Updated graduate summative assessment information 2020/21 - for prospective students
The following information provides graduate students with a summary of the changes to assessment weightings or types which have been made for the 2020/21 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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- Management Accounting for Decision Making |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 75%, project (LT) 15%, case assignment (LT) 10% |
- Topics in Financial Reporting |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, January exam period) 80%, group project (MT) 20% |
- Accounting in the Global Economy |
Old assessment: exam (90 minutes, Summer exam period) 60%, essay (LT) 40% |
- Financial Accounting, Reporting and Disclosure |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 100% |
- Anthropology of Law |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, 15 minutes reading time, Summer exam period) 100% |
- Poverty |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 75%, essay (2000 words, LT) 25% |
- African Development |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 70%, podcast (LT Week 11) 20%, essay (2000 words, LT Week 5) 10% |
- International Institutions and Late Development |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 60%, essay (4000 words, LT) 40% |
- Development Management |
Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, Summer exam period) 60%, project (LT) 40% or exam (180 minutes, Summer exam period) 75%, presentation (LT) 25% |
- African Political Economy |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, January exam period) 60%, essay (2000 words, LT) 40% |
- Key Issues in Development Studies |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 75%, essay (2000 words, LT) 25% |
- Global Health Challenges: Epidemics, Disease, and Public Health Response |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 75%, essay (2000 words, LT) 25% |
- International Development Consultancy Project |
Old assessment: project (6000 words, LT) 80%, presentation (LT) 10%, reflective learning (LT) 10% |
- Population, Health and Development: Evidence and Projections |
Old assessment: coursework (ST Week 2) 85%, class participation (LT) 15% |
- Bayesian Reasoning for Qualitative Social Science: A modern approach to case study inference |
Old assessment: project (3000 words, ST) 80%, in-class assessment (LT) 20% |
- Information Communication Technologies and Socio-economic Development |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 70%, essay (3000 words, ST) 30% |
- Econometric Methods |
Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, Summer exam period) 66%, problem sets (LT) 17%, problem sets (MT) 17% |
- Historical Analysis of Economic Change |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, January exam period) 100% |
- Quantitative Analysis in Economic History I |
Old assessment: take-home assessment (January) 100% |
- African Economic Development in Historical Perspective |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 100% |
- History of Economics: Ideas, Policy and Performativity |
Old assessment: essay (5000 words, ST) 100% |
- Living Standards since the Industrial Revolution: The British Experience c.1750-2000 |
Old assessment: online assessment (ST) 100% |
- Economic Change in Global History: Approaches and Analysis |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, January exam period) 100% |
- Policy-Making in the European Union |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 100% |
- Europeanization: The Comparative Politics of Domestic Change |
Old assessment: essay (3000 words, ST) 60%, essay (2000 words, LT) 40% |
- Democracy, Ideology and the European State |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 100% |
- The Political Economy of European Welfare States |
Old assessment: online assessment (ST) 75%, essay (2000 words, MT) 25% |
- Culture and Security in Global Politics |
Old assessment: essay (2500 words, LT) 50%, project (2500 words, MT) 50% |
- Public Policy and Cultural Narratives in a Global Europe |
Old assessment: essay (2500 words, LT) 50%, video (LT) 50% |
- The Culture of European Politics |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 100% |
- Europe in World Trade |
Old assessment: essay (5000 words, LT) 100% |
- Europe's Role in Global Migration Governance |
Old assessment: online assessment (ST) 90%, presentation (MT) 10% |
- Post-Conflict Justice and Reconciliation in Europe and Beyond |
Old assessment: essay (4500 words, LT) 100% |
- Imaging Violence, Imagining Europe |
Old assessment: essay (4000 words, ST) 80%, presentation (LT) 20% |
- Policy Incubator |
Old assessment: research project (post-summer term) 100% |
- MSc in The Global Political Economy of China and Europe Policy Incubator |
Old assessment: project (10000 words, ST) 100% |
