Pre-requisite modules
Co-requisite modules
- None
Prohibited combinations
- None
Occurrence | Teaching period |
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A | Semester 2 2023-24 to Summer Semester 2023-24 |
The taught MA dissertation should, in a project of between 14,000 and 16,000 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.
Subject content
Academic and graduate skills
Task | % of module mark |
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Graduate/Postgraduate Dissertation | 100 |
Non-compensatable
Students will benefit from being able to make regular draft submissions of work in progress, and will receive regular written and/or verbal feedback on these. Work will also be presented orally in supervision meetings and peer-to-peer discussions and draft swaps.
Task | % of module mark |
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Graduate/Postgraduate Dissertation | 100 |
Graduands will receive copies of the examiners' reports (unattributed) in the Autumn following submission.
Reading for the dissertation will vary according to the scope of the project chosen by the student, but is likely to include texts which have been encountered on the other modules that make up the MA.