Department of European Studies & Modern Languages, Unit Catalogue 2007/08 |
EU50618 Specialist module essay |
| Credits: 3 |
| Level: Masters |
| Semester: 2 |
| Assessment: ES100 |
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Aims: The unit aims to:
* develop the students' independent research skills; * provide an opportunity to tie together issued covered in individual units of the Specialist Module and integrate them into an overarching piece of research writing; * provide a stepping stone towards the Dissertation Module. Learning Outcomes: Students who have successfully completed this unit will: * have developed and carried out a research project that is not directly related to any lectures and seminars and that is not based on a research question provided by the lecturer; * have produced a piece of academic writing that is more comprehensive, original and self-study based than the essays produced of the taught units fo the Core, National and Specialist modules; * have developed an academic perspective that integrates the more narrowly defined focus of the individual units in the Specialist Module. Skills: The key skills the unit will hone and further develop are: * Advanced research skills in identifying, locating and exploiting a wide range of descriptive, evaluative and theoretical literature; * Intellectual skills of conceptual, original and independent thinking, critical analysis, synthesis and reasoned argument; * Skills of assessment and judgement in relation to the soundness of competing arguments and scenarios, including the reporting and assessing of qualitative and quantitative data; * Generic and transferable skills related to the oral and written presentation of ideas; * Skills of self-direction, self-evaluation and time management. Content: Security issues depending on topic choice and research project design. |