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. If you do not do this they cannot help you.
Remember:
1) Dissertation writing takes a lot of time. Don’t keep putting it off because there are other more pressing deadlines. You really need to make a timetable and discipline yourself to stick to it.
2) Level 6 (Year Three) modules are more heavily weighted than Level 5 (Year Two) modules in determining your final degree classification. As a 30 credit module, the dissertation can have a significant influence on your final degree mark.
Objectives and Learning Outcomes
By successfully completing your dissertation you will have proved you are be able to:
1. locate, gather, sift and synthesise a substantial body of source material on one specific topic.
2. evaluate critically the original sources relevant to the topic in depth, where appropriate.
I will be researching several countries that practice forced marriage such as Bangladesh, Pakistan, Africa . I will use case studies and eye witness accounts on real life stories.
I will consider how successful the UN targets have been so far in reducing forced marriage and domestic violence.
Forced deprives women of their basic human
Rights. Forced marriage is a marriage conducted without the consent of both or either one parties. Resulting is physical and emotional violence. This is a global human rights issue. It is a legal requirement in most countries for both parties to give consent in order for the marriage to take place.
Girls as young as 8 are being forced to marry men that are 40 years older, this is not just forced marriage it is child abuse and a violation of human rights. Therefore the participants of such performers of forced and child marriages are breaking international laws set out by the United Nations.
All major world religions, condemn forced marriage. Regardless of laws it is still a rising problem today.
Research estimates forced marriage effects 100 million girls under the age of 18 globally
38 percent of young aged between 20-24 in the developing world were all forced to get married
Forced marriage is mainly practiced in Africa and South Asia, UNICEF estimates that among women ages 15 to 24,
48 percent were married before the age of 18. In Bangladesh, with similar figures for India and Pakistan.
UNICEF estimates that in Africa 42 percent of women ages 15 to 24 were married
Before the age of 18.
The feminist views on forced marriage and domestic violence
I will research UN policies to prevent forced marriages and the abuse of young girls globally. I will be looking at charities who campaign and raise awareness about forced marriage. The methods I intend to use are case studies from literature that is readily available in the public domain.I will be looking at secondary literature, news sources, articles and biographies. I will be doing case studies on real life people who have experienced forced marriage and domestic violence. I will research the United Nations policies on forced marriage I
I will research UN policies to prevent forced marriages and the abuse of young girls globally. I will be looking at charities who campaign and raise awareness about forced marriage. The methods I intend to use are case studies from literature that is readily available in the public domain.Reasons for Forced Marriage – poverty, discrimination, lack of education (All included within UN SDG Goal 5)
Feminism books and other theories should also be included in delail this is a Politics and International relations course.
