Department of Accounting courses:
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- Elements of Accounting and Finance |
Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, 15 minutes reading time, Summer exam period) 75%, case analysis (LT) 10%, class participation (MT and LT) 10%, online assessment (LT) 5%
New assessment: exam (180 minutes, 15 minutes reading time, Summer exam period) 70%, case analysis (LT) 10%, class participation (MT and LT) 10%, online assessment (LT) 10% |
- Accounting Theory and Practice |
Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, 15 minutes reading time, Summer exam period) 75%, case analysis (LT) 10%, class participation (MT and LT) 10%, online assessment (LT) 5%
New assessment: exam (180 minutes, 15 minutes reading time, Summer exam period) 70%, case analysis (LT) 10%, class participation (MT and LT) 10%, online assessment (LT) 10% |
Department of Anthropology courses:
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- Anthropology, Text and Film |
Old assessment: coursework (6000 words, MT and LT) 100%
New assessment: coursework (4800 words, MT and LT) 100% |
- The Anthropology of Kinship, Sex and Gender |
Old assessment: essay (3500 words, LT) 50%, essay (3500 words, ST) 50%
New assessment: essay (3000 words, LT) 50%, essay (3000 words, ST) 50% |
- The Anthropology of Melanesia |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 70%, essay (2500 words, MT) 30%
New assessment: essay (3000 words, ST) 100% |
- Investigating the Philippines - New Approaches and Ethnographic Contexts |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 70%, essay (2500 words, LT) 30%
New assessment: essay (3000 words, ST) 100% |
- The Anthropology of Amazonia |
Old assessment: take home exam (LT) 100%
New assessment: take home exam (MT) 100% |
Health and Welfare: Anthropological Perspectives |
Old assessment: essay (4000 words) (LT) 100%
New assessment: essay (3000 words) (LT) 100% |
- Advanced Theory of Social Anthropology |
Old assessment: essay (9000 words, MT and LT) 100%
New assessment: coursework (6000 words, MT and LT) 100% |
- The Anthropology of Religion |
Old assessment: exam (4500 words, LT) 50%, essay (4500 words, ST) 50%
New assessment: essay (3500 words, LT) 50%, essay (3500 words, ST) 50% |
Department of Economics courses:
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- Microeconomic Principles II |
Old assessment: exam (60 minutes, 15 minutes reading time, January exam period) 25%, exam (180 minutes, 15 minutes reading time, Summer exam period) 75%
New assessment: exam (60 minutes, 15 minutes reading time, January exam period) 22.5%, exam (180 minutes, 15 minutes reading time, Summer exam period) 67.5%, coursework (MT and LT) 10% |
International Economics |
Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, 15 minutes reading time, summer exam period) 100%
New assessment: pathway 1: exam (180 minutes, 15 minutes reading time, summer exam period) 100% or pathway 2: essay (1500 words, LT) 50%, exam (90 minutes, 10 minutes reading time, summer exam period) 50% |
Department of Economic History courses:
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- Pre-industrial Economic History |
Old assessment: essay (2000 words, LT) 30%, exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 70%
New assessment: essay (2000 words, LT) 40%, essay (3000 words) 60% |
- Money and Finance: From the Middle Ages to Modernity |
Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, Summer exam period) 100%
New assessment: essay (3000 words, LT) 30%, exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 70% |
- Africa and the World Economy, 1500-2000 |
Old assessment: project (3000 words, ST Week 1) 30%, exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 70%
New assessment: project (3000 words, ST) 30%, exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 70% |
- Business and Economic Performance since 1945: Britain in International Context |
Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, Summer exam period) 100/%
New assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 70%, research project (LT) 30% |
- The Economic History of North America: from Colonial Times to the Cold War |
Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, Summer exam period) 100/%
New assessment: essay (3000 words, MT) 30%, exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 70% |
