in-class assessment (MT) 20% |
FM423E Asset Markets |
Old assessment: exam (120 minute, 10 minute reading time, summer exam period) 70%, in-class assessment (MT) 10%, in-class assessment (LT) 10%, class participation (MT and LT) 10% New assessment: exam (120 minute, 10 minute reading time, summer exam period) 70%, in-class assessment (MT and LT) 20%, class participation (MT and LT) 10% |
FM436 Financial Economics |
Old assessment: exam (180 minute,15 minute reading time, summer exam period) 100% New assessment: coursework 20%, exam (180 minute, 15 minute reading time, summer exam period) 80% |
FM442 Quantitative Methods for Finance and Risk Analysis |
Old assessment: project (2000 words, MT) 20%, presentation (MT) 5%, exam (90 minutes Summer exam period) 75% New assessment: project (2000 words, MT) 30%, exam (90 minutes Summer exam period) 70% |
FM472 International Finance |
Old assessment: exam (120 minute, summer exam period) 100% New assessment: exam (120 minute, summer exam period) 80%, continuous assessment (LT) 10%, research project (LT) 10% |
FM4T4E Private Equity, Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship - Dissertation |
Old assessment: coursework (MT) 40%, dissertation (6000 words, LT) 50%, class participation (MT) 10% New assessment: coursework (MT) 40%, dissertation (6000 words, ST) 50%, class participation (MT) 10% |
FM4T6 Topics in Portfolio Management - Dissertation |
Old assessment: coursework (LT) 30%, essay (6000 words, ST) 70% New assessment: coursework 20%, LT essay (6000 words) 80% |
FM4T6E Topics in Portfolio Management - Dissertation |
Old assessment: coursework (LT) 30%, essay (6000 words) 70% New assessment: coursework (MT) 20%, dissertation (6000 words, ST) 80% |
FM4U2 Quantitative Methods for Finance and Risk Analysis (Dissertation) |
Old assessment: project (2000 words, MT) 30%, dissertation (6000 words, ST) 70%, presentation (MT) 5% New assessment: dissertation (6000 words, ST) 80%, coursework (MT) 20% |
FM4U5E Fixed Income Securities and Credit Markets - Dissertation |
Old assessment: coursework (LT) 20%, dissertation (6000 words, ST) 80% New assessment: coursework (MT) 20%, dissertation (6000 words, ST) 80% |
FM4U7E Mergers, Buyouts and Corporate Restructurings - Dissertation |
Old assessment: coursework (LT) 30%, dissertation (6000 words, ST) 70% New assessment: coursework (MT) 30%, dissertation (6000 words, ST) 70% |
FM4U9E Risk Management in Financial Markets - Dissertation |
Old assessment: coursework (ST) 5%, dissertation (6000 words, ST) 90%, presentation 5% New assessment: coursework (LT) 10%, dissertation (6000 words, ST) 90% |
GI417 Gender, Population, and Policy |
Old assessment: essay (4000 words, ST) 100% New assessment: project (4000 words, ST) 100% |
GI422 Sexuality, Gender and Globalisation |
Old assessment: essay (3000 words, ST) 50% , conference paper (LT), critical evaluation (2000 words MT)20% New assessment: essay (3000 words, ST) 50% , conference paper (LT), critical evaluation (1500 words MT) 20% |
GY404 Inclusive Growth |
Old assessment: exam (180 minute, summer exam period) 75%, other 25% New assessment: exam (120 minute, summer exam period) 100% |
GY427 Climate Change: Science, Economics and Policy |
Old assessment: exam (120 minute, summer exam period) 100% New assessment: take home exam (MT and LT) 100% |
GY438 Cities and Social Change in East Asia |
Old assessment: coursework (1000 words, ST) 25%, essay (3000 words, ST) 60%, class participation (LT) 15% New assessment: coursework (1500 words, ST) 30%, essay (3000 words, ST) 60%, class participation (LT) 10% |
GY441 The Politics of Housing |
Old assessment: essay (5000 words, ST) 80%, presentation (ST) 20% New assessment: essay (5000 words, ST) 80%, presentation (LT) 20% |
GY452 Urban Research Methods |
Old assessment: presentation 20% essay (2500 words, LT) 60%, research proposal (ST) 20% New assessment: presentation (ST) 20%, essay (2500 words. LT)60%, research proposal (ST) 20% |
GY459 Urban Theory and Policy in the Global South |
Old assessment: essay (2500 words, LT) 25%, exam (120 minute, summer exam period) 75% New assessment: essay (2500 words, LT) 50%, exam (120 minute, summer exam period) 50% |