- Fixed Income Securities and Credit Markets |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, 15 minutes reading time, Summer exam period) 80%, coursework (LT) 20% |
- Fixed Income Securities and Credit Markets |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, 15 minutes reading time, Summer exam period) 80%, coursework (MT) 20% |
- Topics in Portfolio Management |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, 10 minutes reading time, Summer exam period) 80%, coursework (LT) 20% |
- Topics in Portfolio Management |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, 10 minutes reading time, Summer exam period) 80%, coursework (MT) 20% |
- Mergers, Buyouts and Corporate Restructurings |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, 15 minutes reading time, Summer exam period) 70%, coursework (LT) 30% |
FM407E - Mergers, Buyouts and Corporate Restructurings |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, 15 minutes reading time, Summer exam period) 70%, project (MT) 30% |
- Financial Engineering |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 70%, project (LT) 30% |
- Risk Management in Financial Markets |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 90%, coursework (LT) 10% |
- Private Equity |
Old assessment: dissertation (6000 words, ST) 60%, coursework (LT) 20%, class participation (LT) 20% |
- Quantitative Security Analysis |
Old assessment: project (LT) 50%, in-class assessment 50% |
- Corporate Investment and Financial Policy |
Old assessment: exam (150 minutes, Summer exam period) 70%, coursework (LT) 20%, class participation (LT) 10% |
- Private Equity, Venture Capital and Entrepreneurial Finance |
Old assessment: coursework (LT) 90%, class participation (LT) 10% |
- Corporate Finance |
Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, 15 minutes reading time, Summer exam period) 80%, in-class assessment (MT) 20% |
- Corporate Finance |
Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, 15 minutes reading time, Summer exam period) 70%, in-class assessment (MT and LT) 20%, class participation (MT and LT) 10% |
- Asset Markets |
Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, 10 minutes reading time, Summer exam period) 80%, in-class assessment (MT) 20% |
- Asset Markets |
Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, 10 minutes reading time, Summer exam period) 70%, in-class assessment (MT and LT) 20%, class participation (MT and LT) 10% |
- International Finance for MSc Finance and Economics, MSc Finance and MSc Finance & Private Equity |
Old assessment: coursework (LT) 60%, coursework (LT) 30%, class participation 10% |
- International Finance for MSc Finance and Economics, MSc Finance and MSc Finance & Private Equity - Dissertation |
Old assessment: dissertation (6000 words, ST) 60%, coursework (LT) 30%, class participation (LT) 10% |
- Corporate Investment and Financial Policy - Dissertation |
Old assessment: dissertation (6000 words, ST) 70%, coursework (LT) 20%, class participation 10% |
- Private Equity, Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship - Dissertation |
Old assessment: dissertation (6000 words, ST) 50%, coursework (MT) 40%, class participation (MT) 10% |
- Topics in Portfolio Management - Dissertation |
Old assessment: essay (6000 words, ST) 80%, coursework (LT) 20% |
- Topics in Portfolio Management - Dissertation |
Old assessment: dissertation (6000 words, ST) 80%, coursework (MT) 20% |
- Financial Engineering - Dissertation |
Old assessment: dissertation (6000 words, ST) 70%, coursework (LT) 30% |
- Qualitative Security Analysis - Dissertation |
Old assessment: dissertation (6000 words, ST) 50%, coursework (LT) 50% |
- Fixed Income Securities and Credit Markets - Dissertation |
Old assessment: dissertation (6000 words, ST) 80%, coursework (LT) 20% |
- Fixed Income Securities and Credit Markets - Dissertation |
Old assessment: dissertation (6000 words, ST) 80%, coursework (MT) 20% |
- Mergers, Buyouts and Corporate Restructurings - Dissertation |
Old assessment: dissertation (6000 words, ST) 70%, coursework (LT) 30% |
- Mergers, Buyouts and Corporate Restructurings - Dissertation |
Old assessment: dissertation (6000 words, ST) 70%, coursework (MT) 30% |
- Risk Management in Financial Markets - Dissertation |
Old assessment: dissertation (6000 words, ST) 90%, coursework (LT) 10% |
- Corporate Finance for Research Students |
Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, Summer exam period) 75%, project (LT) 25% |
- Asset Pricing for Research Students |
Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, Summer exam period) 90%, project (LT) 10% |
- PhD Seminar in Finance |
Old assessment: essay (10000 words, LT) 100% |
- Gender, Knowledge and Research Practice |
Old assessment: essay (4000 words, LT) 100% |
- Gender and Media Representation |
Old assessment: essay (4000 words, LT) 100% |
- Globalisation, Gender and Development |