- Historical Economic Geography: Cities, Markets and Regions in the 19th and 20th Centuries |
Old assessment: essay (2500 words, LT) 35/%, essay (2500 words, MT) 35%, presentation (MT and LT) 30%
New assessment: essay (3000 words, LT) 40%, essay (3000 words, ST) 40%, presentation (MT and LT) 20% |
- Dissertation in Economic or Social History |
Old assessment: dissertation (10,000 words, LT) 100%
New assessment: dissertation (10,000 words, LT) 90%, other (LT) 5%, proposal (MT) 5% |
Department of Finance courses:
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- Financial Systems and Crises |
Old assessment: in-class assessment (MT) 100%
New assessment: in-class assessment (MT) 30%, in-class assessment (MT) 70% |
- Advanced Financial Economics |
Old assessment: class participation (MT) 10%, in-class assessment (MT) 30%, in-class assessment (MT) 60%
New assessment: class participation (MT) 10%, in-class assessment (MT Week 6) 30%, in-class assessment (MT Week 11) 60% |
- Quantitative Finance |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 45%, project (MT) 10%, coursework (MT) 2.5%, coursework (LT) 5%, in-class assessment 37.5%
New assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 45%, coursework (MT) 50%, coursework (LT) 5% |
- Risk Management and Modelling |
Old assessment: project (MT) 20%, coursework (MT) 5%, in-class assessment (MT) 75%
New assessment: coursework (MT) 100% |
Department of Government courses:
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-Introduction to Political Science |
Old assessment: essay (2000 words) 50%, exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 50%
New assessment: essay (2000 words, LT) 50%, exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 50%, |
- Research Design in Political Science |
Old assessment: coursework (1000 words, MT) 20%, coursework (3000 words, LT) 40%, exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 40%
New assessment: coursework (2000 words, MT) 30%, coursework (2000 words, LT) 30%, exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 40% |
- Contemporary Political Theory |
Old assessment: essay (1500 words, LT) 25%, essay (1500 words, MT) 25%, exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 50%
New assessment: essay (2000 words, LT) 40%, exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 60% |
- Key Themes in the History of Political Thought |
Old assessment: essay (3000 words, LT) 50%, exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 50%
New assessment: essay (4000 words, LT) 100% |
- Global Public Policy |
Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, Summer exam period) 100%
New assessment: essay (3000 words, LT) 50%, exam (120 minutes, LT) 50% |
- Leadership in the Political World |
Old assessment: essay (5000 words) 75%, in-class assessment 25%
New assessment: essay (5000 words) 40%, exam (90 minutes, Summer exam period) 40%, in-class assessment 20% |
- Experimental Politics |
Old assessment: essay (2250 words, LT) 50%, exam (90 minutes, Summer exam period) 50%
New assessment: essay (3000 words, ST) 50%, take home exam (LT) 50% |
- Transparency and Accountability in Government |
Old assessment: presentation (LT) 10%, essay (2500 words, ST) 90%
New assessment: presentation (ST) 10%, essay (2500 words, ST) 90% |
- African Political Economy |
Old assessment: essay (2000 words, LT) 75%, in-class assessment 25%
New assessment: essay (3000 words, ST) 75%, in-class assessment 25% |
- Political Economy of the Developing World |
Old assessment: essay (3500 words, ST) 50%, exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 50%
New assessment: essay 15%, essay 35%, exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 35%, class participation 15% |
Department of Geography and Environment courses:
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- Sustainable Development |
Old assessment: essay (LT) 40%, take home exam (ST) 60%
New assessment: essay (1000 words, LT) 10%, essay (3000 words, ST), take home exam (MT) 50% |
- Urban Geography and Globalisation |
Old assessment: essay (2000 words, MT) 65%, presentation (MT) 15%, class participation (MT) 20%
New assessment: essay (2500 words, MT) 65%, presentation (MT) 15%, class participation (MT) 20% |
- Field Methods in Geography |
Old assessment: project (3000 words, ST) 70%, research proposal (ST) 30%,
