Gwybodaeth Modiwlau
Course Delivery
Assessment
| Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
|---|---|---|
| Semester Assessment | Critical Portfolio (2500 words) | 30% |
| Semester Assessment | 10,000-word dissertation | 70% |
| Supplementary Assessment | Critical portfolio (2500 words) | 30% |
| Supplementary Assessment | 10,000-word disseration | 70% |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this module, students should be able to:
1. Demonstrate some critical awareness of research methodologies used to explore and interrogate various fields of study.
2. Demonstrate the ability to engage in appropriate independent research on a chosen topic within the relevant disciplinary field.
3. Produce a dissertation that evaluates and synthesizes written materials and conforms to standard conventions used in published works.
Aims
This module forms part of the review of the Part II culliculum in Theatre, Film and Television Studies. The module replaces current modules - TF32410 Research Methods and the dissertation modules, TF32820/DR33720/MC32820.
Brief description
This module enables students to conduct advanced supervised independent research into an area of theatre, film and television and media studies that is of particular interest to them. Students will be given the opportunity of devising, planning, researching and writing a substantive piece of critical and analytical work (10,000 words). In addition, students will be equipped with the pre-requisite research methods which will allow them to undertake this independent research project.
Content
Following the initial sessions, students will be allocated a supervisor who will work with the student on refining the research proposal and on more topic-specific research methods. The remainder of the module will focus on supervisory meetings and writing the dissertation.
Lecture/workshops and seminars during Semester 1, will provide students with a critical understanding of the key methodologies within their chosen field of study. This will then allow them to evaluate and utilise the most appropriate methodologies for their chosen topic.
Following the initial sessions, students will be allocated a supervisor who will work with the student on refining the research proposal and on more topic-specific research methods. The remainder of the module will focus on supervisory meetings and writing the dissertation.
The lecture/workshop and seminar content during Semester 1 will be as follows:
The module opens with 4 x 2-hour lectures on the following (8 hours):
1. What is research?
2. What is a research question?
3. Developing a bibliography
4. Disney as 'research object'
This is followed by 1 x 1 hour lecture per week on the following (12 hours)
1. Digital Resources
2. Researching of Narrative Analysis (KE)
3. Methods of Narrative Analysis (KE)
4. Looking at mise-en-scene
5. Semiotics
6. Performance and Performativity: Research on Identity Politics
7. Doing Film History
8. History and Hermeneutics
9. Television History
10. Venturing into the archive...
11. Problems with Research in Drama Therapy
12. Research ethics
There will be 5 seminars to accompany the lecture-workshops scheduled every other week during the first semester as follows:
1. Getting started: the basics: time-frames, structures, managing supervisions
2. Developing a question: methods and approaches (1)
3. Developing a question: methods and approaches (2)
4. Looking at dissertation questions
5. Doing your dissertation: practicalities, taking stock, research, writing and feedback
In addition to the contact time listed above, there will be 1 x 30-minute individual tutorial during Semester 1
Further tutorials totalling one hour per student will be scheduled during Semester 2.
Module Skills
| Skills Type | Skills details |
|---|---|
| Application of Number | This is not developed in this module. |
| Communication | Written communication will be developed through the writing of the dissertation. Oral communication is not formally developed in the context of this module. |
| Improving own Learning and Performance | Students' own learning and performance will be enhanced through the regular tutorial meetings. |
| Information Technology | This is not developed explicitly in this module but students will be required to use electronic sources for research material. |
| Personal Development and Career planning | Although not developed explicitly, this module may serve as a starting point for those wishing to study at a more advanced level (e.g. taught postgraduate or doctoral level). |
| Problem solving | This is developed as an inherent part of the research process through the research questions formulated as part of the dissertation. |
| Research skills | These will be developed initially as students compile the annotated bibliography but will be developed further during the research process prior to writing the dissertation. |
| Subject Specific Skills | Critical scholarly writing skills within the disciplinary fields are developed in this module. Students will develop a deeper understanding of the literature within their field of interest. |
| Team work | Team work is not developed in this module given the independent nature of the dissertation. |
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 6