Updated undergraduate summative assessment information 2019/20 - 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 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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Department of Accounting courses:

AC100 - Elements of Accounting and Finance

Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, 15 minutes reading time, Summer exam period) 75%, case analysis (LT) 10%, class participation (MT and LT) 10%, online assessment (LT) 5%
New assessment: exam (180 minutes, 15 minutes reading time, Summer exam period) 70%, case analysis (LT) 10%, class participation (MT and LT) 10%, online assessment (LT) 10%

AC200 - Accounting Theory and Practice

Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, 15 minutes reading time, Summer exam period) 75%, case analysis (LT) 10%, class participation (MT and LT) 10%, online assessment (LT) 5%
New assessment: exam (180 minutes, 15 minutes reading time, Summer exam period) 70%, case analysis (LT) 10%, class participation (MT and LT) 10%, online assessment (LT) 10%

Department of Anthropology courses:

AN102 - Anthropology, Text and Film

Old assessment: coursework (6000 words, MT and LT) 100%
New assessment: coursework (4800 words, MT and LT) 100%

AN200 - The Anthropology of Kinship, Sex and Gender

Old assessment: essay (3500 words, LT) 50%, essay (3500 words, ST) 50%
New assessment: essay (3000 words, LT) 50%, essay (3000 words, ST) 50%

AN205 - The Anthropology of Melanesia

Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 70%, essay (2500 words, MT) 30%
New assessment: essay (3000 words, ST) 100% 

AN240- Investigating the Philippines - New Approaches and Ethnographic Contexts

Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 70%, essay (2500 words, LT) 30%
New assessment: essay (3000 words, ST) 100%

AN269- The Anthropology of Amazonia

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

AN280 Health and Welfare: Anthropological Perspectives

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

AN300- Advanced Theory of Social Anthropology

Old assessment: essay (9000 words, MT and LT) 100%
New assessment: coursework (6000 words, MT and LT) 100%

AN301- The Anthropology of Religion

Old assessment: exam (4500 words, LT) 50%, essay (4500 words, ST) 50%
New assessment: essay (3500 words, LT) 50%, essay (3500 words, ST) 50%

Department of Economics courses:

EC202- Microeconomic Principles II

Old assessment: exam (60 minutes, 15 minutes reading time, January exam period) 25%, exam (180 minutes, 15 minutes reading time, Summer exam period) 75%
New assessment: exam (60 minutes, 15 minutes reading time, January exam period) 22.5%, exam (180 minutes, 15 minutes reading time, Summer exam period) 67.5%, coursework (MT and LT) 10%

EC315 International Economics

Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, 15 minutes reading time, summer exam period) 100%
New assessment: pathway 1: exam (180 minutes, 15 minutes reading time, summer exam period) 100% or pathway 2: essay (1500 words, LT) 50%, exam (90 minutes, 10 minutes reading time, summer exam period) 50%

Department of Economic History courses:

EH102- Pre-industrial Economic History

Old assessment: essay (2000 words, LT) 30%, exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 70%
New assessment: essay (2000 words, LT) 40%, essay (3000 words) 60%

EH204 - Money and Finance: From the Middle Ages to Modernity

Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, Summer exam period) 100%
New assessment: essay (3000 words, LT) 30%, exam  (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 70%

EH211 - Africa and the World Economy, 1500-2000

Old assessment: project (3000 words, ST Week 1) 30%, exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 70%
New assessment: project (3000 words, ST) 30%, exam  (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 70%

EH240 - Business and Economic Performance since 1945: Britain in International Context

Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, Summer exam period) 100/%
New assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 70%, research project (LT) 30%

EH304 - The Economic History of North America: from Colonial Times to the Cold War

Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, Summer exam period) 100/%
New assessment: essay (3000 words, MT) 30%, exam  (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 70%

EH308 - Historical Economic Geography: Cities, Markets and Regions in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Old assessment: essay (2500 words, LT) 35/%, essay (2500 words, MT) 35%, presentation (MT and LT) 30%
New assessment: essay (3000 words, LT) 40%, essay (3000 words, ST) 40%, presentation (MT and LT) 20%

EH390 - Dissertation in Economic or Social History

Old assessment: dissertation (10,000 words, LT) 100%
New assessment: dissertation  (10,000 words, LT) 90%, other (LT) 5%, proposal (MT) 5%

Department of Finance courses:

FM200 - Financial Systems and Crises

Old assessment: in-class assessment  (MT) 100%
New assessment: in-class assessment  (MT) 30%, in-class assessment (MT) 70%

FM305 - Advanced Financial Economics

Old assessment: class participation (MT) 10%, in-class assessment (MT) 30%, in-class assessment (MT) 60%
New assessment: class participation (MT) 10%, in-class assessment (MT Week 6) 30%, in-class assessment (MT Week 11) 60%

FM320 - Quantitative Finance

Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 45%, project (MT) 10%, coursework (MT) 2.5%, coursework (LT) 5%, in-class assessment 37.5%
New assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 45%, coursework (MT) 50%, coursework (LT) 5%

