Updated graduate summative assessment information 2021/22 - 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 2021/22 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.

 

Some variation to mode of delivery and/or format of assessments may be required to respond to changes in public health advice and/or to account for the situation of students in attendance on campus and those studying online during the early part of the academic year. Students will be notified about any changes to assessment plans at the earliest opportunity.

 

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Department of Accounting courses:

AC416 - Topics in Financial Reporting

Old assessment:  exam (120 minutes, January exam) 60%, continuous assessment (MT) 10%, group project (MT) 30%
New assessment:  exam (120 minutes, January exam) 75%, continuous assessment (MT) 5%, group project (MT) 20%

Department of Anthropology courses:

AN442 - Supervised Reading Course and Fieldwork Preparation

Old assessment: fieldwork notes (MT) 100%
New assessment: research proposal (ST) 100%

AN467 - The Anthropology of South Asia

Old assessment: take-home assessment (LT) 100%
New assessment: take-home assessment (MT) 100%

AN471 - Qualitative and Quantitative Methods for Anthropologists

Old assessment: coursework (1000 words, MT) 15%, coursework (1000 words, MT) 15%, essay (3000 words, MT) 30%, presentation (MT) 15%, class participation (MT) 25%
New assessment: essay (3000 words, MT) 50%, essay (3000 words, MT) 50%

AN477 - Topics in the Anthropology of sub-Saharan Africa

Old assessment: take-home assessment (LT) 100%
New assessment: take-home assessment (MT) 100%

AN481 - Health and Welfare: Anthropological Perspectives

Old assessment: essay (5000 words, LT) 100%
New assessment: essay (4000 words, LT) 100%

Department of Economics courses:

EC402 - Econometrics

Old assessment: exam (2 hours, January exam period, 10 minutes reading time) 50%, exam (2 hours, summer exam period, 10 minutes reading time) 50%
New
assessment: exam (3 hours, January exam period, 10 minutes reading time) 50%, exam (3 hours, summer exam period, 10 minutes reading time) 50%

EC441 - Microeconomics for MRes students

Old assessment: exam (3 hours, reading time: 15 minutes) 100% in the summer exam period
New assessment: online exam (4 hours 15 minutes) 100% in the ST

EC442 - Macroeconomics for MRes students

Old assessment: exam (3 hours, reading time: 15 minutes) 75% in the summer exam period. Problem sets (25%) in the MT and LT.
New
assessment: online exam (4 hours 15 minutes) 75% in the ST. Problem sets (25%) in the MT and LT.

EC443 - Econometrics for MRes students

Old assessment: exam (3 hours, reading time: 15 minutes) 100% in the summer exam period.
New
assessment: online exam (4 hours 15 minutes) 100% in the ST.

EC475 - Quantitative Economics

Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period, 15 minutes reading time) 80%, report (MT) 10%, research proposal (LT) 10%.
New assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period, 15 minutes reading time) 50%, essay (6000 words) (ST) 50%

EC485 - Further Topics in Econometrics

Old assessment: exam (2 hours, January exam period) 50%, exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 50%,
New assessment: essay (2000 words, LT) 25%, exam (1 hour, January exam period) 25%, exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 50%

EC533 - Labour Economics for Research Students

Old assessment: exam (3 hours, summer exam period, 15 minutes reading time) 100%
New assessment: take-home assessment (ST) 100%

EC540 - Political Economy for Research Students

Old assessment: exam (3 hours, summer exam period, 15 minutes reading time) 100%
New assessment: essay (2000 words, ST) 100%

Department of Economic History courses:

EH401 - Historical Analysis of Economic Change

Old assessment: exam (2 hours, January exam period) 90%, class participation (MT) 10%
New assessment: take home assessment (LT) 90%, class participation (MT) 10%

EH446 - Economic Development of East and Southeast Asia

Old assessment: exam (70%, duration: 2 hours) in the summer exam period. essay (30%, 3500 words).
New assessment:
online take-home exam (2 weeks, ST) 70%, essay (30%, 3500 words).

EH452 - Latin American Development and Economic History

Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 100%
New assessment: online take-home exam (2 weeks, ST) 100%

EH463 - The Long-Run Analysis of Firms and Industries

Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 100%
New assessment: take-home assessment (ST) 100%

EH482 - The Origins of the World Economy: Europe and Asia, 1000-1800

Old assessment: essay (3000 words, LT) 30%, exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 70%
New assessment: essay (3000 words, LT), take-home assessment (ST) 70%

EH483 - The Development and Integration of the World Economy in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Old assessment: exam (3 hours, summer exam period) 100%
New assessment: take-home assessment (ST) 100%

European Institute courses:

EU430 - Europeanization: The Comparative Politics of Domestic Change

Old assessment: project (5000 words, LT) 100%
New assessment: essay (5000 words, LT) 100%

EU440 - The Balkans in Europe: Transition, Democratisation, Integration

Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 100%
New assessment: online assessment (ST) 100%

EU476 - Emotions and Memory in European Politics

Old assessment: essay (5000 words, LT) 100%
New assessment: essay (4000 words, between LT and ST) 100%

EU477 - Labour Markets and the Political Economy of Employment in Europe

Old assessment: project (4000 words, between LT and ST) 50%, exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 50%
New assessment: project (5000 words, LT) 100%

