Updated undergraduate summative assessment information 2021/22 - 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 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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AN226 - Political and Legal Anthropology |
Old assessment: exam (3 hours, in the summer exam period) 100% |
AN250 - The Anthropology of South Asia |
Old assessment: take-home assessment (LT) 100% |
AN277 - Topics in the Anthropology of sub-Saharan Africa |
Old assessment: take-home assessment (8 hours, LT) 100% |
EC1A1 - Microeconomics I |
Old assessment: exam (3 hours, summer exam period) 75%, class participation (MT and LT) 10%, problem sets (LT) 15% |
EC1A3 - Microeconomics I |
Old assessment: class participation (MT) 10%, exam (2 hours, January) 90% |
EC1A5 - Microeconomics I |
Old assessment: class participation (MT) 10%, exam (2 hours, January) 90% |
EC1B1 - Macroeconomics I |
Old assessment: coursework (1500 words) 25%, exam (3 hours, summer period) 75% |
EC1B3 - Macroeconomics I |
Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 100% |
EC1B5 - Macroeconomics I |
Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 100% |
EC1C1 - Macroeconomics I |
Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 100% |
EC1P1 - Economics |
Old assessment: essay (1500 words, LT) 100% |
EC311 - History of Economics: How Theories Change |
Old assessment: exam (3 hours, summer exam period) 100% |
EH204 - Money and Finance: From the Middle Ages to Modernity |
Old assessment: Exam (duration: 2 hours, summer exam period) 70%, essay (3000 words, LT) 30%. |
EH207 - The Making of an Economic Superpower: China since 1850 |
Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 70%, essay (10%, 1500 words) in the MT and LT, essay (10%, 1500 words) in the ST, class participation (10%) in the MT, LT and ST. |
EH209 - The Family Economy in History |
Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period.) 60%, essay (30%, 3000 words) in the LT. |
EH211 - Africa and the World Economy, 1500-2000 |
Old assessment: project (3000 words, ST) 30%, exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 70%. |
EH225 - Latin America and the International Economy |
Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 70%, essay (30%, 3000 words) in the LT. |
EH240 - Business and Economic Performance since 1945: Britain in International Context |
Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 70%, research project (30%) in the LT. |
EH304 - The Economic History of North America: from Colonial Times to the Cold War |
Old assessment: essay (3000 words) (MT) 30%, exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 70% |
EH307 - The Economic History of South Asia, 1600-2000 |
Old assessment: exam (3 hours, summer exam period) 90%, class participation (10%) in the MT and LT. |
EH308 - Historical Economic Geography: Cities, Markets and Regions in the 19th and 20th Centuries |
Old assessment: essay (3000 words) (LT) 40%, essay (3000 words) (ST) 40%, presentation (MT and LT) 20% |
EH326 - Innovation and its Finance in the 19th and 20th Centuries |
Old assessment: exam (3 hours, summer exam period) 100% |
FM100 - Introduction to Finance |
Old assessment: coursework (LT) 40%, coursework (LT) 60% |
FM200 - Financial Systems and Crises |
Old assessment: in-class assessment (MT) 30%, in-class assessment (MT) 70% |
FM201 - Macro-Finance |
Old assessment: coursework (LT) 40%, coursework (LT) 60% |
FM301 - Market Anomalies and Asset Management |
Old assessment: coursework (MT) 30%, in-class assessment (MT) 70% |
FM302 - Theories of Corporate Finance |
Old assessment: coursework (LT) 40%, coursework (LT) 50%, class participation (LT) 10% |
FM304 - Applied Corporate Finance |
Old assessment: coursework (LT) 30%, coursework (LT) 70% |
FM305 - Advanced Financial Economics |
Old assessment: class participation (MT) 10%, in-class assessment (MT) 30%, in-class assessment (MT) 60% |
GV101 - Introduction to Political Science |
Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 50%, essay (2000 words, LT) 50% |
GV225 - Public Choice and Politics |
Old assessment: exam (3 hours, summer exam period) 100%. |
GV245 - Democracy and Democratisation |
Old assessment: exam (3 hours, summer exam period) 60%, essay (2500 words, LT) 40%. |
GV248 - Power and Politics in the Modern World: Comparative Perspectives |
