Module Details

Module Code: DISS
Module Title: Business Dissertation
Title: Business Dissertation
Module Level:: 8
Credits:: 10
Module Coordinator: Janette Davies
Module Author:: Edel Glowatz
Domains:  
Module Description: To consolidate and integrate the students’ knowledge, skills and competences across the range of subject areas.
To provide students with the opportunity to complete a research-based project of 15,000 words in length at a maximum.
To reflect specific areas of interest to the student with a practical element to reinforce educational/industrial linkages.
 
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this module the learner will be able to:
# Learning Outcome Description
LO1 Plan, design and implement a project from the initial problem definition in a research proposal, to the presentation of results in a completed project.
LO2 Discuss the research context including the cultural, political, legal, economic and practical issues.
LO3 Review the literature in various business fields and be able to identify and extract information as appropriate.
LO4 Demonstrate the ability to apply the tools of quantitative and/or qualitative research and analysis.
LO5 Objectively and critically evaluate research findings.
Dependencies
Module Recommendations

This is prior learning (or a practical skill) that is recommended before enrolment in this module.
No recommendations listed
Co-requisite Modules
No Co-requisite modules listed
Additional Requisite Information
No Co Requisites listed
 
Indicative Content
Module Content & Assessment
Interdisciplinary Project carried out on behalf of a company to identify solutions to a particular issue, problem or problems or focusing on a particular theoretical issue. Each student will be assigned a Project Supervisor for the module. Each project topic will be agreed upon after consultation between the student, the supervisor and a client company. The student and supervisor will meet up at regular intervals during the academic year to discuss progress, deal with any issues or problems which may arise, and ensure that the work is progressing satisfactorily. A record will be kept of all meetings between the student and the supervisor. Each student will be provided with Interdisciplinary Project Guidelines at the commencement of the module which gives the specific details on the requirements for the Project. Each completed Project will be read and marked separately by two supervisors, to ensure that a consistent standard is maintained across each Project.
Module Content & Assessment
Assessment Breakdown%
Project100.00%

Assessments

Full Time

No Continuous Assessment
Project
Assessment Type Project % of Total Mark 100
Timing Sem 2 End Learning Outcomes 1,2,3,4,5
Non-marked No
Assessment Description
Interdisciplinary Project carried out on behalf of a company to identify solutions to a particular issue, problem or problems or focusing on a particular theoretical issue.
No Practical
No End of Module Formal Examination

SETU Carlow Campus reserves the right to alter the nature and timings of assessment

 

Module Workload

Workload: Full Time
Workload Type Workload Category Contact Type Workload Description Frequency Average Weekly Learner Workload Hours
Tutorial Contact Tutorial: time allocation of .25 of an hour per student per week Every Week 0.25 0.25
Independent Learning Non Contact Dissertation 15 Weeks per Stage 4.80 72
Total Weekly Contact Hours 0.25
Workload: Part Time
Workload Type Workload Category Contact Type Workload Description Frequency Average Weekly Learner Workload Hours
Tutorial Contact Tutorial: time allocation of .12 of an hour per student per week Every Week 0.12 0.119999997317791
Independent Learning Time Non Contact Dissertation 15 Weeks per Stage 2.40 36
Total Weekly Contact Hours 0.12
 
Module Resources
Recommended Book Resources
  • Interdisciplinary Project Guidelines.
  • Julie Pallant.. (2013), SPSS survival manual, 5th. Boston, Mass; McGraw Hill, [ISBN: 0335262589].
  • Murray, R.. (2011), How to Write a Thesis, 3rd. Open University Press, p.384, [ISBN: 9780335244287].
Supplementary Book Resources
  • White, B. and Rayner S.. (2014), Dissertation Skills, 2nd. Cengage, [ISBN: 9781408081778].
  • Collis J.. (2003), Business research : a practical guide for undergraduate and postgraduate students, 2nd. Palgrave Macmillan.
This module does not have any article/paper resources
Other Resources
  • ITC Library online resources.
Discussion Note: