Unit name | Dissertation (Comparative Literatures and Cultures) |
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Unit code | MODLM0019 |
Credit points | 60 |
Level of study | M/7 |
Teaching block(s) |
Academic Year (weeks 1 - 52) |
Unit director | Dr. Paul Earlie |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
Completion of relevant mandatory units in TB1 and TB2 and progress at the June Progress Board |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | School of Modern Languages |
Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
All MA students are expected to undertake a dissertation as the culmination of the programme of study. The dissertation will provide a structured and supervised opportunity for students to pursue independently an agreed topic of interest with reference to and emerging from their previous studies and to produce an appropriately advanced piece of research. The dissertation involves devising a realisable and potentially original topic which engages with the notion of Cultural Encounter foregrounded in the MA. After a conducting a survey of literature and other relevant materials, appropriate methodologies will be devised in order to explore a research problem. It would normally be expected that this topic would arise from work already undertaken on the programme, creating an opportunity to explore a specialist area in more detail.
Aims:
a) To be able to distinguish between a range of different research methods.
b) To become familiar with existing work on a particular subject.
c) To use that work in order to provide a focus for independent inquiry.
d) To design a project that is realistic in scope.
e) To gain substantial knowledge of a specific subject area.
f) To make a sustained argument or intervention, in academic debate and/or in relation to the particular research problem, appropriate to the determined mode of assessment.
g) To be able to communicate that knowledge with clarity appropriate to the determined mode of assessment.
Tutorials - one-to-one sessions with supervisor.
By written dissertation [15,000 words].
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How much time the unit requires
Each credit equates to 10 hours of total student input. For example a 20 credit unit will take you 200 hours
of study to complete. Your total learning time is made up of contact time, directed learning tasks,
independent learning and assessment activity.
See the Faculty workload statement relating to this unit for more information.
Assessment
The Board of Examiners will consider all cases where students have failed or not completed the assessments required for credit.
The Board considers each student's outcomes across all the units which contribute to each year's programme of study. If you have self-certificated your absence from an
assessment, you will normally be required to complete it the next time it runs (this is usually in the next assessment period).
The Board of Examiners will take into account any extenuating circumstances and operates
within the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes.