Updated graduate summative assessment information 2022/23 - 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 2022/23 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. Students will be notified about any changes to assessment plans at the earliest opportunity.

 

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Department of Anthropology courses:

AN472 Evidence and Arguments in Anthropology and Other Social Sciences

Old assessment: Essay (LT) 50%, Class Participation (LT) 25%, Presentation (LT) 25%New assessment: Essay (LT) 50%, Essay (LT) 50%

AN476 Anthropology and the Anthropocene

Old assessment: Take-home assessment (End of LT) 100%
New assessment: Coursework (LT) 100%

Department of Economics courses:

EC518 Topics in Advanced Econometrics for Research Students

Old assessment: Exam (January) 50%, Exam (ST) 50%
New assessment: Pathway 1: Exam (January) 50%, Exam (ST) 50%. Pathway 2: Essay (ST) 25%, Exam (January) 50%, Exam (ST) 25%

Department of Economic History courses:

EH401 Historical Analysis of Economic Change

Old assessment: Class participation (MT) 10%, Take-home assessment (LT) 90%
New assessment: Take-home assessment (LT) 100%

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

Old assessment: Essay (LT) 30%, Take-home assessment (ST) 70%
New assessment: Take-home assessment (ST) 100%

European Institute courses:

EU489 Analytical Politics and Policymaking in Europe

Old assessment: Essay (MT) 10%, Online assessment (ST) 90%
New assessment: Online assessment (ST) 100%

Department of Finance courses:

FM404 Forecasting Financial time Series

Old assessment: Coursework (LT) 10%, Exam (ST) 90%
New assessment: Continuous assessment 100%

FM502 Corporate Finance for Research Students

Old assessment: Project (LT) 25%, In-class assessment (ST) 75%
New assessment: Continuous assessment 100%

FM503 Asset Pricing for Research Students

Old assessment: Coursework (LT) 30%, In-class assessment (ST) 70%
New assessment: Continuous assessment 100%

Department of Government courses:

GV439 Government and Politics in Central and Eastern Europe

Old assessment: Exam (ST) 100%
New assessment: Online assessment (ST) 100%

GV441 States and Markets

Old assessment: Essay (MT) 35%, Online assessment (January) 65%
New assessment: Online assessment (January) 100%

GV454 Parties, Elections and Governments

Old assessment: Exam (ST) 100%
New assessment: Essay (LT) 100%

GV477 Comparative Public Policy Change

Old assessment: Essay (LT) 50%, Exam (ST) 50%
New assessment: Essay (ST) 80%, Class participation (LT) 20%

GV481 Quantitative Analysis for Political Science

Old assessment: Coursework (LT) 50%, Exam (ST) 50%
New assessment: Coursework (LT) 50%, Online assessment (ST) 50%

GV488 Law and Politics of Regulation

Old assessment: Essay (ST) 25%, Exam (ST) 75%
New assessment: Essay (ST) 25%, Online assessment (ST) 75%

GV4A5 International Migration and Immigration Management

Old assessment: Exam (ST) 100%
New assessment: Online assessment (ST) 100%

GV4B9 The Second Europe

Old assessment: Essay 50%, Exam (ST) 50%
New assessment: Essay (ST) 50%, Online assessment (ST) 50%

GV4C9 Globalization and Democratization in Southeast Asia

Old assessment: Essay 50%, Exam (January) 50%
New assessment: Essay 50%, Online assessment (January) 50%

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

Old assessment: Essay 50%, Exam (ST) 50%
New assessment: Essay 50%, Online assessment (ST) 50%

GV4E9 Approaches and Issues in Public Policy and Administration

Old assessment: Essay (LT) 25%, Exam (ST) 75%
New assessment: Essay (LT) 25%, Online assessment (ST) 75%

GV4F4 Policy Advice in Theory and Practice

Old assessment: Project 50%, Exam (ST) 50%
New assessment: Project 50%, Online assessment (ST) 50%

GV4F5 Advanced Study of Key Political Thinkers

Old assessment: Essay 80%, Continuous assessment (LT) 10%, Group presentation (LT) 10%
New assessment: Essay 80%, Continuous assessment 20%

GV4G1 Applied Quantitative Methods for Political Science

Old assessment: Exam (ST) 40%, Group project (ST) 50%, Presentation (LT) 10%
New assessment: Project (LT & ST) 60%, Online assessment (ST) 40%

GV4G4 Comparative Conflict Analysis

Old assessment: Exam (January) 100%
New assessment: Online assessment (January) 100%