EU486 - Imaging Violence, Imagining Europe

Old assessment: essay (5000 words, ST) 100%
New assessment: essay (5000 words, LT) 100%

EU489 - Analytical Politics and Policymaking in Europe

Old assessment: essay (1000 words, LT) 10%, online assessment (ST) 90%
New assessment:
essay (MT) 10%, online assessment (ST) 90%

EU4A5 - Public Opinion in Europe

Old assessment: essay (5000 words, between MT and LT) 100%
New assessment: essay (5000 words, between LT and ST) 100%

Department of Finance courses:

FM408E - Financial Engineering

Old assessment: project (LT) 30%, exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 70%
New assessment: continuous assessment (LT) 100%

FM409 - Risk Management in Financial Markets

Old assessment: coursework (LT) 5%, presentation (LT) 5%, exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 90%
New assessment: continuous assessment (LT) 100%

FM436 - Financial Economics

Old assessment: coursework 20%, exam (3 hours, summer exam period) 80%
New assessment: exam (3 hours, summer exam period) 100%

Gender Institute courses:

GI418 - Feminist Economics and Policy: An Introduction

Old assessment: essay (4000 words, ST) 100%
New assessment: essay (3000 words, ST) 100%

GI429 - Archival Interventions: Feminist, Queer and Decolonial Approaches

Old assessment: project (4000 words, LT) 100%
New assessment: project (3000 words, LT) 100%

GI430 - Intersectional Inequalities in the Agro-Food System

Old assessment: essay (4000 words, LT Week 1) 100%,
New assessment: essay (3000 words, ST Week 1) 100%

Department of Government courses:

GV439 - Government and Politics in Central and Eastern Europe

Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 100%.
New assessment: online assessment (duration: 7 days, ST) 100%.

GV454 - Parties, Elections and Governments

Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 100%.
New assessment: online assessment (duration: 7 days, ST) 100%.

GV477 - Comparative Public Policy Change

Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 50%, essay (3000 words) 50%
New assessment: online assessment (7 days, ST) 50%, essay (3000 words, ST) 50%

GV481 - Quantitative Analysis for Political Science

Old assessment: coursework (LT) 50%, exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 50%
New assessment: online assessment (duration: 7 days, ST) 50%. coursework (LT) 50%.

GV482 - Political Science and Political Economy: Current Issues

Old assessment: coursework (LT) 50%, exam (c) 50%
New assessment: coursework (LT) 50%, online assessment (ST) 50%

GV488 - Law and Politics of Regulation

Old assessment: exam (3 hours, summer exam period) 75%, essay (2500 words, ST) 25%.
New assessment: Online assessment (duration: 7 days, ST) 75%, essay (2500 words, ST) 25%.

GV4A5 - International Migration and Immigration Management

Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 100%
New assessment: online assessment (duration: 7 days, ST) 100%.

GV4A8 - Political Violence and Terrorism

Old assessment: online assessment (January) 100%
New assessment: essay (5000 words, LT) 100%

GV4B9 - The Second Europe

Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 75%, essay (2500 words) 25%.
New assessment: online assessment (duration: 7 days, ST) 75%, essay (2500 words) 25%.

GV4C8 - Game Theory for Political Science

Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 100%
New assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 50%, problem sets (LT Week 1) 50%

GV4D3 - Local Power in an Era of Globalization, Democratization, and Decentralization

Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 50%, essay (3000 words) 50%.
New assessment: online assessment (duration: 7 days, ST) 50%, essay (3000 words) 50%.

GV4E9 - Approaches and Issues in Public Policy and Administration

Old assessment: exam (3 hours, summer exam period) 75%, essay (3000 words, LT) 25%.
New assessment: online assessment (duration: 7 days, ST) 75%, essay (3000 words, LT) 25%.

GV4F4 - Policy Advice in Theory and Practice

Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 50%, project (2500 words) 50%.
New assessment: online assessment (duration: 7 days, ST) 50%, project (2500 words) 50%.

GV4F9 - The Challenges of Governance in sub-Saharan Africa

Old assessment: essay (May) 100%
New assessment: essay (May) 80%, class participation 20%

GV4G1 - Applied Quantitative Methods for Political Science

Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 40%, group project (ST Week 1) 50%, presentation (LT Week 11) 10%
New assessment: online assessment (duration: 7 days, ST) 40%, group project (ST Week 1) 50%, Presentation (LT Week 11) 10%.

GV4G7 - Marx and Marxism

Old assessment: essay (3000 words) 80%, blog post 20%
New assessment: essay (4000 words) 100%

GV4H4 Foundations of Political Theory

Old assessment: essay (2,500 words, LT) 85%,  Blog post (up to 1000 words, MT) 15%
New assessment: essay (3000 words), LT 100%

GV4H5 Capitalism and Social Justice

Old assessment: essay (3000 words, LT) 80%, blog post or wiki entry (500 words, MT) 20%
New assessment: essay (4000 words) 100%

GV4J4 - Citizen Representation and Democracy in the European Union

Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 75%, essay (2500 words, LT) 25%.
New assessment: online assessment (duration: 7 days, ST) 75%, essay (2500 words, LT) 25%.

