Dissertation MSc in Sociology of Health and Illness (P01164)

? Credit Points : 60 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : SPS-P-sps

All students will undertake a 15,000 word dissertation on a topic related to the field of sociology of health and illness to be submitted by a date specified in the University Regulations. The dissertation is an extended piece of scholarship in which a student is expected to formulate and sustain a substantive piece of research. 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 secondary (and in some cases primary) sources as well as appropriate data-analytic and bibliographic skills. Students will be allocated a research supervisor from the end of the Spring semester.

Entry Requirements

none

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Postgraduate (School of Social and Political Studies), (School of Social and Political Studies, Schedule J)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : To be arranged/Unknown

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

* To test the ability of students to undertake a sustained piece of supervised but independent work within the field which displays the research skills, training and knowledge acquired in the previous coursework.
* to test the ability of students to demonstrate an ability to engage critically and analytically with the literature in the field of their specialist interest.
* to develop and test the ability of students to employ relevant social science concepts and theories in formulating a thesis.
* to examine the ability of students to manage the conduct, presentation, and timing of an independent research project, employing appropriate data-analytical and bibliographic skills.