Old assessment: essay (4000 words, LT) 50%, essay (4000 words, ST) 50% |
- Gender, Globalisation and Development: An Introduction |
Old assessment: essay (4000 words, LT) 100% |
- Gender, Post/coloniality and Development: Critical Perspectives and New Directions |
Old assessment: essay (4000 words, LT) 100% |
- Gender, 'Race' and Militarisation |
Old assessment: project (4000 words, LT) 100% |
- Theorising Gender and Social Policy |
Old assessment: project (4000 words, ST) 100% |
- Gender and European Welfare States |
Old assessment: essay (4000 words, ST) 100% |
- Globalisation, Gender and Culture |
Old assessment: essay (4000 words, ST) 100% |
- Sexuality, Gender and Culture |
Old assessment: essay (4000 words, LT) 100% |
- Introduction to Gender, Peace and Security |
Old assessment: essay (4000 words, LT) 100% |
- Gender and Human Rights |
Old assessment: essay (4000 words, ST) 100% |
- Advanced Issues in Gender, Peace and Security |
Old assessment: essay (4000 words, ST) 100% |
- Bodies, Culture and Politics |
Old assessment: essay (4000 words, ST) 100% |
- States and Markets |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, January exam period) 100% |
- Democracy and Development in Latin America |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 100% |
- Public Management Theory and Doctrine |
Old assessment: essay (3000 words, LT) 100% |
- Multiculturalism |
Old assessment: essay (5000 words, ST) 100% |
- International Migration and Immigration Management |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 100% |
- Nationalist Conflict, Political Violence and Terrorism |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 100% |
- Civil Wars: Concepts and Cases |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 100% |
- Dilemmas of Equality |
Old assessment: essay (5000 words) 100% |
- Comparative Democratization in a Global Age |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 100% |
- Capitalism and Democracy |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 100% |
- Policy Advice in Theory and Practice |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 50%, project (2000 words) 50% |
- Advanced Study of Key Political Thinkers |
Old assessment: essay (4000 words) 90%, class participation 10% |
- Marx and Marxism |
Old assessment: essay (4000 words) 100% |
- Chinese Political Thought |
Old assessment: essay (4000 words) 100% |
- Foundations of Political Theory |
Old assessment: essay (3000 words, LT) 100% |
- The Political Philosophy of Epidemics |
Old assessment: essay (4000 words) 100% |
- Behavioural Political Economy |
Old assessment: essay (5000 words, ST) 50%, take-home assessment 50% |
- The Politics of Globalisation |
Old assessment: essay (5000 words) 100% |
- Research Design in the Social Sciences |
Old assessment: research project (ST) 60%, essay (2500 words, LT) 20%, essay (2500 words, MT) 20% |
- Environmental Regulation: Implementing Policy |
Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, Summer exam period) 75%, essay (3000 words, LT) 25% |
- Environmental and Resources Economics |
Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, Summer exam period) 75%, essay (3000 words) 25% |
- Applied Quantitative Methods |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 100% |
- Cities, People and Poverty in the South |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 75%, essay (2500 words, LT) 25% |
- The Economics of Regional and Urban Planning |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 100% |
- Urban Research Methods |
Old assessment: essay (2500 words, LT) 60%, presentation (ST) 20%, research proposal (ST) 20% |
- Urban Theory and Policy in the Global South |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 50%, essay (2500 words, LT) 50% |
- Concepts in Environmental Regulation |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 100% |
- Politics of Environment and Development |
Old assessment: essay (3000 words, ST) 80%, coursework (1500 words, LT) 20% |
- Issues in Environmental Governance |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 100% |
- Dissertation - Environment Programmes - MSc Environmental Economics and Climate Change, MSc Environmental Policy and Regulation and MSc Environment and Development |
Old assessment: dissertation (10000 words, post-summer term) 95%, dissertation plan (LT) 5% |
- Environmental Regulation: Implementing Policy |
Old assessment: essay (6000 words, LT) 100% |
- Financing Health Care |
Old assessment: exam (90 minutes, Summer exam period) 70%, research project (LT) 30% |
- Introduction to Health Policy and Politics |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 60%, essay (2500 words, MT) 40% |
- Evidence Review and Synthesis for Decision Making |
Old assessment: project (3000 words, LT Week 11) 70%, presentation (ST) 30% |
- Global Health Security |
Old assessment: essay (3500 words, LT Week 1) 75%, blog post (LT Week 1) 25% |
