Module Descriptors
DISSERTATION IN INTERNATIONAL POLICY AND DIPLOMACY (VLE)
HIPO70340
Key Facts
Faculty of Arts and Creative Technologies
Level 7
60 credits
Contact
Leader: Peter Lamb
Hours of Study
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities: 20
Independent Study Hours: 580
Total Learning Hours: 600
Assessment
  • DISSERTATION weighted at 100%
Module Details
Module Resources
A computer for accessing Blackboard, websites and electronic journals.
Course texts and course leaving pack

Library resources, including books, journals data bases, cd-rom, internet, and inter-library loan.
IT facilities including word processing.
Module Learning Strategies
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 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 organisation of work for a dissertation and the form of its presentation; the criteria for assessment and the assessment procedures.
Module Indicative Content
Student chosen research topic, assisted by supervisor.
Module Additional Assessment Details
None
Module Texts
MA IPD Board of Study, Dissertation Guidance Booklet (produced annually).
L. Blaxter, How to Do Research (1996)