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 Academic Year: | 2016/7 |
| Owning Department/School: | School of Management |
| Credits: | 12 [equivalent to 24 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 240 |
| Level: | Honours (FHEQ level 6) |
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| Assessment Summary: | CW 70%, OR 30% |
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| Requisites: |
Before taking this module you must take MN20414 . This unit is only available to final year students on the BSc (hons) Business Administration. |
| Description:
| Aims: The overall aim of the final Year Project is to create an opportunity to apply the concepts, techniques and skills acquired during the taught programme in solving a practical business problem. Specific objectives are to: develop the skills of planning and executing an original investigation into a business problem in a team; allow an evaluation of the practical worth of management theories and the ability to further develop existing theories; integrate the various components of the degree programme and create the opportunity for business sponsors to challenge student ideas. Learning Outcomes: By the end of this unit, the student should be able to: to practice and develop personal skills, especially those of analysis and synthesis; develop experience in handling group co-ordination and conflict. Skills: Intellectual skills: * Develop skills to handle complex data sets, and allow existing theories and concepts to be applied and critically evaluated. Professional Practical skills: * Develop skills in designing and carrying out a field-based `action research' investigation Transferable/Key skills: * Develop skills of working collaboratively in teams, and exposing ideas to practitioners and academics as well as writing up a fairly large-scale project. Content: Carrying out in teams a research project normally entailing the following components: * Undertaking a review of the relevant literature and formulating a suitable research question; * Designing a research methodology; * Collecting and analysing empirical data; * Producing a written report of the research (assessed); * Delivering a oral presentation of the written report (assessed); * Writing an individual statement on own individual contribution and experience of the research process. Key milestones normally expected for evaluation of progress of teams: * Writing an Initial Research Proposal for approval by the FYP coordinator (by start of academic year); * Writing a Final Research Proposal (around end October/early November) for feedback by the teams' advisors; * Writing an Interim Report (around end of first term) for feedback by the teams' advisors. Advisors will complete a formal progress report and the Interim Report will be included in the final written report; * Regular updating of formal log of team's activities. |
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MN30068 is a Designated Essential Unit on the following programmes:School of Management
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