Module POLM877 for 2019/0
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Postgraduate Module Descriptor
POLM877: Dissertation
This module descriptor refers to the 2019/0 academic year.
Module Aims
To enable you to write an extended piece of independent writing, around a topic of your own choosing, in communication with key experts in your chosen area. It will allow you to demonstrate depth and breadth of knowledge in a particular subject area of professional or intellectual interest. The dissertation will be a mark of your ability to express yourself in writing.
On successfully completing the programme you will be able to: | |
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Module-Specific Skills | 1. Demonstrate knowledge in depth of a specialised subject area 2. Design an individual research programme, incorporating appropriate social science research methods 3. Collate and analyse subject-specific information from a range of appropriate sources. |
Discipline-Specific Skills | 4. Assimilate and critically analyse data from an appropriate range of sources, from policy papers to canonical texts in the history of political thought 5. Develop cogent argument. 6. Communicate complex information and ideas effectively in writing. |
Personal and Key Skills | 7. Use IT for information retrieval and presentation. 8. Manage own work |
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
G King, R Keohane and S Verba, Designing Social Inquiry (Princeton UP, 1994);
D Burton (ed), Research Training for Social Scientists: A Handbook for Postgraduate Researchers (Sage, 2000).
Subject-specific reading will varying according to research topic.