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Dissertation - CES00001M

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  • Department: Centre for 18th Century Studies
  • Module co-ordinator: Information currently unavailable
  • Credit value: 100 credits
  • Credit level: M
  • Academic year of delivery: 2022-23
    • See module specification for other years: 2021-22
  • Notes: This is an independent study module

Module will run

Occurrence Teaching period
A Autumn Term 2022-23

Module aims

The taught MA dissertation should, in a project of between 15,000 and 20,000 words, examine a limited topic - usually related to one or more of the modules the student has studied during the course of the MA - in some depth. It should reflect the interdisciplinary character of the MA, and show intellectual enterprise, critical judgement, historical understanding, precise knowledge of primary materials, and adequate familiarity with secondary material; it should also be documented according to the recognized conventions of scholarly presentation.

Module learning outcomes

Subject content

  • To explore one or more aspects of a subject arising from the MA course to which the student has subscribed, and to do so in greater depth than would be possible in the assessed modular essays.

Academic and graduate skills

  • The student will demonstrate the capacity to devise and execute a project of independent study, and show the ability to undertake research of some originality; the student will be expected to engage with, and on occasion challenge a wide range of secondary sources, to articulate an argument with clarity and precision, and to document their work with scholarly accuracy.

Assessment

Task Length % of module mark
Essay/coursework
Dissertation		 N/A 100

Special assessment rules

None

Reassessment

None

Module feedback

Graduands will receive copies of the examiners' reports (unattributed) in the Spring term following submission.

Indicative reading

Information currently unavailable


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