Planning your Final Year Project - DHM6135

Assessment 1: Other

A range of in-class formative tasks to support the assessments step-by-step, including tutor feedback and peer to peer feedback on set tasks.

Other 

Assessment 1: Oral Assessment

An oral assessment to include discussion of a project focus that you are interested in designing, and a justification of the appropriateness and manageability of your idea

Oral Assessment 

Assessment 2: Written Assignment

A 3,000-word written assignment that explains and justifies your proposed project in a clear and informed way

Written Assignment

This module will help you to learn how to design and conduct a final year  project that is appropriate to your course of study and your ambitions.  It does this by exploring a range of research and design approaches, strategies and methods. The module helps you to design a project that utilises your course-specific knowledge and abilities, carry it out and evaluate its outcomes. Your final year project will focus on an empirical research, policy or practice development, documentary research, policy analysis, entrepreneurship activity, or other options in negotiation with your tutor.
The module guides you towards gaining a thorough, critical understanding of project planning and evaluation, research protocols, methods, ethics and ways of doing data analysis. By the end of the module you’ll be confident and capable of designing your own rigorous and valid project.

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Education and Community Studies

DHM6135 - Planning your Final Year Project

Planning your Final Year Project

Justify the suitability and manageability of a project relevant to the programme of study.

Plan and design a feasible project that evidences a critical understanding of methods, process and protocols.

Identify and contextualise an appropriate project focus from the broader field of study.

Evaluate critically methods and processes to make informed choices for the purpose of project planning, design and evaluation

Apply ethics to the process of planning and undertaking a project. 