Postgraduate Course: Ancient Worlds Dissertation (PGHC11538)

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	Online Distance Learning	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	60	ECTS Credits	30
Summary	All students who met the requirements for progression, will undertake a 15,000 word dissertation on a topic agreed with their allocated supervisor, to be submitted by a date specified in the University Regulations and the relevant LEARN instance. The dissertation is an extended piece of scholarship in which a student is expected to formulate and sustain a substantive piece of research on a topic that falls under the remit of the Ancient Worlds (online) programme i.e. ancient history, classics or archaeology. The dissertation is expected to engage critically and analytically with the literature in the field, building upon relevant concepts and theory covered in the taught element of the degree and deploying a range of primary and secondary resources as well as appropriate data-analytic and bibliographical skills
Course description	The Dissertation exercise binds the different elements of the programme together while exploring candidates' abilities to undertake original research, and to make a sustained argument, in their chosen field of study. Student should be thinking of a dissertation topic throughout their period of study, and should feel free to contact a potential supervisor informally at any time, however there is an administrative process in advance of each potential dissertation start date to formalise dissertation topics and supervision allocation in advance of the proposal submission deadline.

Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites		Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	None

Course Delivery Information

Academic year 2022/23, Not available to visiting students (SS1)		Quota: 10
Course Start	Flexible
Course Start Date	08/08/2022
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 600 ( Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 12, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 588 )
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	One Research Proposal (Pass/Fail - for formative feedback only) One 15,000 word dissertation (weighted at 100%), assessed by two internal examiners and moderated by an external examiner
Feedback	Not entered
No Exam Information

Academic year 2022/23, Not available to visiting students (SS1)		Quota: 6
Course Start	Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond
Course Start Date	01/05/2023
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 600 ( Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 12, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 588 )
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	One Research Proposal (Pass/Fail - for formative feedback only) One 15,000 word dissertation (weighted at 100%), assessed by two internal examiners and moderated by an external examiner
Feedback	Not entered
No Exam Information

Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to: to formulate and implement a plan of research to formulate hypotheses relating to the student's research subject and to test them by marshalling a range of primary and secondary evidence. to locate an argument - whether verbal or written - within a broader intellectual context and to evaluate its implications from that more general perspective. to conceive and pursue to its conclusion a coherent argument founded on evidence provided by the sources at the student's disposal. to undertake a sustained independent research project, to complete it within a strict time limit and to write clear, accurate, precise and concise prose.