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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AC416 - Topics in Financial Reporting |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, January exam) 60%, continuous assessment (MT) 10%, group project (MT) 30% |
AN442 - Supervised Reading Course and Fieldwork Preparation |
Old assessment: fieldwork notes (MT) 100% |
AN467 - The Anthropology of South Asia |
Old assessment: take-home assessment (LT) 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% |
AN477 - Topics in the Anthropology of sub-Saharan Africa |
Old assessment: take-home assessment (LT) 100% |
AN481 - Health and Welfare: Anthropological Perspectives |
Old assessment: essay (5000 words, LT) 100% |
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% |
EC441 - Microeconomics for MRes students |
Old assessment: exam (3 hours, reading time: 15 minutes) 100% in the summer exam period |
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. |
EC443 - Econometrics for MRes students |
Old assessment: exam (3 hours, reading time: 15 minutes) 100% in the summer exam period. |
EC475 - Quantitative Economics |
Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period, 15 minutes reading time) 80%, report (MT) 10%, research proposal (LT) 10%. |
EC485 - Further Topics in Econometrics |
Old assessment: exam (2 hours, January exam period) 50%, 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% |
EC540 - Political Economy for Research Students |
Old assessment: exam (3 hours, summer exam period, 15 minutes reading time) 100% |
EH401 - Historical Analysis of Economic Change |
Old assessment: exam (2 hours, January exam period) 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). |
EH452 - Latin American Development and Economic History |
Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 100% |
EH463 - The Long-Run Analysis of Firms and Industries |
Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 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% |
EH483 - The Development and Integration of the World Economy in the 19th and 20th Centuries |
Old assessment: exam (3 hours, summer exam period) 100% |
EU430 - Europeanization: The Comparative Politics of Domestic Change |
Old assessment: project (5000 words, LT) 100% |
EU440 - The Balkans in Europe: Transition, Democratisation, Integration |
Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 100% |
EU476 - Emotions and Memory in European Politics |
Old assessment: essay (5000 words, LT) 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% |
EU486 - Imaging Violence, Imagining Europe |
Old assessment: essay (5000 words, ST) 100% |
EU489 - Analytical Politics and Policymaking in Europe |
Old assessment: essay (1000 words, LT) 10%, online assessment (ST) 90% |
EU4A5 - Public Opinion in Europe |
Old assessment: essay (5000 words, between MT and LT) 100% |
FM408E - Financial Engineering |
Old assessment: project (LT) 30%, exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 70% |
FM409 - Risk Management in Financial Markets |
Old assessment: coursework (LT) 5%, presentation (LT) 5%, exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 90% |
FM436 - Financial Economics |
Old assessment: coursework 20%, exam (3 hours, summer exam period) 80% |
GI418 - Feminist Economics and Policy: An Introduction |
Old assessment: essay (4000 words, ST) 100% |
GI429 - Archival Interventions: Feminist, Queer and Decolonial Approaches |
Old assessment: project (4000 words, LT) 100% |
GI430 - Intersectional Inequalities in the Agro-Food System |
Old assessment: essay (4000 words, LT Week 1) 100%, |
GV439 - Government and Politics in Central and Eastern Europe |
Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 100%. |
GV454 - Parties, Elections and Governments |
Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 100%. |
GV477 - Comparative Public Policy Change |
Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 50%, essay (3000 words) 50% |
GV481 - Quantitative Analysis for Political Science |
Old assessment: coursework (LT) 50%, exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 50% |
GV482 - Political Science and Political Economy: Current Issues |
Old assessment: coursework (LT) 50%, exam (c) 50% |
GV488 - Law and Politics of Regulation |
Old assessment: exam (3 hours, summer exam period) 75%, essay (2500 words, ST) 25%. |
GV4A5 - International Migration and Immigration Management |
Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 100% |
GV4A8 - Political Violence and Terrorism |
Old assessment: online assessment (January) 100% |
GV4B9 - The Second Europe |
Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 75%, essay (2500 words) 25%. |
GV4C8 - Game Theory for Political Science |
Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 100% |
GV4D3 - Local Power in an Era of Globalization, Democratization, and Decentralization |
Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 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%. |
GV4F4 - Policy Advice in Theory and Practice |
Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 50%, project (2500 words) 50%. |
GV4F9 - The Challenges of Governance in sub-Saharan Africa |
Old assessment: essay (May) 100% |
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% |
GV4G7 - Marx and Marxism |
Old assessment: essay (3000 words) 80%, blog post 20% |
GV4H4 Foundations of Political Theory |
Old assessment: essay (2,500 words, LT) 85%, Blog post (up to 1000 words, MT) 15% |
GV4H5 Capitalism and Social Justice |
Old assessment: essay (3000 words, LT) 80%, blog post or wiki entry (500 words, MT) 20% |
GV4J4 - Citizen Representation and Democracy in the European Union |
Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 75%, essay (2500 words, LT) 25%. |
GV4K1 - Opening Government: Transparency, Accountability, and Participation |
Old assessment: essay (ST) 90%, presentation (ST) 10% |
GV504 - Research Methods in Political Theory |
Old assessment: essay (4000 words, LT) 50%, essay (4000 words, ST) 50% |
GV517 - Opening Government: Transparency, Accountability, and Participation |
Old assessment: coursework (5000 words, LT)100% |
GY400 - The Economics of Urbanisation |
Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 70%, presentation (LT) 30% |
GY427 - Climate Change: Science, Economics and Policy |
Old assessment: take-home assessment (between MT and LT) 100% |