GV4H1 Chinese Political Thought

Old assessment: Essay (MT) 30%, Essay (LT) 50%, Class participation (MT) 20%
New assessment: Essay (LT) 80%, Class participation (MT) 20%

GV4K1 Opening Government: Transparency, Accountability, and Participation

Old assessment: Essay (ST) 90%, Class participation (LT) 10%
New assessment: Essay (ST) 100%

GV4K2 Postcolonial and Comparative Political Theory

Old assessment: Essay (LT) 45%, Essay (ST) 45%, In-class assessment (LT) 10%
New assessment: Essay (ST) 80%, Class participation (LT) 20%

GV4L1 Analytical Approaches to British Politics

Old assessment: Exam (ST) 100%
New assessment: Online assessment (ST) 100%

Department of Geography and Environment courses:

GY400 The Economics of Urbanisation

Old assessment: Exam (ST) 70%, Presentation (LT) 30%
New assessment: Presentation (LT) 30%, Take-home assessment (ST) 70%

GY426 Environmental and Resource Economics

Old assessment: Essay 25%, Exam (ST) 75%
New assessment: Pathway 1: Essay 25%, Exam (ST) 75%. Pathway 2: Essay (ST) 50%, Exam (ST) 50%

GY428 Applied Quantitative Methods

Old assessment: Coursework (MT) 20%, Exam (ST) 80%
New assessment: Coursework (MT) 30%, Exam (January) 70%

GY439 Cities, Politics and Citizenship

Old assessment: Exam (ST) 100%
New assessment: Take-home assessment (ST) 100%

GY460 Techniques of Spatial Economic Analysis

Old assessment: Project (ST) 100%
New assessment: Coursework (LT) 15%, Project (ST) 85%

Department of Health Policy courses:

HP436 Evidence Appraisal for Health Policy Analysis

Old assessment: Policy brief (LT) 50%, Problem sets (LT) 50%
New assessment: Policy brief (LT) 100%

HP4B2E Health Care Quality Management

Old assessment: Essay 50%, Essay 50%
New assessment: Essay 100%

Department of International Development courses:

DV413 Environmental Problems and Development Interventions

Old assessment: Essay (LT) 20%, Exam (ST) 80%
New assessment: Take-home assessment (January) 100%

DV415 Global Environmental Governance

Old assessment: Essay (ST) 20%, In-class assessment (ST) 80%
New assessment: Take-home assessment (ST) 100%

DV418 African Development

Old assessment: Essay (LT) 10%, Exam (ST) 70%, Podcast (LT) 20%
New assessment: Exam (ST) 60%, Podcast (ST) 40%

DV431 Development Management

Old assessment: Pathway 1: Project (LT) 40%, Exam (ST) 20%, Presentation (LT) 5%, Take-home assessment (ST) 35%. Pathway 2: Exam (ST) 25%, Presentation (LT) 20%, Take-home assessment (ST) 55%
New assessment: Exam (ST) 25%, Presentation (LT) 20%, Take-home assessment (ST) 55%

DV434 Human Security

Old assessment: Exam (ST) 100%
New assessment: Essay (ST) 100%

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

Old assessment: Exam (January) 70%, In-class assessment (MT) 30%
New assessment: In-class assessment (MT) 30%, Online assessment (January) 70%

Department of International History courses:

HY489 China and the External World, 1711-1839

Old assessment: Essay (LT) 70%, Presentation (MT) 30%
New assessment: Essay (January) 70%, Class participation (MT) 15%, Presentation (MT) 15%

HY4B3 Citizenship in 20th century political thought: intellectual history in case studies

Old assessment: Essay (MT) 20%, Essay (MT) 30%, Presentation (MT) 25%, Source analysis (MT) 25%
New assessment: Essay (LT) 60%, Presentation (LT) 20%, Source analysis (LT) 20%

Department of International Relations courses:

IR415 Strategic Aspects of International Relations

Old assessment: Exam (ST) 100%
New assessment: Coursework (ST) 100%

IR429 Economic Diplomacy

Old assessment: Essay (LT) 40%, Exam (ST) 40%, Class participation (LT) 20%
New assessment: Take-home assessment (ST) 100%

IR461 Islam in World Politics

Old assessment: Essay (ST) 100%
New assessment: Take-home assessment (ST) 100%

IR475 Gender/ed/ing International Politics

Old assessment: Coursework (LT) 30%, Essay (ST) 70%
New assessment: Take-home assessment (ST) 100%

IR487 Critical Theories of International Relations

Old assessment: Coursework (LT) 30%, Essay (ST) 70%
New assessment: Coursework (LT) 25%, Essay (ST) 75%

