Module POL3040 for 2021/2
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
POL3040: Dissertation
This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.
Module Aims
This module aims to equip you with necessary knowledge and skills to conduct research on the research question of your choice resulting in a dissertation within one of the areas of politics, including political science, or political theory, or political philosophy, or International Relations. It is taught by using a series of dissertation skills sessions that introduce you how to design, research for and write up your dissertation; by drawing upon one-to-one supervision meetings working with one of the members of staff, and most importantly, based on your independent research.
On successfully completing the programme you will be able to: | |
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Module-Specific Skills | 1. develop your own research project, the terms of which must be approved by a member of academic staff. |
Discipline-Specific Skills | 2. analyse a subject in the field of politics in great detail; 3. engage in primary and/or secondary data analysis using appropriate research design, and robust and ethical approach to data collection and analysis to address chosen research question(s). Engage in primary research of political material; 4. demonstrate detailed knowledge of the appropriate literatures and ability to place your own research within the field; 5. demonstrate a high standard of academic writing, presentation and structuring a substantive research project. |
Personal and Key Skills | 6. organise your own time over the two terms; 7. manage and plan work time over a lengthy period. |