Undergraduate Module Descriptor

POC3072F: Politics of Protest (Fieldwork)

This module descriptor refers to the 2016/7 academic year.

Please note that this module is only delivered on the Penryn Campus.

How this Module is Assessed

In the tables below, you will see reference to 'ILO's. An ILO is an Intended Learning Outcome - see Aims and Learning Outcomes for details of the ILOs for this module.

Formative Assessment

A formative assessment is designed to give you feedback on your understanding of the module content but it will not count towards your mark for the module.

Form of assessment	Size of the assessment (eg length / duration)	ILOs assessed	Feedback method
Discussion of research design with students	Informal discussion with students on their project idea	1	Verbal
Workshop on survey design	Group discussion with students on ideas for survey design	1,3	Verbal

Summative Assessment

A summative assessment counts towards your mark for the module. The table below tells you what percentage of your mark will come from which type of assessment.

Coursework	Written exams	Practical exams
100	0	0

...and this table provides further details on the summative assessments for this module.

Form of assessment	% of credit	Size of the assessment (eg length / duration)	ILOs assessed	Feedback method
Designing and creating a survey (marks will be allocated on the basis of proven individual contributions; i.e. each student will be responsible for a battery of survey questions)	20	No more than 12 x A5 pages	1,3,6,9	Written
Review of method	20	1,000-words	1,4,7,8	Written
Seminar participation	10	Contribution to the 10 2-hour seminars	3, 7, 8	Written
Individual research project	50	3,000-words	2,5,3,7,8,9	Written
	0
	0

Re-assessment

Re-assessment takes place when the summative assessment has not been completed by the original deadline, and the student has been allowed to refer or defer it to a later date (this only happens following certain criteria and is always subject to exam board approval). For obvious reasons, re-assessments cannot be the same as the original assessment and so these alternatives are set. In cases where the form of assessment is the same, the content will nevertheless be different.

Original form of assessment	Form of re-assessment	ILOs re-assessed	Timescale for re-assessment
Designing and creating a survey	Designing and creating a short survey (2-pages of A4 per individual student)	1,3,6,9	August/September assessment period
Review of method	Review of method (1,000 words)	1,4,7,8	August/September assessment period
Individual research project	Individual research project using secondary data (3,000 words)	2,5,3,7,8,9	August/September assessment period
Seminar participation	One-to-one viva with course convener	3,7,8	August/September assessment period