Department of Law courses:

LL4CH Tax in the Digital Economy 

Old assessment: Essay 100%
New assessment: Exam (ST) 100%

Department of Management courses:

MG403 Pricing Strategy

Old assessment: Coursework (LT) 55%, Project (LT) 45%
New assessment: Coursework (LT) 45%, Project (LT) 40%, Quiz (LT) 15%

MG404 Consumer Insights: Behavioural Fundamentals

Old assessment: Coursework (MT) 10%, Class participation (MT) 10%, Group project (MT) 40%, In-class assessment (MT) 40%
New assessment: Essay (MT) 60%, In-class assessment (MT) 40%

MG418 Open Innovation

Old assessment: Essay (LT) 45%, Class participation (LT) 10%, Group project (LT) 45%
New assessment: Essay (LT) 40%, Class participation (LT) 10%, Group project (LT) 50%

MG431 Managerial Economics

Old assessment: Exam (ST) 100%
New assessment: Exam (January) 90%, Continuous assessment (MT) 10%

MG439 Organisational Behaviour for Master's in Management

Old assessment: Project (LT) 40%, Case analysis (LT) 30%, Continuous assessment (LT) 30%
New assessment: Project (LT) 40%, Continuous assessment (LT) 30%, Take-home assessment (LT) 30%

MG445E Marketing Strategy (modular)

Old assessment: Class participation 15%, Group assignment 30%, Take-home assessment 55%
New assessment: Group assignment 35%, Take-home assessment 65%

MG458 Foundations of Management I: Organisations and Management Theory

Old assessment: Exam (ST) 60%, Case study (MT) 40%
New assessment: Exam (ST) 60%, Report (MT) 40%

MG475 Organisational Theory

Old assessment: Project 35%, Exam (ST) 65%
New assessment: Essay (MT) 40%, Exam (ST) 50%, Class participation (MT) 10%

MG476 Corporate Social Responsibility and International Labour Standards

Old assessment: Essay (ST) 45%, Class participation 5%, Take-home assessment (ST) 50%
New assessment: Essay (ST) 55%, Class participation 5%, Take-home assessment (ST) 40%

MG477 Strategic Reward: Key Models and Practices

Old assessment: Case analysis (LT) 25%, Case analysis (ST) 75%
New assessment: Case analysis (LT) 20%, Case analysis (between LT & ST) 70%, Class participation (LT) 10%

MG4B7 Organisational Change

Old assessment: Case analysis (LT) 20%, Case analysis (ST) 80%
New assessment: Case analysis (LT) 90%, Exercise (LT) 10%

MG4D5 Leadership in Organisations: Theory and Practice

Old assessment: Case analysis (LT) 20%, Case analysis (ST) 80%
New assessment: Case analysis (ST) 100%

MG4F4 Strategy and Innovation in a Global Context

Old assessment: Essay (Post summer term) 85%, Class participation (ST) 15%
New assessment: Project (post summer term) 80%, Other (post summer term) 10%, Reflective learning report (post summer term) 10%

MG4J2 Social Business Design

Old assessment: Essay (LT) 45%, Project (ST) 45%, Class participation (LT) 10%
New assessment: Essay (MT) 50%, Project (LT) 50%

MG4J3 Principles of Pricing

Old assessment: Coursework (LT) 45%, Project (LT) 45%, Class participation (LT) 10%
New assessment: Coursework (LT) 45%, Project (LT) 40%, Quiz (LT) 15%

Department of Mathematics courses:

MA429 Algorithmic Techniques for Data Mining

Old assessment: Project (ST) 40%, Exam (ST) 50%, Continues Assessment (LT) 10%
New assessment: Project (ST) 40%, Exam (ST) 60% 

Department of Media and Communications courses:

MC438 Mediated Feminisms

Old assessment: Essay (ST) 80%, Assignment 20%
New assessment: Essay (ST) 100%

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

Old assessment: Coursework (ST) 66%, Exam (ST) 14%, Exam (January) 17%, Continuous assessment (LT) 3%
New assessment: Coursework (ST) 66%, Exam (January) 17%, Exam (ST) 17%

MC4M7 Methods of Research in Media & Communications (including Qualitative Analysis & Applied Regression Analysis)

Old assessment: Coursework (ST) 80%, Exam (ST) 16%, Continuous assessment (MT) 4%
New assessment: Coursework (ST) 80%, Exam (ST) 20%

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

Old assessment: Coursework (ST) 66%, Exam (ST) 14%, Exam (ST) 17% Continuous assessment (MT) 3%
New assessment: Coursework (ST) 66%, Exam (ST) 17%, Exam (ST) 17%