FM321 - Risk Management and Modelling

Old assessment: project (MT) 20%, coursework (MT) 5%, in-class assessment (MT) 75%
New assessment: coursework (MT) 100%

Department of Government courses:

GV101 -Introduction to Political Science

Old assessment: essay (2000 words) 50%, exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 50%
New assessment: essay (2000 words, LT) 50%, exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 50%,

GV249 - Research Design in Political Science

Old assessment: coursework (1000 words, MT) 20%, coursework (3000 words, LT) 40%, exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 40%
New assessment: coursework (2000 words, MT) 30%, coursework (2000 words, LT) 30%, exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 40%

GV262 - Contemporary Political Theory

Old assessment: essay (1500 words, LT) 25%, essay (1500 words, MT) 25%, exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 50%
New assessment: essay (2000 words, LT) 40%, exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 60%

GV302- Key Themes in the History of Political Thought

Old assessment: essay (3000 words, LT) 50%, exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 50%
New assessment: essay (4000 words, LT) 100%

GV306 - Global Public Policy

Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, Summer exam period) 100%
New assessment: essay (3000 words, LT) 50%, exam (120 minutes, LT) 50%

GV308 - Leadership in the Political World

Old assessment: essay (5000 words) 75%, in-class assessment 25%
New assessment: essay (5000 words) 40%, exam (90 minutes, Summer exam period) 40%, in-class assessment 20%

GV319 - Experimental Politics

Old assessment: essay (2250 words, LT) 50%, exam (90 minutes, Summer exam period) 50%
New assessment: essay (3000 words, ST) 50%, take home exam (LT) 50%

GV323 - Transparency and Accountability in Government

Old assessment: presentation (LT) 10%, essay (2500 words, ST) 90%
New assessment: presentation (ST) 10%, essay (2500 words, ST) 90%

GV335 - African Political Economy

Old assessment: essay (2000 words, LT) 75%, in-class assessment 25%
New assessment: essay (3000 words, ST) 75%, in-class assessment 25%

GV366 - Political Economy of the Developing World

Old assessment: essay (3500 words, ST) 50%, exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 50%
New assessment: essay 15%, essay 35%, exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 35%, class participation 15%

Department of Geography and Environment courses:

GY121 - Sustainable Development

Old assessment: essay (LT) 40%, take home exam (ST) 60%
New assessment: essay (1000 words, LT) 10%, essay (3000 words, ST), take home exam (MT) 50%

GY206 - Urban Geography and Globalisation

Old assessment: essay (2000 words, MT) 65%, presentation (MT) 15%, class participation (MT) 20%
New assessment: essay (2500 words, MT) 65%, presentation (MT) 15%, class participation (MT) 20%

GY246 - Field Methods in Geography

Old assessment: project (3000 words, ST) 70%, research proposal (ST) 30%,
New assessment: project (3500 words, ST) 60%, class participation (LT) 10%, research proposal (ST) 30%

GY247 - Field Methods in Geography with Economics

Old assessment: project (3000 words, ST) 70%, research proposal (ST) 30%,
New assessment: class participation (LT) 20%, research proposal (ST) 20%, research project (MT) 60%

GY310 - Urban Politics

Old assessment: coursework (2000 words, LT), 50%, coursework (2000 words, MT) 50%
New assessment: essay (3000 words, LT) 100%

GY311 - The Political Economy of Urbanisation

Old assessment: coursework (3000 words, ST) 100%
New assessment: coursework (3000 words, ST) 90%, continuous assessment (LT), 10%

GY316 - Gender in High Income and Emerging Economies

Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 100%
New assessment: take home exam (ST) 100%

GY326 - Sustainable Business and Finance

Old assessment: other 100%
New assessment: class participation (MT) 15%, other 85%

GY328 - Political Ecology of Development

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

Department of International History courses:

HY239 - People, Power and Protest in Latin America, c.1895 to the present day

Old assessment: essay (3000 words, LT) 25%, exam (180 minutes, Summer exam period) 75%
New assessment: essay (3000 words, LT) 25%, take home exam (ST) 75%

HY246- The Global Caribbean: Colonialism, Race and Revolutions 1780s-1980s

Old assessment: essay (3000 words, LT) 25%, exam (180 minutes, Summer exam period) 75%
New assessment: essay (3500 words, LT) 35%, essay (3500 words, ST) 35%, class participation (MT and LT) 15%, other (MT) 15%

Department of International Relations courses:

IR205 - International Security

Old assessment: essay (2500 words, LT) 60%, exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 40%
New assessment: essay (2500 words, LT) 50%, exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 50%

IR206 - International Political Economy

Old assessment: exam (180  minutes, Summer exam period) 100%
New assessment: coursework (MT and LT) 10%, exam (180 minutes, Summer exam period) 90%

IR318: Visual International Politics

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

IR321 - Revolutions and World Politics

Old assessment: presentation (LT) 10%, coursework (LT) 20%, essay (3000 words, ST) 70%
New assessment: presentation (MT) 10%, coursework (MT) 20%, essay (3000 words, MT) 70%

IR322 - Sovereignty, Rights and Justice: Issues in International Political Theory