- Advanced Health Economics |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 60%, essay (2500 words, ST) 40% |
- Statistical Methods in Health Care Economic Evaluation |
Old assessment: project (3500 words, ST) 100% |
- Applied Health Econometrics |
Old assessment: project (3500 words) 100% |
- Behavioural Incentive Design in Health and Health Care |
Old assessment: project (4000 words, MT Week 8) 50%, take-home assessment (LT) 50% |
- Financing Health Care |
Old assessment: take-home assessment (ST) 70%, policy memo (LT) 30% |
- Resource Allocation and Cost-effectiveness Analysis |
Old assessment: take-home assessment (July) 100% |
- Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy |
Old assessment: take-home assessment (LT) 100% |
- Measuring Health System Performance |
Old assessment: essay (3000 words) 75%, in-class assessment 25% |
- Advanced Health Economics |
Old assessment: essay (3000 words) 100% |
- Quality and Outcomes in Cardiovascular Sciences |
Old assessment: essay (3000 words, LT) 100% |
- Economic Evaluation in Health Care |
Old assessment: research project (post-summer term) 100% |
- Systematic Review and Meta-analysis |
Old assessment: research project (ST) 100% |
- Using Health Economics to Analyse and Inform Policy and Practice |
Old assessment: essay (5000 words, LT) 100% |
- Principles of Health Technology Assessment |
Old assessment: research project (post-summer term) 100% |
- Research Design for Evaluating Health Programs and Policies |
Old assessment: research project (post-summer term) 100% |
- Cost-effectiveness in Health Care |
Old assessment: take-home assessment (MT) 60%, essay (2500 words, MT) 30%, presentation (MT) 10% |
- Economics of the Pharmaceutical Sector |
Old assessment: essay (4000 words, LT) 100% |
- Measuring the Performances of Health Services and Systems |
Old assessment: essay (3000 words, LT) 70%, presentation (MT) 30% |
- Economic Evaluation in Health Care |
Old assessment: research project (post-summer term) 100% |
- Crisis Decision-Making in War and Peace 1914-2003 |
Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, Summer exam period) 100% |
- European Integration in the Twentieth Century |
Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, Summer exam period) 75%, essay (LT) 25% |
- Presidents, Public Opinion, and Foreign Policy, from Roosevelt to Reagan, 1933-89 |
Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, Summer exam period) 100% |
- The Napoleonic Empire: The Making of Modern Europe |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 65%, essay (3500 words, LT) 35% |
- From Cold Warriors to Peacemakers: the End of the Cold War Era, 1979-1999 |
Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, Summer exam period) 100% |
- Race, Violence and Colonial Rule in Africa |
Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, Summer exam period) 80%, in-class assessment 20% |
- The Iranian Revolution |
Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, Summer exam period) 75%, essay (3000 words, LT) 25% |
- The Cold War in Latin America |
Old assessment: essay (6000 words, ST) 50%, discussion post 35%, class participation 15% |
- East Asia in the Age of Imperialism, 1839-1945 |
Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, Summer exam period) 75%, essay (3000 words) 25% |
- The International History of the Balkans since 1939: State Projects, Wars, and Social Conflict |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 50%, essay (3000 words, LT) 25%, class participation (MT and LT) 15%, presentation (MT and LT) 10% |
- Race, Gender and Reproduction in Caribbean, 1860s-1980s |
Old assessment: essay (5000 words, LT) 50%, essay (5000 words, ST) 50% |
- Foreign Policy Analysis III |
Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, Summer exam period) 100% |
- International Institutions |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 50%, essay (4000 words, LT) 50% |
- The EU in the World |
Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, Summer exam period) 100% |
- International Politics: Asia and the Pacific |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 60%, coursework (2000 words, LT) 40% |
- Conflict and Peacebuilding |
Old assessment: essay (4000 words, ST) 55%, essay (2500 words, LT) 35%, class participation (MT and LT) 10% |
- Theories of International Relations |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 50%, essay (4000 words, ST) 50% |
- American Grand Strategy |
Old assessment: essay (4000 words, ST) 100% |
- Empire and Conflict in World Politics |
Old assessment: essay (5000 words, LT) 100% |
- Genocide |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 100% |
- The Political Economy of Trade |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, January exam period) 70%, essay (2000 words, MT) 30% |
- Politics of Money in the World Economy |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, January exam period) 100% |
