Geography Dissertation (U01269)

? Credit Points : 40 ? SCQF Level : 10 ? Acronym : GEO-4-GEOGDISS

The dissertation gives the student an opportunity to carry out an original piece of research.

Entry Requirements

? This course is not available to visting students.

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Geography, (School of GeoSciences, Schedule N)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : 4th year

? Delivery Period : Full Year (Blocks 1-4)

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 10 weeks

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

The dissertation presents an opportunity for the student to develop and demonstrate qualities sought by many employers of graduates, for example, the ability to:
- work independently
- select and define a problem or question
- apply insights gained in other courses, substantive, methodological and philosophical
- design an effective way of investigating the research problem
- review existing research of relevance
- collect relevant evidence from appropriate sources
- apply qualitative, quantitative and/or computing methods to analyse data
- interpret findings perceptively
- present a well-reasoned and lucidly-expressed argument
- write a research project fluently and succinctly
- prepare and use good quality illustrations where appropriate
- cite sources systematically within normal academic conventions.