Module manager: Kristi Boone
Email: K.L.Boone@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) View Timetable
Year running 2025/26
This module is not approved as a discovery module
This module provides you with the opportunity to deepen your understanding of a theme or themes of your choosing. The form of the assessment is an extended writing assignment. You will engage with a theme you have studied across your degree in previous years, and where appropriate you will be encouraged to make connections with the field represented in your major as well as other disciplines. You need to have studied at least 40 credits in the discipline of your Final Year Project. The project will involve the use of interdisciplinary skills of enquiry.
The purpose of this module is to enable you to design and undertake a Final Year Project in Liberal Arts. You will follow the model of teaching for final year projects in the School of your chosen discipline. You will acquire independent research skills, interdisciplinary skills of enquiry, and the ability to use constructive feedback to improve your work. You will also be provided with 5 workshops to support you to undertake a Liberal Arts Final Year Project, alongside discipline-specific guidance from your allocated supervisor and discipline-schools.
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following learning outcomes relevant to the subject:
1. Make flexible and creative use of the concepts, information, practical competencies and techniques which are standard features of the discipline represented in the primary FYP subject.
2. Synthesize a breadth of knowledge to assess the consequences and impact of ideas across disciplines.
3. Expertly present a structured and coherent argument.
4. Generate ideas, demonstrate originality and imaginative interdisciplinary thinking.
5. Evaluate the challenges and opportunities of inter-disciplinary enquiry to bring a central question into clear focus.
Skills Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following skills learning outcomes:
6. Expertly communicate information, arguments and analysis from two or more disciplines in a variety of forms (Academic)
7. Search for and gather information from a range of sources, analyse and interpret data to aid understanding and answer key focal questions (Academic, Work Ready)
8. Set and achieve goals, and seek/accept feedback, directing and monitoring work within and beyond taught sessions (Work Ready)
9. Undertake an extended piece of independent research, drawing on interdisciplinary themes, theories, and/or methods (Academic, Technical)
Details of the syllabus will be provided on the Minerva organisation (or equivalent) for the module.
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Supervision | 6 | 1 | 6 |
| Lecture | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Seminar | 4 | 1 | 4 |
| Private study hours | 389 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 11 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 400 | ||
There will be an opportunity for formative feedback.
The form this will take is determined by the Discipline School.
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Coursework | Final Year Project | 100 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100 | |
Students undertaking a resit are required to submit an amended version of their original submission.
There is no reading list for this module
Last updated: 17/03/2025
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