Module Assessment
Formative Essays:
For essay titles: please choose any of the weekly seminar presentations or questions, or, if you would like to formulate your own questions (which you may want to do, especially for the long essay) please run it by me first.
The word length and deadlines for formative essays are on the module timetable.
Please hand a hard copy of your essay to me or place it in the plastic folder outside my office.
Summative Assessment
- 10% - seminar contributions, which will take into account:
- The presentation you give, assessed as per this page, and on which you will be given feedback via a feedback form and individual tutorial if you wish.
- Your general level of contribution in seminars (talking, asking questions, etc.).
- 45% - 4,500 word long essay
- Deadline: week 10 of term 2 - please refer to your coursework profile on Tabula
- Can be on any topic from the module, either using one of the seminar questions or setting your own title.
- Can be a development of a formative piece, or your seminar presentation.
- For information on submission, please see the departmental pages.
- Deadline: week 10 of term 2 - please refer to your coursework profile on Tabula
- 45% - 2 hour exam
- You will answer two questions.
- For further information on examinations, please see the departmental pages.
General information about assessed work including deadline dates and submission information can be found on the department Assessment & Submission webpages. The 'long essay' will be due in week 10 of term 2. Please note that submission will be by Tabula only - no paper copies needed.
It is important to think carefully about your essay title for the assessed essay – which should be in the form of a question. You should aim for something that is manageable but also gives you a clear target to aim at – lots of student essays write ‘about’ a theme without sufficiently directing their analysis towards answering a particular question. It is fine to develop a short essay but think about what is different about a long essay: you have more space to bring in primary material and hence your own voice, and you can drill down into case studies and add depth to an answer. So the long essay is not simply a padded out version of the short essay. When writing the essay make sure you then answer the question you have set yourself – try to target your research and argument to it. Take another look at the marking criteria to see what will be rewarded.
The exam will take place during summer term on a date that will be scheduled closer to the time.
Summative Assessment (Visiting Exchange and ERASMUS)
Visiting exchange students are assessed entirely by essays, the number and length of which is determined by the number of terms each student will attend the module. Please refer to the department Assessment & Submission webpages for information regarding assessment requirement, submission instructions and deadlines.
Visiting international students, usually at Warwick through the Erasmus scheme or one of the other exchange programmes, are subject to the following assessment regulations:
1 term, arriving autumn, weighted as 12 CATS / 6 ECTS - 1 x 1,000 word essay plan (50%) due Wednesday, 12 noon, Week 5 and 1 x 2,000 word essay (50%) due Wednesday, 12 noon Week 9 of Term 1
2 terms, arriving autumn, weighted as 24 CATS / 12 ECTS - 1 x 1,000 word essay plan (formative) due Wednesday, 12 noon, Week 5 of term 1; 1 x 2,000 word essay (50%) due Wednesday, 12 noon, Week 9 of Term 1 and 1 x 4,500 word essay (50%) due Wednesday, 12 noon, Week 9 of Term 2
3 terms, arriving autumn, weighted as 30 CATS / 15 ECTS - 1 x 1,000 word essay plan (formative) due Wednesday, 12 noon, Week 5 of term 1; 1 x 2,000 word essay (25%) due Wednesday, 12 noon Week 9 of Term 1; 1 x 2,500 word essay (25%) due Wednesday, 12 noon, Week 5 of Term 2 and 1 x long essay (50%) due Wednesday, 12 noon, Week 4 of Term 3
1 term, arriving spring, weighted as 12 CATS / 6 ECTS - 1 x 1,000 word essay plan (50%) due Wednesday, 12 noon, Week 5 and 1 x 2,000 word essay (50%) due Week 9 of Term 2
2 terms, arriving spring, weighted as 24 CATS / 12 ECTS - 1 x 1,000 word essay plan (formative) due Wednesday, 12 noon, Week 5 of Term 2; 1 x 2,000 word essay (50%) due Wednesday, 12 noon, Week 9 of Term 2 and 1 x 4,500 word essay (50%) due Wednesday, 12 noon, Week 4 of Term 3