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

IR398 - Dissertation

Old assessment:: dissertation (10000 words, LT) 100%
New assessment: dissertation (10000 words, ST) 100%

Department of Law courses:

LL205 - Medical Law

Old assessment: essay (5000 words, LT) 50%, take home exam (LT and ST) 50%
New assessment: other 50%, other 50%

LL232 - Law and Institutions of the European Union

Old assessment: take home exam (LT) 50%, take home exam (ST) 50%
New assessment: take home exam (between MT and LT) 50%, take home exam (between LT and ST) 50%

LL272 - Outlines of Modern Criminology

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

LL284 - Topics in Sentencing and Criminal Justice

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

Department of Mathematics courses:

MA212 - Further Mathematical Methods

Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, 15 minutes reading time, Summer exam period) 100%
New assessment: exam (180 minutes, Summer exam period) 100%

MA314 - Algorithms and Programming

Old assessment: coursework (LT) 20%, exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 80%
New assessment: coursework (MT) 20and, exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 80%

MA318 - History of Mathematics in Finance and Economics

Old assessment: essay (1650 words) 30%, exam (120 minutes, 5 minutes reading time, Summer exam period) 70%
New assessment: essay (1500 words, ST Week 1) 30%, exam (120 minutes, 5 minutes reading time, Summer exam period) 70%

MA321 - Measure Theoretic Probability

Old assessment: other 100%
New assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 100%

MA322 - Mathematics of Finance and Valuation

Old assessment: other 100%
New assessment: exam (120 minutes) 100%

Department of Management courses:

MG105 - Organisational Behaviour and Leadership

Old assessment: essay (2000 words, LT) 30%, exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 70%
New assessment: essay (2000 words, LT) 30%, exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 60%, class participation (LT) 10%

MG205 - Econometrics: Theory and Applications

Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, Summer exam period) 100%
New assessment: exam (180 minutes, Summer exam period) 70%, continuous assessment (MT and LT) 30%

MG214 - Human Resource Management

Old assessment: project (MT) 40%, exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 50%, class participation 10%
New assessment: presentation (MT) 10%, project (MT) 30%, exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 50%, class participation (MT) 10%

MG303 - International Business Strategy and Emerging Markets

Old assessment: project (LT) 40%, exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 60%,
New assessment: project (LT) 40%, exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 50%, class participation (LT) 10%

MG315 - Marketing Action Learning Project

Old assessment: project (5000 words, LT) 90%, in-class assessment 10%,
New assessment: project (5000 words, LT) 90%, in-class assessment (LT) 10%,

Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method courses:

PH101 - Logic

Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, Summer exam period) 100%
New assessment: exam (180 minutes, 15 minutes reading time, Summer exam period) 100%

PH103 - The Big Questions: An Introduction to Philosophy

Old assessment: essay (1500 words, ST) 50%, essay (1500 words, ST) 50%
New assessment: essay (1500 words, ST) 45%, essay (1500 words, ST) 45%, in-class assessment (MT and LT) 10%

PH333 - Philosophy of Gender and Race

Old assessment: essay (1500 words, LT) 45%, essay (1500 words, LT) 45%, in-class participation 10%
New assessment: essay (1500 words, LT) 45%, essay (1500 words, ST) 45%, in-class participation 10%

PH341 - Philosophy, Politics and Economics: Applications

Old assessment: essay (2000 words, ST) 30%, exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 50%, in-class participation 10%, presentation (LT) 10%
New assessment: essay (2000 words, ST) 30%, exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 50%, in-class participation 10%, other (LT) 10%

Department of Public Policy courses:

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

Old assessment: take home assessment (120 minutes week 1 ST) 60%, group project (ST) 40%
New assessment: take home assessment (120 minutes week 1 ST) 100%

Department of Social Policy courses:

SP201 - Research Methods for Social Policy

Old assessment: essay (2000 words, MT) 30%, essay (5000 words, LT) 70%
New assessment: essay (2000 words, MT) 30%, essay (5000 words, ST) 70%

SP335 - Migration: Current Research, Critical Approaches

Old assessment: essay (1000 words, MT) 30%, essay (2000 words, LT) 70%
New assessment: essay (2000 words, LT) 100%

Department of Sociology courses:

SO224 - The Sociology of Race and Empire

Old assessment: essay (2000 words, ST) 45%, exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 30%, other (LT) 25%
New assessment: presentation (LT) 20%, essay (3000 words, ST) 50%, other (LT) 30%

SO232 - Sociology of Health and Illness

Old assessment: in-class assessment (LT) 20%, take home exam (ST) 80%
New assessment: in-class assessment (MT) 20%, take home exam (LT) 80%

SO310 - The Sociology of Elites

Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, Summer exam period) 100%
New assessment: essay (2000 words, ST) 50%, exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 50%

Department of Statistics courses:

ST213 - Introduction to Pricing, Hedging and Optimization

Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, 15 minutes reading time, Summer exam period) 100%
New assessment: coursework 20%, exam (120 minutes, 15 minutes reading time) 80