GY470 Urban Africa |
Old assessment: coursework (1500 words, LT) 40%, essay (3000 words, ST) 60% New assessment: essay (5000 words, LT) 100% |
GY479 Urban Transformations |
Old assessment: essay (5000 words, LT) 100% New assessment: essay (5000 words, LT) 90%, class participation (MT) 10% |
GV441 States and Markets |
Old assessment: exam (120 minute, summer exam period) 100% New assessment: exam (120 minute, January exam period) 100% |
GV467 Introduction to Comparative Politics |
Old assessment: exam (120 minute, January exam period) 100% New assessment: essay (LT) 100% |
GV477 Comparative Public Policy Change |
Old assessment: essay (2500 words) 25%, exam (120 minute, summer exam period) 75% New assessment: essay (3000 words) 50%, exam (120 minute, summer exam period) 50% |
GV4A5 International Migration and Immigration Management |
Old assessment: exam (120 minute, summer exam period) 90%, in-class assessment (MT) 10% New assessment: exam (120 minute, summer exam period) 100% |
GV4F5 Advanced Study of Key Political Thinkers |
Old assessment: essay (4000 words) 100% New assessment: essay 90%, class participation 10% |
GV4H6 Behavioural Political Economy |
Old assessment: essay (5000 words, ST) 50%, ST exam (120 minute, summer period exam) 50% New assessment: essay (5000 words, ST) 50%, take home exam 50% |
GV4J6 Game Theory for Research |
Old assessment: presentation (LT) 30%, exam (120 minute, summer exam period) 40%, other (ST) 30% New assessment: essay (MT Week 11) 50%, presentation (MT week 11) 50% |
GV4K1 Transparency and Accountability in Government |
Old assessment: presentation (LT) 10%, essay (3000 words, ST) 90% New assessment: presentation (ST) 10%, essay (3000 words, ST) 90% |
GV513 Qualitative Methods in the Study of Politics |
Old assessment: essay (2500 words, MT) 30%, project (3000 word, LT) 70% New assessment: essay (2500 words, LT) 30%, project (3000 words, ST) 70% |
GV5X2 Research Paper in Comparative Politics |
Old assessment: research paper (Either a 5,000 word research paper (for a half-unit course) or a 10,000 word research paper (for a full-unit course), to be submitted on Tuesday Week 1 of the subsequent term. 100% New assessment: research paper (A 10,000 word research paper to be submitted on Tuesday Week 1 of the subsequent term 100% |
GV5X3 Research Paper in European Politics and Policy |
Old assessment: research paper (Either a 5,000 word research paper (for a half-unit course) or a 10,000 word research paper (for a full-unit course), to be submitted on Tuesday Week 1 of the subsequent term. 100% New assessment: research paper (A 10,000 word research paper to be submitted on Tuesday Week 1 of the subsequent term. 100% |
GV5X4 Research Paper in Global Politics |
Old assessment: research paper (Either a 5,000 word research paper (for a half-unit course) or a 10,000 word research paper (for a full-unit course), to be submitted on Tuesday Week 1 of the subsequent term. 100% New assessment: research paper (A 10,000 word research paper to be submitted on Tuesday Week 1 of the subsequent term. 100% |
GV5X5 Research Paper in Political Science and Political Economy |
Old assessment: research paper (Either a 5,000 word research paper (for a half-unit course) or a 10,000 word research paper (for a full-unit course), to be submitted on Tuesday Week 1 of the subsequent term. 100% New assessment: research paper (10,000 word research paper to be submitted on Tuesday Week 1 of the subsequent term.100% |
GV5X6 Research Paper in Political Theory |
Old assessment: research paper (Either a 5,000 word research paper (for a half-unit course) or a 10,000 word research paper (for a full-unit course), to be submitted on Tuesday Week 1 of the subsequent term. 100% New assessment: research paper (10,000 word research paper to be submitted on Tuesday Week 1 of the subsequent term.100% |
GV5X7 Research Paper in Public Policy and Administration |
Old assessment: research paper (Either a 5,000 word research paper (for a half-unit course) or a 10,000 word research paper (for a full-unit course), to be submitted on Tuesday Week 1 of the subsequent term.100% New assessment: research paper (A 10,000 word research paper to be submitted on Tuesday Week 1 of the subsequent term. 100% |
