Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Public and Allied Health
Learning Methods
Lecture
Tutorial
Workshop
Module Offerings
6000ENVCPH-SEP-CTY
Aims
This module aims to engage students in student-negotiated academic activity, requiring creativity, self-motivation and the ability to draw on the knowledge and skills developed in other modules.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Identify an environmental health issue in negotiation with a supervisor and present a rationale for the study.
2.
Design, justify and implement a suitable methodology.
3.
Locate and utilise relevant sources of information appropriate to the topic under study.
4.
Analyse and interpret the data to increase our understanding of the topic under study.
5.
Reflect on the process of doing the study and discuss its limitations.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:Introducing the dissertation
Writing aims and outcomes
Thinking through ethical issues
Using secondary sources
Choosing and justifying a methodology
Data analysis
Writing your dissertation
Module Overview:
This module aims to engage you in student-negotiated academic activity, requiring creativity, self-motivation and the ability to draw on the knowledge and skills developed in other modules. The dissertation permits you to engage in a major project of your choice. It supports you while you investigate a specific environmental health issue, or set of issues, through individual study, using either the literature and relevant secondary sources, or empirical methods.
This module aims to engage you in student-negotiated academic activity, requiring creativity, self-motivation and the ability to draw on the knowledge and skills developed in other modules. The dissertation permits you to engage in a major project of your choice. It supports you while you investigate a specific environmental health issue, or set of issues, through individual study, using either the literature and relevant secondary sources, or empirical methods.
Additional Information:The dissertation permits students to engage in a major project of their choice. It supports students while they investigate a specific environmental health issue, or set of issues, through individual study, using either the literature and relevant secondary sources, or empirical methods.