- International Political Economy |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 100% |
- China and the Global South |
Old assessment: essay (5000 words, LT) 80%, presentation (MT) 20% |
- Gender/ed/ing International Politics |
Old assessment: essay (4000 words, LT) 90%, coursework (MT) 10% |
- Current Issues in Intellectual and Cultural Property Law |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, 15 minutes reading time, Summer exam period) 100% |
- International Dispute Resolution: Courts and Tribunals |
Old assessment: research essay (8000 words) 100% |
- Public Management: A Design-Oriented Approach |
Old assessment: case analysis (MT) 45%, essay (2500 words) 45%, class participation 10% |
- Pricing Strategy |
Old assessment: coursework (LT) 45%, project (LT) 45%, class participation (LT) 10% |
- Consumer Insights: Behavioural Fundamentals |
Old assessment: in-class assessment (MT) 40%, essay (1500 words, MT) 30%, essay (1500 words, MT) 30% |
- Behavioural Decision Science |
Old assessment: coursework (3000 words, MT) 100% |
- Open Innovation |
Old assessment: essay (2000 words, LT) 45%, project (5000 words, LT) 45%, class participation (LT) 10% |
- International Business Strategy and Emerging Markets |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 50%, project (LT) 40%, class participation (LT) 10% |
- Firms and Markets in Emerging Economies |
Old assessment: group assignment (ST) 50%, case assignment (LT) 40%, class participation (LT) 10% |
- Organisational Behaviour for Master's in Management |
Old assessment: take-home assessment (LT) 45%, project (LT) 30%, continuous assessment (LT) 25% |
- Managerial Economics (modular) |
Old assessment: take-home assessment 65%, coursework 20%, class participation 15% |
- Strategy, Organisation and Innovation (modular) |
Old assessment: take-home assessment 60%, essay 30%, class participation 10% |
- Strategic Decision Making |
Old assessment: coursework (ST) 75%, presentation (LT) 25% |
- Foundations of Management I: Organisations and Management Theory |
Old assessment: coursework (3000 words, LT) 75%, in-class assessment (MT) 25% |
- Foundations of Management 2 |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, 15 minutes reading time, Summer exam period) 75%, essay (1500 words, LT) 25% |
- Managerial Economics for Master in Management Students |
Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, Summer exam period) 85%, class participation (MT) 15% |
- Foundations of Management III: Business Ethics, Corporate Governance and Leadership |
Old assessment: project (3000 words, ST) 100% |
- Global Strategy, Management and Information System |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 90%, coursework (MT) 10% |
- Negotiation Analysis |
Old assessment: essay (2000 words, LT) 75%, learning log (LT) 25% |
- Corporate Social Responsibility and International Labour Standards |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 60%, essay (2000 words) 35%, class participation 5% |
- Strategic Reward: Key Models and Practices |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 50%, essay (2000 words) 50% |
- The Management of Human Resources in Global Companies |
Old assessment: take-home assessment 60%, case analysis 30%, class participation 10% |
- eHealth: Policy, Strategy and Systems |
Old assessment: essay (4000 words, LT) 70%, coursework (600 words, LT) 20%, class participation (LT) 10% |
- The World Trading System |
Old assessment: coursework (LT) 50%, group assignment (LT) 40%, class participation (LT) 10% |
- Information Technology and Service Innovation |
Old assessment: coursework 50%, project 50% |
- The Dark Side of the Organisation |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 50%, essay (2000 words) 35%, class participation 15% |
- Leadership in Organisations: Theory and Practice |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 100% |
- Marketing Analytics II: Analytics for Managing Innovations, Products and Brands |
Old assessment: group project (LT) 45%, take-home assessment (LT) 45%, class participation (LT) 10% |
- Business Analysis |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, 15 minutes reading time, Summer exam period) 50%, project (3000 words, MT) 35%, class participation (MT) 15% |
- Understanding Social Problems for Innovation and Entrepreneurship |
Old assessment: essay (1500 words, LT) 45%, project (MT) 45%, class participation (MT) 10% |
- Foundations of Social Business I |
Old assessment: essay 70%, coursework 30% |
- Foundations of Social Business II |
Old assessment: essay 50%, essay 50% |
- Social Impact and Its Evaluation |
Old assessment: essay 50%, coursework 50% |
- The Altruistic Leader |
Old assessment: case analysis 55%, coursework 30%, in-class assessment 15% |
- Designing Innovative Social Enterprises |
