LAWS430-15W (C) Whole Year 2015

Honours Dissertation

30 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 23 February 2015
End Date: Sunday, 15 November 2015
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 8 March 2015
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 6 September 2015

Description

Honours Dissertation

The objectives for the course are for students to be able to demonstrate that they can:
•  Write a 1,200 word research proposal on a legal topic; and
•  Orally present and defend a research proposal; and
•  Write a 12,000 word (excluding referencing footnotes) dissertation on a legal topic to the highest Honours level.

Prerequisites

Subject to approval of the Head of Department.

Restrictions

LAWS451, LAWS501

Course Coordinator

Lynne Taylor

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Draft Proposal 08 May 2015
Final Proposal 29 May 2015
Draft Honours Dissertation 18 Nov 2015
Final Honours Dissertation 16 Dec 2015 100% Final Honours Dissertation


There may be two items of assessment for Laws 430, a 1,200 (exclusive of referencing footnotes) word research proposal and a 12,000 (exclusive of referencing footnotes) word research paper. Please note there is also a terms requirement:

The research proposal will be assessed on a pass/fail basis in accordance with the assessment criteria set out below. You must pass this item of assessment in order to pass the course. The grade you receive for your research paper will be the overall grade you receive for the course, assuming you received a pass for your research proposal.

The assessment will be confirmed at the commencement of the course.

Course links

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Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,761.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Faculty of Law .

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