GV4K1 - Opening Government: Transparency, Accountability, and Participation

Old assessment: essay (ST) 90%, presentation (ST) 10%
New assessment: essay (ST) 90%, class participation (LT) 10%

GV504 - Research Methods in Political Theory

Old assessment: essay (4000 words, LT) 50%, essay (4000 words, ST) 50%
New assessment: essay (8000 words, ST) 100%

GV517 - Opening Government: Transparency, Accountability, and Participation

Old assessment: coursework (5000 words, LT)100%
New assessment: coursework (5000 words, ST)100%

Department of Geography and Environment courses:

GY400 - The Economics of Urbanisation

Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 70%, presentation (LT) 30%
New assessment: 48 hour take-home assessment (ST) 70%, presentation (LT) 30%

GY427 - Climate Change: Science, Economics and Policy

Old assessment: take-home assessment (between MT and LT) 100%
New assessment: take-home assessment (ST) 100%

GY439 - Cities, Politics and Citizenship

Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 100%
New assessment: online assessment (5 days, ST) 100%

GY446 - Planning for Sustainable Cities

Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 100%
New assessment: take-home assessment (72-hour, ST) 100%

GY447 - The Economics of Regional and Urban Planning

Old assessment: take-home assessment (ST) 100%
New assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 100%

GY454 - Urban Policy and Planning

Old assessment: essay (4000 words) 80%, presentation (LT) 20%
New assessment: essay (3000 words) 80%, presentation (LT) 20%

GY474 - Politics of Environment and Development

Old assessment: essay (ST) 100%
New assessment: Pathway one: essay (6000 words, post summer term) 100%.  Pathway two: essay (4000 words, LT) 100%

Department of Health Policy courses:

HP435 - Global Access to Medicines

Old assessment: essay (3000 words, LT) 70%, group presentation (MT) 30%
New assessment: essay (4000 words, LT) 100%

HP4A3E - Resource Allocation and Cost-effectiveness Analysis

Old assessment: coursework 20%, take-home assessment (LT and or ST) 80%
New assessment: take home assessment (ST) 100%

HP4B1E - Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy

Old assessment: essay (2000 words, LT) 80%, continuous assessment (LT) 20%
New assessment: take-home assessment (LT) 100%

HP4B3E - Measuring Health System Performance

Old assessment: essay (3000 words) 100%
New assessment: essay (3000 words) 75%, in-class assessment () 25%

HP4B7E - Advanced Health Economics

Old assessment: essay (2000 words) 80%, continuous assessment 20%
New assessment: essay (3000 words) 100%

HP4C3E - Economic Evaluation in Health Care

Old assessment: critical evaluation 80%, report 20%
New assessment: research project (ST) 100%

HP4C4E - Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Old assessment: essay (3000 words) 80%, continuous assessment 20%
New assessment: research project (ST) 100%

HP4D1E - Introduction to Management in Health Care

Old assessment: essay (2500 words) 100%
New assessment: essay (3000 words) 100%

HP4D2E - Principles of Health Technology Assessment

Old assessment: essay (2000 words) 80%, continuous assessment 20%
New assessment: research project (ST) 100%

HP4D5E - Research Design for Evaluating Health Programs and Policies

Old assessment: essay (2000 words) 80%, continuous assessment 20%
New assessment: essay (2500 words) 100%

Department of International Development courses:

DV407 - Poverty

Old assessment: essay (4000 words, ST) 100%
New assessment: essay (4000 words, LT) 100%

DV415 - Global Environmental Governance

Old assessment: essay (2000 words, ST) 20%, in-class assessment (ST) 80%
New assessment: online assessment (5 days, ST) 100%

DV418 - African Development

Old assessment: essay (2000 words, ST) 30%, exam (2 hours, summer period) 60%,  continuous assessment 10%
New assessment: essay (2000 words, LT) 10%, exam (2 hours, summer period) 70%, podcast 20%

DV420 - Complex Emergencies

Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 100%
New assessment: take-home assessment (ST) 100%

DV442 - Key Issues in Development Studies

Old assessment: essay (2000 words, LT) 20%, exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 80%
New assessment: online exam (100%) in LT

DV435 - African Political Economy

Old assessment: essay (4000 words, LT) 70%, summative short paper (MT) 30%
New assessment: essay (4000 words, LT) 100%

DV444 - Global Health Challenges: Epidemics, Disease, and Public Health Response

Old assessment: essay (4000 words, LT) 100%
New assessment: take-home assessment (LT) 100%

DV456 - Population, Health and Development: Evidence and Projections

Old assessment: coursework (LT) 85%, continuous assessment (MT) 15%
New assessment: coursework (LT) 90%, continuous assessment (MT) 10%

DV458 - Key issues in Global Health and Development

Old assessment: exam (2 hours, January exam period) 100%
New
assessment: online take-home exam (48 hour, January) 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%

DV472 - Covid-19 pandemic: health, socio-economic and political implications for development (Special Topics in International Development)

Old assessment: essay (4000 words, LT) 100%
New
assessment: take-home assessment (LT) 100%

