SPOL41030 Dissertation

Academic Year 2024/2025

This module offers the opportunity to develop a research topic based on your own particular interests. You will be assigned a supervisor, who will help to guide your research over a series of (online) meetings. You will submit your research in the form of a circa 15,000-word dissertation.

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Learning Outcomes:

[1] Research skills (e.g. academic writing, planning research, collecting and analysing data, and drafting and editing) involved in the completion of a long piece of research work
[2] In-depth knowledge of specialised field of scholarship (in the areas of social work, social welfare, public policy and social justice)

Student Effort Hours: 
Student Effort Type Hours
Tutorial

10
Specified Learning Activities

10
Autonomous Student Learning

600
Total

620
Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
Specified learning activities and autonomous learning, supported by one-to-one supervision. 
Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
 
Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade In Module Component Repeat Offered
Assignment(Including Essay): Dissertation Week 14 Graded No

100

 No

Carry forward of passed components
No
 
Resit In Terminal Exam
Spring No
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 
Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment

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