1 x 10000 word dissertation weighted at 100 %

Individual as per student topic choice, with supervision within the expertise of the team.

O'Leary, Zina, The Essential Guide to Doing Research (Sage, London, 2004)
Levin, Peter, Excellent dissertations!.Open University Press,2005.
Walliman, Nicholas S. R, Your undergraduate dissertation : the essential guide for success., SAGE, 2004

Library resources including books, journals, data bases cd-rom, websites, ejournals, elibrary and other electronic resources.
IT facilities including word processing.
The Blackboard virtual learning environment will be available(where relevant) to support this module. Details will be supplied in the module handbook.

Students will be allocated an individual supervisor who will have responsibility for guiding them to completion of their dissertation. It will be the joint responsibility of the student and the supervisor to design a schedule for the undertaking of the dissertation in relation to appropriate targets of progress. To assist students a dissertation guidebook will be issued. This will provide information about the administrative arrangements for the dissertation; guidance on the characteristics and objectives of the dissertation; conventions governing the organising of work for a dissertation and the form of its presentation; the criteria for assessment and the assessment procedures.