Postgraduate Course: MSc Dissertation in Classics (Dissertation only Mode) (PGHC11301)
Course Outline
School | School of History, Classics and Archaeology |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Course type | Dissertation |
Availability | Available to all students |
SCQF Credits | 180 |
ECTS Credits | 90 |
Summary | All students will undertake a 30,000 words dissertation on a topic agreed with their supervisors, to be submitted by a date specified in the programme handbook. The dissertation is an extended piece of scholarship in which a student is expected to formulate and sustain a substantive piece of research within the discipline of Classics. The dissertation is expected to engage critically and analytically with the literature in the field and deploying a range of primary and secondary sources as well as appropriate data-analytic and bibliographic skills. |
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisites | None |
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Formulate and implement a plan of research.
- Formulate hypotheses relating to the student's research subject and to test them by marshalling a range of primary and secondary evidence.
- Locate an argument - whether verbal or written - within a broader intellectual context and to evaluate its implications from that more general perspective.
- Undertake a sustained independent research project, and to complete it within a strict time limit.
- Write clear, accurate, precise and concise prose.
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Additional Information
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Contacts
Course organiser | Dr Benjamin Russell
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Course secretary | Miss Martina Benkova
Tel: (0131 6)50 3533
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