DV480 - Revolution and Development

Old assessment: presentation (MT) 10%, research proposal (2000 words, MT) 20%, research project (6000 words, ST) 70%
New
assessment: Assessment path 1: presentation (MT) 10%, research proposal (2000 words, MT) 20%, research project (6000 words, ST) 70%. Assessment path 2: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 80%, presentation (MT) 20%

DV490 - Economic Development Policy I: Applied Policy Analysis for Macroeconomic Development

Old assessment: exam (2 hours, January exam period) 70%, in-class assessment (MT) 30%
New assessment: online exam (24 hour, January) 70%, in-class assessment (MT) 30%

Department of International History courses:

HY400 - Crisis Decision-Making in War and Peace 1914-2003

Old assessment: take-home assessment (ST) 100%
New assessment: exam (3 hours, summer exam period) 100%

HY411 - European Integration in the Twentieth Century

Old assessment: essay (LT) 25%, take-home assessment (ST) 75%
New assessment: essay (LT) 25%, exam (3 hours, summer exam period) 75%

HY422 - Presidents, Public Opinion, and Foreign Policy, from Roosevelt to Reagan, 1933-89

Old assessment: essay (4000 words, LT) 40%, essay (6000 words, ST) 60%
New assessment: exam (3 hours, summer exam period) 100%

HY432 - From Cold Warriors to Peacemakers: the End of the Cold War Era, 1979-1999

Old assessment: essay (4000 words, LT) 40%, essay (5000 words, ST) 60%
New assessment: essay (3000 words, LT) 40%, essay (4000 words, ST) 60%

HY436 - Race, Violence and Colonial Rule in Africa

Old assessment: essay (4000 words, LT) 40%, essay (6000 words, ST) 60%
New assessment: essay (4000 words, LT) 40%, essay (5000 words, ST) 60%

HY459 - The Ottoman Empire and its Legacy, 1299-1950

Old assessment: essay (3000 words, LT) 35%, exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 50%, presentation (MT and LT) 15%
New assessment: essay (400 words, LT) 50%, essay (4000 words, ST) 50%

HY461 - East Asia in the Age of Imperialism, 1839-1945

Old assessment: essay (3000 words, LT) 25%, take-home assessment (ST) 75%
New assessment: essay (LT) 25%, exam (3 hours, summer exam period) 75%

HY465 - The International History of the Balkans since 1939: State Projects, Wars, and Social Conflict

Old assessment: essay (3000 words, ST) 25%, exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 50%, class participation (MT and LT) 10%, presentation (MT and LT) 15%
New assessment: essay (3000 words, ST) 25%, exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 50%, class participation (MT and LT) 15%, presentation (MT and LT) 10%

HY483 - Land and Conflict in Latin America since 1750

Old assessment: essay (5000 words, ST) 50%, class participation (MT and LT) 15%, online assessment (MT and LT) 35%
New assessment: essay (3000 words, LT) 30%, essay (5000 words, ST) 50%, class participation (MT and LT) 20%

Department of International Relations courses:

IR412 - International Institutions

Old assessment: essay (4000 words, ST) 100%
New assessment: essay (4000 words, LT) 100%

IR419 - International Relations of the Middle East

Old assessment: exam (3 hours, summer exam period) 100%
New assessment: take-home assessment (ST) 100%

IR434 - European Defence and Security

Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 100%
New assessment: take-home assessment (January) 100%

IR445 - Global Politics of China

Old assessment: exam (3 hours, summer exam period) 100%
New assessment: take-home assessment (ST) 100%

IR453 - Global Business in International Relations

Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 100%
New assessment: take-home assessment (ST) 100%

IR467 - Global Environmental Politics

Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 100%
New assessment: take-home assessment (ST) 100%

IR468 - The Political Economy of Trade

Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 100%
New assessment: take-home assessment (ST) 100%

IR469 - Politics of Money in the World Economy

Old assessment: take-home assessment (LT) 100%
New assessment: take-home assessment (January) 100%

IR470 - International Political Economy

Old assessment: take-home assessment (LT) 100%
New assessment: essay (2500 words, LT) 100%

IR471 - Critical International Law

Old assessment: Exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 100%
New assessment: essay (5000 words, ST) 100%

IR475 - Gender/ed/ing International Politics

Old assessment: coursework (LT) 35%, essay (4000 words, ST) 65%
New assessment: coursework (LT) 25%, essay (4000 words, LT) 75%

IR479 - Russia in World Politics

Old assessment: essay (5000 words, ST) 80%, class participation (LT) 20%
New assessment: essay (5000 words, LT) 80%, class participation (MT) 20%

IR480 - The Politics of Inequality, Development and the State

Old assessment: essay (2500 words, ST) 90%, continuous assessment (LT) 10%
New assessment: presentation (MT) 10%, take-home assessment (LT) 90%

Department of Management courses:

MG402 - Public Management: A Design-Oriented Approach

Old assessment: essay (2500 words, ST) 45%, case analysis (LT) 45%, class participation (LT) 10%
New assessment: essay (3000 words, ST) 45%, case analysis (ST) 45%, class participation (LT) 10%

MG406E - Behavioural Decision Science

Old assessment: coursework (3000 words, LT) 100%
New assessment: coursework (3000 words, MT) 100%

