Unit name | Dissertation |
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Unit code | LAWD30132 |
Credit points | 40 |
Level of study | H/6 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 4 (weeks 1-24) |
Unit director | Professor. Phillipson |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | University of Bristol Law School |
Faculty | Faculty of Social Sciences and Law |
This unit will enable students to carry out an extended piece of individual, legal research, resulting in a 10,000 word dissertation and a 1,000 word blog. This will be done under the close supervision of a member of staff, who will provide overall guidance and support and give successive rounds of feedback to the student on a detailed plan, chapter and full draft of the dissertation.
By the end of this unit a successful student will be able to:
Five introductory lectures and structured contact with Project Adviser.
2 x summative assessments:
The assessments will assess all of the intended learning outcomes for this unit.
Supervisors set initial starting points for reading. Each project title has a list of starting points; these are books, articles, documents, decisions or other material, which act as a springboard for further research. These starting points should be used to identify a research question and a set of issues that will be addressed in the essay. The starting points will help identify sources for further research; thereafter students must generate their own reading and references.