New assessment: project (3500 words, ST) 60%, class participation (LT) 10%, research proposal (ST) 30% |
- Field Methods in Geography with Economics |
Old assessment: project (3000 words, ST) 70%, research proposal (ST) 30%,
New assessment: class participation (LT) 20%, research proposal (ST) 20%, research project (MT) 60% |
- Urban Politics |
Old assessment: coursework (2000 words, LT), 50%, coursework (2000 words, MT) 50%
New assessment: essay (3000 words, LT) 100% |
- The Political Economy of Urbanisation |
Old assessment: coursework (3000 words, ST) 100%
New assessment: coursework (3000 words, ST) 90%, continuous assessment (LT), 10% |
- Gender in High Income and Emerging Economies |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 100%
New assessment: take home exam (ST) 100% |
- Sustainable Business and Finance |
Old assessment: other 100%
New assessment: class participation (MT) 15%, other 85% |
- Political Ecology of Development |
Old assessment: essay (4000 words, LT) 100%
New assessment: essay (4000 words, MT) 100% |
Department of International History courses:
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- People, Power and Protest in Latin America, c.1895 to the present day |
Old assessment: essay (3000 words, LT) 25%, exam (180 minutes, Summer exam period) 75%
New assessment: essay (3000 words, LT) 25%, take home exam (ST) 75% |
- The Global Caribbean: Colonialism, Race and Revolutions 1780s-1980s |
Old assessment: essay (3000 words, LT) 25%, exam (180 minutes, Summer exam period) 75%
New assessment: essay (3500 words, LT) 35%, essay (3500 words, ST) 35%, class participation (MT and LT) 15%, other (MT) 15% |
Department of International Relations courses:
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- International Security |
Old assessment: essay (2500 words, LT) 60%, exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 40%
New assessment: essay (2500 words, LT) 50%, exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 50% |
- International Political Economy |
Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, Summer exam period) 100%
New assessment: coursework (MT and LT) 10%, exam (180 minutes, Summer exam period) 90% |
: Visual International Politics |
Old assessment: essay (2500 words, ST) 50%, project (LT) 50%
New assessment: essay (2500 words, LT) 50%, project (MT) 50% |
- Revolutions and World Politics |
Old assessment: presentation (LT) 10%, coursework (LT) 20%, essay (3000 words, ST) 70%
New assessment: presentation (MT) 10%, coursework (MT) 20%, essay (3000 words, MT) 70% |
- Sovereignty, Rights and Justice: Issues in International Political Theory |
Old assessment:: essay (4000 words, LT) 100%
New assessment: essay (4000 words, ST) 100% |
- Dissertation |
Old assessment:: dissertation (10000 words, LT) 100%
New assessment: dissertation (10000 words, ST) 100% |
Department of Law courses:
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- Medical Law |
Old assessment: essay (5000 words, LT) 50%, take home exam (LT and ST) 50%
New assessment: other 50%, other 50% |
- Law and Institutions of the European Union |
Old assessment: take home exam (LT) 50%, take home exam (ST) 50%
New assessment: take home exam (between MT and LT) 50%, take home exam (between LT and ST) 50% |
- Outlines of Modern Criminology |
Old assessment: essay (5000 words, ST) 100%
New assessment: essay (5000 words, LT) 100% |
- Topics in Sentencing and Criminal Justice |
Old assessment: essay (5000 words, LT) 100%
New assessment: essay (5000 words, ST) 100% |
Department of Mathematics courses:
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- Further Mathematical Methods |
Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, 15 minutes reading time, Summer exam period) 100%
New assessment: exam (180 minutes, Summer exam period) 100% |
- Algorithms and Programming |
Old assessment: coursework (LT) 20%, exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 80%
New assessment: coursework (MT) 20and, exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 80% |
- History of Mathematics in Finance and Economics |
Old assessment: essay (1650 words) 30%, exam (120 minutes, 5 minutes reading time, Summer exam period) 70%
New assessment: essay (1500 words, ST Week 1) 30%, exam (120 minutes, 5 minutes reading time, Summer exam period) 70% |
- Measure Theoretic Probability |
Old assessment: other 100%