GY439 - Cities, Politics and Citizenship |
Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 100% |
GY446 - Planning for Sustainable Cities |
Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 100% |
GY447 - The Economics of Regional and Urban Planning |
Old assessment: take-home assessment (ST) 100% |
GY454 - Urban Policy and Planning |
Old assessment: essay (4000 words) 80%, presentation (LT) 20% |
GY474 - Politics of Environment and Development |
Old assessment: essay (ST) 100% |
HP435 - Global Access to Medicines |
Old assessment: essay (3000 words, LT) 70%, group presentation (MT) 30% |
HP4A3E - Resource Allocation and Cost-effectiveness Analysis |
Old assessment: coursework 20%, take-home assessment (LT and or ST) 80% |
HP4B1E - Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy |
Old assessment: essay (2000 words, LT) 80%, continuous assessment (LT) 20% |
HP4B3E - Measuring Health System Performance |
Old assessment: essay (3000 words) 100% |
HP4B7E - Advanced Health Economics |
Old assessment: essay (2000 words) 80%, continuous assessment 20% |
HP4C3E - Economic Evaluation in Health Care |
Old assessment: critical evaluation 80%, report 20% |
HP4C4E - Systematic Review and Meta-analysis |
Old assessment: essay (3000 words) 80%, continuous assessment 20% |
HP4D1E - Introduction to Management in Health Care |
Old assessment: essay (2500 words) 100% |
HP4D2E - Principles of Health Technology Assessment |
Old assessment: essay (2000 words) 80%, continuous assessment 20% |
HP4D5E - Research Design for Evaluating Health Programs and Policies |
Old assessment: essay (2000 words) 80%, continuous assessment 20% |
DV407 - Poverty |
Old assessment: essay (4000 words, ST) 100% |
DV415 - Global Environmental Governance |
Old assessment: essay (2000 words, ST) 20%, in-class assessment (ST) 80% |
DV418 - African Development |
Old assessment: essay (2000 words, ST) 30%, exam (2 hours, summer period) 60%, continuous assessment 10% |
DV420 - Complex Emergencies |
Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 100% |
DV442 - Key Issues in Development Studies |
Old assessment: essay (2000 words, LT) 20%, exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 80% |
DV435 - African Political Economy |
Old assessment: essay (4000 words, LT) 70%, summative short paper (MT) 30% |
DV444 - Global Health Challenges: Epidemics, Disease, and Public Health Response |
Old assessment: essay (4000 words, LT) 100% |
DV456 - Population, Health and Development: Evidence and Projections |
Old assessment: coursework (LT) 85%, continuous assessment (MT) 15% |
DV458 - Key issues in Global Health and Development |
Old assessment: exam (2 hours, January exam period) 100% |
DV460 - Bayesian Reasoning for Qualitative Social Science: A modern approach to case study inference |
Old assessment: project (3000 words, ST) 100% |
DV472 - Covid-19 pandemic: health, socio-economic and political implications for development (Special Topics in International Development) |
Old assessment: essay (4000 words, LT) 100% |
DV480 - Revolution and Development |
Old assessment: presentation (MT) 10%, research proposal (2000 words, MT) 20%, research project (6000 words, ST) 70% |
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% |
HY400 - Crisis Decision-Making in War and Peace 1914-2003 |
Old assessment: take-home assessment (ST) 100% |
HY411 - European Integration in the Twentieth Century |
Old assessment: essay (LT) 25%, take-home assessment (ST) 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% |
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% |
HY436 - Race, Violence and Colonial Rule in Africa |
Old assessment: essay (4000 words, LT) 40%, essay (6000 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% |
HY461 - East Asia in the Age of Imperialism, 1839-1945 |
Old assessment: essay (3000 words, LT) 25%, take-home assessment (ST) 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% |
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% |
IR412 - International Institutions |
Old assessment: essay (4000 words, ST) 100% |
IR419 - International Relations of the Middle East |
Old assessment: exam (3 hours, summer exam period) 100% |
IR434 - European Defence and Security |
Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 100% |
IR445 - Global Politics of China |
Old assessment: exam (3 hours, summer exam period) 100% |
IR453 - Global Business in International Relations |
Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 100% |
IR467 - Global Environmental Politics |
Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 100% |
IR468 - The Political Economy of Trade |
Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 100% |
IR469 - Politics of Money in the World Economy |
Old assessment: take-home assessment (LT) 100% |
IR470 - International Political Economy |
Old assessment: take-home assessment (LT) 100% |
IR471 - Critical International Law |
Old assessment: Exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 100% |
IR475 - Gender/ed/ing International Politics |
Old assessment: coursework (LT) 35%, essay (4000 words, ST) 65% |
IR479 - Russia in World Politics |
Old assessment: essay (5000 words, ST) 80%, class participation (LT) 20% |
IR480 - The Politics of Inequality, Development and the State |
Old assessment: essay (2500 words, ST) 90%, continuous assessment (LT) 10% |
MG402 - Public Management: A Design-Oriented Approach |
Old assessment: essay (2500 words, ST) 45%, case analysis (LT) 45%, class participation (LT) 10% |
MG406E - Behavioural Decision Science |
Old assessment: coursework (3000 words, LT) 100% |
MG439 - Organisational Behaviour for Master's in Management |
Old assessment: continuous assessment (LT) 35%, take-home assessment (LT) 65% |
MG458 - Foundations of Management I: Organisations and Management Theory |
Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 75%, case study (MT) 25% |
MG460 - Emergencies Management: Humanitarian Intervention and Digital Innovation |
Old assessment: essay (3000 words, LT) 60%, project (5000 words, LT) 30%, class participation (LT) 10% |
MG463 - CEMS Global Leadership |
Old assessment: project (LT) 40%, project (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% |
MG472 - Management and Socioeconomics of Digital Innovation |
Old assessment: exam (2 hours, summer exam period) 80%, coursework (MT) 20% |