Old assessment: exam (3 hours, summer exam period) 75%, essay (1500 words, MT and LT) 25% |
GV249 - Research Design in Political Science |
Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 40%, coursework (2000 words, MT) 30%, coursework (2000 words, LT) 30%. |
GV262 - Contemporary Political Theory |
Old assessment: essay (1500 words, LT) 30%, Exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 50%, blog post (LT) 10%, blog post (LT) 10% |
GV263 - Public Policy Analysis |
Old assessment: exam (3 hours, summer exam period) 75%, essay (2500 words, LT) 25%. |
GV302 - Key Themes in the History of Political Thought |
Old assessment: essay (2500 words, LT) 40%, essay (2500 words, ST) 40%, continuous assessment (MT and LT) 10%, |
GV307 - Conflict and Cooperation: A Few Provocative Debates |
Old assessment: essay (4000 words, ST) 80%, class participation (MT) 20%, |
GV311 - British Government |
Old assessment: exam (3 hours, summer exam period) 100%. |
GV312 - Advanced Topics in Government: Executive Politics |
Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 50%, essay (2500 words) 50% |
GV314 - Empirical Research in Government |
Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 50%, essay (2500 words, LT) 25%, Research paper (ST) 25% |
GV319 - Experimental Politics |
Old assessment: essay (ST) 50%, take-home assessment (LT) 50% |
GV324 - Applied Quantitative Methods for Political Science |
Old assessment: exam (2 hours, reading time: 15 minutes, summer exam period) 40%. Presentation (LT Week 11) 10%, Group project (ST Week 1) 50% |
GV325 - Topics in Political Economy |
Old assessment: exam (duration: 2 hours and 45 minutes, reading time: 15 minutes, summer exam period) 50%, coursework (LT) 50% |
GV329 - Making Democracy Work |
Old assessment: coursework (1000 words, LT) 20%, essay (2500 words ST) 80% |
GV3L1 - Analytical Approaches to British Politics |
Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 100%. |
GY121 - Sustainable Development |
Old assessment: essay (3000 words, LT) 50%, take-home assessment (ST) 50% |
GY202 - Introduction to Global Development |
Old assessment: Exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 50%. Essay (3000 words, LT) 50% |
GY210 - The Economics of Cities |
Old assessment: Exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 100%. |
GY220 - Environment: Science and Society |
Old assessment: Exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 60%, Assignment (LT) 40% |
GY222 - Applied Environmental Economics |
Old assessment: Exam (3 hours, summer exam period) 75%, Essay (2000 words) 25% |
GY246 - Field Methods in Geography |
Old assessment: project (3500 words, ST) 60%, class participation (LT) 10%, research proposal (ST) 30% |
GY315 - Geographies of Race |
Old assessment: essay (2500 words, LT) 100% |
GY316 - Gender, Space and Power |
Old assessment: take-home assessment (ST) 100% |
GY327 - Global Environmental Governance |
Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 100% |
GY329 - Applied Economics of Environment and Development |
Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 100% |
GY328 - Political Ecology of Development |
Old assessment: essay (4000 words, MT) 100% |
GY331 - Geographies of Global Migration |
Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 75%, coursework (1500 words, LT) 25% |
HY113 - From Empire to Independence: The Extra-European World in the Twentieth Century |
Old assessment: take-home assessment (ST) 100% |
HY116 - International Politics since 1914: Peace and War |
Old assessment: take-home assessment (ST) 100% |
HY118 - Faith, Power and Revolution: Europe and the Wider World, c.1500-c.1800 |
Old assessment: project (LT) 50%, take-home assessment (ST) 50% |
HY120 - Historical Approaches to the Modern World |
Old assessment: essay (2000 words, MT) 25%, essay (2000 words, LT) 40%, take-home assessment (ST) 35% |
HY226 - The Great War 1914-1918 |
Old assessment: essay (3000 words, LT) 50%, essay (3000 words, ST) 50% |
HY232 - War, Genocide and Nation Building. The History of South-Eastern Europe 1914-1990 |
Old assessment: exam (3 hours, summer exam period) 100% |
HY235 - Modernity and the State in East Asia: China, Japan and Korea since 1840 |
Old assessment: take-home assessment (ST) 100% |