Old assessment: essay (1800 words, LT) 50%, project (6000 words, LT) 50% |
- Researching in Organisational Behaviour Seminar I |
Old assessment: essay (4000 words, MT) 40%, essay (4000 words, LT) 40%, presentation (MT and LT) 20% |
- Managing Digital Platform Innovation |
Old assessment: in-class assessment (December) 70%, class participation (MT) 30% |
- Marketing I: Consumer Behaviour and Quantitative Modelling |
Old assessment: essay (2500 words, MT) 40%, essay (2500 words, MT) 40%, essay (1200 words, MT) 5%, essay (1200 words, MT) 5%, essay (1200 words, MT) 5%, essay (1200 words, MT) 5% |
- Employment Relations and Human Resource Management Seminar I |
Old assessment: essay (4000 words, LT) 80%, learning log (MT and LT) 20% |
- Game Theory I |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 100% |
- Algorithms and Computation |
Old assessment: exam (150 minutes, Summer exam period) 75%, coursework (MT) 25% |
- Information, Communication and Cryptography |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 90%, coursework (MT) 10% |
- Probability and Measure |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 100% |
- Advanced Algorithms |
Old assessment: exam (150 minutes, Summer exam period) 75%, coursework (LT) 25% |
- Combinatorial Optimisation |
Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, Summer exam period) 100% |
- Media, Technology and Everyday Life |
Old assessment: essay (3000 words, LT) 100% |
- Representation in the Age of Globalisation |
Old assessment: essay (3000 words, LT) 100% |
- Communication: Cultures and Approaches |
Old assessment: essay (3000 words, ST) 100% |
- Identity, Transnationalism and the Media |
Old assessment: essay (3000 words, ST) 100% |
- Media and Communication Governance |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 100% |
- Film Theory and World Cinema |
Old assessment: essay (3000 words) 100% |
- Technology and Justice |
Old assessment: essay (3000 words, LT) 70%, presentation (MT) 30% |
- Disruptive Digital Worlds: Competing Economic and Political Economy Explanations |
Old assessment: essay (3000 words, ST) 80%, presentation (1 word, LT) 20% |
- Mediating the Past |
Old assessment: essay (3000 words) 100% |
- Mediated Feminisms |
Old assessment: essay (2000 words, LT) 80%, project (LT) 20% |
- Dissertation: Media and Communications |
Old assessment: dissertation (12000 words) 100% |
- Advanced Methods of Research in Media and Communications (including Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis) |
Old assessment: coursework (5000 words, ST) 66%, exam (120 minutes, January exam period) 17%, exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 17% |
- Methods of Research in Media and Communications (including Qualitative Analysis and Applied Regression Analysis) |
Old assessment: coursework (3000 words, ST) 80%, exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 20% |
- Advanced Methods of Research in Media and Communications (including Qualitative & Advanced Quantitative Analysis) |
Old assessment: coursework (5000 words, ST) 66%, exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 17%, exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 17% |
- Research Design for Studies in Digital Innovation |
Old assessment: essay (2500 words, LT and ST) 70%, group essay (3000 words, LT) 30% |
- Research Design for Policy and Programme Evaluation |
Old assessment: essay (2500 words, ST) 50%, coursework (2500 words, LT) 50% |
- Fundamentals of Research Design for International Development |
Old assessment: annotated bibliography (2500 words, LT Week 7) 66%, research proposal (1000 words, MT Week 11) 33% |
- Qualitative Research Methods |
Old assessment: project (3000 words, ST) 100% |
- Case Studies and Comparative Methods for Qualitative Research |
Old assessment: project (4000 words, April) 90%, class participation (LT) 10% |
- Qualitative Text and Discourse Analysis |
Old assessment: essay (4000 words, ST) 90%, presentation (ST) 10% |
- Introduction to Quantitative Analysis |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 100% |
- Applied Regression Analysis |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 100% |
- Special Topics in Quantitative Analysis: Quantitative Text Analysis |
Old assessment: coursework (2000 words, ST) 60%, project (3000 words, ST) 40% |
- Intermediate Quantitative Analysis |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, January exam period) 100% |
- Computer Programming |
Old assessment: in-class assessment (MT) 50%, take-home assessment (MT) 50% |
- Data for Scientists |
Old assessment: in-class assessment 50%, take-home assessment 50% |
- Applied Machine Learning for Social Science |
Old assessment: take-home assessment (LT) 60%, in-class assessment (MT) 40% |
- Foundations of Social Research I |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 33%, project (3000 words, ST) 33%, research proposal (ST) 20%, research proposal (MT) 10%, class participation (MT) 4% |
