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DRPS : Course Catalogue : School of History, Classics and Archaeology : Postgraduate (History, Classics and Archaeology)

Postgraduate Course: MSc Dissertation in Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies (PGHC11437)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of History, Classics and Archaeology CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate)
Course typeDissertation AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits60 ECTS Credits30
SummaryAll students will undertake a 15,000 words dissertation on a topic agreed with their supervisor, 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 within the discipline of Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies. 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 sources as well as appropriate data-analytic and bibliographic skills.
Course description All students will undertake a 15,000 words dissertation on a topic agreed with their supervisor, 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 within the discipline of Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies. 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 sources as well as appropriate data-analytic and bibliographic skills.
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Course Delivery Information
Academic year 2017/18, Not available to visiting students (SS1) Quota:  None
Course Start Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 600 ( Dissertation/Project Supervision Hours 9, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 12, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 579 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment) The dissertation will be 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:
  1. Formulate and implement a plan of research.
  2. Formulate hypotheses relating to the student's research subject and to test them by marshalling a range of primary and secondary evidence.
  3. Locate an argument - whether verbal or written - within a broader intellectual context and to evaluate its implications from that more general perspective.
  4. Undertake a sustained independent research project, and to complete it within a strict time limit.
  5. Write clear, accurate, precise and concise prose.
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsLate Antique,Islamic,Byzantine
Contacts
Course organiserProf Niels Gaul
Tel: (0131 6)50 3776
Email: N.Gaul@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMr Gordon Littlejohn
Tel: (0131 6)50 3782
Email: Gordon.Littlejohn@ed.ac.uk
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