Part III Individual Project

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Study independently in order to gain specialist knowledge in the area chosen for your project
• Solve problems encountered during the course of your project
• Identify a suitably challenging topic for your project, with guidance
• Identify a topic for your project that is relevant to your degree specialism, with guidance (for students on specialist variant programmes only)

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• The relationship between your project and your degree specialism (for students on specialist variant programmes only)
• The limitations of your project, and how they might be addressed in future work
• The legal, social, ethical, professional and commercial issues that are involved in your project
• The broader subject area of your project, including previous work and alternative approaches
• The subject area of your project in depth

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Work independently to manage a project to completion, by carrying out reading and other research, design, planning, implementation and testing
• Present and explain technical work, both verbally and in written form
• Apply appropriate professional, ethical and legal practices to your work

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Test your solution and evaluate its effectiveness
• Analyse a problem and design a solution to that problem
• Implement your design

The topics covered on a student's project will depend on their programme of study and choice of

project.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.