Undergraduate Course: Economics Honours Dissertation (ECNM10030)

Course Outline
School	School of Economics	College	College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate)
Course type	Dissertation	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	40	ECTS Credits	20
Summary	Preparation of a dissertation satisfying the requirements of Economics single and joint Honours programmes. Detailed guidance on dissertation preparation, supervision and submission is provided in the Economics Honours Handbook.
Course description	Not entered

Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites		Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	Students must have satisfied progression to Senior Honours in Economics in order to enrol on this course.

Course Delivery Information

Academic year 2023/24, Not available to visiting students (SS1)		Quota: None
Course Start	Full Year
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 400 ( Dissertation/Project Supervision Hours 2, Formative Assessment Hours 1, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 8, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 389 )
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	A dissertation (a maximum length of 10,000 words, including the title page and abstract but not the bibliography. In addition you may have up to 5 pages of appendices on data sources which is not included in the word count).
Feedback	Not entered
No Exam Information

Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to: Have had the opportunity to develop and demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of the economic and/or econometric analysis of the topic addressed in the dissertation, including recent research at, or close to, the frontiers of knowledge. Have had the opportunity to develop and demonstrate research and investigative skills such as: identifying, framing and solving/devising approaches to investigate a research question and the ability to assemble and evaluate complex evidence and arguments. Have had the opportunity to develop and demonstrate communication skills in order to critique, create and communicate understanding and further their own learning through the effective use of feedback from their supervisor. Have had the opportunity to develop and demonstrate personal effectiveness and intellectual autonomy through, inter alia, task-management, time-management, dealing with uncertainty, adapting to new situations and making decisions based on their understanding and working independently. Have had the opportunity to develop and demonstrate practical/technical skills such as, modelling skills (abstraction, logic, succinctness), qualitative and quantitative analysis and general IT literacy and high-level IT literacy including programming.