School of English
Module manager: Dr Tracy Hargreaves
Email: t.hargreaves@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) View Timetable
Year running 2024/25
| ENGL3005 | Textual Editing Project |
| ENGL3022 | English Language Dissertation |
| ENGL3042 | The Practical Essay |
| ENGL3800 | Creative Writing Project |
ENGL3372 ENGL3308 ENGL3318
This module is not approved as a discovery module
The Final Year Project is a 40-credit, two-semester module that allows you to pursue an independent research project, reflecting and developing the skills and interests you have acquired throughout your degree. This 8,000 word dissertation is understood as the pinnacle of your undergraduate study, as it enables you to design, shape and direct your own autonomous research project. You will be guided throughout the module by lectures and individual meetings with a supervisor: an academic expert who has substantial experience in researching and writing for publication. The Final Year Project marks the point at which students truly become members of a disciplinary group.
This module encourages independent, self-directed learning, providing a culmination to the research strand emphasised in other modules. It fosters a wide variety of responses to the challenges it offers students, since any final year project might take one of a number of forms. Most importantly, it promotes academic creativity and the exploration of individual intellectual interests.
1. Students will obtain knowledge appropriate to their chosen research project.
2. Students will develop research skills through the guided work of planning an autonomous research project.
3. Students will develop skills of time management by taking responsibility for an autonomous research project.
4. Students will develop skills of independent working, selection, discrimination, and prioritisation in managing their research.
5. Students will enhance existing skills of critical and flexible thinking.
6. Students will develop skills of academic writing and argument in writing up research.
Research skills particular to English language and literary studies; referencing and presentational skills; management of a literary or related argument; possibly, experience of working between literary/ language studies and another humanities discipline
The Dissertation
Writing a dissertation gives you the opportunity to specialize in a topic of your choice. It is a unique chance to explore in detail the interests that you have developed during your undergraduate career. The whole field of English literature is available to you: you might choose to conduct research on an author, period, or genre that you encountered earlier in your degree, or to work on a subject that you have not previously studied.
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Supervision Meetings | 4 | 0.5 | 2 |
| Group learning | 4 | 1 | 4 |
| Lecture | 4 | 1 | 4 |
| Private study hours | 390 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 10 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 400 | ||
The Final Year Project is based on your self-directed research and writing, but you will be provided with a range of guidance and resources to support your work. You will be allocated a supervisor, who will read drafts of your work and with whom you will have individual supervisions throughout the year (1.5 hours in total). There will be a programme of lectures, and you will be encouraged to attend some of the many research events that take place in the School.
These activities will account for the vast majority of hours of study for this module.
Formative feedback is provided through individual supervisions, in which supervisors offer written and verbal commentary on research plans and drafts of writing. Feedback from the first assessment, a project report, is formative for the second assessment. Another opportunity for formative feedback on a draft is provided during the second semester.
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Essay or Dissertation | Dissertation, (8000 words) | 80 |
| Project | Synopsis plus writing sample (2000 words). | 20 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100 | |
Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated
There is no reading list for this module
Last updated: 8/2/2024
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