Dissertation: Literature Review

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

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

• State of art analytical methods in economics and the mathematical or statistical tools for economic analysis.

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Retrieve, organise, and present economic results in an informative manner.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Identify, select and access a range of sources as a means to the development and presentation of arguments and evidence;
• Communicate logical arguments and quantitative reasoning in economic contexts as part of an essay reviewing scientific literature;
• Work independently to a deadline, demonstrating initiative through identifying possibl sources, and self-management by structuring the workload over one semester.

The module starts with a series of lectures that focus on how to search for, identify and efficiently read scientific economic literature, and how to summarise, synthesise and critically evaluate this literature. This is complemented by a library skills session. Thus prepared students work independently on their review under the guidance of their assigned supervisor.

Lectures, staff consultations, library skills workshop.

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.