Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Justice Studies
Learning Methods
Lecture
Online
Tutorial
Workshop
Module Offerings
6101CRIM-JAN-MTP
Aims
1. To develop the ability of students to critically evaluate and interrogate a body of knowledge in a manner conforming to the tenets of disciplined, lucid and critical scholarship
2. Critically apply the literature, theory and method developed in 6100CRIM to the data generated by the student
3. To use empirical evidence, both quantitative and qualitative to explore the relationship between this evidence and social divisions and social change.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Critically evaluate and process primary and secondary data within the context of specified research objectives.
2.
Develop a coherent, systematic understanding of, and an analytical argument, about the initial problem or hypothesis.
3.
Further develop study and research skills on a topic of interest not covered elsewhere in the programme through engagement with the relationship between the specific international case under investigation and wider issues of theory, method, policy or practice in an area within the rubric of criminology or critical criminology.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:The module will allow students to choose and develop a research topic which, subject to the feasibility of the proposal, will be developed by the student
This will encompass generating original data from a range of different sources: policy documents, archival research, questionnaires and semi structured interviews. This will be done in conjunction with an allocated supervisor who will see the student for three supervision sessions in the course of the semester which will be augmented by three more general lectures.
Module Overview:
This module encourages you to generate your own original data on an issue similar to the themes of the programme, and to produce a piece of work which engages critically with theory and method. Therefore, it is designed to enhance your research and analytical skills and to encourage you to be a proactive, independent learner through constructing a dissertation which either adds to or challenges existing work in your chosen area.
This module encourages you to generate your own original data on an issue similar to the themes of the programme, and to produce a piece of work which engages critically with theory and method. Therefore, it is designed to enhance your research and analytical skills and to encourage you to be a proactive, independent learner through constructing a dissertation which either adds to or challenges existing work in your chosen area.
Additional Information:The module encourages students to generate their own original data on an issue
congruent with the themes of the programme and to produce a piece of work which engages critically with theory and method. Therefore, it is designed to enhance the research and analytical skills of students and to encourage them to be proactive, independent learners through constructing a dissertation which either adds to or challenges existing work in their chosen area.