MG439 - Organisational Behaviour for Master's in Management

Old assessment: continuous assessment (LT) 35%, take-home assessment (LT) 65%
New assessment: continuous assessment (LT) 30%, project (LT) 40%, case analysis (LT) 30%

MG458 - Foundations of Management I: Organisations and Management Theory

Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 75%, case study (MT) 25%
New assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 60%, case study (MT) 40%

MG460 - Emergencies Management: Humanitarian Intervention and Digital Innovation

Old assessment: essay (3000 words, LT) 60%, project (5000 words, LT) 30%, class participation (LT) 10%
New assessment: essay (3000 words, LT) 55%, project (5000 words, LT) 30%, class participation (LT) 15%

MG463 - CEMS Global Leadership

Old assessment: project (LT) 40%, project (LT) 50%, class participation 10%
New assessment: project (LT) 40%, essay (LT) 50%, class participation 10%

MG471 - Chinese Economy: Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Growth

Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 50%, class participation (LT) 10%, group presentation (LT) 30%, research paper (LT) 10%
New assessment: essay (LT) 50%, class participation (LT) 10%, group presentation (LT) 40%

MG472 - Management and Socioeconomics of Digital Innovation

Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 80%, coursework (MT) 20%
New assessment: exam (3 hours,  summer exam period) 100%

MG4B1 - Corporate Strategy

Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 90%, class participation 10%
New assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 80%, class participation 20%

MG4B7 - Organisational Change

Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 100%
New assessment: case analysis (LT) 20%, case analysis (ST) 80%

MG4F1 - Marketing Action Learning Project

Old assessment: project (August) 95%, class participation (LT and ST) 5%
New assessment: project (August) 100%

MG4F7 - Business Analysis

Old assessment: project (3000 words, MT) 35%, exam (2 hours, January exam period) 50%, continuous assessment (MT) 15%
New assessment: project (3000 words, MT) 20%, exam (2 hours, January exam period) 70%, continuous assessment (MT) 10%

MG4F9 - Organisational Behaviour and Marketing for Social Entrepreneurs

Old assessment: essay (2000 words, LT) 45%, project (2500 words, MT) 45%, class participation (MT) 10%
New assessment: essay (2000 words, LT) 45%, take-home assessment (2500 words, LT) 45%, class participation (MT) 10%

MG4G2 - Social Innovation Design

Old assessment: essay (1500 words, ST) 45%, project (LT) 45%, class participation (LT) 10%
New assessment: essay (1500 words, ST) 35%, project (LT) 35%, class participation (LT) 10%, class participation (LT) 10%, learning log (LT) 10%

MG4J2 - Designing Innovative Social Enterprises

Old assessment: essay (1800 words, MT) 50%, project (3500 words, MT) 50%
New assessment: essay (1800 words, MT) 50%, project (LT) 50%,

MG4J6 - Brand Strategy

Old assessment: coursework (LT) 45%, project (LT) 45%, class participation (LT) 10%
New assessment: coursework (LT) 50%, project (LT) 40%, class participation (LT) 10%

MG522 - Research Traditions and Paradigms in IS and Organisations

Old assessment: essay (7000 words, LT) 100%
New assessment: essay (7000 words, ST) 100%

MG599 - Research Proposal Paper in Management

Old assessment: coursework (15000 words, LT) 100%
New assessment: coursework (15000 words, MT) 100%

Department of Mathematics courses:

MA407 - Algorithms and Computation

Old assessment: coursework (MT) 15%, coursework (LT) 25%, exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 50%, continuous assessment 10%
New assessment: coursework (MT) 25%, exam (2.5 hours, summer exam period) 65%, continuous assessment 10%

MA408 - Contemporary Discrete Mathematics

Old assessment: coursework (MT) 25%, exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 75%
New assessment: coursework (MT) 15%, coursework (LT) 10%, exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 75%

MA411 - Probability and Measure

Old assessment: online assessment (ST) 100%
New assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 100%

MA417 - Computational Methods in Finance

Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 50%, project (ST) 50%
New assessment: coursework (ST) 100%

MA421 - Advanced Algorithms

Old assessment: coursework (LT) 35%, exam (2.5 hours, summer exam period) 65%
New assessment: coursework (between LT and ST) 25%, exam (2.5 hours, summer exam period) 65%, continuous assessment (LT) 10%

MA424 - Modelling in Operations Research

Old assessment: project (LT) 100%
New assessment: project (LT) 50%, project (LT) 50%

MA428 - Combinatorial Optimisation

Old assessment: coursework (LT) 10%, take-home assessment (ST) 90%
New assessment: exam (3 hours, summer exam period) 100%

MA429 - Algorithmic Techniques for Data Mining

Old assessment: coursework (LT) 10%, project (ST) 40%, exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 50%
New assessment: continuous assessment (LT) 10%, project (ST) 40%, exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 50%

MA431 - Advanced Topics in Operations Research and Applicable Mathematics

Old assessment: pathway 1: coursework (LT) 50%, exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 50%. Pathway 2: coursework (LT) 50%, project (ST) 50%
New assessment: pathway 1: exam (3 hours, summer exam period) 100%.  Pathway 2: project (ST) 100%

Department of Media and Communications courses:

MC420 - Identity, Transnationalism and the Media

Old assessment: essay (3000 words, LT) 80%, project (500 words, MT) 20%
New assessment: essay (3000 words, ST) 100%

