Unit name | Written Dissertation |
---|---|
Unit code | FATV30012 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | H/6 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
Unit director | Professor. Street |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
none |
Co-requisites |
none |
School/department | Department of Film and Television |
Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
The unit will provide a structured and supervised opportunity for final year students to pursue a written independent research project on a topic of their interest, subject to approval by the unit convenor, within the area of film and television studies.
Unit Aims:
On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
1. engage closely with major thinkers, debates and intellectual paradigms within film and/or television studies and put them to productive and effective use;
2. formulate appropriate research questions and employ appropriate methods and resources for examining those questions in detail;
3. evaluate, draw upon and effectively deploy a range of sources and conceptual frameworks that illuminate and develop an understanding of issues within film and/or television;
4. produce work which is informed by, and contextualised within, relevant theoretical issues and debates;
5. gather, organise and deploy ideas and information in order to formulate arguments cogently, and express them effectively in written forms;
6. structure and sustain an extended critical argument;
7. organise and manage a supervised, self-directed project.
Weekly seminar and 5 x group or individual supervisions, supported by self-directed tasks where appropriate.
6000 word written dissertation (100%) ILO 1-7
Reading will be drawn from material that relates to issues examined within the written dissertation.