Postgraduate taught dissertation for FTV

Independent research throughout the course.  Students will have 5 1-hour meetings with supervisor.

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Dissertation - 15,000 words

The course aims to:

■ develop and deepen the student's personal research interest in their chosen subject area;

■ promote an engagement with other scholarly, critical, theoretical or applied arguments relevant to that area;

■ encourage the application of acquired research skills to a supervised independent project.

By the end of this course students will be able to:

■ demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the main primary sources in their chosen field;

■ demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the main secondary sources in their chosen field;

■ demonstrate substantial and detailed first-hand knowledge of their chosen subject area;

■ demonstrate the ability to define, plan, and execute a sustained, focused and coherent research project;

■ demonstrate the ability to use appropriate bibliographic and information sources;

■ demonstrate the ability to work independently;

■ demonstrate the ability to execute a substantial piece of written work in clear and appropriate academic English

■ demonstrate mastery of all relevant reference and bibliographic conventions.

Students must submit at least 75% by weight of the components (including examinations) of the course's summative assessment.