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Dissertation & Oral Defence - Mundus MAPP - POL00072M

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  • Department: Politics and International Relations
  • Credit value: 40 credits
  • Credit level: M
  • Academic year of delivery: 2024-25

Module will run

Occurrence Teaching period
A Semester 2 2024-25 to Summer Semester 2024-25

Module aims

To assess advanced skills of independent research.

Module learning outcomes

The student will have successfully completed a major piece of independent research, organised around a clear and well formulated research question.  He or she will have located his or her arguments in the context of wider scholarly debates and will have advanced the state of the discipline in the answer to the question given, developing lines of argument which are original to the dissertation. 

In their oral defence, students will be able to successfully and convincingly ¿defend¿ the conclusions they have reached during their independent research.

Indicative assessment

Task % of module mark
Graduate/Postgraduate Dissertation 100.0
Oral presentation/seminar/exam 0.0

Special assessment rules

None

Indicative reassessment

Task % of module mark
Graduate/Postgraduate Dissertation 100.0

Module feedback

Formative feedback (oral) given as part of dissertation workshop and regular meetings with dissertation supervisor during summer term.

Summative written feedback within 15 weeks of submission (this is determined by our partnership agreement with the Mundus MAPP consortium)

Indicative reading

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