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by another-dave 52 days ago
My undergrad was in humanities - we had multiple essays to submit throughout the year but they only counted for ~10% of the final grade, with the rest through an in person exam paper.

It was just expected that you had a grasp of the literature enough that you could argue off-the-cuff in the exam setting, and then you were given leeway if you didn't have exact Harvard style notations to exact date/titles of referenced material.