HP400 Financing Health Care |
Old assessment: exam (120 minute, summer exam period) 100% New assessment: exam (90 minute, summer exam period) 70%, research project (LT) 30% |
HP425 Statistical Methods in Health Care Economic Evaluation |
Old assessment: essay (2500 words, LT) 50%, project (2500 words, LT) 50% New assessment: project (3500 words, ST) 100% |
HP426 Applied Health Econometrics |
Old assessment: coursework (2500 words, MT) 50%, essay (2500 words, LT) 50% New assessment: project (3500 words) 100% |
HP429 Behavioural Incentive Design in Health and Health Care |
Old assessment: project: (4500 words) 50%, MT week 8 exam (120 minute, summer exam period) 50% New assessment: project (4000 words, MT) 50%, week 8 take home exam (LT) 50% |
HP4A1E Financing Health Care |
Old assessment: take home exam (ST) 100% New assessment: policy memo (LT) 30%, take home exam (ST) 70% |
HP4A2E Health Administration and Management |
Old assessment: presentation 25%, June essay (3000 words, August) 75% New assessment: presentation (ST) 25%, essay (3000 words, ST) 75% |
HP4A3E Resource Allocation and Cost-effectiveness Analysis |
Old assessment: take home exam (August) 100% New assessment: take home exam (July) 100% |
HP4C1E Economic Analysis for Health Policy |
Old assessment: other 30%, other 70% New assessment: presentation 30%,essay 70% |
HP4C5E Using Health Economics to Analyse and Inform Policy and Practice |
Old assessment: essay (3500 words, LT) 100% New assessment: essay (5000 words, LT) 100% |
HP4D5E Research Design for Evaluating Health Programs and Policies |
Old assessment: presentation (post-summer term) 30%, research project 70% New assessment: research project (post-summer term) 100% |
HP4E1E Global Health Policy |
Old assessment: presentation (MT) 15%, essay (4000 words, LT) 85% New assessment: essay (4000 words, LT) 100% |
HP4E5E Economics of the Pharmaceutical Sector |
Old assessment: essay (4000 words, MT) 100% New assessment: essay (4000 words, LT 100% |
HP4F1E Introduction to Evaluation in Healthcare |
Old assessment: presentation (April) 30%, project (3000 words, post - summer term) 70% New assessment: project (3000 words, post- summer term) 100% |
HY435 Political Islam: From Ibn Taymiyya to ISIS |
Old assessment: essay (3500 words, LT) 35%, essay (3500 words, ST) 35%, class participation 15%, (MT and LT) presentation (MT and LT) 15% New assessment: essay (3500 words, LT) 35%, essay (3500 words, LT) 35%, class participation (MT and LT) 15%, presentation (MT and LT) 15% |
HY448 Living with the Bomb: An International History of Nuclear Weapons and the Arms Race from the Second World War to the end of the Cold War |
Old assessment: essay (3000 words, LT ) 25%, essay (3000 words, ST) 25%, exam (120 minute, summer exam period) 50%, New assessment: essay (3000 words, LT) 25%, essay (300 words, LT) exam, (120 minute, summer exam period) 50% |
HY459 The Ottoman Empire and its Legacy, 1299-1950 |
Old assessment: exam (180 minute, summer exam period) 70%, class participation (MT and LT) 15%, presentation (MT and LT) 15% New assessment: essay (3000 words, LT) 35%, exam (120 minute, summer exam period) 50%, presentation (MT and LT) 15% |
IR418 International Politics: Asia & the Pacific |
Old assessment: exam (180 minute, summer exam period) 100% New assessment: coursework (2000 words, LT) 40%, exam (120 minute, summer exam period) 60% |
IR449 Conflict and Peacebuilding |
Old assessment: essay (5000 words, ST) 100% New assessment: essay (2500 words, LT) 35%, essay (4000 words, ST) 55%, in-class participation (MT and LT) 10% |
IR455 Economic Diplomacy |
Old assessment: essay (2000 words, MT) 30%, exam (120 minute, summer exam period) 70% New assessment: essay (3000 words, LT) 40%, exam (120 minute, summer exam period) 40%,class participation (LT) 20% |
IR462 International Political Theory |
Old assessment: essay (4000 words, January) 100% New assessment: essay (4000 words, LT) 100% |
IR468 - The Political Economy of Trade |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, summer exam period) 70%, essay (2000 words, LT) 30% |
