Updated undergraduate summative assessment information 2022/23 - for prospective students
The following information provides undergraduate 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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AC311 Results Accountability and Management Control for Strategy Implementation |
Old assessment: essay (MT) 25%, project (January) 25%, take-home assessment (January) 50% |
EC2A1 Microeconomics II |
Old assessment: Coursework (LT) 15%, Exam (ST) 75%, Class participation (MT & LT) 10% New assessment: Coursework (MT & LT) 30%, Exam (ST) 70% |
EC2A3 Microeconomics II |
Old assessment: Exam (ST) 90%, Class participation (MT) 10% New assessment: Coursework (MT) 10%, Exam (ST) 90% |
EC2B3 Macroeconomics II |
Old assessment: Exam (ST) 100% New assessment: Coursework (LT) 10%, Exam (ST) 90% |
EC302 Political Economy |
Old assessment: Exam (ST) 90%, Group project (LT) 10% New assessment: Exam (ST) 100% |
EH204 Money and Finance: From the Middle Ages to Modernity |
Old assessment: Essay (LT) 30%, Exam (ST) 70% New assessment: Essay (LT) 30%, Take-home assessment (ST) 70% |
EH207 China since 1800: Culture, institutions and economic growth |
Old assessment: Essay (MT & LT) 10%, Essay (ST) 10%, Exam (ST) 70%, Class participation (MT, LT & ST) 10% New assessment: Essay (LT) 15%, Essay (MT) 15%, Exam (ST) 70% |
EH209 The Family Economy in History: 1260 to the present day |
Old assessment: Essay (LT) 30%, Exam (ST) 60%, Class participation (LT) 10% New assessment: Essay (LT) 30%, Exam (ST) 70% |
EH237 Theories and Evidence in Economic History |
Old assessment: Project (MT) 20%, Project (ST) 50%, Class participation (MT and LT) 10%, In-class assessment (LT) 10%, Research proposal (LT) 10% New assessment: Project (MT) 25%, Project (ST) 50%, Class participation (MT & LT) 10%, In-class assessment (LT) 15% |
EH240 Business and Economic Performance since 1945: Britain in International Context |
Old assessment: Exam (ST) 70%, Research project (LT) 30% New assessment: Take-home (ST) assessment 100% |
EH307 The Economic History of South Asia, 1600-2000 |
Old assessment: Exam (ST) 90%, Class participation (MT & LT) 10% New assessment: Exam (ST) 100% |
EH308 Historical Economic Geography: Cities, Markets and Regions in the 19th and 20th Centuries |
Old assessment: Essay (LT) 50%, Essay (ST) 50% New assessment: Essay (LT) 35%, Essay (ST) 35%, Presentation (LT) 30% |
EH327 China's Traditional Economy and its Growth in the Very Long-Term |
Old assessment: Essay (LT) 10%, Essay (MT) 10%, Exam (ST) 70%, Class participation (MT, LT & ST) 10% New assessment: Essay (LT) 15%, Essay (MT) 15%, Take-home assessment (ST) 70% |
EH390 Dissertation in Economic or Social History |
Old assessment: Dissertation (LT) 90%, Dissertation draft (LT) 5%, Proposal (MT) 5% New assessment: Dissertation (ST) 100% |
EH391 Dissertation in Historical Economic Geography |
Old assessment: Coursework (LT) 5%, Coursework (MT) 5%, Dissertation (LT) 90% New assessment: Dissertation (ST) 100% |
GV101 Introduction to Political Science |
Old assessment: Essay (LT) 50%, Exam (ST) 50% New assessment: Essay (LT) 50%, Online assessment (ST) 50% |
GV225 Public Choice and Politics |
Old assessment: Exam (ST) 100% New assessment: Exam (ST) 50%, Online assessment (ST) 50% |
GV248 Power and Politics in the Modern World: Comparative Perspectives |
Old assessment: Essay (MT & LT) 25%, Exam (ST) 75% New assessment: Essay (MT & LT) 40%, Online assessment (ST) 60% |
GV262 Contemporary Political Theory |
Old assessment: Essay (LT) 30%, Blog post (LT) 10%, Blog post (LT) 10%, Online assessment (ST) 50% New assessment: Essay (LT) 35%, Blog post (LT) 15%, Online assessment (ST) 50% |
GV263 Public Policy Analysis |
Old assessment: Essay (LT) 25%, Exam (ST) 75% New assessment: Essay (LT) 25%, Online assessment (ST) 75% |
GV311 British Government |
Old assessment: Exam (ST) 100% New assessment: Online assessment (ST) 100% |