Department of Methodology courses:

MY400 Fundamentals of Social Science Research Design

Old assessment: Other (MT) 10%, Research design (ST) 60%, Research proposal (MT) 30%
New assessment: Research proposal (LT) 100%

MY410 Fundamentals of Research Design for International Development

Old assessment: Annotated bibliography (MT) 33%, Research proposal (LT) 67%
New assessment: Research proposal (LT) 100%

MY452L Applied Regression Analysis

Old assessment: Exam (ST) 70%, Continuous assessment (LT) 30%
New assessment: Exam 100%

MY452M Applied Regression Analysis

Old assessment: Exam (ST) 70%, Continuous assessment (MT) 30%
New assessment: Exam (ST) 100%

MY474 Applied Machine Learning for Social Science

Old assessment: Problem sets (LT) 40%, Quiz (LT) 30%, Report (ST) 20%, Take-home assessment (ST) 10%
New assessment: Problem sets (LT) 60%, Quiz (LT) 40%

MY500 Fundamentals of Social Science Research Design

Old assessment: Other (MT) 10%, Research design (ST) 60%, Research proposal (MT) 30%
New assessment: Research proposal 100%

MY552L Applied Regression Analysis

Old assessment: Exam (ST) 70%, Continuous assessment (LT) 30%
New assessment: Exam (ST) 100%

MY552M Applied Regression Analysis

Old assessment: Exam (ST) 70%, Continuous assessment (MT) 30%
New assessment: Exam (ST) 100%

MY574 Applied Machine Learning for Social Science

Old assessment: Problem sets (LT) 40%, Quiz (LT) 30%, Take-home assessments (ST) 30%
New assessment: Problem sets (LT) 60%, Take-home assessments (ST) 40%

Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method courses:

PH400 Philosophy of Science

Old assessment: Exam (ST) 100%
New assessment: Essay (LT) 50%, Essay (MT) 50%

PH405 Philosophy of the Social Sciences

Old assessment: Essay (MT & LT) 25%, Essay (MT & LT) 25%, Presentation 10%, Exam 40%
New assessment: Essay (LT & ST) 50%, Essay (MT & LT) 50%

PH413 Philosophy of Economics

Old assessment: Essay (ST) 30%, Essay (LT) 30%, Exam (ST) 30%, Presentation (LT) 10%
New assessment: Essay (LT) 45%, Essay (ST) 45%, Class participation (MT & LT) 10%

PH415 Philosophy and Public Policy

Old assessment: Essay (ST) 30%, Exam (ST) 60%, Class participation 10%
New assessment: Essay 45%, Essay 45%, Class participation 10%

PH416 Philosophy, Morals and Politics

Old assessment: Essay 30%, Class participation 10%, Take-home assessment (ST) 60%
New assessment: Essay 45%, Essay 45%, Class participation 10%

PH419 Set Theory and Further Logic

Old assessment: Take-home assessment (ST) 100%
New assessment: Exam (ST) 100%

PH425 Business and Organisational Ethics

Old assessment: Essay (ST) 50%, Exam (ST) 40%, Quiz (LT) 10%
New assessment: Essay (ST) 50%, Essay (ST) 50%

PH427 Genes, Brains and Society

Old assessment: Essay (LT) 50%, Essay (MT) 50%
New assessment: Essay (LT) 100%

PH430 Einstein for Everyone: From time travel to the edge of the universe

Old assessment: Essay (January) 50%, Essay (MT) 50%
New assessment: Essay (January) 100%

PH431 Physics and Uncertainty: From Quantum Jumps to Stock Market Crashes

Old assessment: Essay (LT) 50%, Essay (ST) 50%
New assessment: Essay (ST) 100%

PH433 Philosophy of Gender and Race

Old assessment: Essay (LT) 45%, Essay (ST) 45%, Class participation (LT) 10%
New assessment: Essay (ST) 90%, Class participation (LT) 10%

PH456 Rationality and Choice

Old assessment: Coursework (LT) 20%, Coursework (MT) 20%, Exam (ST) 50%, Class participation (MT & LT) 10%
New assessment: Essay (LT) 30%, Essay (MT) 30%, Exam (ST) 40%

Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science courses:

PB405 Foundations in Behavioural Science

Old assessment: Essay (LT) 20%, Essay (LT) 80%
New assessment: Essay (MT) 100%

PB414 Advanced Methods for Social Psychology

Old assessment: Exam (ST) 35%, Continuous assessment (MT) 15%, Report (LT) 50%
New assessment: Exam (ST) 50%, Report (LT) 50%

