Module Descriptors
SOCIAL AND CULTURAL THEORY DISSERTATION (VLE)
FTVR70321
Key Facts
Faculty of Arts and Creative Technologies
Level 7
60 credits
Hours of Study
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities: 8
Independent Study Hours: 592
Total Learning Hours: 600
Assessment
- DISSERTATION weighted at 100%
Module Details
Module Additional Assessment Details
The Dissertation examines [Learning Outcomes 1, 2, 3 and 4]
Module Resources
Computers, including internet access
Access to Blackboard, websites and electronic journals.
Library resources, journals, databases, cd-rom, internet and inter-library loan
The Blackboard virtual learning environment will be available to support this module. Details will be supplied in the module handbook.
Access to Blackboard, websites and electronic journals.
Library resources, journals, databases, cd-rom, internet and inter-library loan
The Blackboard virtual learning environment will be available to support this module. Details will be supplied in the module handbook.
Module Learning Strategies
Supervision, consultation with supervisors.
You will be allocated an individual supervisor who will have responsibility for guiding you to completion of the dissertation. It will be the joint responsibility of the supervisor and student to design a schedule for the undertaking of the dissertation in relation to appropriate targets of progress. To assist you a dissertation guide will be issued.
You will be allocated an individual supervisor who will have responsibility for guiding you to completion of the dissertation. It will be the joint responsibility of the supervisor and student to design a schedule for the undertaking of the dissertation in relation to appropriate targets of progress. To assist you a dissertation guide will be issued.
Module Indicative Content
This module represents the consolidation of the MA Social and Cultural Theory. Students select a topic in consultation with tutors, define the parameters of their chosen project, select appropriate research methods, and undertake independent research to produce a dissertation which makes a contribution to knowledge-production in the area of social and cultural theory.
Module Texts
A Glathorn (1998) Writing the Winning Dissrtation (Corwen)
Directed reading will be supplied to each student in consultation with their dissrtation suprvisor
Directed reading will be supplied to each student in consultation with their dissrtation suprvisor