| CODE | ENG5070 | |||||||||
| TITLE | Creative Research in English and the Media | |||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | |||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 7 | |||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | |||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | English | |||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | The unit will serve as a bridge between the taught component of the students' MA studies and their dissertation. Through a series of seminars focusing on a range of different topics and concepts, the unit will explore ways of how to conduct high-standard creative research. Through a discussion of key contributors to cultural studies, the unit will take the students through the main steps of the research process, including reviewing existing literature, identifying valid research questions, formulating a viable methodology for the research and the executing the research through reading, analysis, critique, writing, editing and peer reviewing. Study-unit Aims: To prepare students for the standards required to do well in their dissertation; To carry out a series of case studies aimed at offering students practice in the main stages of research; To help students develop as independent researchers; To raise the students' meta-awareness about the research process. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: 1. Evaluate the importance of previous research in their field of studies; 2. Critically assess the validity of previous research in their field of studies; 3. Employ previous research in their own research projects; 4. Achieve a more developed meta-awareness about their own writing and that of other postgraduate researchers. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: 1. Conduct a case study in their field of research; 2. Evaluate previous research in their field; 3. Apply theory to cultural products and processes; 4. Peer review the work of other students; 5. Assess the strengths and weakness in their own research. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: John Storey, Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader (Routledge, 2008) John Storey, Cultural Studies and the Study of Popular Culture (University of Georgia Press, 2010) |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Seminar | |||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Robert Parry |
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