HY240 - From Empire to Commonwealth: war, race and imperialism in British History, 1780 to the present day |
Old assessment: essay (4000 words, LT) 40%, essay (6000 words, ST) 60% |
HY245 - The United States and the World since 1776 |
Old assessment: essay (3000 words, LT) 25%, take-home assessment (ST) 75% |
HY247 - The History of Modern Turkey, 1789 to the Present |
Old assessment: essay (3500 words, LT) 35%, exam (2 hour, summer exam period) 50%, presentation (MT and LT) 15% |
HY311 - Limited War During the Cold War Era: The US in Korea (1950-53) and Vietnam (1954-75) |
Old assessment: essay (3500 words, LT) 35%, essay (5000 words, ST) 50%, source analysis (LT) 15% |
HY320 - The Cold War Endgame |
Old assessment: essay (3500 words, LT) 35%, essay (5000 words, LT) 50%, source analysis (LT) 15% |
HY328 - The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Nationalism, Territory, Religion |
Old assessment: essay (3000 words, LT) 35%, essay (3000 words, ST) 35%, class participation (MT and LT) 15% |
HY333 - Enslavement, commerce, and political formations in West Africa, c. 1550-1836 |
Old assessment: essay (5000 words, ST) 80%, source analysis (LT) 20% |
IR205 - International Security |
Old assessment: essay (2500 words, LT) 60%, exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 40% |
IR206 - International Political Economy |
Old assessment: coursework (MT and LT) 10%, take-home assessment (ST) 90% |
IR312 - Genocide |
Old assessment: take-home assessment (ST) 100% |
IR323 - Gendered/ing and International Politic |
Old assessment: coursework (LT) 35%, essay (3000 words, LT) 65% |
IR326 - The Rule of Law: A Global History |
Old assessment: essay (4000 words, LT Week 1) 100% |
IR367 - Global Environmental Politics |
Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 100% |
IR368 - The Political Economy of Trade |
Old assessment: exam (2 hours, January exam period) 100% |
LN100 - Russian Language and Society 3 (advanced) |
Old assessment: continuous assessment (MT and LT) 40%, exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 40%, oral examination (ST) 20% |
LN101- Russian Language and Society 1 (beginner) |
Old assessment: continuous assessment (MT and LT) 40%, exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 40%, oral examination (ST) 20% |
LN102 - Russian Language and Society 2 (intermediate) |
Old assessment: continuous assessment (MT and LT) 40%, exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 40%, oral examination (ST) 20% |
LN104 - Mandarin Language and Society Level 1 (Beginner) |
Old assessment: continuous assessment (MT and LT) 40%, exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 40%, oral examination (ST) 20% |
LN110 German Language and Society 3 (advanced) |
Old assessment: continuous assessment (MT and LT) 40%, exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 40%, oral examination (ST) 20% |
LN112 - German Language and Society 2 (Intermediate) |
Old assessment: continuous assessment (MT and LT) 40%, exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 40%, oral examination (ST) 20% |
LN120 Spanish Language and Society 3 (advanced) |
Old assessment: continuous assessment (MT and LT) 40%, exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 40%, oral examination (ST) 20% |
LN121 - Spanish Language and Society 1 (beginner) |
Old assessment: continuous assessment (MT and LT) 40%, exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 40%, oral examination (ST) 20% |
LN122 - Spanish Language and Society 2 (intermediate) |
Old assessment: continuous assessment (MT and LT) 40%, exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 40%, oral examination (ST) 20% |
LN130 French Language and Society 3 (advanced) |
Old assessment: continuous assessment (MT and LT) 40%, exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 40%, oral examination (ST) 20% |
LN131 - French Language and Society 1 (beginner) |
Old assessment: continuous assessment (MT and LT) 40%, exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 40%, oral examination (ST) 20% |
LN132 - French Language and Society 2 (intermediate) |
Old assessment: continuous assessment (MT and LT) 40%, exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 40%, oral examination (ST) 20% |
LN140 - Mandarin Language and Society 3 (Advanced) |
Old assessment: continuous assessment (MT and LT) 40%, exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 40%, oral examination (ST) 20% |
