Dissertation BA Philosophy

• Credit value: 30 credits at Level 6
• Convenor: to be confirmed
• Assessment: a 7500-word dissertation (100%)

In the final year of your degree you have the opportunity to research and write a dissertation instead of taking two 15-credit Level 6 modules. There is freedom to choose almost any topic within philosophy.

Once you have decided to write a dissertation, you will be assigned a supervisor based on whichever topic you propose. You will have a preliminary meeting to finalise your topic and dissertation plan in more detail and discuss an initial reading list, then over the course of the final year, you can have two further supervisions. Typically one of these will be on a plan or outline and the other on a full draft.

The 7500-word dissertation includes footnotes, endnotes, subheadings and appendices; it excludes the bibliography. There is no minimum length, but it is expected that most dissertations will come close to the maximum length.