Research Skills Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies (Modern Languages) Introduction

• Credit value: 0 credits at Level 7
• Convenor: Mari Paz Balibrea Enriquez
• Tutors: all teaching staff in the department
• Assessment: a 1500-word blog (100%)

This module provides you with the skills needed to undertake research at a postgraduate level. In Part 1, you will have the opportunity to practise core skills such as accessing library and online resources, critical thinking and analysis, note-taking and writing for research. In Part 2 you will be helped to develop the skills that allow you to engage productively with the wider research context, and you will attend and write a blog about a number of research events put on by research centres affiliated to the department or by discipline-specific institutions of the University of London, such as the Institute for Modern Languages Research.

By the end of this module, you will be able to:

• utilise the research skills needed for postgraduate study
• engage productively with the wider research context, including producing critical summaries of research events.