New assessment: exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 100% |
- Mathematics of Finance and Valuation |
Old assessment: other 100%
New assessment: exam (120 minutes) 100% |
Department of Management courses:
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- Organisational Behaviour and Leadership |
Old assessment: essay (2000 words, LT) 30%, exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 70%
New assessment: essay (2000 words, LT) 30%, exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 60%, class participation (LT) 10% |
- Econometrics: Theory and Applications |
Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, Summer exam period) 100%
New assessment: exam (180 minutes, Summer exam period) 70%, continuous assessment (MT and LT) 30% |
- Human Resource Management |
Old assessment: project (MT) 40%, exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 50%, class participation 10%
New assessment: presentation (MT) 10%, project (MT) 30%, exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 50%, class participation (MT) 10% |
- International Business Strategy and Emerging Markets |
Old assessment: project (LT) 40%, exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 60%,
New assessment: project (LT) 40%, exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 50%, class participation (LT) 10% |
- Marketing Action Learning Project |
Old assessment: project (5000 words, LT) 90%, in-class assessment 10%,
New assessment: project (5000 words, LT) 90%, in-class assessment (LT) 10%, |
Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method courses:
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- Logic |
Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, Summer exam period) 100%
New assessment: exam (180 minutes, 15 minutes reading time, Summer exam period) 100% |
- The Big Questions: An Introduction to Philosophy |
Old assessment: essay (1500 words, ST) 50%, essay (1500 words, ST) 50%
New assessment: essay (1500 words, ST) 45%, essay (1500 words, ST) 45%, in-class assessment (MT and LT) 10% |
- Philosophy of Gender and Race |
Old assessment: essay (1500 words, LT) 45%, essay (1500 words, LT) 45%, in-class participation 10%
New assessment: essay (1500 words, LT) 45%, essay (1500 words, ST) 45%, in-class participation 10% |
- Philosophy, Politics and Economics: Applications |
Old assessment: essay (2000 words, ST) 30%, exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 50%, in-class participation 10%, presentation (LT) 10%
New assessment: essay (2000 words, ST) 30%, exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 50%, in-class participation 10%, other (LT) 10% |
Department of Public Policy courses: |
Applying Behavioural Economics for Social Impact: Design, Delivery, Evaluation and Policy |
Old assessment: take home assessment (120 minutes week 1 ST) 60%, group project (ST) 40%
New assessment: take home assessment (120 minutes week 1 ST) 100% |
Department of Social Policy courses:
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- Research Methods for Social Policy |
Old assessment: essay (2000 words, MT) 30%, essay (5000 words, LT) 70%
New assessment: essay (2000 words, MT) 30%, essay (5000 words, ST) 70% |
- Migration: Current Research, Critical Approaches |
Old assessment: essay (1000 words, MT) 30%, essay (2000 words, LT) 70%
New assessment: essay (2000 words, LT) 100% |
Department of Sociology courses:
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- The Sociology of Race and Empire |
Old assessment: essay (2000 words, ST) 45%, exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 30%, other (LT) 25%
New assessment: presentation (LT) 20%, essay (3000 words, ST) 50%, other (LT) 30% |
- Sociology of Health and Illness |
Old assessment: in-class assessment (LT) 20%, take home exam (ST) 80%
New assessment: in-class assessment (MT) 20%, take home exam (LT) 80% |
- The Sociology of Elites |
Old assessment: exam (180 minutes, Summer exam period) 100%
New assessment: essay (2000 words, ST) 50%, exam (120 minutes, Summer exam period) 50% |
Department of Statistics courses:
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- Introduction to Pricing, Hedging and Optimization |
Old assessment: exam (120 minutes, 15 minutes reading time, Summer exam period) 100%
New assessment: coursework 20%, exam (120 minutes, 15 minutes reading time) 80 |