- Foundations of Social Research II |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 33%, project (3000 words, ST) 33%, research design (ST) 20%, research proposal (MT) 10%, class participation (MT) 4% |
- Fundamentals of Social Science Research |
Old assessment: research design (ST) 60%, research proposal (MT) 30%, class participation 10% |
- Research Design for Policy and Programme Evaluation |
Old assessment: essay (2500 words, ST) 50%, coursework (2500 words, LT) 50% |
- Qualitative Research Methods |
Old assessment: project (5000 words, ST) 100% |
- Case Studies and Comparative Methods for Qualitative Research |
Old assessment: project (5000 words, April) 90%, class participation (LT) 10% |
- Qualitative Text and Discourse Analysis |
Old assessment: essay (4000 words, ST) 90%, presentation (ST) 10% |
- Introduction to Quantitative Analysis |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 100% |
- Applied Regression Analysis |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 100% |
- Special Topics in Quantitative Analysis: Quantitative Text Analysis |
Old assessment: coursework (4000 words) 100% |
- Intermediate Quantitative Analysis |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, January exam period) 100% |
- Computer Programming |
Old assessment: in-class assessment (MT) 50%, project (MT) 50% |
- Data for Data Scientists |
Old assessment: in-class assessment (MT) 50%, take-home assessment (MT) 50% |
- Applied Machine Learning for Social Science |
Old assessment: take-home assessment (LT) 60%, in-class assessment (MT) 40% |
Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method courses: | |
- Philosophy of the Social Sciences |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 67%, essay (2000 words, LT) 33% |
- Philosophy of Economics |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 65%, essay (2000 words, ST) 25%, presentation (LT) 10% |
- Philosophy and Public Policy |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 67%, essay (2000 words, ST) 33% |
- Philosophy, Morals and Politics |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 67%, essay (2000 words, ST) 33% |
- Set Theory and Further Logic |
Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, Summer exam period) 100% |
- Business and Organisational Ethics |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 67%, essay (2000 words, ST) 33% |
- Genes, Brains and Society |
Old assessment: essay (2000 words, LT) 45%, essay (2000 words, ST) 45%, wiki entry (LT) 10% |
- Rationality and Choice |
Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, Summer exam period) 100% |
- Reasoning and Logic |
Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, 15 minutes reading time, Summer exam period) 100% |
Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science courses: | |
- Contemporary Social and Cultural Psychology |
Old assessment: essay (5000 words, MT) 80%, coursework (1500 words, MT) 20% |
- Organisational Social Psychology |
Old assessment: essay (5000 words, MT) 80%, coursework (1500 words, MT) 20% |
- Psychology of Economic Life |
Old assessment: essay (5000 words, MT) 50%, essay (2000 words, MT) 30%, essay (1500 words, MT) 20% |
- The Social Psychology of Communication |
Old assessment: essay (5000 words, MT) 80%, coursework (1500 words, MT) 20% |
- Foundations in Behavioural Science |
Old assessment: essay (5000 words, MT) 80%, coursework (1500 words, MT) 20% |
- Methods for Social Psychology Research: Qualitative and Quantitative Methods |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, January exam period) 50%, report (ST) 50% |
- Frontiers in Behavioural Science Methods |
Old assessment: proposal (3000 words, ST) 100% |
- Advance Methods for Social Psychology Research: Qualitative and Quantitative Methods |
Old assessment: report 50%, test 50% |
- Happiness |
Old assessment: essay (2500 words, ST) 100% |
- Social Representations: Social Knowledge and Contemporary Issues |
Old assessment: coursework (3000 words, ST) 100% |
- Theory and Practice of Organisational Development |
Old assessment: essay (LT) 45%, presentation (LT) 45%, class participation (LT) 10% |
- Behavioural Science and Policy |
Old assessment: essay (4000 words, MT) 100% |
- Behavioural Science for Health in the Time of a Pandemic |
Old assessment: coursework (3000 words, LT) 100% |
- Corporate Behaviour and Decision Making |
Old assessment: coursework (4000 words, ST) 100% |
- Research Methods for Behavioural Science |
Old assessment: portfolio (LT) 100% |
- Quantitative Applications for Behavioural Science |
Old assessment: report (LT) 100% |
- Happiness - Dissertation |
Old assessment: dissertation (10000 words, ST) 100% |
- Behavioural Science in the Age of New Technology - Dissertation |
Old assessment: dissertation (10000 words, ST) 100% |
- Behavioural Science for Health in the Time of a Pandemic - Dissertation |
