Assessment

Continous Assessment Activities

Title	Weighting	Hours	ECTS	Learning Outcomes
Oral presentation	20%	5	0.2	2, 4, 10, 5, 9, 7, 8, 13
Written assignments	30%	8	0.32	3, 2, 1, 9, 7, 8, 6, 11, 12
Written exams	50%	12	0.48	3, 2, 1, 9, 7, 8

The information on assessment activities and their weighting is merely a guide. The subject’s lecturer will provide full information when teaching begins.

Continuous Assessment

Oral presentation – 20%

This part of the assessment will consist of a presentation of one of the compulsory reading texts for the session. The presentation will have a maximum duration of 15 minutes and should include a Powerpoint in order to present additional graphic material and delve into one or more aspects of the subject matter.

Skeleton research paper – 30%

The skeleton research paper gives students the opportunity to outline the structure of a possible academic article on one of the topics covered in the class. The proposal is supposed to include a cover with the title, a table of contents, an introductory text of approximately one page, as well as a bibliography with at least ten books or academic articles.

Written tests – 50%

There will be two written tests, each of them worth 25% of the final grade. In the written tests, students will have to answer a series of questions to demonstrate their ability to explain and contextualize historical topics and give their qualified opinion on past events.

Single Assessment

Students who opt for this type of assessment must take the following three tests on the same day:

- critical analysis exam (40%)

- detailed outline of a research paper (35%)

- review of a text from the required reading list (25%)

The same assessment method as continuous assessment will be used.

Review

When publishing final grades, prior to recording them on students’ transcripts, the lecturer will providewritten notification of a date and time for reviewing assessment activities. Students will be able to arrange reviewing with the lecturer.

Missed/failed assessment activities

Students may compensate for assessment activities they have failed or missed, provided that those they have actually performed account for 66.6% (two thirds) of thesubject’s final mark, and that they havea weighted average grade of at least 3.5. Under no circumstances may an assessment activityworth 100% of the final mark be retaken or compensated for. The lecturer will inform students of the procedure involved, in writing, when publishing final grades, prior to recording them on transcripts. The lecturer may set one assignment per failed or missed assessment activity or a single assignment to cover a number of such activities.

Grading as “non-assessable”

If students’ performance in assessment activities accounts for only 25% or less of the subject’s final grade, their work will be graded as “non-assessable” on their transcript.

Irregularities and misconduct in assessment activities

In the event of a student committing any irregularity that may lead to a significant variation in the grade awarded to an assessment activity, the student will be given a zero for this activity, regardless of any disciplinary process that may take place. In the event of several irregularities in assessment activities of the same subject, the student will be given a zero as  the final grade for this subject.

Irregularities refer, for instance, to copying in an exam, copying from sources without indiacting authorship, or a misuse of AI such as presenting work as original that has been generated by an AI tool or programme. These evaluation activities will not be re-assessed.