Women suffering Forced Marriage and Domestic Violence: An investigation into forced marriage and domestic violence on women globally and the UN’s targets towards prevention and the Feminist View.
Description
Module aims The dissertation provides you with an opportunity to concentrate on a specific topic of your own choosing and to study it in depth. It should enable you to further develop the analytical and research skills which have been introduced in other parts of your programme of study. Your will do research on your own on your chosen topic. This can be quite challenging so you get a supervisor whose role is to advise and encourage you. They will comment on the suitability of your ideas for an undergraduate dissertation and help you to narrow them down; to define and analyse a question or problem, or test a hypothesis, within your chosen topic area. Your chosen subject may require you to look beyond textbooks and other secondary sources generally used in degree work and get to grips with primary evidence – official documents, voting statistics, memoirs, diaries, newspapers – perhaps involving work in local or national archives. In some cases the collection of primary evidence using quantitative and /or qualitative research methods may be appropriate. Not all dissertations involve primary sources but will instead incorporate a critical review of the existing literature on a particular topic. Your supervisor will help you decide if the use of primary sources are appropriate or needed. Topics may be developed from one of your taught modules or may be linked to issues touched on only peripherally or not at all in the taught modules. However, your chosen topic must be within the supervisory capacity of the subject team. The support of your supervisor is essential if you are to produce a good piece of work. However, you should remember that the dissertation module is founded on independent learning. This involves: • time-management • in-depth research • constructive reading and note taking Your dissertation is your responsibility: it is up to you, in consultation with your supervisor, to devise a programme for its successful completion. Your supervisor will offer guidance, advice and support but it is your responsibility to make contact with them and to arrange meetings.