Undergraduate Course: Third-year Project in Language Sciences (LASC10059)

Course Outline
School	School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences	College	College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate)	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	40	ECTS Credits	20
Summary	This course is intended for students on one of the Honours Programmes in 'Modern Foreign Languages and Linguistics or English Language' who are not able to return suitable marks for courses studied while abroad.
Course description	Students write an 8,000-word long essay on a topic which is relevant to their degree programme. The topic of the essay should be agreed with the Course Organiser before students begin their third year of studies and the essay should be written during the third year, while abroad. Students will be assigned a supervisor at Edinburgh and will be expected to remain in contact with their supervisor during the year, typically by email. The deadline for submission of the essay will normally be the Monday of Week 3 of the first semester of the students' fourth year of study.

Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites		Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations	Students MUST NOT also be taking Year Abroad Work for Degrees in Modern European Languages and Linguistics or English Language (LASC10073) OR Year Abroad Work for Degrees in Modern European Languages and Linguistics or English Language with dissertation (LASC10099) OR Dissertation Preparation Abroad (LASC10060)	Other requirements	None

Course Delivery Information

Academic year 2022/23, Not available to visiting students (SS1)		Quota: 0
Course Start	Full Year
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 400 ( Dissertation/Project Supervision Hours 6, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 8, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 386 )
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	100% essay (assessed by LEL)
Feedback	Not entered
No Exam Information

Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to: To demonstrate advanced mastery, at an appropriate level, of general and subject-specific skills, knowledge and understanding of language sciences at an appropriate level To demonstrate the ability to plan, design and/or execute an original piece of research, to succinctly report results within an appropriate theoretical framework, and to relate results to the existing literature and the field as a whole