Updated postgraduate summative assessment information 2016/17 - for prospective students
The following information provides postgraduate students with a summary of the changes to assessment weightings or types which have been made for the 2016/17 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.
Department of Anthropology courses: | |
The Anthropology of South Asia (H) |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 100% |
Qualitative and Quantitative Methods for Anthropologists |
Old assessment: essay (3,000 words) 75%, research project 75% |
Anthropological Approaches to Value (H) |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 100% |
Department of Economics courses: | |
Econometrics |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 100% |
Microeconomics |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 100% |
Macroeconomics |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 100% |
International Economics |
Old assessment: essay (6,000 words) 50%, exam (main exam period) 50% |
Labour Economics |
Old assessment: essay (6,000 words) 50%, exam (main exam period) 50% |
Monetary Economics |
Old assessment: essay (6,000 words) 50%, exam (main exam period) 50% |
Public Economics |
Old assessment: essay (6,000 words) 50%, exam (main exam period) 50% |
The Economics of Industry |
Old assessment: essay (6,000 words) 50%, exam (main exam period) 50% |
Development and Growth |
Old assessment: essay (6,000 words) 50%, exam (main exam period) 50% |
Political Economy |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 100% |
Economic Growth, Development, and Capitalism in Historical Perspective |
Old assessment: essay (5,000 words) 40%, exam (main exam period) 60% |
Quantitative Economics |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 100% |
Contracts and Organisations |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 100% OR exam (main exam period) 50%, essay (6,000 words) 50% |
Econometric Analysis |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 100% |
Further Topics in Econometrics |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 100% |
Advanced Microeconomics |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 100% |
Topics in Advanced Econometrics for Research Students |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 100% |
Macroeconomics for Research Students |
Old assessment: project 33%, exam (main exam period) 67% |
European Institute courses: | |
European Law and Government (H) |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 75%, essay (2,000 words) 25% |
Europeanization: The Comparative Politics of Domestic Change (H) |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 50%, essay (2,500 words) 50% |
Identity, Community and the 'Problem of Minorities' (H) |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 100% |
Department of Finance courses: | |
Financial Econometrics |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 100% |
Gender Institute courses: | |
Gender and Social Policy: Theory and Practice (H) |
Old assessment: essay (2,500 words) 50%, project 50% |
Department of Geography and Environment courses: | |
Globalization, Regional Development and Policy |
Old assessment: coursework 25%, exam (main exam period) 75% |
Globalization and Regional Development (H) |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 100% |
Regional Development and Policy (H) |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 100% |
Techniques of Spatial Economic Analysis (H) |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 50%, project 50% |
Real Estate Finance (H) |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 100% |
Department of Government courses: | |
Political Science and Political Economy: Advanced Topics (H) |
Old assessment: essay (2,500 words) 25%, exam (main exam period) 75% |
Citizens' Political Behaviour in Europe: Elections Public Opinion and Identities (H) |
Old assessment: project 100% |
Foundations of Political Theory (H) |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 100% |
Armed Groups: Violence, Governance, and Mobilization (H) |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 100% |
Department of International Development courses: | |
Political Economy of Development II (H) |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 60%, policy memo 25%, presentation 15% |
Development Management |
Old assessment: essay (10,000 words) 100% |
Department of International History courses: | |
Empire, Colonialism and Globalisation |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 100% |
The Napoleonic Empire: The Making of Modern Europe |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 100% |
Living with the Bomb: An International History of Nuclear Weapons and the Arms Race from the Second World War to the end of the Cold War |
Old assessment: essay (5,000 words) 50%, essay (5,000 words) 50% |
The Ottoman Empire and its Legacy, 1299-1950 |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 100% |
Department of International Relations courses: | |
American Grand Strategy (H) |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 100% |
Department of Law courses: | |
International Law and the Use of Force (H) |
Old assessment: exam (January exam period) 100% |
Contemporary Issues of European Union Law (H) |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 100% |
European Company Law (H) |
Old assessment: exam (January exam period) 100% |
Explaining Punishment: Philosophy, Political Economy, Sociology (H) |
Old assessment: exam (January exam period) 100% |
New Technologies in Law and the Body (H) |
Old assessment: exam (January exam period) 100% |
Takeover Regulation in the UK and the US (H) |
Old assessment: exam (January exam period) 100% |
European Capital Markets Law (H) |
Old assessment: exam (January exam period) 100% |
Comparative Constitutional Law: Institutions (H) |
Old assessment: exam (January exam period) 100% |
Department of Management courses: | |
Foreign Direct Investment and Emerging Markets (H) |
Old assessment: essay (1,000 words) 20%, project 20%, exam (main exam period) 50%, class participation 10% |
Enterprise Development (H) |
Old assessment: essay (1,000 words) 10%, essay (1,000 words) 25%, project 40%, exam (main exam period) 25% |
Foundations of Management (modular) (H) |
Old assessment: class participation 15%, integrated assignment 20%, take home exam 65% |
Negotiation Analysis (H) |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 90%, class participation 10% |
Globalisation and Human Resource Management (H) |
Old assessment: essay (2,000 words) 25%, exam (main exam period) 75% |
International Marketing: A Strategic Approach (H) |
Old assessment: essay (2,500 words) 50%, exam (main exam period) 50% |
Cross Cultural Management (H) |
Old assessment: project 30%, exam (main exam period) 70% |
Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science courses: | |
Contemporary Social and Cultural Psychology |
Old assessment: exam (January exam period) 30%, 70% essay (5,000 words) |
Organisational Social Psychology |
Old assessment: exam (January exam period) 30%, 70% essay (5,000 words) |
The Social Psychology of Communication |
Old assessment: exam (January exam period) 30%, 70% essay (5,000 words) |
Department of Social Policy courses: | |
SA451 Social Policy Research |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 100% |
SA4E1 Health Administration and Management (H) |
Old assessment: take home exam 100% |
SA4G1 Financing Health Care (H) |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 100% |
SA4G2 Health Economics (H) |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 100% |
SA4H9 Non-Governmental Organisations, Social Policy and Development (H) |
Old assessment: essay (3,000 words) 40%, exam (main exam period) 60% |
SA4J9 States, Social Policy and Development (H) |
Old assessment: essay (3,000 words) 40%, exam (main exam period) 60% |
SA4K1 Global Health Policy: Institutions, Actors and Politics (H) |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 100% |
SA4M6E Economic Analysis for Health Policy (H) |
Old assessment: essay (3,000 words) 25%, exam (main exam period) 75% |
SA4M7E Quality and Outcomes in Cardiovascular Sciences (H) |
Old assessment: essay (3,000 words) 25%, exam (main exam period) 75% |
SA4M8E Economic Evaluation in Health Care (H) |
Old assessment: research project 75%, exam (main exam period) 25% |
SA4M9E Systematic Review and Meta-analysis (H) |
Old assessment: research project 75%, exam (main exam period) 25% |
SA4N1E Cardiovascular Epidemology and Prevention (H) |
Old assessment: essay (3,000 words) 25%, exam (main exam period) 75% |
Department of Statistics courses: | |
ST409 Stochastic Processes (H) |
Old assessment: exam (January exam period) 100% |
ST422 Statistics (H) |
Old assessment: exam (main exam period) 100% |