GV315 Voting and Elections in Developing Democracies |
Old assessment: Essay (ST) 90%, Presentation (LT) 10% New assessment: Essay (ST) 80%, Presentation (LT) 20% |
GV316 Advanced Issues in Applied Political Theory |
Old assessment: Essay (LT) 80%, Blog post (MT) 20% New assessment: Essay (ST) 100% |
GV318 Building Democracies from Conflict? Violence, Power-Sharing and Institutional Design |
Old assessment: Presentation (MT) 10%, Project (January) 90% New assessment: Presentation (MT) 20%, Project (January) 80% |
GV321 Concepts and Controversies in Political Theory |
Old assessment: Essay (ST) 60%, Class participation (LT) 20%, Group project (LT) 20% New assessment: Essay (ST) 80%, Class participation (LT) 20% |
GV324 Applied Quantitative Methods for Political Science |
Old assessment: Presentation (LT) 10%, Exam (ST) 40%, Group Project (ST) 50% New assessment: Group project (LT & ST) 60%, Online assessment (ST) 40% |
GV325 Topics in Political Economy |
Old assessment: Coursework (LT) 50%, Exam (ST) 50% New assessment: Coursework (LT) 50%, Exam (ST) 20%, Online assessment (ST) 30% |
GV327 Governance and Corruption |
Old assessment: Essay (ST) 80%, Class participation (LT) 10%, Memo (LT) 10% New assessment: Essay (ST) 100% |
GV329 Making Democracy Work |
Old assessment: Coursework (MT) 20%, Essay (LT) 80% New assessment: Essay (January) 100% |
GV334 Comparative Perspectives on Inequality and Politics: Global North, Global South |
Old assessment: Essay (ST) 70%, Presentation (LT) 10%, Critical Evaluation (LT) 20% New assessment: Essay (ST) 80%, Critical evaluation (LT) 20% |
GV3L1 Analytical Approaches to British Politics |
Old assessment: Exam (ST) 100% New assessment: Online assessment (ST) 100% |
GY140 Introduction to Geographical Research |
Old assessment: Project (LT) 50%, Project (ST) 50% New assessment: Project (ST) 40%, Project (LT) 50%, Problem set (ST) 10% |
GY205 Political Geographies |
Old assessment: Essay (LT) 25%, Exam (ST) 75% New assessment: Essay (LT) 25%, Take-home assessment (ST) 75% |
GY247 Field Methods in Geography with Economics |
Old assessment: Class participation (LT) 20%, Research project (ST) 60%, Research proposal (ST) 20% New assessment: Class participation (LT) 20%, Poster (ST) 60%, Research Proposal (ST) 20% |
HY330 From Tea to Opium: China and the Global Market in the Long Eighteenth Century |
Old assessment: Essay (LT) 35%, Exam (ST) 50%, Presentation (MT & LT) 15% New assessment: Essay (LT) 35%, Essay 35% (ST), Class participation (MT & LT) 15%, Presentation (MT & LT) 15% |
HY332 Interwar worlds: the cultural consequences of the First World War |
Old assessment: Essay (LT) 35%, Essay (ST) 35%, Presentation (MT) 15%, Source analysis (MT) 15% New assessment: Essay (LT) 20%, Essay (ST) 35%, Class participation (MT & LT) 15%, Online assessment (MT) 10%, Online assessment (LT) 20% |
IR205 International Security |
Old assessment: Coursework (LT) 60%, Online assessment (ST) 40% New assessment: Take-home assessment (ST) 100% |
IR305 Strategic Aspects of International Relations |
Old assessment: Exam (ST) 100% New assessment: Online assessment (ST) 100% |
IR314 Southeast Asia: Intra-regional Politics and Security |
Old assessment: Exam (ST) 100% New assessment: Online assessment (ST) 100% |
IR323 Gendered/ing and International Politics |
Old assessment: Coursework (LT) 30%, Essay (LT) 70% New assessment: Coursework (LT) 25%, Essay (LT) 75% |
IR355 Economic Diplomacy |
Old assessment: Exam (January) 100% New assessment: Take-home assessment (ST) 100% |
IR373 China and the Global South |
Old assessment: Essay (LT) 75%, Presentation (MT) 25% New assessment: Online assessment (January) 75%, Presentation (MT) 25% |
LN270 Society and Language: Linguistics for Social Scientists |
Old assessment: Coursework 50%, Exam (ST) 50% New assessment: Coursework (LT & ST) 50%, Take-home assessment (ST)50% |
LL201 Administrative Law |
Old assessment: Essay (ST) 33%, Exam (ST) 67% New assessment: Online assessment (ST) 100% |