IR469 - Politics of Money in the World Economy |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, summer exam period) 100% New assessment: exam (120 minutes, January exam period) 100% |
IR472 Nuclear Non-proliferation and World Politics (Advanced Topics in International Relations) |
Old assessment: essay (5000 words, ST) 100% New assessment: essay (4000 words, ST) 100% |
IR474 Revolutions and World Politics |
Old assessment: essay (4000 words, ST) 70%, blog post (LT)15%, presentation (LT) 15% New assessment: essay (4000 words, MT) 70%, blog post (MT)15%, presentation (MT)15 % |
IR476 Gender and Political Violence |
Old assessment: essay (5000 words, ST) 100% New assessment: essay (4000 words, ST) 100% |
IR480 Globalisation and the State in Developing Countries |
Old assessment: essay (4000 words, ST) 90%, other (LT) 10% New assessment: essay (2500 words, ST) 90%, other (LT) 10% |
IR499 Dissertation in International Relations |
Old assessment: dissertation (1000 words, LT) 100% New assessment: dissertation (1000 words, August) 100% |
LL4CO Taxation of Wealth |
Old assessment: essay (3000 words, ST) 50%, essay (3000 words, ST) 50% New assessment: essay (6000 words, ST) 100% |
MG402 Public Management: A Design-Oriented Approach |
Old assessment: essay (2500 words, LT) 50%, class participation (LT) 10%, case analysis (ST) 40% New assessment: essay (2500 words) 45%, class participation 10%, case analysis (MT) 45% |
MG439 Organisational Behaviour for Master's in Management |
Old assessment: project (LT) 35%, class participation (LT) 15% take home exam (LT) 50% New assessment: project (LT) 30%, continuous assessment (LT) 25%, take home exam (LT) 45% |
MG456 Strategic Decision Making |
Old assessment: project (LT) 25%, essay (ST) 75% New assessment: presentation 25%, coursework (ST) 75% |
MG463 CEMS Global Management Practice |
Old assessment: essay (1500 words, LT) 30%, essay (1500 words, LT) 30%, project (LT) 40% New assessment: project (LT) 40%, project (LT) 50%, class participation 10% |
MA421 Advanced Algorithms |
Old assessment: coursework (ST) 25%, exam (150 minute, summer exam period) 75% New assessment: coursework (LT) 25%, exam (150 minute, summer exam period) 75% |
MA427 Mathematical Optimisation |
Old assessment: coursework 10%, exam (180 minute, summer exam period) 90% New assessment: exam (180 minute, summer exam period) 100% |
MG464 CEMS Global Business Strategy |
Old assessment: essay (2000 words, MT) 40% project (MT) 50%, class participation (MT) 10% New assessment: essay (2000 words, MT) 30%, class participation 20%, in-class assessment (MT) 50% |
MG466 Supply Chain Management |
Old assessment: essay (3000 words, LT) 70%, presentation (LT) 30% New assessment: essay (3000 words, LT) 50%, class participation (LT) 10%, continuous assessment (LT) 20%, presentation (LT) 20% |
MG467 Strategy and Change in Public Sector Management |
Old assessment: class participation (LT) 10%, policy memo (ST) 40%, policy memo (LT) 50% New assessment: essay (2500 words) 45%, class participation (LT) 10%, class analysis 45% |
MG477 Strategic Reward: Key Models and Practices |
Old assessment: essay (2000 words) 30%, exam (120 minute, summer exam period) 60%, class participation 10% New assessment: essay (2000 words) 50%, exam (120 minute, summer exam period) 50% |
MG4A9 Foundations of Business and Management for Human Resources |
Old assessment: essay (1500 words, LT) 25%, exam (120 minute, 10 minute reading time, summer exam period) 75% New assessment: essay (2000 words, LT) 50%, exam (120 minute, 10 minute reading time, summer exam period) 50% |
MG4B9 The World Trading System |
Old assessment: coursework (MT) 50%, class participation (MT) 10%, other (MT) 40% New assessment: coursework (LT) 50%, class participation (LT)10%, other (LT) 40% |
MG4E2 Marketing Management |
Old assessment: project (MT) 50%, exam (180 minute, summer exam period) 50% New assessment: project (MT) 45%, exam (180 minute, summer exam period) 45%, class participation 10% |
MG4F7 Business Analysis |
