Assessment
There are four assessments for this module. They are summarised below and explained in more detail via the links to the right.
Article review: 1,000 words, worth 20%, due term 1, week 8, Weds 12pm.
Argument essay: 2,000 words, worth 30%, due term 2, week 8, Weds 12pm.
Research project: 3,000 words, worth 40%, due term 3, week 5, Weds 12pm.
Seminar contribution: no written submission, worth 10%, based on seminars throughout year.
Markers on this module will assume that all students have read these pages in the handbook:
Note: the links to the Student Handbook on this page will be updated when the Student Hub comes online in term 1, 2026.
Students being assessed by written exam, in China under the Song dynasty (960-1279).
There were competitive exams for entering the Chinese civil service long before this practice was introduced into Europe.
These exams were one reason the French intellectual Voltaire, writing in 1730, considered China to be 'the wisest and most civilised nation in the universe.'
Image credit: Wikimedia Commons.
There were competitive exams for entering the Chinese civil service long before this practice was introduced into Europe.
These exams were one reason the French intellectual Voltaire, writing in 1730, considered China to be 'the wisest and most civilised nation in the universe.'
Image credit: Wikimedia Commons.