Module ARA3106 for 2018/9
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
ARA3106: Dissertation
This module descriptor refers to the 2018/9 academic year.
Module Aims
This project aims to allow you to acquire knowledge of a particular subject, to benefit from one-to-one tuition from a specialist in the field, and to develop their research skills. These include the ability to collate, assess, analyse and order material from relevant types of sources, and the ability to communicate ideas, arguments and findings in academic prose.
On successfully completing the programme you will be able to: | |
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Module-Specific Skills | 1. Acquire knowledge of the issues which form the subject matter of the dissertation |
Discipline-Specific Skills | 2. Acquire knowledge of relevant literature in the field. 3. Collate, analyse and assess material from a range of sources, including primary sources (where relevant). 4. Understand and use relevant terminology, and to handle different approaches in the field. |
Personal and Key Skills | 5. Develop the capacity to work independently and to organise your own time to produce a substantial piece of research to a deadline. 6. Collate and critique material to produce a coherent, well-planned, well-presented and well-argued piece of academic research. |
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
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4 | 296 | 0 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
Category | Hours of study time | Description |
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Scheduled Learning and Teaching activity | 4 hours | Tutorials with supervisor. These tutorials are meant, initially, to establish the viability of the planned research, and to provide advice on its focus and direction, and then to provide advice on different aspects of the ongoing work and to monitor the students' progress |
Guided Independent study | 296 hours | Private study |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
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.
This will depend on the topic chosen. See also:
Mauch, J. and Birch, J. Guide to the Successful Thesis and Dissertation, New York, 1993.