Old assessment: project (3000 words, MT) 35% exam (120 minute, summer exam period) 50%, class participation (MT) 15% New assessment: project (3000 words, MT) 35%, exam (120 minute, 15 minute reading time, summer exam period) 50%, class participation 15% |
MG4F8 Managerial Economics and Quantitative Measurement for Social Entrepreneurs |
Old assessment: exam (120 minute, 15 minute reading time, summer exam period) 90%, class participation (LT) 10% New assessment: essay (3000 words, LT) 90%, class participation (MT) 10% |
MG4H3E Social Impact and Its Evaluation |
Old assessment: case analysis 50%, take home exam 50% New assessment: coursework 50%, essay 50% |
MG4H5E The Altruistic Leader |
Old assessment: in-class assessment 15%, presentation 30%, case analysis 55% New assessment: coursework 30%, in-class assessment 15%, case analysis 55% |
MG4H6E The Hybrid Economy |
Old assessment: presentation 25%, take home exam 75%, New assessment: coursework 100% |
MC402 The Audience in Media and Communications |
Old assessment: essay (3000 word, LT) 100% New assessment: essay (3000 words, ST) 100% |
MC432 Strategic Communication in Practice: Professional Perspectives |
Old assessment: presentation (LT) 20%, project (2500 words, LT) 30%, essay (2000 words, ST) 50% New assessment: essay (3000 words, ST) 100% |
MC4M1 Methods of Research in Media & Communications (including Qualitative & Quantitative Analysis) |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, summer exam period) 20%, coursework (3000 words, ST) 80% |
MC4M2 Advanced Methods of Research in Media & Communications (including Qualitative & Quantitative Analysis) |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, summer exam period) 17%, exam (120 minutes, summer exam period), coursework (5000 words, ST) 66% |
MC5M2 Advanced Methods of Research in Media & Communications (including Qualitative & Quantitative Analysis) |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, summer exam period) 50%, exam (120 minutes, summer exam period) 50% |
MY426 Doing Ethnography |
Old assessment: essay (4000 words, LT) 100% New assessment: essay (4000 words, ST) 100% |
MY428 Qualitative Text and Discourse Analysis |
Old assessment: essay (4000 words, LT) 100% New assessment: essay (4000 words, ST) 90%, presentation (ST) 10% |
MY461 Social Network Analysis |
Old assessment: in-class assessment (LT) 50%, take home exam (LT) 50% New assessment: other (LT) 50%, take home exam (LT) 50% |
MY464 Introduction to Quantitative Methods for Media and Communications |
Old assessment: examination (120 minutes, summer exam period) 100% |
MY4M1 Foundations of Social Research 1 |
Old assessment: coursework 67%, Exam (120 minutes, summer exam period) 33% New assessment: examination (120 minutes, summer exam period) 33%, project (3000 words) 33%, class participation 4%, research proposal 10%, research design 20% |
MY4M2 Foundations of Social Research 2 |
Old assessment: coursework 67%, exam (120 minutes, summer exam period) 33% New assessment: examination (120 minutes, summer exam period) 33%, project (3000 words) 33%, class participation 4%, research proposal 10%, research design 20%. |
MY528 Qualitative Text and Discourse Analysis |
Old assessment: essay (4000 words, LT) 100% New assessment: essay (4000 words, ST) 90%, presentation (ST)10% |
MY561 Social Network Analysis |
Old assessment: in-class assessment (MT) 50%, take home exam (MT) 50% New assessment: other (LT) 50%, take home exam (LT) 50% |
MY565 Intermediate Quantitative Analysis |
Old assessment: exam (120 minute, summer exam period) 100% New assessment: (120 minute, January exam period) 100% |
MY570 Computer Programming |
Old assessment: in-class assessment (MT) 50%, take home exam (MT) 50% New assessment: in-class assessment (MT) 50% other MT 50% |
Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method courses: | |
PH458 Evidence and Policy |
Old assessment: essay (2000 words) 33%, exam (120 minute, summer exam period) 67% New assessment: essay (2000 words) 33%, January take home exam 67% |
Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science courses: | |
PB401 Contemporary Social and Cultural Psychology |