PB4A7 Quantitative Applications for Behavioural Science

Old assessment: Poster (ST) 20%, Problem sets (MT) 20%, Report (ST) 60%
New assessment: Poster (LT) 30%, Report (LT) 70%

School of Public Policy courses:

PP401 Political Science for Public Policy

Old assessment: Essay (LT) 70%, Presentation (MT) 30%
New assessment: Online assessment (LT) 70%, Presentation (MT) 30%

PP402 Quantitative Methods for Public Policy

Old assessment: Coursework (MT) 30%, Online assessment (LT) 70%
New assessment: Exam (January) 65%, Group presentation (MT) 10%, Policy Memo (MT) 15%, Problem sets (MT) 10%

PP405 Public Policy Applications

Old assessment: Group presentation (ST) 10%, Group project (ST) 50%, Policy Memo (ST) 20%, Report (LT) 20%
New assessment: Group project presentation (ST) 10%, Final Report (ST) 50%, Policy memo (ST) 10%, Individual seminar presentation (LT) 30%

PP406 Philosophy for Public Policy

Old assessment: Essay (ST) 33%, Essay (ST) 67%
New assessment: Essay (ST) 90%, Class participation (ST) 10%

PP448 International Political Economy and Development

Old assessment: Policy memo 20%, Presentation 20%, Take-home assessment 60%
New assessment: Case study 20%, Policy memo 30%, Take-home assessment 50%

PP454 Development Economics

Old assessment: Exam (ST) 100%
New assessment: Essay 40%, Exam (ST) 60%

PP478 Political Science for Public Policy

Old assessment: Essay (ST) 50%, Presentation (MT & LT) 50%
New assessment: Assignment (MT & LT) 40%, Online assessment (ST) 60%

PP4A5E Urban Infrastructure and Strategic Planning

Old assessment: Coursework (ST) 80%, Presentation (ST) 20%
New assessment: Essay (ST) 25%, Essay (Post ST) 50%, Presentation (Post ST) 25%

PP4A6E Urban Development and Master Planning

Old assessment: Essay (ST) 80%, Presentation (ST) 20%
New assessment: Essay (ST) 25%, Essay (Post ST) 50%, Presentation (Post ST) 25%

Department of Social Policy courses:

SP414 Ethnicity, Race and Social Policy

Old assessment: Essay 40%, Essay 60%
New assessment: Essay 35%, Essay 65%

SP418 Global Social Policy and International Organizations

Old assessment: Take-home assessment (MT) 100%
New assessment: Online assessment (LT & ST) 100%

SP419 Social Movements, Activism, and Social Policy

Old assessment: Essay (ST) 100%
New assessment: Online assessment (ST) 100%

Department of Sociology courses:

SO468 International Migration and Migrant Integration

Old assessment: Exam (ST) 80%, Class participation (LT) 10%, Presentation (LT) 10%
New assessment: Class participation (LT) 10%, Take-home assessment (ST) 90%

SO470 The Sociology of Markets

Old assessment: Case analysis (LT) 100%
New assessment: Class participation (LT) 10%, Take-home assessment (ST) 90%

SO478 Social Scientific Analysis of Inequalities

Old assessment: Essay (LT) 30%, Presentation (LT) 20%, Take-home assessment (ST) 50%  
New assessment: Essay (LT) 50%, Policy brief (ST) 50%

SO491 Quantitative Social Research Methods

Old assessment: Memo (LT) 40%, Take-home assessment (ST) 60%
New assessment: Memo (MT) 25%, Research proposal (LT) 75%

SO492 Qualitative Social Research Methods

Old assessment: Class participation 10%, Research report 90%
New assessment: Research report 100%

SO4C1 Fascism, Authoritarianism, Populism

Old assessment: Essay (ST) 50%, Project (ST) 50%
New assessment: Project (LT) 100%

Department of Statistics courses:

ST425 Statistical Inference: Principles, Methods and Computation

Old assessment: Coursework (MT) 5%, Project (MT) 15%, Exam (January) 80%
New assessment: Coursework (MT) 15%, Exam (January) 85%

ST445 Managing and Visualising Data

Old assessment: Project (MT) 70%, Continuous assessment (MT) 30%
New assessment: Project (LT) 80%, Continuous assessment (MT) 20%

ST456 Deep Learning

Old assessment: Project (LT) 80%, Continuous assessment (LT) 10%, Continuous assessment (LT) 10%
New assessment: Project (LT) 80%, Continuous assessment (MT week 4) 10%, Continuous assessment (MT week 9) 10%