Old assessment: dissertation (10000 words, ST) 100% |
- Political Science for Public Policy |
Old assessment: online assessment (LT) 50%, essay (2000 words, LT) 30%, presentation 20% |
- Quantitative Methods for Public Policy |
Old assessment: online assessment (LT) 60%, coursework (2000 words, MT) 30%, class participation (MT) 10% |
- Economics for Public Policy |
Old assessment: online assessment (ST) 70%, coursework (2000 words, LT) 30% |
- Philosophy for Public Policy |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 67%, coursework (2000 words, ST) 33% |
- Comparative Political Economy and Development |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, 15 minutes reading time, Summer exam period) 60%, project (LT) 40% |
- Public Organisation: Theory and Practice |
Old assessment: essay (3000 words, between LT and ST) 50%, policy memo (LT) 30%, presentation (LT Week 11) 20% |
- Quantitative Approaches and Policy Analysis |
Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, 15 minutes reading time, Summer exam period) 60%, presentation (LT) 10%, continuous assessment (MT and LT) 10%, policy memo (LT) 10%, policy memo (MT) 10% |
- Political Science for Public Policy |
Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, 15 minutes reading time, Summer exam period) 50%, essay (2000 words, LT) 30%, group exercise (MT and LT) 20% |
- Innovation in the Governance of Public Services Delivery |
Old assessment: essay (3000 words, ST) 50%, policy memo (LT) 30%, presentation (LT) 20% |
- Designing and Managing Change in the Public Sector |
Old assessment: essay (3000 words, LT) 40%, case analysis (MT) 40%, presentation (MT) 20% |
- International Social and Public Policy |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 100% |
- Understanding Policy Research |
Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, 15 minutes reading time, January exam period) 75%, coursework (MT) 25% |
- Social Policy and Development |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 100% |
- Non-Governmental Organisations, Social Policy and Development |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 100% |
- Understanding Social (Dis)advantage |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 100% |
- Ethnicity, Race and Social Policy |
Old assessment: essay (4000 words) 100% |
- Urbanisation and Social Policy in the Global South |
Old assessment: essay (5000 words, ST) 100% |
- Understanding Policy Research (Advanced) |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 100% |
- Social Security Policies |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 75%, essay (2000 words, LT) 25% |
- Population Analysis: Methods and Models |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 100% |
- Education Policy, Reform and Financing |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 75%, essay (2000 words, ST) 25% |
- Housing, Neighbourhoods and Communities |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 75%, essay (2000 words, LT) 25% |
- Punishment and Penal Policy |
Old assessment: essay (3000 words) 70%, presentation 30% |
- Regulation, Risk and Economic Life |
Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, Summer exam period) 70%, essay (3000 words, ST) 30% |
- Political Reconciliation |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 70%, essay (3000 words, LT) 30% |
- International Migration and Migrant Integration |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 90%, presentation (MT) 10% |
- The Sociology of Markets |
Old assessment: essay (5000 words, ST) 100% |
- Technology, Power and Culture |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 100% |
- Human Rights and Postcolonial Theory |
Old assessment: essay (5000 words, LT) 90%, class participation (MT) 10% |
- Urban Inequalities |
Old assessment: essay (5000 words, LT) 100% |
- Topics in Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Studies |
Old assessment: essay (5000 words, LT) 100% |
- Contemporary Social Thought |
Old assessment: essay (5000 words, LT) 100% |
- Quantitative Social Research Methods |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 50%, memo (MT) 25%, memo (MT) 25% |
- Qualitative Social Research Methods |
Old assessment: research report (LT) 90%, group presentation (MT) 10% |
- MSc in Sociology Dissertation |
Old assessment: dissertation (10000 words, post-summer term) 100% |
- Leadership and Social Change |
Old assessment: essay (2000 words, LT) 70%, presentation (ST) 30% |
- MSc in Human Rights and Politics Dissertation |
Old assessment: dissertation (10000 words, post-summer term) 100% |
- Generalised Linear Modelling and Survival Analysis |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 100% |
- Time Series |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 100% |
- Data Analysis and Statistical Methods |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 85%, coursework (MT) 15% |