LN142 - Mandarin Language and Society 2 (Intermediate) |
Old assessment: continuous assessment (MT and LT) 40%, exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 40%, oral examination (ST) 20% |
LN200 - Russian Language and Society 4 (proficiency) |
Old assessment: continuous assessment (MT and LT) 40%, exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 40%, oral examination (ST) 20% |
LN210 - German Language and Society 4 (proficiency) |
Old assessment: continuous assessment (MT and LT) 40%, exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 40%, oral examination (ST) 20% |
LN220 - Spanish Language and Society 4 (proficiency) |
Old assessment: continuous assessment (MT and LT) 40%, exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 40%, oral examination (ST) 20% |
LN230 - French Language and Society 4 (proficiency) |
Old assessment: continuous assessment (MT and LT) 40%, exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 40%, oral examination (ST) 20% |
LN240 - Mandarin Language and Society 4 (Proficiency) |
Old assessment: continuous assessment (MT and LT) 40%, exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 40%, oral examination (ST) 20% |
LN270 - Society and Language: Linguistics for Social Scientists |
Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 50%, coursework 50%. |
LN320 - Spanish Language and Society 5 (mastery) |
Old assessment: continuous assessment (MT and LT) 40%, exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 40%, oral examination (ST) 20% |
LN330 - French Language and Society 5 (mastery) |
Old assessment: continuous assessment (MT and LT) 40%, exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 40%, oral examination (ST) 20% |
LN340 - Mandarin Language and Society 5 (Mastery) |
Old assessment: continuous assessment (MT and LT) 40%, exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 40%, oral examination (ST) 20% |
LL201 - Administrative Law |
Old assessment: Exam (3 hours, reading time: 15 minutes, summer exam period) 67%, |
LL202 - Commercial Contracts |
Old assessment: Exam (3 hours, reading time: 15 minutes, summer exam period) 75%, |
LL203 - Law of Business Associations (Company Law) |
Old assessment: exam (3 hours, reading time: 15 minutes, summer exam period) 100% |
LL207 - Civil Liberties and Human Rights |
Old assessment: exam (3 hours, reading time: 15 minutes, summer exam period) 100% |
LL212 - Conflict of Laws |
Old assessment: exam (3 hours, reading time: 15 minutes, summer exam period) 100% |
LL233 - Law of Evidence |
Old assessment: exam (3 hours, reading time: 15 minutes, summer exam period) 100% |
LL257 - Employment Law |
Old assessment: exam (3 hours, reading time: 15 minutes, summer exam period) 100% |
LL259 - Legal and Social Change since 1750 |
Old assessment: assessment path 1: exam (3 hours, reading time: 15 minutes, summer exam period) 100%, assessment path 2: essay (12000 words, ST) 100% |
LL275 - Property II |
Old assessment: exam (3 hours, reading time: 15 minutes, summer exam period) 100% |
LL278 - Public International Law |
Old assessment: exam (3 hours, reading time: 15 minutes, summer exam period) 100% |
LL293 - Tax and Tax Avoidance |
Old assessment: exam (3 hours, reading time: 15 minutes, summer exam period) 100% |
LL295 - Media Law |
Old assessment: coursework (3000 words, MT and LT) 50%, essay (4000 words, ST) 50% |
LL300 - Competition Law |
Old assessment: exam (3 hours, reading time: 15 minutes, summer exam period) 100% |
LL305 - Jurisprudence |
Old assessment: exam (3 hours, reading time: 15 minutes, summer exam period) 100% |
MA316 - Graph Theory |
Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 100% |
MG104 - Operations Management |
Old assessment: take-home assessment (MT) 20%, take-home assessment (MT) 20%, take-home assessment (LT) 60% |
MG105 - Organisational Behaviour and Leadership |
Old assessment: essay (1500 words, LT) 40%, class participation (LT) 10%, take-home assessment (ST) 50% |
MG212 - Marketing |
Old assessment: Exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 60%, Project (40%) |
MG303 - International Business Strategy and Emerging Markets |
Old assessment: coursework (ST) 50%, project (LT) 40%, class participation (LT) 10% |
Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method courses: | |
