Dissertation (MSc/Dip International & European Politics) (P00832)

? Credit Points : 60 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : SPS-P-IEPD

All students will undertake a dissertation of no longer than 15,000 words on a topic related to International or European Politics to be submitted by a date specified in the University Regulations. The dissertation is an extended piece of scholarship in which a student is expected to formulate and sustain a substantive piece of independent research in International or European Politics. The work is expected to engage critically and analytically with the literature in the field, building upon the relevant concepts and theories introduced in the taught elements of the degree and deploying a range of primary and secondary sources as well as appropriate data-analytic and bibliographic skills. Each student will be allocated a research supervisor by the Spring to advise on and oversee her or his research progress.

Entry Requirements

none

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Postgraduate (School of Social and Political Studies), (School of Social and Political Studies, Schedule J)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Semester 2 (Blocks 3-4)

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

Summary of Learning Outcomes

Students will:
- learn to undertake a sustained piece of independent work within the disciplinary fields of International and European Politics that displays and extends the research skills, training and knowledge acquired in the previous coursework;
- refine their abilities to engage critically and analytically with the significant literature in the field of their specialist interest;
- employ relevant concepts and theories in formulating a thesis
- develop their abilities to construct logical passages of argumentation in accordance with common canons of inferential rationality;
- exercise and consolidate their time- and task-management, presentational, and self-motivational skills in the conduct, presentation, and time- and task-planning of their research scheduling;
- demonstrate scrupulous attention to the relevant data-analytical, referencing, and bibliographic conventions.