MC421 - Critical Approaches to Media, Communication and Development

Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 100%
New assessment: take-home assessment (ST) 100%

MC423 - Global Media Industries

Old assessment: essay (3000 words, ST) 80%, case study (LT) 20%
New assessment: essay (3000 words, LT) 80%, case study (MT) 20%

MC432 - Strategic Communication in Practice: Professional Perspectives

Old assessment: essay (3000 words, ST) 100%
New assessment: project (5000 words, ST) 100%

MC439 - Media, Technology, and the Body

Old assessment: essay (3000 words, ST) 100%
New assessment: essay (3000 words, ST) 90%, class participation 10%

MC4M1 - Methods of Research in Media & Communications (including Qualitative & Quantitative Analysis)

Old assessment: online assessment 20%, coursework (ST) 80%
New assessment: exam (2 hours, January exam period) 20%, coursework (ST) 80%

MC4M2 - Advanced Methods of Research in Media & Communications (including Qualitative & Quantitative Analysis)

Old assessment: online assessment 17%, coursework (ST) 66%, take-home assessment (ST) 14%, continuous assessment (LT) 3%
New assessment: exam (2 hours, January exam period) 17%, coursework (ST) 66%, exam (2 hours, January exam period) 14%, continuous assessment (LT) 3%

MC4M8 - Advanced Methods of Research in Media & Communications (including Qualitative & Advanced Quantitative Analysis)

Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 17%, take-home assessment (2 hours, summer exam period) 14%, coursework (ST) 66%, continuous assessment (MT) 3%
New
assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 17%,  exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 14%, coursework (ST) 66%, continuous assessment (MT) 3%

MC5M2 - Advanced Methods of Research in Media & Communications (including Qualitative & Quantitative Analysis)

Old assessment: Online assessment 100%
New
assessment: exam (2 hours, January exam period) 100%

Department of Methodology courses:

MY428 - Qualitative Text and Discourse Analysis

Old assessment: research proposal (ST) 100%
New assessment: research project (4000 words, ST) 100%

MY451L - Introduction to Quantitative Analysis

Old assessment: continuous assessment (MT & LT) 20%, exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 80%
New assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 100%

MY451M - Introduction to Quantitative Analysis

Old assessment: continuous assessment (MT & LT) 20%, exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 80%
New assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 100%

MY459 - Special Topics in Quantitative Analysis: Quantitative Text Analysis

Old assessment: coursework (2000 words, LT) 60%, project (3000 words, ST) 40%
New assessment: problem sets (LT) 60%, project (3000 words, ST) 40%

MY464 - Introduction to Quantitative Methods for Media and Communications

Old assessment: online assessment 100%
New assessment: exam (2 hours, January exam period) 100%

MY465 - Intermediate Quantitative Analysis

Old assessment: continuous assessment (MT) 20%, exam (2 hours, January exam period) 80%
New assessment: exam (2 hours, January exam period) 100%

MY474 - Applied Machine Learning for Social Science

Old assessment: in-class assessment (LT) 40%, quiz (LT) 30%, report (ST) 20%, take-home assessment (ST) 10%
New assessment: problem sets (LT) 40%, quiz (LT) 30%, report (ST) 20%, take-home assessment (ST) 10%

MY4M1 - Foundations of Social Research 1

Old assessment: project (3000 words, ST) 33%, class participation (MT) 4%, continuous assessment (MT and LT) 7%, research design (ST) 20%, research proposal (MT) 10%, exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 26%
New assessment: project (3000 words, LT & ST) 33%, class participation (MT) 4%, research design (ST) 20%, research proposal (MT) 10%, exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 33%

MY4M2 - Foundations of Social Research 1

Old assessment: project (3000 words, ST) 33%, class participation (MT) 4%, continuous assessment (MT and LT) 7%, research design (ST) 20%, research proposal (MT) 10%, take-home assessment (ST) 26%
New assessment: project (3000 words, LT & ST) 33%, class participation (MT) 4%, continuous assessment (MT and LT) 7%, research design (ST) 20%, research proposal (MT) 10%, exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 26%

MY551L - Introduction to Quantitative Analysis

Old assessment: continuous assessment (MT & LT) 20%, exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 80%
New assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 100%

MY551M - Introduction to Quantitative Analysis

Old assessment: continuous assessment (MT & LT) 20%, exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 80%
New assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 100%

MY559 - Special Topics in Quantitative Analysis: Quantitative Text Analysis

Old assessment: coursework (2000 words, LT) 60%, project (5000 words, ST) 40%
New assessment: problem sets (LT) 60%, project (5000 words, ST) 40%

MY565 - Intermediate Quantitative Analysis

Old assessment: continuous assessment (MT) 20%, exam (2 hours, January exam period) 80%
New assessment: exam (2 hours, January exam period) 100%

Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method courses:

PH405 - Philosophy of the Social Sciences

Old assessment: essay (2000 words, MT and LT) 25%, essay (2000 words, LT) 25%, take-home assessment (ST) 50%
New assessment: essay (2000 words, MT and LT) 25%, essay (2000 words, MT and LT) 25%, exam (3 hours) 40%, presentation (MT and LT) 10%

PH415 - Philosophy and Public Policy

Old assessment: exam (60%, duration: 2 hours) in the summer exam period, essay (30%, 2000 words) in the ST, class participation (10%).
New
assessment: online exam (ST) 60%, essay (30%, 2000 words) in the ST, class participation (10%).