PH105 - Historical and Global Perspectives on Philosophy |
Old assessment: essay (1500 words, LT) 70%, in-class assessment (LT) 20%, class participation (LT) 10% |
PH111 - Introduction to Logic |
Old assessment: take-home assessment (January) 90%, continuous assessment (MT) 10% |
PH112 - Intermediate Logic and Probability |
Old assessment: take-home assessment (ST) 90%, continuous assessment (LT) 10% |
PH203 - Philosophy of the Social Sciences |
Old assessment: essay (2000 words, MT and LT) 25%, essay (2000 words, MT and LT) 25%, take-home assessment (ST) 50% |
PH222 - 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%). |
PH225 - Business and Organisational Ethics |
Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 50%, essay (2000 words, ST) 50% |
PH301 - Rationality and Choice |
Old assessment: exam (3 hours, summer exam period) 100% |
PH341 - Philosophy, Politics and Economics: Applications |
Old assessment: Exam (2 hours, in the summer exam period) 40%, Essay (40%, 2000 words) in the ST. |
Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science courses: | |
PB300 - Advances in Psychological and Behavioural Science |
Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 50%, case study (2000 words, LT) 50% |
PB303 - Organisations, Groups and Identity |
Old assessment: essay (2500 words, LT) 100% |
PB304 - Organisational and Social Decision-Making |
Old assessment: essay (2500 words, LT) 100% |
PB310 - Independent Research Project |
Old assessment: dissertation (ST) 75%, presentation (ST) 25% |
PB312 - Research Apprenticeship |
Old assessment: research report (MT) 70%, reflective learning report (MT) 30% |
SP100 - Understanding International Social and Public Policy |
Old assessment: coursework 20%, take-home assessment (ST) 80% |
SP110 - Sociology and Social Policy |
Old assessment: exam (3 hours, reading time: 15 minutes, summer exam period) 60% essay (1500 words, LT) 40% |
SP111 - Social Economics and Policy |
Old assessment: take-home assessment (ST) 100% |
SP200 - Comparative and International Social Policy |
Old assessment: coursework (ST) 100% |
SP201 - Research Methods for Social Policy |
Old assessment: essay (5000 words, ST) 100% |
SP210 - Development and Social Change |
Old assessment: essay (2000 words, LT) 50%, exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 50% |
SP230 - Education Policy |
Old assessment: take-home assessment (ST) 100% |
SP232 - Health and Social Care Policy |
Old assessment: take-home assessment (ST) 100% |
SP271 - Psychology of Crime and Criminal Justice |
Old assessment: exam (3 hours, summer exam period) 100% |
SP372 - Punishment and Penal Policy |
Old assessment: essay (3000 words) 70%, presentation 30% |
SP399 - Dissertation |
Old assessment: essay (8000 words, ST) 100% |
ST101 - Programming for Data Science |
Old assessment: coursework (LT) 40%, project (LT) 60% |
ST102 - Elementary Statistical Theory |
Old assessment: exam (1 hour, 10 minutes reading time, January exam period) 25%, exam (3 hours, summer exam period) 75% |
ST115 - Managing and Visualising Data |
Old assessment: coursework (LT) 40%, project (LT) 60% |
ST202 - Probability, Distribution Theory and Inference |
Old assessment: exam (3 hours, summer exam period) 100% |
ST205 - Sample Surveys and Experiments |
Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 80%, coursework (MT) 20% |
ST206 - Probability and Distribution Theory |
Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 100% |
ST211 - Applied Regression |
Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 50%, project (ST) 50% |
ST226 - Actuarial Investigations: Financial |
Old assessment: exam (3 hours, January exam period) 90%, coursework (LT) 10% |
ST301 - Actuarial Mathematics (Life) |
Old assessment: exam (3 hours, summer exam period) 100% |
ST303 - Stochastic Simulation |
Old assessment: project (LT) 35%, project (ST) 65% |
ST304 - Time Series and Forecasting |
Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 100% |
ST306 - Actuarial Mathematics (General) |
Old assessment: exam (3 hours, January exam period) 100% |
ST311 - Artificial Intelligence |
Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 50%, coursework (LT) 50% |
ST330 - Stochastic and Actuarial Methods in Finance |
Old assessment: exam (3 hours, summer exam period) 100% |