LL202 Commercial Contracts |
Old assessment: Essay (LT) 25%, Exam (ST) 75% New assessment: Online assessment (ST) 75%, Essay (LT) 25% |
LL233 Law of Evidence |
Old assessment: Exam (ST) 100% New assessment: Online assessment (ST) 100% |
LL300 Competition Law |
Old assessment: Exam (ST) 100% New assessment: Online assessment (ST) 100% |
LL305 Jurisprudence |
Old assessment: Exam (ST) 100% New assessment: Online assessment (ST) 100% |
MA210 Discrete Mathematics |
Old assessment: Exam (ST) 90%, Problem set (ST) 10% New assessment: Exam (ST) 90%, Continuous assessment 10% |
MG105 Organisational Behaviour and Leadership |
Old assessment: Exam (LT) 30%, Class participation (LT) 10%, Take-home assessment (ST) 60% New assessment: Essay (Between MT & LT) 45%, Essay (between MT & LT) 45%, Class participation (MT) 10% |
MG209 E-business |
Old assessment: Essay 100% New assessment: Exam (ST) 50%, Class participation (LT) 20%, Group project (LT) 30% |
MG210 Corporate Social Responsibility and International Labour Standards |
Old assessment: Essay (ST) 40%, Exam (ST) 60% New assessment: Essay (ST) 60%, Exam (ST) 40% |
MG212 Marketing |
Old assessment: Project 40%, Exam (ST) 60% New assessment: Case analysis (LT) 60%, Group project (between LT & ST) 40% |
MG214 Human Resource Management |
Old assessment: Essay (LT) 50%, Presentation (MT) 20%, Project (MT) 20%, Class participation (MT) 10% New assessment: Essay (between MT & LT) 60%, Group presentation (MT) 30%, Class participation (MT) 10% |
MG307 International Context of Management |
Old assessment: Exam (ST) 100% New assessment: Essay (LT) 100% |
MG316 Brand Strategy |
Old assessment: Coursework (LT) 60%, Project (LT) 30%, Class participation (LT) 10% New assessment: Project (LT) 40%, Exam (ST) 50%, Class participation (LT) 10% |
MY360 Text Mining |
Old assessment: Problem sets (LT) 40%, Take-home assessment (LT) 60% New assessment: Group project (ST) 40%, Problem sets (LT) 60% |
MY361 Social Network Analysis |
Old assessment: Problem sets (LT) 40%, Take-home assessment (LT) 60% New assessment: Group project (ST) 40%, Problem sets (LT) 60% |
Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method courses: | |
PH201 Philosophy of Science |
Old assessment: Exam (ST) 100% New assessment: Essay (LT) 50%, Essay (MT) 50% |
PH203 Philosophy of the Social Sciences |
Old assessment: Essay (MT & LT) 25%, Essay (MT & LT) 25%, Presentation (MT & LT) 10%, Exam 40% New assessment: Essay (LT & ST) 50%, Essay (MT & LT) 50% |
PH214 Philosophy, Morals and Politics |
Old assessment: Essay (ST) 30%, Class participation 10%, Take-home assessment (ST) 60% New assessment: Essay 45%, Essay 45%, Class participation 10% |
PH217 Set Theory and Further Logic |
Old assessment: Take-home assessment (ST) 100% New assessment: Exam (ST) 100% |
PH222 Philosophy and Public Policy |
Old assessment: Essay (ST) 30%, Exam (ST) 60%, Class participation 10% New assessment: Essay 45%, Essay 45%, Class participation 10% |
PH223 Mind and Metaphysics |
Old assessment: Essay (ST) 50%, Exam (ST) 50% New assessment: Essay (ST) 80%, Class participation 10%, Continuous assessment (LT) 10% |
PH225 Business and Organisational Ethics |
Old assessment: Essay (ST) 50%, Exam (ST) 40%, Quiz (LT) 10% New assessment: Essay (ST) 50%, Essay (ST) 50% |
PH227 Genes, Brains and Society |
Old assessment: Essay (LT) 50%, Essay (MT) 50% New assessment: Essay (LT) 100% |
PH230 Einstein for Everyone: From time travel to the edge of the universe |
Old assessment: Essay (January) 50%, Essay (MT) 50% New assessment: Essay (MT) 100% |
PH232 Physics and Uncertainty: From Quantum Jumps to Stock Market Crashes |
Old assessment: Essay (LT) 50%, Essay (ST) 50% New assessment: Essay (ST) 100% |
PH301 Rationality and Choice |
Old assessment: Coursework (LT) 20%, Coursework (MT) 20%, Exam (ST) 50%, Class participation (MT & LT) 10% New assessment: Coursework (LT) 30%, Coursework (MT) 30%, Exam (ST) 40% |