PH425 - Business and Organisational Ethics

Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 50%, essay (2000 words, ST) 50%
New assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 40%, essay (2000 words, ST) 50%, quiz (LT) 10%

PH502 - Logic and Probability

Old assessment: quiz (MT and LT) 10%, take-home assessment (ST) 90%
New assessment: exam (2 hours, 15 minutes reading time, January exam period) 50%, exam (2 hours, 15 minutes reading time, summer exam period) 50%

Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science courses:

PB402 - Organisational Social Psychology

Old assessment: essay (3000 words, MT) 75%, case study (LT) 25%
New assessment: essay (3500 words, MT) 75%, book review (1500 words, MT) 25%

PB403 - Psychology of Economic Life

Old assessment: essay (2000 words, MT) 50%, essay (5000 words, LT) 50%
New assessment: essay (2000 words, MT) 50%, essay (5000 words, ST) 50%

PB411 - Methods for Social Psychology Research: Qualitative and Quantitative Methods

Old assessment: continuous assessment (MT) 10%, report (LT) 50%, online assessment 40%
New assessment: report (LT) 50%, exam (2 hours, January exam period) 50%

PB414 - Advanced Methods for Social Psychology Research: Qualitative and Quantitative Methods

Old assessment: continuous assessment (MT) 10%, report (LT) 50%, take-home assessment (ST) 40%
New assessment: continuous assessment (MT) 15%, report (LT) 50%, exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 35%

PB417 - Consumer Psychology for Sustainability

Old assessment: essay (3000 words, LT) 100%
New assessment: essay (3000 words, ST) 100%

PB431 - Social Psychology of Economic Life: Advanced Topics

Old assessment: essay (3000 words, LT) 100%
New assessment: essay (3000 words, ST) 100%

PB450E - Behavioural Science and Policy

Old assessment: coursework (4000 words, LT) 100%
New assessment: coursework (3000 words, LT) 100%

PB453E - Corporate Behaviour and Decision Making

Old assessment: coursework (4000 words, post-summer term) 100%
New assessment: coursework (4000 words, LT) 100%

PB454E - Policy Appraisal and Ethics

Old assessment: coursework (4000 words, ST) 100%
New assessment: coursework (4000 words, LT) 100%

PB471E - Research Methods for Behavioural Science

Old assessment: portfolio (ST) 100%
New assessment: portfolio (LT) 100%

PB4A7 - Quantitative Applications for Behavioural Science

Old assessment: report (ST) 60%, poster (ST) 20%, problem sets (MT) 20%
New assessment: report (ST) 70%, poster (ST) 30%

School of Public Policy courses:

PP401 - Political Science for Public Policy

Old assessment: essay (2000 words, LT) 50%, presentation 50%
New assessment: essay (2000 words, LT) 70%, presentation (MT) 30%

PP404 - Economics for Public Policy

Old assessment: exam (2 hours, 15 minutes reading time, summer exam period) 70%, coursework (LT) 30%
New assessment: take-home assessment (ST) 60%, memo (LT) 30%,  problem sets (LT)10%

PP405 - Public Policy Applications

Old assessment: coursework (3000 words, ST) 100%
New assessment: report (800 words, LT) 20%, memo (800 words, MT) 20%, group project (ST) 50%, group presentation (ST) 10%

PP406 - Philosophy for Public Policy

Old assessment: essay (2500 words, ST) 50%, essay (2000 words, ST) 40%, class participation (LT) 10%
New assessment: essay (2000 words, ST) 67%, essay (1500 words, ST) 33%

PP410 - Public Economics for Public Policy

Old assessment: exam (3 hours, 15 minutes reading time, summer exam period) 100%
New assessment: exam (3 hours, 15 minutes reading time, summer exam period) 60%, essay (2000 words, ST) 40%

PP411L - Political Economy Applications for Public Policy

Old assessment: essay (2000 words, LT week 7) 50%, essay (2000 words, LT week 10) 50%
New assessment: essay (2500 words, LT) 50%, essay (2500 words, ST) 50%

PP411M - Political Entrepreneurship

Old assessment: essay (2000 words, MT week 7) 50%, essay (2000 words, MT week 10) 50%
New assessment: memo (3000 words, MT) 60%, project (MT) 30%, class participation (MT) 10%

PP414 - Policy-Making: Process, Challenges and Outcomes

Old assessment: coursework (1000 words, MT) 50%, project (800 - 1000 words, MT) 20%, group project and presentation (MT) 30%.
New assessment: group presentations and simulation exercises (MT) 40%, individual project (1000 words, MT) 60%

PP418 - Globalisation and Economic Policy

Old assessment: exam (2 hours, 15 minutes reading time, summer exam period) 50%, coursework 25%
New assessment: take-home assessment (ST) 50%, coursework 50%

PP452 - Applying Behavioural Economics for Social Impact: Design, Delivery, Evaluation and Policy