Old assessment: essay (5000 words, MT) 100% New assessment: coursework (1500 words, MT) 20%, essay (5000 words, MT) 80% |
PB402 Organisational Social Psychology |
Old assessment: essay (5000 words) 100% MT New assessment: coursework (1500 words) 20% MT essay (5000 words) 80% MT |
PB403 Psychology of Economic Life |
Old assessment: essay (1000 words, MT) 20%, essay (5000 words, MT) 80% New assessment: essay (1500 words) 20%, essay (2000 words, MT) 30%, essay (5000 words, MT) 50% |
PB404 The Social Psychology of Communication |
Old assessment: essay (5000 words, MT) 100% New assessment: coursework (1500 words, MT) 20%, essay (5000 words, MT) 80% |
PB450E Behavioural Science and Policy |
Old assessment: other (MT) 100% New assessment: essay (4000 words, MT) 100% |
PB452E Behavioural Science for Health |
Old assessment: essay (3000 words, ST) 75%, presentation (ST) 25% New assessment: essay (3000 words, ST) 100% |
PB457E Organisational Culture |
Old assessment: case study (ST) 100% New assessment: essay (3000 words, ST) 100% |
PB4A7 Quantitative Applications for Behavioural Science |
Old assessment other (ST) 100% New assessment: other (LT) 100% |
PP418 Globalisation and Economic Policy |
Old assessment: coursework 20%, exam (120 minute, 15 minute reading time, summer exam period) 70%, class participation 10% New assessment: coursework 50%, exam (120 minute, 15 minute reading time, summer exam period) 50% |
PP419 Advanced Empirical Methods for Policy Analysis |
Old assessment: project (2000 words, MT) 25%, exam (120 minute, January exam period) 75% New assessment: project (2000 words, LT) 25%, exam (120 minute, January exam period) 75% |
PP448 International Political Economy and Development |
Old assessment: policy memo (MT) 15%, presentation (MT) 15%, other (LT) 70% New assessment: policy memo (MT) 20%, presentation (MT) 20%, other (LT) 60% |
PP452 Applying Behavioural Economics for Social Impact: Design, Delivery, Evaluation and Policy |
Old assessment: exam (180 minute, 10 minute reading time, summer exam period) 100% New assessment: project (LT) 40%, other (ST) 60% |
PP478 Political Science for Public Policy |
Old assessment: essay (2000 words) 20%, exam (180 minute, 15 minute reading time, summer exam period) 60%, other (MT and LT) 20% New assessment: essay (2000 words, LT) 30%,exam (180 minute, 15 minute, reading time, summer exam period) 50%, other (MT and LT) 20% |
PP4B3E Executive MPP Capstone Project |
Old assessment: project (10000 words) 100% New assessment: presentation 20%, coursework 30%, project 50% |
PP4G3 Designing and Managing Change in the Public Sector |
Old assessment: essay (4000 words, LT) 70%, presentation (MT) 10%, other (MT) 20% New assessment: essay (3000 words, LT) 40% |
PP4J5 Fiscal Governance and Budgeting |
Old assessment: coursework (LT) 25%, take home exam (ST) 75% New assessment: coursework (MT) 25% other (LT) 75% |
PP4X6 Welfare Analysis and Measurement |
Old assessment: essay (2000 words, LT) 25%, exam (180 minute, 10 minute reading time, summer exam period) 75% New assessment: essay (2000 words, LT) 25%, exam (180 minute, 15 minute reading time, summer exam period) 75% |
SP401 - Understanding Policy Research |
Old assessment: essay (LT) 75%, other 75% |
SP415 - Urbanisation and Social Policy in the Global South |
Old assessment: essay 60%, exam 40% |
SP420 Understanding Policy Research (Advanced) |
Old assessment: essay (3000 words, ST) 25%, exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 75% |
SP475 - Riots, Disorder and Urban Violence |
Old assessment: coursework 40%, exam (120 minutes, 15 minutes reading time, Summer exam period) 50%, presentation 10% |
SO4A2E - Cities and Society: Design and Social Cohesion |
Old assessment: presentation (MT) 30%, essay (2000 words, MT) 70% |
ST440 - Recent Developments in Finance and Insurance |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, summer exam period) 90%, presentation 10% |
ST444 - Statistical Computing |
Old assessment: project (LT) 30%, exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 70% |
ST447 - Data Analysis and Statistical Methods |
Old assessment: project (MT) 30%, exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 70% |