PH311 Philosophy of Economics |
Old assessment: Essay (ST) 30%, Essay (LT) 30%, Exam (ST) 30%, Class participation 10% New assessment: Essay (LT) 45%, Essay (ST) 45%, Class participation 10% |
PH333 Philosophy of Gender and Race |
Old assessment: Essay (LT) 45%, Essay (ST) 45%, Class participation 10% New assessment: Essay (ST) 90%, Class participation 10% |
Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science courses: | |
PB100 Foundations of Behavioural Science |
Old assessment: Essay (LT) 75%, Presentation (LT) 25% New assessment: Essay (LT) 60%, Presentation (LT) 40% |
PB101 Foundations of Psychological Science |
Old assessment: Essay (ST) 16%, Blog post (LT) 20%, Blog post (MT) 20%, In-class assessment (ST) 24%, Wikipedia article (LT) 20% New assessment: Exam (ST) 25%, Blog post (MT) 25%, Multiple choice quiz (ST) 25%, Wikipedia article (LT) 25% |
PB130 Statistics and Research Methods for Psychological and Behavioural Science |
Old assessment: Project (LT) 30%, Exam (ST) 30%, Other (LT) 30%, Poster (MT) 10% New assessment: Exercise (LT) 40%, Poster (MT) 20%, Research project (LT) 40% |
PB200 Biological Psychology |
Old assessment: Essay (ST) 10%, Essay (MT) 60%, Podcast (MT) 30% New assessment: Essay (ST) 10%, Essay (MT) 70%, Podcast (MT) 20% |
PB201 Cognitive Psychology |
Old assessment: Essay (ST) 10%, Essay (MT) 70%, Group presentation (MT) 20% New assessment: Essay (ST) 10%, Group presentation (MT) 70%, Other (MT)20% |
PB202 Developmental Psychology |
Old assessment: Essay (ST) 10%, Case study (LT) 70%, Exercise (LT) 20% New assessment: Essay (ST) 10%, Research proposal (LT) 70%, Visual media (LT) 20% |
PB204 Social Psychology: Individuals, Groups and Culture |
Old assessment: Essay (ST) 10%, Group presentation (MT) 20%, Proposal (MT) 70% New assessment: Essay (ST) 10%, Other (MT) 20%, Proposal (MT) 70% |
PB205 Individual Differences and Why They Matter |
Old assessment: Essay (ST) 10%, Report (LT) 70%, Visual media (LT) 20% New assessment: Essay (ST) 10%, Annotated bibliography (LT) 20%, Report (LT) 70% |
PB300 Advances in Psychological and Behavioural Science |
Old assessment: Project (ST) 50%, Portfolio (ST) 50% New assessment: Group Exercise (ST) 50%, Portfolio (LT) 50% |
PB312 Research Apprenticeship |
Old assessment: Reflective learning report (MT) 50%, Research report (MT) 50% New assessment: Assignment (LT) 50%, Learning log (LT) 50% |
SP100 Understanding International Social and Public Policy |
Old assessment: Blog post (LT) 10%, Group assignment (MT) 10%, Online assessment (ST) 80% New assessment: Group assignment (MT) 20%, Online assessment (ST) 80% |
SP110 Sociology and Social Policy |
Old assessment: Essay (LT) 40%, Exam (ST) 60% New assessment: Essay (LT) 40%, Online assessment (ST) 60% |
SP201 Research Methods for Social Policy |
Old assessment: Project (ST) 100% New assessment: Project 50%, Take-home assessment 50% |
SP210 Development and Social Change |
Old assessment: Essay (LT) 50%, Online assessment (ST) 50% New assessment: Essay (LT) 40%, Class participation (MT & LT) 30%, Online assessment (ST) 30% |
SO232 Sociology of Health and Illness |
Old assessment: In-class assessment (MT) 20%, Take-home assessment (January) 80% New assessment: Essay (LT) 90%, Class participation (MT) 10% |
SO240 Crime, Deviance and Control |
Old assessment: Take-home assessment (ST) 100% New assessment: Essay (ST) 70%, Group Presentation (LT) 30% |
SO312 Work, Inequality, and Society |
Old assessment: Essay 80%, Presentation 10%, Class participation 10% New assessment: Essay 90%, Class participation 10% |
ST207 Policing, Security and Globalisation |
Old assessment: Coursework (MT) 40%, Project 60% New assessment: Coursework (MT) 20%, Coursework (MT) 20%, Project (between MT & LT) 60% |
ST310 Machine Learning |
Old assessment: Project (LT) 30%, Exam (ST) 70% New assessment: Coursework (MT) 15%, Coursework (MT) 15%, Project (LT) 40%, Group Project (LT) 30% |
