ESC-40004 - Module Specification School of Geography, Geology and the Environment Faculty of Natural Sciences
For academic year: 2020/21 Last Updated: 25 February 2021
ESC-40004 - Research Project
Coordinator: Stuart S Egan Room: WSF29 Tel: +44 1782 7 33174
School Office: 01782 733615
Programme/Approved Electives for 2020/21
Available as a Free Standing Elective
Co-requisites
None
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this module.
Barred Combinations
Not applicable.
Description for 2020/21
This module will allow students to build upon subject¿specific and practical skills that have been developed in previous years of their course and carry out an independent research investigation within an area of the geosciences.
To build upon subject-specific and practical skills that heve been developed in previous years of the course to carry out an independent research investigation within an area of the Earth Sciences.
Intended Learning Outcomes
Students successfully completing this module will have:
- Applied and further developed subject-specific knowledge, as well as laboratory, field, and computational skills, through background reading, and the colection, interpretation and analysis of original data.
- Applied time and project management skills to successfully complete a piece of independent research at the forefront of the discipline, within a prescribed time limit.
- Acquired a comprehensive understanding of research techniques in the context of the project.
- Shown originality in the application of knoeledge to the execution of the project.
Study hours
- 24 hours tutorials/supervision meetings
- 126 hours data acquisition and analysis.
School Rules
None
Description of Module Assessment