Old assessment: project (LT) 40%, take-home assessment (ST) 60%
New assessment: project (MT) 40%, take-home assessment (LT) 60%

PP455 - Quantitative Approaches and Policy Analysis

Old assessment: exam (3 hours, 15 minutes reading time, summer exam period) 70%, continuous assessment (MT and LT) 10%, policy memo (MT) 10%, policy memo (LT) 10%
New assessment: exam (3 hours, 15 minutes reading time, summer exam period) 60%, continuous assessment (MT and LT) 10%, policy memo (MT) 10%, policy memo (LT) 10%, group presentation 10%

PP478 - Political Science for Public Policy

Old assessment: essay (2500 words, LT) 50%, presentation (MT and LT) 50%
New assessment: essay (2500 words, ST) 50%, presentation (MT and LT) 50%

PP4J2 - New Institutions of Public Policy: Strategic Philanthropy, Impact Investment and Social Enterprise

Old assessment: coursework (2000 words, April) 30%, essay (3000 words, April) 70%
New assessment: coursework (2000 words, April) 30%, essay (3000 words, May) 70%

PP4X6 - Welfare Analysis and Measurement

Old assessment: exam (3 hours, 15 minutes reading time, summer exam period) 75%, essay (2000 words, LT) 25%
New assessment: take-home assessment (ST) 75%, coursework (2000 words, LT) 25%

Department of Social Policy courses:

SP401 - Understanding Policy Research

Old assessment: exam (3 hours, 15 minutes reading time, January exam period) 100%
New assessment: online assessment (January) 100%

SP411 - Social Policy and Development

Old assessment: exam (2 hours, January exam period) 100%
New assessment: essay (3500 words, LT) 100%

SP413 - Understanding Social (Dis)advantage

Old assessment: essay (2400 words, ST) 100%
New assessment: online assessment 100%

SP414 - Ethnicity, Race and Social Policy

Old assessment: essay (2000 words, LT) 100%
New assessment: essay 40%, essay 60%

SP415 - Urbanisation and Social Policy in the Global South

Old assessment: essay (5000 words, ST) 80%, project (1000 words, LT)
New assessment: essay (4000 words, ST) 80%, project (1000 words, LT)

SP419 - Social Movements, Activism, and Social Policy

Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 100%
New assessment: essay (3000 words, ST) 100%

SP470 - Criminal Justice Policy

Old assessment: exam (3 hours, summer exam period) 75%, essay (2000 words, ST) 25%
New assessment: essay (3000 words, LT) 40%, online assessment 60%

Department of Sociology courses:

SO454 - Families and Inequalities

Old assessment: essay (5000 words, LT) 100%
New assessment: take-home assessment (January) 90%, class participation (MT) 10%

SO473 - Crime, Control and the City

Old assessment: essay (5000 words, ST) 100%
New assessment: essay (4000 words, ST) 100%

SO479 - Human Rights and Postcolonial Theory

Old assessment: essay (5000 words, ST) 90%, class participation (LT) 10%
New assessment: essay (5000 words, LT) 90%, class participation (MT) 10%

SO490 - Contemporary Social Thought

Old assessment: essay (5000 words, ST) 100%
New assessment: essay (5000 words, LT) 100%

SO491 - Quantitative Social Research Methods

Old assessment: memo (MT) 40%, take-home assessment (January) 60%
New assessment: memo (LT) 40%, take-home assessment (ST) 60%

SO4B7 - State Violence: Policing, Militaries and Security

Old assessment: essay (4000 words, ST) 80%, group presentation (LT) 10%, class participation (LT) 10%
New assessment: essay (4000 words, LT) 90%, class participation (MT) 10%

SO500 - Aims and Methods Research Class for MPhil Students

Old assessment: paper (5000 words, ST) 100%
New assessment: paper (5000 words, MT year 2) 100%

Department of Statistics courses:

ST411 - Generalised Linear Modelling and Survival Analysis

Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 80%, continuous assessment (MT) 20%
New assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 100%

ST425 - Statistical Inference: Principles, Methods and Computation

Old assessment: exam (3 hours, January exam period) 85%, project (MT) 15%
New assessment: exam (3 hours, January exam period) 80%, project (MT) 15%, coursework (MT) 5%

ST433 - Computational Methods in Finance and Insurance

Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 50%, project (ST) 50%
New assessment: project (ST) 100%

ST445 - Managing and Visualising Data

Old assessment: project (MT) 60%, continuous assessment (MT) 40%
New assessment: project (MT) 70%, continuous assessment (MT) 30%

ST452 - Probability and Mathematical Statistics I

Old assessment: exam (2 hours, 10 minutes reading time, January exam period) 70%, coursework (MT) 30%
New assessment: exam (2 hours, 10 minutes reading time, summer exam period) 70%, coursework (MT) 30%

ST510 - Foundations of Machine Learning

Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 40%, project (3000 words, LT) 40%, take-home assessment (LT) 20%
New assessment: oral examination (ST) 40%, project (3000 words, LT) 40%, take-home assessment (LT) 20%

ST552 - Probability and Mathematical Statistics I

Old assessment: exam (3 hours, January exam period) 70%, coursework 30%
New assessment: exam (3 hours, summer exam period) 70%, coursework 30%