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School of Management, Unit Catalogue 2007/08


MN30068 Final year project (final report)

Credits: 6
Level: Honours
Semester: 2
Assessment: CW70OR30
Requisites:
While taking this unit you must take MN30052 and before taking this unit you must take MN20021 and take MN20022
Aims: The overall aim of the final Year Project is to create an opportunity to apply the concepts, techniques and skills acquired during the taught programme in solving a practical business problem. Specific objectives are to: develop the skills of planning and executing an original investigation into a business problem in a team; allow an evaluation of the practical worth of management theories and the ability to further develop existing theories; integrate the various components of the degree programme and create the opportunity for business sponsors to challenge student ideas.
Learning Outcomes:
By the end of this unit, the student should be able to:
* to practice and develop personal skills, especially those of analysis and synthesis; develop experience in handling group co-ordination and conflict.
Skills:
Intellectual skills:
* Develop skills to handle complex data sets, and allow existing theories and concepts to be applied and critically evaluated.
Professional Practical skills:
* Develop skills in designing and carrying out a field-based 'action research' investigation
Transferable/ Key skills:
* Develop skills of working collaboratively in teams, and exposing ideas to practitioners and academics as well as writing up a fairly large-scale project.
Content:
Evaluation of progress; on-going updating of formal log of activities; further data collection; further examination of literature and relevant theory; Project Workshop; further analysis of collected data; production of final written report and oral presentation of findings.