Philosophy Dissertation

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• the place of your topic in philosophy considered more broadly
• the processes by which understanding is achieved and new ideas advanced within the discipline
• the subject chosen for your dissertation, including principal primary and secondary literature

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• present and debate ideas in an open minded and rigorous way
• conceptualize a feasible and intellectually adventurous research project as well as a programme of study to bring it to fruition
• synthesize and integrate the analysis of these texts and the philosophical positions they contain into a coherent, sustained and convincing dissertation argument
• critically evaluate a wide range of both primary and secondary texts, and the arguments contained in them

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• demonstrate the capacity for self-directed problem-solving, independent working and autonomous time- management
• identify a significant research question and the appropriate way of addressing it
• locate relevant scholarly literature, using a variety of bibliographic aids, to permit a convincing response to be made to the research question
• communicate a coherent, sustained and convincing argument at length
• develop and manage a programme of study to bring your chosen research project to fruition

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.