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. Damien Mooney |
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].
Reading as appropriate to individual dissertation, under the guidance of supervisor.